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Cardinals 2025 Projected Batting Performance


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2025 Cardinals Projected Batting

Through games of Sunday, 28 September 2025.
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
Nolan Arenado, actual: 107 436 401 95 18 1 12 151 28 0 4 3 0 598
Nolan Arenado, projected: 107 435 394 111 23 2 20 200 33 0 5 2 0 895
Luken Baker, actual: 19 41 34 8 3 0 0 11 7 0 0 0 0 523
Luken Baker, projected: 19 41 35 7 2 0 1 12 6 0 0 0 0 534
Alec Burleson, actual: 139 546 497 144 26 2 18 228 39 1 4 3 2 874
Alec Burleson, projected: 139 545 497 133 24 1 17 210 36 1 4 4 2 737
Nathan Church, actual: 27 65 56 10 1 0 1 14 3 2 1 3 0 420
Nathan Church, projected: 27 65 56 10 1 0 1 14 3 2 1 3 0 391
Willson Contreras, actual: 135 563 490 126 31 1 20 219 44 1 4 23 1 828
Willson Contreras, projected: 135 562 486 125 27 1 23 223 55 1 3 17 0 884
Jimmy Crooks, actual: 15 46 45 6 0 1 1 11 0 0 0 1 0 238
Jimmy Crooks, projected: 15 46 45 6 0 1 1 11 0 0 0 1 0 238
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Brendan Donovan, actual: 118 515 460 132 32 0 10 194 42 2 4 7 0 840
Brendan Donovan, projected: 118 514 452 128 25 1 10 186 47 1 3 11 0 869
José Fermín, actual: 30 70 60 17 5 0 1 25 8 1 0 1 0 936
José Fermín, projected: 30 70 61 13 2 0 0 17 7 1 0 1 0 371
Jose Barrero, actual: 22 31 29 4 1 0 1 8 1 0 0 1 0 317
Jose Barrero, projected: 22 31 29 5 1 0 0 7 2 0 0 0 0 242
Nolan Gorman, actual: 111 402 351 72 14 1 14 130 47 0 4 0 0 638
Nolan Gorman, projected: 111 401 356 78 15 0 19 149 41 0 2 2 0 705
Garrett Hampson, actual: 35 31 29 3 1 0 0 4 1 1 0 0 0 29
Garrett Hampson, projected: 35 31 28 7 1 0 0 10 2 0 0 0 0 464
Iván Herrera, actual: 107 452 388 110 13 0 19 180 43 0 4 15 2 944
Iván Herrera, projected: 107 451 390 111 16 1 14 170 44 1 4 11 2 924
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Lars Nootbaar, actual: 135 583 509 119 24 1 13 184 64 1 3 6 0 658
Lars Nootbaar, projected: 135 582 499 121 25 3 17 202 75 1 4 3 0 781
Pedro Pagés, actual: 112 389 361 83 15 0 11 131 19 3 3 3 0 495
Pedro Pagés, projected: 112 388 360 84 12 1 12 132 20 3 3 2 0 503
Yohel Pozo, actual: 67 168 160 37 8 0 5 60 7 0 1 0 0 502
Yohel Pozo, projected: 67 168 160 40 8 0 4 60 7 0 1 0 0 515
César Prieto, actual: 3 6 6 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 119
César Prieto, projected: 3 6 6 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 119
Thomas Saggese, actual: 82 295 275 71 16 0 2 93 16 1 2 1 0 541
Thomas Saggese, projected: 82 294 275 69 15 0 3 92 15 1 2 2 0 514
Victor Scott II, actual: 138 463 398 86 15 1 5 118 42 10 3 10 0 536
Victor Scott II, projected: 138 462 406 84 18 1 5 119 36 7 4 9 0 479
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Michael Siani, actual: 19 19 17 4 0 0 0 4 2 0 0 0 0 482
Michael Siani, projected: 19 19 17 4 0 0 0 5 1 1 0 0 0 262
Ryan Vilade, actual: 7 15 13 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 61
Ryan Vilade, projected: 7 15 13 2 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 89
Jordan Walker, actual: 111 396 363 78 13 1 6 111 29 0 1 3 0 476
Jordan Walker, projected: 111 395 360 86 16 2 10 136 29 0 2 4 0 609
Masyn Winn, actual: 129 537 491 124 27 0 9 178 34 2 2 8 0 576
Masyn Winn, projected: 129 536 490 123 25 2 11 184 35 3 4 4 0 617
Cardinals, Actual: 162 6069 5433 1331 263 9 148 2056 478 25 40 88 5 658
Cardinals, Projected: 162 6057 5415 1348 256 16 168 2143 495 23 42 76 4 685


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.245 0.249
Slugging Average: 0.378 0.396
Walks (per PA): 0.079 0.082
SOs (per PA): 0.218 0.215
On-Base Average: 0.314 0.318
Power Factor: 1.545 1.590
OPS: 0.693 0.714
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 658
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 685
Actual Runs Scored: 689

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