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Pirates 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Pirates Projected Batting

Through games of Friday, 15 May 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 0.962)

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 60 53 13 2 0 2 20 5 0 0 1 0 648
Billy Cook, actual: 31 21 21 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 184
Billy Cook, projected: 31 20 20 5 1 0 1 7 0 0 0 0 0 534
Oneil Cruz, actual: 43 199 181 48 9 0 10 87 16 0 0 2 0 927
Oneil Cruz, projected: 43 191 171 40 8 1 8 74 18 0 1 1 0 767
Henry Davis, actual: 32 100 86 13 3 0 2 22 11 1 0 2 0 356
Henry Davis, projected: 32 96 84 15 3 0 2 24 8 1 1 2 0 418
Nick Gonzales, actual: 40 159 144 45 7 0 0 52 12 0 0 3 0 777
Nick Gonzales, projected: 40 153 141 37 7 1 2 53 8 0 1 2 0 600
Konnor Griffin, actual: 39 157 142 36 6 2 3 55 11 0 2 2 0 772
Konnor Griffin, projected: 39 151 137 35 6 2 3 53 11 0 2 2 0 786
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Spencer Horwitz, actual: 41 150 124 34 7 1 3 52 23 0 2 1 0 911
Spencer Horwitz, projected: 41 144 125 34 8 0 4 54 17 0 1 2 0 851
Brandon Lowe, actual: 39 176 151 38 9 1 12 85 23 0 1 1 0 1184
Brandon Lowe, projected: 39 169 150 37 7 1 9 73 16 0 1 2 0 904
Jake Mangum, actual: 30 82 73 19 2 0 0 21 7 1 0 1 0 596
Jake Mangum, projected: 30 79 74 22 3 0 0 26 4 0 0 0 0 660
Ryan O'Hearn, actual: 43 181 158 46 6 0 7 73 19 0 2 2 0 913
Ryan O'Hearn, projected: 43 174 156 40 7 1 6 66 15 0 1 1 0 749
Marcell Ozuna, actual: 38 162 144 27 4 0 5 46 16 0 0 2 0 489
Marcell Ozuna, projected: 38 156 140 37 6 0 7 65 14 0 1 1 0 839
Bryan Reynolds, actual: 45 195 158 40 5 2 4 61 34 0 1 2 0 977
Bryan Reynolds, projected: 45 188 166 45 9 1 6 76 18 0 1 2 0 879
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Endy Rodríguez, actual: 2 9 7 2 1 0 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 1274
Endy Rodríguez, projected: 2 9 8 2 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 370
Jared Triolo, actual: 16 49 44 11 2 0 0 13 3 1 0 1 0 507
Jared Triolo, projected: 16 47 41 10 2 0 1 14 5 0 0 0 0 715
Nick Yorke, actual: 26 83 73 15 3 0 1 21 7 0 1 2 0 425
Nick Yorke, projected: 26 80 73 16 2 0 2 23 6 0 1 1 0 506
Pirates, Actual: 45 1785 1564 393 65 6 49 617 186 3 10 22 0 224
Pirates, Projected: 45 1717 1539 388 71 7 53 630 146 1 11 17 0 205


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.251 0.252
Slugging Average: 0.395 0.409
Walks (per PA): 0.104 0.085
SOs (per PA): 0.229 0.242
On-Base Average: 0.337 0.322
Power Factor: 1.570 1.624
OPS: 0.732 0.731
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 224
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 205
Actual Runs Scored: 229

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