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Padres 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Padres Projected Batting

Through games of Wednesday, 12 August 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 1.005)

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 0 725
Xander Bogaerts, actual: 115 459 398 88 11 0 10 129 54 0 4 3 0 666
Xander Bogaerts, projected: 115 461 413 117 24 1 13 181 40 0 4 4 0 880
Jase Bowen, actual: 51 79 75 11 2 0 1 16 2 0 0 2 0 234
Jase Bowen, projected: 51 79 75 11 2 0 1 16 2 0 0 2 0 218
Luis Campusano, actual: 43 141 121 38 9 0 5 62 18 0 0 2 0 1238
Luis Campusano, projected: 43 142 129 33 6 0 4 51 11 0 1 1 0 633
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: 70 266 234 51 7 0 3 67 25 2 0 5 0 530
Jake Cronenworth, projected: 70 267 232 57 12 2 6 92 26 1 2 5 1 757
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: 74 206 180 35 10 0 4 57 17 4 2 3 0 464
Freddy Fermin, projected: 74 207 189 48 8 0 4 69 13 2 1 1 0 558
Ty France, actual: 96 339 305 90 15 2 17 160 17 0 5 11 1 1021
Ty France, projected: 96 341 304 81 16 1 9 125 21 0 2 13 0 739
Austin Hays, actual: 3 9 9 3 0 0 1 6 0 0 0 0 0 872
Austin Hays, projected: 3 9 8 2 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 373
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
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 0 340
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
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: 119 505 442 94 20 0 23 183 55 1 7 0 0 662
Manny Machado, projected: 119 507 459 126 24 1 23 221 42 1 4 2 0 854
Jackson Merrill, actual: 119 499 462 114 20 2 19 195 31 3 2 1 0 671
Jackson Merrill, projected: 119 501 463 125 24 4 19 214 30 3 4 2 0 793
Luis Rengifo, actual: 25 100 85 27 2 0 3 38 12 1 0 2 0 1167
Luis Rengifo, projected: 25 100 91 23 3 1 2 34 7 0 1 1 0 652
Gavin Sheets, actual: 113 385 332 70 15 0 15 130 47 0 2 4 0 648
Gavin Sheets, projected: 113 387 347 81 17 0 13 138 34 0 3 3 0 638
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
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Sung-Mun Song, actual: 59 131 111 23 4 0 1 30 17 3 0 0 0 427
Sung-Mun Song, projected: 59 132 112 23 4 0 1 30 17 3 0 0 0 408
Fernando Tatis Jr., actual: 120 528 467 131 25 2 12 196 50 1 5 5 0 858
Fernando Tatis Jr., projected: 120 530 470 130 25 2 25 234 52 0 3 5 0 1005
Samad Taylor, actual: 26 102 88 29 1 1 1 35 12 2 0 0 0 1051
Samad Taylor, projected: 26 102 89 24 2 1 1 30 11 2 1 0 0 807
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
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
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Padres, Actual: 122 4533 4021 956 180 11 134 1560 414 19 32 46 1 515
Padres, Projected: 122 4552 4102 1060 207 16 143 1734 357 14 30 48 1 554


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.238 0.258
Slugging Average: 0.388 0.423
Walks (per PA): 0.091 0.078
SOs (per PA): 0.218 0.205
On-Base Average: 0.314 0.323
Power Factor: 1.632 1.636
OPS: 0.702 0.746
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 515
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 554
Actual Runs Scored: 522

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