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Giants 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Giants 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 1.001)

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
Willy Adames, actual: 121 505 465 107 25 1 21 197 37 0 1 2 0 705
Willy Adames, projected: 121 506 451 110 23 1 21 198 49 0 3 2 0 768
Luis Arráez, actual: 105 464 420 136 23 7 4 185 25 6 9 4 0 973
Luis Arráez, projected: 105 465 426 135 22 3 5 177 29 2 4 3 0 858
Harrison Bader, actual: 30 111 106 18 5 0 5 38 4 0 1 0 0 402
Harrison Bader, projected: 30 111 100 25 5 0 3 40 8 0 1 2 0 669
Patrick Bailey, actual: 30 89 82 12 0 0 1 15 7 0 0 0 0 205
Patrick Bailey, projected: 30 89 81 18 3 0 2 27 7 1 1 0 0 487
Osleivis Basabe, actual: 29 103 95 20 2 0 4 34 4 0 1 3 0 572
Osleivis Basabe, projected: 29 103 95 20 4 0 3 32 5 0 1 2 0 520
Víctor Bericoto, actual: 33 87 86 21 3 0 4 36 1 0 0 0 0 477
Víctor Bericoto, projected: 33 87 86 21 3 0 4 36 1 0 0 0 0 453
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Will Brennan, actual: 11 23 23 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 9
Will Brennan, projected: 11 23 22 6 1 0 0 8 1 0 0 0 0 440
Drew Cavanaugh, actual: 42 124 107 26 3 0 0 29 15 2 0 0 0 476
Drew Cavanaugh, projected: 42 124 107 26 3 0 0 29 15 2 0 0 0 476
Matt Chapman, actual: 84 352 307 72 18 1 7 113 37 0 3 5 0 676
Matt Chapman, projected: 84 352 308 74 19 2 14 139 38 0 2 4 0 810
Jonah Cox, actual: 39 75 68 20 2 2 4 38 4 3 0 0 0 967
Jonah Cox, projected: 39 75 68 20 2 2 4 38 4 3 0 0 0 967
Rafael Devers, actual: 139 593 524 132 32 1 31 259 63 0 4 2 0 861
Rafael Devers, projected: 139 594 529 144 34 1 29 267 57 0 3 5 0 930
Bryce Eldridge, actual: 93 385 335 88 17 0 15 150 49 0 1 0 0 964
Bryce Eldridge, projected: 93 385 332 83 17 0 14 142 51 0 2 1 0 897
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Jerar Encarnacion, actual: 17 35 34 6 1 0 0 7 1 0 0 0 0 153
Jerar Encarnacion, projected: 17 35 34 7 1 0 1 12 1 0 0 0 0 363
Nate Furman, actual: 13 24 20 4 0 0 0 4 3 1 0 0 0 329
Nate Furman, projected: 13 24 20 4 0 0 0 4 3 1 0 0 0 329
Drew Gilbert, actual: 113 342 296 70 13 3 8 113 33 2 3 8 0 662
Drew Gilbert, projected: 113 342 301 68 14 3 8 112 30 2 3 7 0 589
Eric Haase, actual: 29 84 74 12 3 0 4 27 6 3 0 1 0 437
Eric Haase, projected: 29 84 78 17 3 0 3 31 5 0 0 0 0 534
Turner Hill, actual: 14 47 38 13 5 0 0 18 6 0 2 1 0 1518
Turner Hill, projected: 14 47 38 13 5 0 0 18 6 0 2 1 0 1518
Buddy Kennedy, actual: 20 38 33 4 0 0 0 4 4 0 0 1 0 180
Buddy Kennedy, projected: 20 38 33 5 1 0 0 8 4 0 0 1 0 246
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Andrew Knizner, actual: 12 30 27 6 2 0 1 11 2 0 0 1 0 586
Andrew Knizner, projected: 12 30 27 6 1 0 1 9 2 0 0 1 0 490
Christian Koss, actual: 47 139 128 26 5 0 1 34 5 4 0 2 0 287
Christian Koss, projected: 47 139 127 30 6 0 2 41 6 3 1 2 0 478
Jung Hoo Lee, actual: 127 517 480 137 27 4 9 199 26 0 4 7 0 813
Jung Hoo Lee, projected: 127 518 475 130 25 6 8 190 33 0 4 6 0 778
Eddys Leonard, actual: 3 8 8 2 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 422
Eddys Leonard, projected: 3 8 8 2 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 421
Grant McCray, actual: 28 62 51 6 1 1 1 12 8 3 0 0 0 357
Grant McCray, projected: 28 62 56 9 1 1 2 18 5 1 0 0 0 430
Jared Oliva, actual: 7 7 7 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jared Oliva, projected: 7 7 7 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 159
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Heliot Ramos, actual: 74 306 288 76 13 3 9 122 16 0 1 1 0 718
Heliot Ramos, projected: 74 306 278 70 13 1 10 115 22 0 2 4 0 701
Jesús Rodríguez, actual: 22 58 51 12 3 0 2 21 5 1 0 1 0 581
Jesús Rodríguez, projected: 22 58 51 12 3 0 2 21 5 1 0 1 0 539
Casey Schmitt, actual: 98 409 387 105 17 1 21 187 11 0 4 7 0 810
Casey Schmitt, projected: 98 409 378 92 18 1 16 159 20 1 4 6 0 638
Daniel Susac, actual: 53 161 144 35 8 1 3 54 8 2 4 3 0 545
Daniel Susac, projected: 53 161 144 35 8 1 3 54 8 2 4 3 0 529
Shay Whitcomb, actual: 9 32 30 3 1 0 1 7 0 2 0 0 0 202
Shay Whitcomb, projected: 9 32 30 5 1 0 1 8 1 0 0 0 0 316
Giants, Actual: 139 5210 4714 1172 230 25 156 1920 380 29 38 49 0 599
Giants, Projected: 139 5214 4690 1188 237 22 156 1937 416 19 37 51 0 610


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.249 0.253
Slugging Average: 0.407 0.413
Walks (per PA): 0.073 0.080
SOs (per PA): 0.213 0.216
On-Base Average: 0.309 0.319
Power Factor: 1.638 1.630
OPS: 0.716 0.732
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 599
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 610
Actual Runs Scored: 579

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