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Pirates 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Pirates Projected Batting

Through games of Sunday, 27 September 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 0.98)

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: 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jack Brannigan, projected: 2 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: 37 105 94 19 4 2 3 35 8 1 1 1 0 579
Billy Cook, actual: 87 58 56 10 2 1 0 14 1 0 0 1 0 251
Billy Cook, projected: 87 57 56 12 2 1 2 19 1 0 0 1 0 456
Oneil Cruz, actual: 97 419 368 103 14 1 20 179 47 0 0 4 0 1101
Oneil Cruz, projected: 97 411 365 88 17 2 17 160 41 0 2 2 0 807
Henry Davis, actual: 97 298 256 44 6 0 10 80 28 3 2 8 1 489
Henry Davis, projected: 97 292 255 45 8 0 8 77 26 2 2 5 1 446
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Rafael Flores, actual: 47 163 148 39 6 0 11 78 15 0 0 0 0 968
Rafael Flores, projected: 47 160 145 37 7 0 10 74 15 0 0 0 0 911
Jhostynxon García, actual: 20 50 48 8 1 0 0 9 1 0 0 1 0 152
Jhostynxon García, projected: 20 49 46 7 2 0 0 9 2 0 0 1 0 157
Jacob Gonzalez, actual: 51 130 123 25 5 0 5 45 4 0 1 2 0 405
Jacob Gonzalez, projected: 51 127 117 26 5 0 4 43 7 1 1 2 0 491
Nick Gonzales, actual: 148 608 551 167 27 1 6 214 43 0 1 13 0 840
Nick Gonzales, projected: 148 596 547 151 28 3 8 208 34 1 4 9 0 678
Konnor Griffin, actual: 80 339 312 85 15 4 6 126 20 0 2 5 0 774
Konnor Griffin, projected: 80 332 306 83 15 4 6 123 20 0 2 5 0 760
Spencer Horwitz, actual: 114 451 385 94 14 1 10 140 54 0 5 7 0 703
Spencer Horwitz, projected: 114 442 383 100 21 0 12 156 49 0 3 6 0 781
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Brandon Lowe, actual: 150 656 584 152 29 1 35 288 62 0 7 3 0 932
Brandon Lowe, projected: 150 643 571 142 27 2 34 276 61 0 5 7 0 885
Jake Mangum, actual: 133 479 435 120 19 2 5 158 25 5 2 12 0 664
Jake Mangum, projected: 133 469 435 124 19 2 4 159 23 3 2 7 0 686
Ryan O'Hearn, actual: 110 451 407 108 17 0 18 179 35 0 3 6 0 769
Ryan O'Hearn, projected: 110 442 397 101 18 2 15 168 38 0 3 4 0 736
Marcell Ozuna, actual: 70 280 251 51 7 0 8 82 27 0 0 2 0 526
Marcell Ozuna, projected: 70 274 247 66 11 1 12 114 25 0 1 1 0 837
Bryan Reynolds, actual: 162 699 595 155 40 3 17 252 89 0 3 11 1 929
Bryan Reynolds, projected: 162 685 606 163 34 5 23 275 66 0 3 9 0 900
Endy Rodríguez, actual: 45 159 135 36 6 0 7 63 23 0 0 0 1 980
Endy Rodríguez, projected: 45 156 138 32 6 1 4 51 17 0 0 0 0 616
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: 21 68 63 16 3 0 1 22 4 1 0 0 0 469
Ronny Simón, projected: 21 67 60 15 3 0 0 18 5 1 1 0 0 441
Jared Triolo, actual: 125 362 324 77 12 0 3 98 28 2 1 5 2 564
Jared Triolo, projected: 125 355 313 74 12 1 6 105 34 1 2 4 1 673
Esmerlyn Valdéz, actual: 72 287 241 56 14 1 17 123 42 0 3 1 0 964
Esmerlyn Valdéz, projected: 72 281 236 55 14 1 17 121 41 0 3 1 0 960
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: 40 117 104 22 4 0 1 29 9 1 1 2 0 391
Nick Yorke, projected: 40 115 104 23 3 0 2 32 8 0 1 1 0 467
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Pirates, Actual: 162 6253 5549 1404 246 17 186 2242 568 13 33 85 5 771
Pirates, Projected: 162 6129 5485 1377 258 27 190 2248 526 10 36 68 2 735


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.253 0.251
Slugging Average: 0.404 0.410
Walks (per PA): 0.091 0.086
SOs (per PA): 0.241 0.242
On-Base Average: 0.330 0.322
Power Factor: 1.597 1.633
OPS: 0.734 0.732
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 771
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 735
Actual Runs Scored: 767

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