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Pirates 2026 Projected Pitching Performance


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2026 Pirates Projected Pitching

Through games of Tuesday, 22 September 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 0.993)

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: 28 667 616 145 23 2 22 238 35 73 496 2 7 7 6 0 12 597
Braxton Ashcraft, projected: 28 662 608 144 27 2 17 226 41 66 496 2 6 6 5 1 12 579
Lake Bachar, actual: 13 103 87 17 2 0 4 31 14 8 74 0 1 1 0 1 4 646
Lake Bachar, projected: 13 102 89 19 3 0 4 34 10 11 74 0 1 1 0 1 2 623
Hunter Barco, actual: 7 87 71 21 5 0 4 38 13 17 53 0 1 2 0 0 2 1319
Hunter Barco, projected: 7 86 72 21 5 0 3 37 11 15 53 0 1 2 0 0 2 1157
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 64 19 1 0 5 35 12 16 47 1 2 1 0 0 1 1501
Tyler Callihan, actual: 4 15 12 3 0 0 0 3 3 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 801
Tyler Callihan, projected: 4 15 12 3 0 0 0 3 3 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 810
Bubba Chandler, actual: 30 657 568 132 28 3 15 211 76 83 454 1 4 7 7 1 9 712
Bubba Chandler, projected: 30 652 572 131 28 3 14 209 67 81 454 1 3 8 7 1 10 670
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Khristian Curtis, actual: 5 71 58 10 3 0 1 16 11 9 52 0 1 1 0 0 1 468
Khristian Curtis, projected: 5 70 58 10 3 0 1 16 11 9 52 0 1 1 0 0 1 486
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 3 1 0 0 4 1 1 7 0 0 0 0 0 1 702
Wilber Dotel, actual: 21 167 149 38 6 0 2 50 15 22 118 1 2 0 0 1 2 591
Wilber Dotel, projected: 21 166 148 38 6 0 2 50 15 22 118 1 2 0 0 1 2 594
Camilo Doval, actual: 20 88 70 19 3 0 1 25 14 9 57 1 2 1 0 1 2 863
Camilo Doval, projected: 20 87 75 17 3 0 2 25 10 10 57 0 1 1 1 1 3 729
Brandon Eisert, actual: 13 63 54 14 3 0 0 17 5 6 45 3 0 1 0 0 2 474
Brandon Eisert, projected: 13 63 56 15 4 0 2 26 5 8 45 1 0 1 0 1 2 723
Rafael Flores, actual: 1 5 5 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1166
Rafael Flores, projected: 1 5 5 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1134
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Jared Jones, actual: 20 402 366 78 19 2 12 137 31 43 293 1 2 2 3 0 5 591
Jared Jones, projected: 20 399 362 81 21 3 13 147 31 45 293 0 3 3 3 0 4 640
Mitch Keller, actual: 22 503 451 117 26 2 15 192 42 73 347 0 2 8 3 0 12 796
Mitch Keller, projected: 22 499 448 119 25 3 14 191 39 63 347 1 3 8 3 0 12 803
Antwone Kelly, actual: 6 63 56 16 6 1 2 30 6 8 43 0 1 0 1 0 0 981
Antwone Kelly, projected: 6 63 56 16 6 1 2 30 6 8 43 0 1 0 1 0 0 972
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 37 14 16 66 1 1 2 1 1 2 958
Ron Marinaccio, actual: 4 25 21 5 2 0 1 10 2 4 16 0 0 2 0 0 1 1028
Ron Marinaccio, projected: 4 25 21 4 1 0 1 8 3 3 16 0 0 1 0 0 1 810
Isaac Mattson, actual: 38 176 156 44 15 0 3 68 18 23 116 0 1 1 1 0 0 871
Isaac Mattson, projected: 38 175 151 35 10 0 3 54 20 18 116 1 2 2 1 1 0 691
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: 36 525 477 124 24 1 10 180 42 61 362 0 2 3 5 1 5 711
Carmen Mlodzinski, projected: 36 521 470 118 22 1 10 171 42 56 362 1 3 4 3 1 6 662
Mason Montgomery, actual: 67 267 239 42 9 0 5 66 26 20 198 0 1 1 2 2 7 438
Mason Montgomery, projected: 67 265 231 50 11 0 6 79 30 28 198 1 2 1 3 1 9 600
Noah Murdock, actual: 3 15 11 3 0 0 0 3 3 0 10 0 1 0 0 0 0 837
Noah Murdock, projected: 3 15 11 4 1 0 0 5 3 3 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 1188
Yohan Ramírez, actual: 64 352 297 56 16 0 4 84 43 32 249 0 0 12 3 9 4 483
Yohan Ramírez, projected: 64 349 292 65 13 1 8 103 40 42 249 2 1 14 2 4 5 668
Cam Sanders, actual: 9 48 36 9 2 0 1 14 10 9 28 1 0 1 0 0 0 1051
Cam Sanders, projected: 9 48 39 9 1 0 1 13 7 6 28 0 0 1 0 0 0 828
Dennis Santana, actual: 44 186 162 42 13 0 8 79 21 30 125 1 0 2 1 2 5 915
Dennis Santana, projected: 44 185 162 36 8 1 4 58 18 23 125 1 2 3 1 1 3 652
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Evan Sisk, actual: 39 186 150 33 9 0 2 48 23 15 128 2 2 9 0 0 7 647
Evan Sisk, projected: 39 185 150 34 8 1 2 49 23 15 128 2 2 8 0 0 8 690
Paul Skenes, actual: 31 689 622 143 33 2 19 237 47 81 504 3 5 11 4 0 3 585
Paul Skenes, projected: 31 684 629 132 30 2 14 207 43 55 504 1 2 8 5 0 5 465
Gregory Soto, actual: 67 278 239 47 14 1 5 78 29 31 196 2 0 7 1 2 6 558
Gregory Soto, projected: 67 276 236 56 11 1 5 85 31 34 196 1 2 5 2 1 5 694
Hunter Stratton, actual: 2 12 12 5 1 0 0 6 0 2 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 1433
Hunter Stratton, projected: 2 12 11 3 1 0 0 4 1 1 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 567
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
Luke Weaver, actual: 16 65 58 16 6 0 2 28 5 9 45 0 1 1 0 0 0 828
Luke Weaver, projected: 16 65 58 15 3 0 2 26 5 8 45 0 0 0 0 0 0 678
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Kirby Yates, actual: 13 51 46 11 1 0 1 15 5 3 37 0 0 0 0 0 3 580
Kirby Yates, projected: 13 51 44 9 2 0 2 16 5 5 37 0 0 1 0 0 2 623
Pirates, Actual: 157 6000 5289 1253 280 15 150 2013 565 719 4204 19 38 85 41 21 98 662
Pirates, Projected: 157 5957 5262 1239 262 20 140 1964 549 672 4204 18 41 82 38 16 99 639


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.237 0.235
Slugging Average: 0.381 0.373
Walks (per PA): 0.094 0.092
SOs (per PA): 0.241 0.245
On-Base Average: 0.318 0.315
Power Factor: 1.607 1.585
OPS: 0.699 0.688
Runs Calculated from Actual Stats: 662
Runs Calculated from Projected Stats: 639
Actual Runs Scored: 719

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