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Cardinals 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Cardinals Projected Batting

Through games of Wednesday, 22 July 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 0.983)

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: 100 424 383 107 23 1 15 177 34 0 3 4 0 855
Alec Burleson, projected: 100 417 380 103 19 1 13 164 29 1 3 3 1 749
Nathan Church, actual: 83 271 254 58 9 1 8 93 13 0 2 2 0 527
Nathan Church, projected: 83 266 246 54 8 1 7 85 13 2 2 4 0 492
Jimmy Crooks, actual: 29 81 71 12 2 0 3 23 7 0 0 3 0 499
Jimmy Crooks, projected: 29 80 73 11 1 1 3 21 4 0 0 3 0 419
José Fermín, actual: 65 191 172 44 9 0 4 65 15 1 1 1 1 635
José Fermín, projected: 65 188 166 39 7 0 2 55 17 2 0 2 0 486
Nolan Gorman, actual: 62 229 201 39 4 0 7 64 25 0 3 0 0 520
Nolan Gorman, projected: 62 225 200 43 8 0 10 81 23 0 1 1 0 663
Iván Herrera, actual: 101 451 373 90 14 1 11 139 51 0 3 24 0 839
Iván Herrera, projected: 101 443 377 102 15 1 13 156 45 0 4 16 1 896
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Blaze Jordan, actual: 28 98 91 23 4 2 1 34 3 0 4 0 0 550
Blaze Jordan, projected: 28 96 89 23 4 2 1 33 3 0 4 0 0 540
Lars Nootbaar, actual: 37 142 121 30 6 1 3 47 20 0 1 0 0 737
Lars Nootbaar, projected: 37 140 120 29 6 1 4 48 18 0 1 1 0 805
Pedro Pagés, actual: 57 162 148 31 6 0 4 49 6 4 2 2 0 372
Pedro Pagés, projected: 57 159 147 34 5 0 5 53 8 2 1 1 0 468
Yohel Pozo, actual: 18 33 33 8 1 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 238
Yohel Pozo, projected: 18 32 31 8 2 0 1 11 1 0 0 0 0 539
César Prieto, actual: 6 17 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13
César Prieto, projected: 6 17 17 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Thomas Saggese, actual: 32 82 76 14 2 1 1 21 6 0 0 0 0 294
Thomas Saggese, projected: 32 81 75 18 4 0 1 24 5 0 0 0 0 446
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
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: 34 76 69 14 0 2 4 30 6 1 0 0 0 725
Bryan Torres, projected: 34 75 68 14 0 2 4 29 6 1 0 0 0 707
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: 27 72 63 14 3 0 4 29 7 0 1 1 0 828
Nelson Velázquez, projected: 27 71 63 13 2 0 4 28 6 0 1 1 0 719
Jordan Walker, actual: 99 422 381 110 21 0 22 197 35 0 3 3 0 1033
Jordan Walker, projected: 99 415 377 96 18 1 14 158 32 0 2 4 0 718
JJ Wetherholt, actual: 96 435 377 97 10 0 15 152 42 0 2 14 0 925
JJ Wetherholt, projected: 96 428 371 95 10 0 15 149 41 0 2 14 0 909
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Masyn Winn, actual: 93 380 334 80 12 2 4 108 33 0 6 7 0 635
Masyn Winn, projected: 93 374 339 84 16 2 7 123 26 2 4 4 0 629
Cardinals, Actual: 101 3818 3376 810 133 11 110 1295 325 16 33 67 1 435
Cardinals, Projected: 101 3755 3356 814 134 12 108 1288 296 15 27 58 2 414


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.240 0.243
Slugging Average: 0.384 0.384
Walks (per PA): 0.085 0.079
SOs (per PA): 0.206 0.210
On-Base Average: 0.316 0.313
Power Factor: 1.599 1.582
OPS: 0.700 0.696
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 435
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 414
Actual Runs Scored: 448

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