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Cardinals 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Cardinals Projected Batting

Through games of Monday, 21 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 0.981)

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
Joshua Báez, actual: 29 108 100 23 7 0 7 51 4 0 1 3 0 821
Joshua Báez, projected: 29 106 98 23 7 0 7 50 4 0 1 3 0 811
Leo Bernal, actual: 18 79 74 23 3 0 4 38 5 0 0 0 0 1063
Leo Bernal, projected: 18 78 73 23 3 0 4 37 5 0 0 0 0 1042
Alec Burleson, actual: 155 651 586 165 37 1 23 273 55 0 4 6 0 889
Alec Burleson, projected: 155 639 581 158 30 1 21 253 46 1 5 5 2 775
Nathan Church, actual: 136 452 416 105 16 2 10 155 25 1 6 4 0 628
Nathan Church, projected: 136 444 405 99 15 2 9 145 24 3 6 6 0 579
Jimmy Crooks, actual: 52 149 134 24 6 0 5 45 9 0 1 5 0 456
Jimmy Crooks, projected: 52 146 134 22 4 1 4 42 7 0 1 4 0 378
José Fermín, actual: 113 358 315 79 17 0 6 114 30 2 7 2 2 686
José Fermín, projected: 113 351 307 74 15 1 4 103 32 3 4 4 1 573
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Nolan Gorman, actual: 82 292 258 48 6 0 9 81 31 0 3 0 0 494
Nolan Gorman, projected: 82 287 254 54 10 0 13 103 30 0 2 1 0 665
Iván Herrera, actual: 155 692 583 144 26 1 18 226 74 0 5 30 0 852
Iván Herrera, projected: 155 679 580 155 25 1 19 240 69 0 6 23 1 884
Blaze Jordan, actual: 58 199 186 46 8 4 3 71 7 0 4 2 0 536
Blaze Jordan, projected: 58 195 183 45 8 4 3 70 7 0 4 2 0 526
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 62 23 0 1 1 0 765
Pedro Pagés, actual: 80 206 186 40 6 0 4 58 12 4 2 2 0 406
Pedro Pagés, projected: 80 202 186 43 6 0 5 66 11 2 2 1 0 462
Everson Pereira, actual: 11 23 18 5 0 0 1 8 1 1 0 3 0 891
Everson Pereira, projected: 11 23 20 4 1 0 1 6 2 0 0 1 0 553
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
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 11 1 0 0 0 0 520
César Prieto, actual: 15 35 34 2 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 6
César Prieto, projected: 15 34 34 3 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 10
Thomas Saggese, actual: 52 162 146 36 5 1 4 55 12 0 3 1 0 628
Thomas Saggese, projected: 52 159 147 37 7 0 2 51 9 0 2 1 0 534
Victor Scott II, actual: 78 192 163 31 4 0 2 41 16 10 1 2 0 288
Victor Scott II, projected: 78 188 164 33 7 0 2 47 15 5 1 3 0 408
Bryan Torres, actual: 71 180 159 38 1 2 4 55 17 1 2 1 0 701
Bryan Torres, projected: 71 177 156 37 1 2 4 54 17 1 2 1 0 685
Ramón Urías, actual: 43 100 86 13 3 0 4 28 9 0 1 4 0 455
Ramón Urías, projected: 43 98 88 22 4 0 3 35 7 0 1 2 0 711
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
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 32 7 0 1 1 0 651
Jordan Walker, actual: 152 644 587 161 33 0 28 278 49 0 4 4 0 897
Jordan Walker, projected: 152 632 576 146 28 2 21 239 47 0 3 6 0 709
JJ Wetherholt, actual: 134 598 517 125 14 0 17 190 63 0 2 16 0 804
JJ Wetherholt, projected: 134 587 507 123 14 0 17 186 62 0 2 16 0 798
Masyn Winn, actual: 132 518 459 108 20 2 5 147 45 0 7 7 0 598
Masyn Winn, projected: 132 508 461 114 23 2 9 166 36 2 5 4 0 617
Cardinals, Actual: 156 5937 5272 1277 225 14 161 2013 496 19 55 93 2 679
Cardinals, Projected: 156 5826 5212 1275 220 17 158 2001 462 17 49 85 4 644


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.242 0.245
Slugging Average: 0.382 0.384
Walks (per PA): 0.084 0.079
SOs (per PA): 0.208 0.209
On-Base Average: 0.315 0.314
Power Factor: 1.576 1.569
OPS: 0.697 0.698
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 679
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 644
Actual Runs Scored: 704

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