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Cardinals 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Cardinals 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 0.981)

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
Alec Burleson, actual: 120 508 456 131 30 1 19 220 44 0 3 5 0 934
Alec Burleson, projected: 120 499 453 124 24 1 16 198 36 1 4 4 2 780
Nathan Church, actual: 102 337 310 74 10 1 9 113 18 1 5 3 0 565
Nathan Church, projected: 102 331 301 69 9 1 8 104 17 2 5 5 0 530
Jimmy Crooks, actual: 42 122 110 19 4 0 4 35 7 0 1 4 0 432
Jimmy Crooks, projected: 42 120 110 18 3 1 4 33 5 0 1 4 0 390
José Fermín, actual: 84 255 225 54 11 0 5 80 23 2 2 1 2 620
José Fermín, projected: 84 250 219 51 10 1 3 71 24 3 1 3 1 530
Nolan Gorman, actual: 62 229 201 39 4 0 7 64 25 0 3 0 0 520
Nolan Gorman, projected: 62 225 199 43 8 0 10 81 23 0 1 1 0 663
Iván Herrera, actual: 120 535 453 113 23 1 13 177 54 0 3 25 0 817
Iván Herrera, projected: 120 525 450 122 20 1 15 188 52 0 4 18 1 881
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Blaze Jordan, actual: 45 152 142 35 7 3 1 51 5 0 4 1 0 448
Blaze Jordan, projected: 45 149 139 34 7 3 1 50 5 0 4 1 0 456
Lars Nootbaar, actual: 48 183 158 37 8 1 3 56 24 0 1 0 0 652
Lars Nootbaar, projected: 48 180 154 37 8 1 5 61 23 0 1 1 0 765
Pedro Pagés, actual: 65 174 158 33 6 0 4 51 8 4 2 2 0 380
Pedro Pagés, projected: 65 171 158 36 5 0 5 56 9 2 2 1 0 469
Everson Pereira, actual: 4 8 6 2 0 0 1 5 1 0 0 1 0 2545
Everson Pereira, projected: 4 8 7 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 221
Yohel Pozo, actual: 18 33 33 8 1 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 238
Yohel Pozo, projected: 18 32 31 8 1 0 1 12 1 0 0 0 0 520
César Prieto, actual: 11 28 28 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 5
César Prieto, projected: 11 27 27 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 24
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Thomas Saggese, actual: 32 82 76 14 2 1 1 21 6 0 0 0 0 294
Thomas Saggese, projected: 32 80 75 18 4 0 1 24 5 0 0 0 0 452
Victor Scott II, actual: 61 184 155 30 4 0 2 40 16 10 1 2 0 311
Victor Scott II, projected: 61 181 157 32 6 0 2 45 14 5 1 3 0 416
Bryan Torres, actual: 50 114 103 23 1 2 4 40 9 1 1 0 0 668
Bryan Torres, projected: 50 112 101 23 1 2 4 39 9 1 1 0 0 669
Ramón Urías, actual: 25 68 57 9 3 0 2 18 6 0 1 4 0 529
Ramón Urías, projected: 25 67 60 15 3 0 2 24 5 0 1 1 0 708
Nelson Velázquez, actual: 34 83 74 16 4 0 4 32 7 0 1 1 0 725
Nelson Velázquez, projected: 34 81 73 15 3 0 4 31 7 0 1 1 0 662
Jordan Walker, actual: 117 499 454 129 24 0 23 222 39 0 3 3 0 963
Jordan Walker, projected: 117 490 446 113 21 1 16 185 37 0 3 4 0 710
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
JJ Wetherholt, actual: 115 521 445 109 12 0 16 169 60 0 2 14 0 859
JJ Wetherholt, projected: 115 511 437 107 12 0 16 166 59 0 2 14 0 852
Masyn Winn, actual: 113 459 404 98 17 2 4 131 41 0 7 7 0 626
Masyn Winn, projected: 113 450 408 102 20 2 8 148 32 2 4 4 0 616
Cardinals, Actual: 121 4574 4048 974 171 12 122 1535 393 18 40 73 2 515
Cardinals, Projected: 121 4489 4005 970 165 14 121 1520 364 16 36 65 4 490


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.241 0.242
Slugging Average: 0.379 0.380
Walks (per PA): 0.086 0.081
SOs (per PA): 0.204 0.207
On-Base Average: 0.316 0.313
Power Factor: 1.576 1.567
OPS: 0.695 0.693
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 515
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 490
Actual Runs Scored: 529

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