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Pirates 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Pirates Projected Batting

Through games of Wednesday, 12 August 2026.
All results are from true, unadjusted data.

Explanation of the Table

The Table below shows two lines for each player and for the team as a whole: Actual and Projected. The Actual lines are just what it says: the actual stats for this season to date; the Projected lines want a little explanation.

The projecting has two steps. The first is simple: for each man, we calculate the ratio of his current-season-to-date Plate Appearances to his career Plate Appearances, then multiply all his career stats by that ratio to get what one might call his “raw” career-performance data pro-rated to his current-year number of Plate Appearances. So, as a hypothetical example, a man with 5,000 career PAs and 250 PAs this season would have a ratio of 250/5000, or .050; so, if he had, say, 1215 career Hits, his raw projected Hits number for this season would be 1215 x .05, or 61 (if the calculated number is fractional, as with 60.75, we round it off to the nearest whole number).

That much is simple and, we hope, clear. The second adjustment takes a little explaining. It derives from the fact that—for a team or for an individual man—the number of Plate Appearances that will be had for a given number of Outs made (which is to say “innings played”) depends exactly on the on-base percentage: the higher the on-base percentage, the more PAs the man or team will have in any given number of innings.

To clarify: imagine a team with an abysmal .250 on-base percentage; that number means that, on average, one man in four that they send to the plate will get on safely. The converse of that is that three men in four will make out. (For simplicity’s sake in this elementary example, we ignore outs made on the bases.) So, in an average inning, that team, to make the three outs that constitute an inning, will send 4 men to the plate. If we next imagine a team with an equally absurd .500 on-base percentage, only half its batters make an out: thus, to make the three outs that define an inning, they would have—again, on average—to send 6 men to the plate. So (as should be intuitively obvious anyway), for a given number of innings, a higher OBP means more PAs.

The consequence of that is that each man’s “raw”stat projections, which were based on his PAs for this season, are slightly inaccurate, because his—and the team’s—PAs would be different (perhaps higher, perhaps lower) from what they are if all the men were performing at their career rates. To correct for that, we calculate each man’s career "outs rate" (all Outs made per plate appearance, which does include outs made on the bases) and multiply it by his percentage of the team’s total Plate Appearances; we then sum up those outs rates to get a projected team Outs rate, and from that—holding Outs made (which, again, is just innings played) constant—we can reckon the projected team PA total. We can then adjust each projected stat line by the ratio of expected team PAs to actual PAs (which normally yields a number fairly close to, but not equalling,1.0), giving us the true projected stats for each man and for the team.

(For this season for this team’s batting, the adjustment factor, rounded to three decimal places—the actual calculations use many more decimals— is 0.976)

Incidentally, that last adjustment is the reason that even rookies, whose whole “career” is just the current season, can have “adjusted” lines that differ slightly from their actual data lines, and why the TOP numbers here may differ slightly from those on other pages here.

You can see the overall “win-capability” of the team (its wins projected from these team numbers and the corresponding team pitching numbers) at our “Projected Team-Performances” page.

The Table

Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Joey Bart, actual: 21 62 58 15 1 0 2 22 2 0 1 1 0 678
Joey Bart, projected: 21 61 54 13 2 0 2 20 5 0 0 2 0 637
Jack Brannigan, actual: 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jack Brannigan, projected: 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tyler Callihan, actual: 37 107 95 20 4 2 3 37 9 1 1 1 0 601
Tyler Callihan, projected: 37 104 93 19 4 2 3 35 8 1 1 1 0 584
Billy Cook, actual: 66 45 45 9 1 1 0 12 0 0 0 0 0 240
Billy Cook, projected: 66 44 44 10 1 0 1 16 0 0 0 0 0 320
Oneil Cruz, actual: 64 283 250 66 10 0 14 118 30 0 0 3 0 1018
Oneil Cruz, projected: 64 276 246 58 11 2 11 106 27 0 2 2 0 783
Henry Davis, actual: 78 243 213 37 5 0 8 66 22 1 1 6 0 484
Henry Davis, projected: 78 237 209 37 7 0 6 62 20 1 2 4 1 436
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Rafael Flores, actual: 12 31 25 5 1 0 1 9 6 0 0 0 0 798
Rafael Flores, projected: 12 30 25 5 2 0 1 9 5 0 0 0 0 666
Jhostynxon García, actual: 19 49 47 8 1 0 0 9 1 0 0 1 0 160
Jhostynxon García, projected: 19 48 45 7 2 0 0 9 2 0 0 1 0 165
Jacob Gonzalez, actual: 23 62 60 13 2 0 3 24 0 0 1 1 0 354
Jacob Gonzalez, projected: 23 61 56 13 2 0 2 21 3 0 0 1 0 486
Nick Gonzales, actual: 116 478 440 135 21 1 6 176 29 0 1 8 0 843
Nick Gonzales, projected: 116 467 431 118 22 3 7 166 25 1 4 6 0 672
Konnor Griffin, actual: 59 247 225 62 10 2 5 91 16 0 2 4 0 866
Konnor Griffin, projected: 59 241 220 61 10 2 5 89 16 0 2 4 0 863
Spencer Horwitz, actual: 83 329 276 72 12 1 10 116 43 0 4 6 0 878
Spencer Horwitz, projected: 83 321 278 74 16 0 9 119 37 0 2 4 0 818
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Brandon Lowe, actual: 113 500 446 112 25 1 25 214 45 0 7 2 0 877
Brandon Lowe, projected: 113 488 434 107 21 2 25 208 46 0 4 5 0 872
Jake Mangum, actual: 99 357 325 96 14 1 4 124 19 3 2 8 0 773
Jake Mangum, projected: 99 349 324 96 14 1 3 121 17 2 1 4 0 733
Ryan O'Hearn, actual: 96 398 359 97 15 0 17 163 31 0 3 5 0 808
Ryan O'Hearn, projected: 96 389 349 89 16 1 14 149 34 0 3 3 0 745
Marcell Ozuna, actual: 70 280 251 51 7 0 8 82 27 0 0 2 0 526
Marcell Ozuna, projected: 70 273 246 66 11 1 12 114 25 0 1 1 0 843
Bryan Reynolds, actual: 122 530 447 118 28 2 15 195 73 0 2 8 0 1009
Bryan Reynolds, projected: 122 517 458 124 25 4 17 209 50 0 3 7 0 908
Endy Rodríguez, actual: 45 159 135 36 6 0 7 63 23 0 0 0 1 980
Endy Rodríguez, projected: 45 155 138 32 6 1 4 51 17 0 0 0 0 619
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Shawn Ross, actual: 2 5 5 1 0 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 1086
Shawn Ross, projected: 2 5 5 1 0 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 1085
Ronny Simón, actual: 7 26 24 8 1 0 0 9 2 0 0 0 0 873
Ronny Simón, projected: 7 25 22 6 1 0 0 7 2 0 0 0 0 542
Jared Triolo, actual: 85 265 236 57 12 0 1 72 22 1 0 4 2 604
Jared Triolo, projected: 85 259 228 54 10 1 4 77 25 1 1 3 0 680
Esmerlyn Valdéz, actual: 52 204 167 41 9 1 14 94 33 0 3 1 0 1056
Esmerlyn Valdéz, projected: 52 199 163 40 9 1 14 92 32 0 3 1 0 1040
Davis Wendzel, actual: 2 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Davis Wendzel, projected: 2 4 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nick Yorke, actual: 27 86 76 15 3 0 1 21 7 0 1 2 0 391
Nick Yorke, projected: 27 84 76 16 3 0 2 24 6 0 1 1 0 488
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Pirates, Actual: 122 4751 4210 1074 188 12 145 1721 440 6 29 63 3 600
Pirates, Projected: 122 4638 4149 1046 195 21 143 1709 402 6 30 50 1 557


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.255 0.252
Slugging Average: 0.409 0.412
Walks (per PA): 0.093 0.087
SOs (per PA): 0.242 0.242
On-Base Average: 0.333 0.323
Power Factor: 1.602 1.634
OPS: 0.741 0.735
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 600
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 557
Actual Runs Scored: 604

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