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Cardinals 2026 Projected Pitching Performance


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2026 Cardinals Projected Pitching

Through games of Monday, 10 August 2026.
All results are from true, unadjusted data.

Explanation of the Table

The Table below shows two lines for each pitcher 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 BFPs (Batters Faced Pitcher, the equivalent of Plate Appearances for batters) to his career BFPs, 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 BFPs. So, as a hypothetical example, a man with 5,000 career BFPs and 250 BFPs this season would have a ratio of 250/5000, or .050; so, if he had yielded, 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 BFPs 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 BFPs the man or team will see in any given number of innings.

To clarify: imagine a staff with a great .250 on-base percentage; that number means that, on average, one man in four that they see at 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, the batters, to make the three outs that constitute an inning, will send 4 men to the plate. If we next imagine a staff with an equally absurd .500 on-base percentage, only half the batters it faces make an out: thus, to make the three outs that define an inning, the batters 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 BFPs for this season, are slightly inaccurate, because his—and the team’s—BFPs 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 behind him on the bases) and multiply it by his percentage of the staff’s total BFPs; 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 BFP total. We can then adjust each projected stat line by the ratio of expected team BFPs to actual BFPs (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 pitching, the adjustment factor, rounded to three decimal places—the actual calculations use many more decimals— is 0.993)

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 TPP 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 batting numbers) at our “Projected Team-Performances” page.

The Table

Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Scott Blewett, actual: 1 9 7 1 1 0 0 2 2 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 521
Scott Blewett, projected: 1 9 8 2 0 0 0 3 1 1 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 486
Justin Bruihl, actual: 53 258 222 57 12 0 3 78 21 27 175 1 6 8 0 1 8 750
Justin Bruihl, projected: 53 256 222 59 11 0 5 86 21 31 175 2 4 7 0 4 6 724
Hunter Dobbins, actual: 9 191 172 42 6 1 6 68 17 19 135 0 0 2 1 0 0 679
Hunter Dobbins, projected: 9 190 174 44 8 1 5 69 14 21 135 0 0 2 2 0 0 666
Caleb Ferguson, actual: 3 14 11 3 1 0 0 4 3 1 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 807
Caleb Ferguson, projected: 3 14 12 3 1 0 0 5 1 2 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 648
Ryan Fernandez, actual: 11 59 52 11 3 0 1 17 7 9 40 0 0 0 2 0 2 727
Ryan Fernandez, projected: 11 59 51 13 2 1 1 20 7 8 40 0 0 0 0 1 2 722
Luis Gastelum, actual: 13 63 56 16 6 0 5 37 5 15 44 0 1 1 0 0 1 1078
Luis Gastelum, projected: 13 63 56 16 6 0 5 37 5 15 44 0 1 1 0 0 1 1072
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Gordon Graceffo, actual: 47 231 199 38 10 0 5 63 27 23 174 0 3 2 0 1 3 464
Gordon Graceffo, projected: 47 229 203 48 14 3 4 79 21 30 174 0 4 2 2 1 3 631
Kyle Leahy, actual: 22 478 434 116 27 1 12 181 35 43 337 2 1 5 1 0 7 703
Kyle Leahy, projected: 22 475 430 109 25 1 10 166 35 46 337 1 4 4 1 0 4 633
Matthew Liberatore, actual: 23 500 445 130 21 1 20 213 43 70 341 1 6 5 4 0 18 955
Matthew Liberatore, projected: 23 497 445 122 27 2 15 199 39 66 341 2 6 4 3 1 14 838
Quinn Mathews, actual: 1 24 20 6 1 0 0 7 3 2 15 0 1 0 0 0 0 999
Quinn Mathews, projected: 1 24 20 6 1 0 0 7 3 2 15 0 1 0 0 0 0 972
Brycen Mautz, actual: 1 14 12 4 1 0 0 5 2 2 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 916
Brycen Mautz, projected: 1 14 12 4 1 0 0 5 2 2 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 972
Dustin May, actual: 21 459 412 105 21 1 7 149 35 56 327 1 3 7 3 0 6 621
Dustin May, projected: 21 456 407 95 16 2 12 151 37 52 327 1 2 8 4 1 10 640
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Michael McGreevy, actual: 23 513 477 122 26 2 17 203 32 52 378 0 4 0 2 0 3 637
Michael McGreevy, projected: 23 509 476 121 22 4 15 197 28 55 378 1 3 2 3 0 2 620
Riley O'Brien, actual: 48 202 169 35 6 0 2 47 20 19 143 2 1 10 0 2 2 486
Riley O'Brien, projected: 48 201 167 37 6 1 3 54 24 19 143 1 1 8 0 2 2 591
Andre Pallante, actual: 22 517 473 114 23 1 10 169 37 52 372 0 1 6 4 0 12 599
Andre Pallante, projected: 22 513 462 120 23 1 11 179 45 60 372 1 2 3 2 0 16 685
Matt Pushard, actual: 6 32 25 6 1 0 0 7 4 5 21 0 1 1 1 0 0 814
Matt Pushard, projected: 6 32 25 6 1 0 0 7 4 5 21 0 1 1 1 0 0 810
Max Rajcic, actual: 6 39 33 6 2 1 1 13 6 5 27 0 0 0 0 0 2 739
Max Rajcic, projected: 6 39 33 6 2 1 1 13 6 5 27 0 0 0 0 0 2 729
JoJo Romero, actual: 44 186 164 40 6 1 5 63 16 17 129 2 0 4 2 2 3 700
JoJo Romero, projected: 44 185 163 38 7 1 4 60 16 20 129 2 1 3 2 1 1 622
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Chris Roycroft, actual: 7 39 29 13 0 0 2 19 8 9 16 1 0 1 1 0 1 3486
Chris Roycroft, projected: 7 39 33 9 2 0 1 16 4 7 16 0 1 1 1 0 1 1805
Jared Shuster, actual: 5 44 38 11 3 0 1 17 6 10 27 0 0 0 1 1 1 1131
Jared Shuster, projected: 5 44 38 11 2 0 1 17 5 6 27 0 1 0 0 0 1 940
George Soriano, actual: 53 218 192 41 10 0 8 75 21 22 155 0 3 2 0 1 8 696
George Soriano, projected: 53 217 188 46 10 0 9 84 22 31 155 0 2 4 0 1 3 804
Ryne Stanek, actual: 51 201 172 41 5 1 8 72 27 25 136 0 0 1 0 1 2 813
Ryne Stanek, projected: 51 200 174 38 6 1 6 65 24 22 136 0 1 1 1 1 3 692
Peter Strzelecki, actual: 4 27 22 5 1 0 0 6 3 4 20 0 1 1 0 0 1 509
Peter Strzelecki, projected: 4 27 23 5 1 0 0 8 2 3 20 0 0 1 0 0 1 446
Matt Svanson, actual: 41 207 180 55 11 0 5 81 21 39 130 1 3 2 0 0 2 1073
Matt Svanson, projected: 41 206 180 41 7 1 4 62 19 25 130 0 3 3 0 0 1 695
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Bryan Torres, actual: 1 8 7 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 221
Bryan Torres, projected: 1 8 7 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 162
Bruce Zimmermann, actual: 1 21 20 6 3 0 0 9 1 3 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 635
Bruce Zimmermann, projected: 1 21 19 6 1 0 1 10 1 3 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 972
Cardinals, Actual: 119 4554 4043 1025 207 10 118 1606 403 529 3187 11 35 58 22 9 82 527
Cardinals, Projected: 119 4527 4028 1006 202 20 113 1600 387 537 3187 11 38 55 22 13 73 512


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.254 0.250
Slugging Average: 0.397 0.397
Walks (per PA): 0.088 0.085
SOs (per PA): 0.200 0.199
On-Base Average: 0.327 0.321
Power Factor: 1.567 1.590
OPS: 0.725 0.718
Runs Calculated from Actual Stats: 527
Runs Calculated from Projected Stats: 512
Actual Runs Scored: 529

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