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Padres 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Padres Projected Batting

Through games of Sunday, 27 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 0.998)

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: 74 253 239 67 14 1 7 105 11 0 1 1 0 722
Xander Bogaerts, actual: 153 606 520 120 18 1 13 179 77 0 5 4 0 727
Xander Bogaerts, projected: 153 605 541 153 32 1 17 237 53 0 5 5 0 882
Jase Bowen, actual: 83 103 96 14 2 1 2 24 3 2 0 2 0 251
Jase Bowen, projected: 83 103 96 14 2 1 2 24 3 2 0 2 0 226
Luis Campusano, actual: 71 248 215 57 12 0 8 93 30 0 0 3 0 871
Luis Campusano, projected: 71 247 224 55 10 0 7 87 20 0 1 2 0 606
Nick Castellanos, actual: 39 122 115 22 5 0 4 39 5 0 2 0 0 464
Nick Castellanos, projected: 39 122 112 30 7 1 4 52 8 0 1 1 0 783
Jake Cronenworth, actual: 109 425 377 85 13 1 7 121 38 3 0 7 0 572
Jake Cronenworth, projected: 109 424 368 90 19 3 10 146 42 1 3 8 2 757
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: 96 265 232 47 14 0 4 73 21 4 3 3 2 475
Freddy Fermin, projected: 96 264 241 61 11 0 5 88 16 3 2 2 0 554
Ty France, actual: 133 500 440 130 24 2 21 221 37 0 8 14 1 1037
Ty France, projected: 133 499 445 119 24 1 13 184 32 0 4 18 0 755
Dustin Harris, actual: 28 100 90 29 3 3 0 38 5 1 2 2 0 1061
Dustin Harris, projected: 28 100 88 24 4 2 1 35 7 1 1 1 0 764
Austin Hays, actual: 26 61 57 18 2 0 2 26 3 0 1 0 0 1066
Austin Hays, projected: 26 61 56 15 3 0 2 24 4 0 0 1 0 759
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: 53 206 184 46 10 1 8 81 15 0 1 5 0 769
Manny Machado, actual: 158 677 589 128 22 0 30 240 76 1 10 1 0 671
Manny Machado, projected: 158 675 610 167 32 1 30 293 56 1 6 2 0 845
Jackson Merrill, actual: 158 664 613 156 26 5 26 270 41 4 3 3 0 741
Jackson Merrill, projected: 158 662 612 165 31 6 25 285 39 3 5 3 0 803
Luis Rengifo, actual: 38 145 127 37 3 0 4 52 15 1 0 2 0 868
Luis Rengifo, projected: 38 145 132 33 5 1 3 49 10 1 1 1 0 632
Ethan Salas, actual: 16 40 39 10 0 1 2 18 1 0 0 0 0 744
Ethan Salas, projected: 16 40 39 10 0 1 2 18 1 0 0 0 0 672
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Gavin Sheets, actual: 125 419 363 77 16 0 17 144 49 0 2 5 0 651
Gavin Sheets, projected: 125 418 376 87 18 0 14 149 36 0 3 3 0 634
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: 78 154 131 25 4 0 1 32 19 3 1 0 0 377
Sung-Mun Song, projected: 78 154 131 25 4 0 1 32 19 3 1 0 0 352
Fernando Tatis Jr., actual: 159 704 626 181 32 3 25 294 64 1 6 7 0 976
Fernando Tatis Jr., projected: 159 702 623 174 32 3 34 314 69 0 4 7 0 1021
Samad Taylor, actual: 47 175 152 48 4 2 2 62 18 3 1 1 0 989
Samad Taylor, projected: 47 175 152 43 4 2 1 55 17 3 1 1 0 773
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
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Will Wagner, actual: 16 45 35 9 1 0 0 10 10 0 0 0 0 900
Will Wagner, projected: 16 45 39 10 2 0 0 13 5 0 0 0 0 615
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: 162 6070 5379 1314 234 23 183 2143 554 25 47 62 3 721
Padres, Projected: 162 6057 5450 1413 270 25 189 2313 474 20 40 64 2 742


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.244 0.259
Slugging Average: 0.398 0.424
Walks (per PA): 0.091 0.078
SOs (per PA): 0.216 0.204
On-Base Average: 0.319 0.324
Power Factor: 1.631 1.637
OPS: 0.718 0.748
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 721
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 742
Actual Runs Scored: 722

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