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Pirates 2025 Projected Batting Performance


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2025 Pirates Projected Batting

Through games of Sunday, 28 September 2025.
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 1.012)

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
Ji Hwan Bae, actual: 13 25 20 1 0 0 0 1 5 0 0 0 0 212
Ji Hwan Bae, projected: 13 25 23 5 1 0 0 7 2 0 0 0 0 457
Joey Bart, actual: 93 332 285 71 12 1 4 97 40 0 0 7 0 639
Joey Bart, projected: 93 336 299 72 12 1 8 110 28 0 1 8 0 629
Alexander Canario, actual: 87 234 216 47 6 1 6 73 17 0 1 0 0 513
Alexander Canario, projected: 87 237 219 50 7 2 7 81 16 0 1 1 0 565
Tsung-Che Cheng, actual: 3 7 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tsung-Che Cheng, projected: 3 7 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Billy Cook, actual: 3 6 6 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 710
Billy Cook, projected: 3 6 6 1 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 239
Oneil Cruz, actual: 135 544 471 94 18 3 20 178 64 0 5 4 0 683
Oneil Cruz, projected: 135 550 490 114 23 4 21 208 53 0 4 3 0 746
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Henry Davis, actual: 87 283 252 42 7 0 7 70 18 3 3 5 2 389
Henry Davis, projected: 87 286 252 46 9 0 7 74 24 2 3 4 1 439
Cam Devanney, actual: 14 38 36 5 1 0 0 6 2 0 0 0 0 90
Cam Devanney, projected: 14 38 36 5 1 0 0 6 2 0 0 0 0 90
Rafael Flores, actual: 7 17 15 3 2 0 0 5 2 0 0 0 0 478
Rafael Flores, projected: 7 17 15 3 2 0 0 5 2 0 0 0 0 479
Adam Frazier, actual: 78 262 235 60 10 0 3 79 17 1 3 6 0 542
Adam Frazier, projected: 78 265 240 63 12 2 4 92 19 1 1 4 0 671
Nick Gonzales, actual: 96 408 381 99 18 3 5 138 21 0 4 2 0 564
Nick Gonzales, projected: 96 413 382 98 20 3 6 144 20 1 4 5 0 588
Matt Gorski, actual: 15 42 41 8 0 1 2 16 1 0 0 0 0 408
Matt Gorski, projected: 15 42 41 8 0 1 2 16 1 0 0 0 0 408
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Ke'Bryan Hayes, actual: 100 392 369 87 10 2 2 107 18 1 0 4 0 439
Ke'Bryan Hayes, projected: 100 397 365 92 17 3 7 134 27 0 2 2 0 607
Spencer Horwitz, actual: 108 411 364 99 26 0 11 158 44 0 1 2 0 831
Spencer Horwitz, projected: 108 416 364 97 23 0 12 157 45 0 2 5 0 826
Isiah Kiner-Falefa, actual: 119 428 401 106 20 2 1 133 17 5 1 4 0 536
Isiah Kiner-Falefa, projected: 119 433 399 105 17 2 5 139 23 2 2 6 0 585
Andrew McCutchen, actual: 135 551 477 114 22 0 13 175 67 0 3 2 2 674
Andrew McCutchen, projected: 135 557 479 130 26 3 19 219 68 0 4 5 0 966
Liover Peguero, actual: 33 88 80 16 1 0 4 29 6 0 0 2 0 595
Liover Peguero, projected: 33 89 82 19 2 0 3 30 5 1 0 1 0 491
Tommy Pham, actual: 120 449 392 96 17 1 10 145 50 0 5 2 0 701
Tommy Pham, projected: 120 454 397 102 19 2 14 167 51 0 3 4 0 814
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Bryan Reynolds, actual: 154 654 587 144 38 3 16 236 57 0 3 7 0 667
Bryan Reynolds, projected: 154 662 589 160 32 5 23 270 60 0 3 9 0 897
Endy Rodríguez, actual: 18 57 52 9 4 0 0 13 5 0 0 0 0 263
Endy Rodríguez, projected: 18 58 53 11 2 0 1 16 5 0 0 0 0 434
Ronny Simón, actual: 8 32 30 7 1 0 0 8 1 0 1 0 0 431
Ronny Simón, projected: 8 32 28 7 1 0 0 8 3 0 1 0 0 584
Nick Solak, actual: 4 11 11 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 22
Nick Solak, projected: 4 11 10 2 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 325
Brett Sullivan, actual: 3 9 6 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 799
Brett Sullivan, projected: 3 9 8 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 247
Jack Suwinski, actual: 59 178 150 22 7 0 3 38 24 0 0 4 0 421
Jack Suwinski, projected: 59 180 155 31 6 0 8 60 22 0 1 2 0 696
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Jared Triolo, actual: 107 376 331 75 18 2 7 118 39 3 1 2 0 677
Jared Triolo, projected: 107 380 334 79 14 1 7 116 39 1 3 4 0 706
Enmanuel Valdéz, actual: 31 102 91 19 4 2 2 33 11 0 0 0 0 553
Enmanuel Valdéz, projected: 31 103 94 22 5 0 3 37 8 0 1 0 0 553
Nick Yorke, actual: 22 72 69 16 3 0 1 22 3 0 0 0 0 489
Nick Yorke, projected: 22 73 68 15 2 0 2 23 4 0 1 0 0 566
Pirates, Actual: 162 6008 5375 1244 245 21 117 1882 530 13 32 54 4 598
Pirates, Projected: 162 6076 5435 1339 253 29 159 2128 528 8 37 63 1 690


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.231 0.246
Slugging Average: 0.350 0.392
Walks (per PA): 0.088 0.087
SOs (per PA): 0.237 0.239
On-Base Average: 0.305 0.318
Power Factor: 1.513 1.589
OPS: 0.655 0.710
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 598
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 690
Actual Runs Scored: 583

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