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Pirates 2026 Projected Pitching Performance


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2026 Pirates Projected Pitching

Through games of Wednesday, 1 July 2026.
All results are from true, unadjusted data.

Explanation of the Table

The Table below shows two lines for each pitcher 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 BFPs (Batters Faced Pitcher, the equivalent of Plate Appearances for batters) to his career BFPs, 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 BFPs. So, as a hypothetical example, a man with 5,000 career BFPs and 250 BFPs this season would have a ratio of 250/5000, or .050; so, if he had yielded, 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 BFPs 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 BFPs the man or team will see in any given number of innings.

To clarify: imagine a staff with a great .250 on-base percentage; that number means that, on average, one man in four that they see at 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, the batters, to make the three outs that constitute an inning, will send 4 men to the plate. If we next imagine a staff with an equally absurd .500 on-base percentage, only half the batters it faces make an out: thus, to make the three outs that define an inning, the batters 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 BFPs for this season, are slightly inaccurate, because his—and the team’s—BFPs 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 behind him on the bases) and multiply it by his percentage of the staff’s total BFPs; 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 BFP total. We can then adjust each projected stat line by the ratio of expected team BFPs to actual BFPs (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 pitching, the adjustment factor, rounded to three decimal places—the actual calculations use many more decimals— is 0.989)

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 TPP 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 batting numbers) at our “Projected Team-Performances” page.

The Table

Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Braxton Ashcraft, actual: 17 416 380 88 15 1 11 138 23 42 308 1 6 6 4 0 9 581
Braxton Ashcraft, projected: 17 412 374 88 18 1 8 133 27 37 308 1 4 5 3 1 8 553
Hunter Barco, actual: 5 60 48 14 3 0 3 26 9 12 35 0 1 2 0 0 1 1474
Hunter Barco, projected: 5 59 49 14 3 0 2 25 7 10 35 0 1 2 0 0 1 1231
Brandan Bidois, actual: 15 80 64 19 1 0 5 35 12 16 47 1 2 1 0 0 1 1483
Brandan Bidois, projected: 15 79 63 19 1 0 5 35 12 16 47 1 2 1 0 0 1 1501
Tyler Callihan, actual: 2 6 5 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 481
Tyler Callihan, projected: 2 6 5 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 486
Bubba Chandler, actual: 17 379 322 71 19 1 9 119 48 50 257 1 2 5 3 1 4 726
Bubba Chandler, projected: 17 375 327 72 19 1 8 118 39 48 257 1 1 6 3 1 5 658
Chris Devenski, actual: 3 12 12 5 0 0 1 8 0 2 7 0 0 0 0 0 1 1945
Chris Devenski, projected: 3 12 11 2 0 0 0 4 1 1 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 324
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Wilber Dotel, actual: 9 79 69 16 4 0 2 26 9 12 55 0 1 0 0 0 0 677
Wilber Dotel, projected: 9 78 68 16 4 0 2 26 9 12 55 0 1 0 0 0 0 684
Jared Jones, actual: 6 110 100 27 7 0 5 49 9 17 75 1 0 0 2 0 0 894
Jared Jones, projected: 6 109 99 24 6 1 4 44 9 14 75 0 1 1 1 0 1 783
Mitch Keller, actual: 17 402 360 90 20 1 9 139 33 56 283 0 2 7 3 0 10 695
Mitch Keller, projected: 17 398 357 95 20 2 11 151 31 50 283 1 2 6 2 0 10 772
Antwone Kelly, actual: 1 9 8 2 1 0 1 6 1 2 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 862
Antwone Kelly, projected: 1 9 8 2 1 0 1 6 1 2 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 810
Justin Lawrence, actual: 23 106 90 22 6 1 4 42 12 20 66 0 0 4 3 1 1 1129
Justin Lawrence, projected: 23 105 88 23 5 1 2 36 13 16 66 1 1 2 1 1 2 923
Isaac Mattson, actual: 27 109 95 21 6 0 1 30 12 10 77 0 1 1 0 0 0 537
Isaac Mattson, projected: 27 108 92 19 4 0 2 28 13 9 77 1 1 1 0 1 0 534
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Carmen Mlodzinski, actual: 17 317 286 77 16 1 6 113 26 35 218 0 2 2 3 0 2 748
Carmen Mlodzinski, projected: 17 314 282 71 14 1 6 104 26 32 218 1 2 3 2 1 4 667
Mason Montgomery, actual: 33 143 127 30 7 0 4 49 16 18 98 0 0 0 0 0 3 722
Mason Montgomery, projected: 33 141 122 31 7 0 4 49 17 19 98 1 1 0 1 0 5 800
Yohan Ramírez, actual: 37 211 175 37 11 0 4 60 27 22 143 0 0 9 1 8 1 623
Yohan Ramírez, projected: 37 209 174 40 8 1 5 65 24 26 143 1 1 9 1 3 3 740
Cam Sanders, actual: 7 38 29 7 2 0 0 9 7 6 23 1 0 1 0 0 0 790
Cam Sanders, projected: 7 38 30 8 2 0 1 13 6 6 23 1 0 1 0 0 0 1018
Dennis Santana, actual: 37 157 136 32 10 0 5 57 19 22 106 0 0 2 1 1 5 816
Dennis Santana, projected: 37 155 136 30 7 1 3 48 15 19 106 0 1 2 1 0 3 630
Evan Sisk, actual: 32 152 130 30 8 0 2 44 13 9 109 2 1 6 0 0 5 564
Evan Sisk, projected: 32 150 127 30 6 1 2 43 15 10 109 2 1 5 0 0 6 618
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Paul Skenes, actual: 18 395 360 76 17 1 11 128 22 46 291 1 4 7 4 0 0 549
Paul Skenes, projected: 18 391 362 73 16 1 8 114 23 29 291 0 1 5 3 0 2 441
Gregory Soto, actual: 36 144 126 24 4 1 4 42 15 19 105 0 0 2 1 0 3 554
Gregory Soto, projected: 36 142 122 29 5 0 3 44 16 18 105 0 1 3 1 1 2 671
José Urquidy, actual: 5 36 34 15 4 0 1 22 2 10 19 0 0 0 1 0 3 2451
José Urquidy, projected: 5 36 33 8 2 0 1 14 2 4 19 0 0 0 0 0 1 842
Pirates, Actual: 87 3361 2956 704 161 7 88 1143 316 426 2333 8 22 55 26 11 49 383
Pirates, Projected: 87 3326 2929 695 148 11 78 1101 307 378 2333 12 22 52 19 9 54 361


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.238 0.237
Slugging Average: 0.387 0.376
Walks (per PA): 0.094 0.092
SOs (per PA): 0.239 0.244
On-Base Average: 0.321 0.318
Power Factor: 1.624 1.584
OPS: 0.708 0.694
Runs Calculated from Actual Stats: 383
Runs Calculated from Projected Stats: 361
Actual Runs Scored: 426

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