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Cardinals 2026 Projected Pitching Performance


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2026 Cardinals Projected Pitching

Through games of Friday, 10 July 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
Justin Bruihl, actual: 41 202 170 43 8 0 2 57 17 23 135 1 6 8 0 0 6 783
Justin Bruihl, projected: 41 201 173 46 8 0 4 67 17 26 135 2 3 6 0 3 4 743
Hunter Dobbins, actual: 5 95 85 21 4 1 3 36 10 10 67 0 0 0 0 0 0 706
Hunter Dobbins, projected: 5 94 87 22 5 1 2 35 7 11 67 0 0 1 1 0 0 680
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: 2 8 7 3 1 0 1 7 0 1 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 2131
Luis Gastelum, projected: 2 8 7 3 1 0 1 7 0 1 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 2106
Gordon Graceffo, actual: 38 178 152 28 8 0 4 48 21 17 135 0 3 2 0 1 3 460
Gordon Graceffo, projected: 38 177 156 37 11 2 3 62 16 24 135 0 3 2 1 0 2 627
Kyle Leahy, actual: 18 388 346 93 22 1 9 144 33 37 268 2 1 5 1 0 7 751
Kyle Leahy, projected: 18 385 347 87 20 1 8 132 31 39 268 1 4 3 1 0 4 666
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Matthew Liberatore, actual: 18 390 344 99 16 1 17 168 35 57 263 1 6 4 4 0 14 1010
Matthew Liberatore, projected: 18 387 346 94 22 1 12 155 31 52 263 2 5 3 3 1 11 855
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: 17 369 336 87 17 1 7 127 24 48 267 0 3 5 2 0 5 617
Dustin May, projected: 17 366 328 77 13 1 10 123 29 42 267 1 2 6 3 1 8 629
Michael McGreevy, actual: 18 401 378 89 18 0 13 146 23 34 305 0 0 0 2 0 3 521
Michael McGreevy, projected: 18 398 374 92 16 2 12 148 20 40 305 1 1 2 2 0 1 558
Riley O'Brien, actual: 38 160 139 31 4 0 2 41 12 17 115 2 1 6 0 0 1 490
Riley O'Brien, projected: 38 159 134 30 4 1 3 45 17 16 115 1 1 5 0 1 1 597
Andre Pallante, actual: 18 423 387 97 17 1 10 146 29 46 300 0 1 6 3 0 10 665
Andre Pallante, projected: 18 420 378 99 18 1 9 148 36 50 300 1 2 3 2 0 13 702
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
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: 43 179 159 39 5 1 5 61 15 16 126 2 0 3 1 2 2 657
JoJo Romero, projected: 43 178 157 37 7 1 4 58 16 19 126 2 1 3 2 1 1 618
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 32 9 2 1 1 15 5 7 16 0 1 1 1 0 1 2060
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: 40 164 144 29 9 0 4 50 16 16 119 0 3 1 0 1 6 586
George Soriano, projected: 40 163 141 35 8 0 6 62 17 24 119 0 2 3 0 1 2 782
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Ryne Stanek, actual: 40 159 136 33 4 0 6 55 21 21 107 0 0 1 0 1 2 804
Ryne Stanek, projected: 40 158 137 30 5 0 5 51 19 18 107 0 1 1 1 1 2 697
Matt Svanson, actual: 36 185 162 46 10 0 5 71 19 32 119 0 2 2 0 0 1 971
Matt Svanson, projected: 36 184 161 35 7 1 4 53 17 20 119 0 3 3 0 0 1 662
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: 93 3557 3161 796 156 7 93 1245 310 418 2492 9 28 45 18 6 66 409
Cardinals, Projected: 93 3534 3143 780 156 15 88 1234 304 418 2492 11 32 43 18 10 56 397


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.252 0.248
Slugging Average: 0.394 0.393
Walks (per PA): 0.087 0.086
SOs (per PA): 0.196 0.198
On-Base Average: 0.325 0.320
Power Factor: 1.564 1.582
OPS: 0.719 0.713
Runs Calculated from Actual Stats: 409
Runs Calculated from Projected Stats: 397
Actual Runs Scored: 418

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