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Padres 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Padres Projected Batting

Through games of Tuesday, 1 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 1.004)

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
Miguel Andujar, actual: 74 254 239 62 20 2 5 101 11 0 0 4 0 545
Miguel Andujar, projected: 74 255 241 67 15 1 7 106 11 0 2 2 0 729
Xander Bogaerts, actual: 132 523 449 97 14 0 11 144 65 0 5 4 0 662
Xander Bogaerts, projected: 132 525 470 133 28 1 14 206 46 0 5 4 0 875
Jase Bowen, actual: 63 87 83 14 2 1 2 24 2 0 0 2 0 334
Jase Bowen, projected: 63 87 83 14 2 1 2 24 2 0 0 2 0 315
Luis Campusano, actual: 54 177 151 43 11 0 5 69 24 0 0 2 0 1020
Luis Campusano, projected: 54 178 161 40 7 0 5 63 14 0 1 2 0 607
Nick Castellanos, actual: 39 122 115 22 5 0 4 39 5 0 2 0 0 464
Nick Castellanos, projected: 39 123 113 31 7 1 4 52 8 0 1 1 0 793
Jake Cronenworth, actual: 87 337 299 65 11 0 4 88 31 2 0 5 0 521
Jake Cronenworth, projected: 87 338 294 72 15 2 8 116 33 1 3 7 1 762
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Rodolfo Durán, actual: 38 91 82 12 4 0 3 25 7 1 0 1 0 311
Rodolfo Durán, projected: 38 91 82 12 4 0 3 25 7 1 0 1 0 311
Freddy Fermin, actual: 85 240 211 41 11 0 4 64 18 4 2 3 2 449
Freddy Fermin, projected: 85 241 220 55 10 0 5 80 15 3 2 2 0 565
Ty France, actual: 113 414 364 105 17 2 19 183 30 0 7 12 1 1018
Ty France, projected: 113 416 371 98 19 1 11 153 26 0 3 15 0 747
Dustin Harris, actual: 7 19 17 8 1 0 0 9 1 1 0 0 0 1658
Dustin Harris, projected: 7 19 17 4 1 0 0 7 2 0 0 0 0 499
Austin Hays, actual: 12 32 30 6 0 0 1 9 2 0 0 0 0 434
Austin Hays, projected: 12 32 30 8 2 0 1 13 2 0 0 0 0 667
Blake Hunt, actual: 2 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Blake Hunt, projected: 2 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Bryce Johnson, actual: 32 49 45 8 2 0 0 10 3 1 0 0 0 235
Bryce Johnson, projected: 32 49 44 10 2 0 0 13 3 1 0 0 0 349
Ramón Laureano, actual: 53 206 182 37 6 2 7 68 20 0 2 2 0 616
Ramón Laureano, projected: 53 207 185 46 10 1 8 82 15 0 1 5 0 761
Manny Machado, actual: 136 582 506 111 21 0 24 204 66 1 8 1 0 673
Manny Machado, projected: 136 585 528 145 28 1 26 254 49 1 5 2 0 849
Jackson Merrill, actual: 136 572 527 128 22 3 22 222 37 3 2 3 0 681
Jackson Merrill, projected: 136 574 530 142 27 5 22 244 35 3 4 3 0 796
Luis Rengifo, actual: 38 145 127 37 3 0 4 52 15 1 0 2 0 868
Luis Rengifo, projected: 38 146 133 33 5 1 3 50 10 1 1 1 0 622
Gavin Sheets, actual: 123 412 356 75 15 0 16 138 49 0 2 5 0 640
Gavin Sheets, projected: 123 414 372 86 18 0 14 147 36 0 3 3 0 637
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Nick Solak, actual: 4 10 7 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 606
Nick Solak, projected: 4 10 9 2 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 420
Sung-Mun Song, actual: 65 143 121 23 4 0 1 30 18 3 1 0 0 380
Sung-Mun Song, projected: 65 144 122 23 4 0 1 30 18 3 1 0 0 363
Fernando Tatis Jr., actual: 137 605 539 152 29 2 19 242 54 1 6 5 0 889
Fernando Tatis Jr., projected: 137 608 539 150 28 2 29 271 59 0 3 6 0 1004
Samad Taylor, actual: 28 109 93 32 1 2 1 40 12 3 0 1 0 1136
Samad Taylor, projected: 28 109 95 27 2 2 1 34 11 3 1 1 0 853
Randy Vásquez, actual: 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Randy Vásquez, projected: 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Will Wagner, actual: 16 45 35 9 1 0 0 10 10 0 0 0 0 900
Will Wagner, projected: 16 45 40 10 2 0 0 13 5 0 0 0 0 638
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Gage Workman, actual: 2 3 3 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gage Workman, projected: 2 3 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Padres, Actual: 139 5181 4585 1089 201 14 152 1774 481 21 38 53 3 588
Padres, Projected: 139 5203 4686 1209 236 19 164 1987 408 17 36 57 1 634


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.238 0.258
Slugging Average: 0.387 0.424
Walks (per PA): 0.093 0.078
SOs (per PA): 0.218 0.204
On-Base Average: 0.315 0.323
Power Factor: 1.629 1.644
OPS: 0.702 0.747
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 588
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 634
Actual Runs Scored: 591

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