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Cardinals 2026 Projected Pitching Performance


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2026 Cardinals Projected Pitching

Through games of Monday, 20 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: 43 214 180 46 10 0 2 62 19 24 143 1 6 8 0 0 6 788
Justin Bruihl, projected: 43 212 183 49 9 0 4 71 18 27 143 2 4 6 0 4 5 757
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: 5 23 21 7 3 0 3 19 1 5 15 0 1 0 0 0 0 1653
Luis Gastelum, projected: 5 23 21 7 3 0 3 19 1 5 15 0 1 0 0 0 0 1652
Gordon Graceffo, actual: 41 191 164 30 8 0 5 53 22 19 145 0 3 2 0 1 3 470
Gordon Graceffo, projected: 41 190 168 40 12 2 4 67 17 26 145 0 3 2 1 0 2 632
Kyle Leahy, actual: 19 408 366 96 22 1 10 150 33 38 286 2 1 5 1 0 7 709
Kyle Leahy, projected: 19 405 365 91 21 1 8 138 32 40 286 1 4 3 1 0 4 631
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: 19 412 365 103 16 1 17 172 36 57 281 1 6 4 4 0 14 949
Matthew Liberatore, projected: 19 409 366 99 23 2 13 163 32 54 281 2 5 4 3 1 11 844
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: 19 414 371 97 19 1 7 139 32 55 294 1 3 6 3 0 5 650
Dustin May, projected: 19 411 367 87 15 2 11 137 34 48 294 1 2 7 4 1 9 657
Michael McGreevy, actual: 19 427 402 95 19 1 14 158 24 36 324 0 1 0 2 0 3 536
Michael McGreevy, projected: 19 424 398 98 17 3 13 158 21 42 324 1 1 2 2 0 1 563
Riley O'Brien, actual: 41 175 148 34 6 0 2 46 15 19 122 2 1 9 0 1 1 557
Riley O'Brien, projected: 41 174 145 33 5 1 3 50 20 18 122 1 1 7 0 1 1 636
Andre Pallante, actual: 19 445 407 102 19 1 10 153 31 49 316 0 1 6 3 0 10 656
Andre Pallante, projected: 19 442 397 104 19 1 10 155 38 53 316 1 2 3 2 0 13 708
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: 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
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 0 1 15 5 6 16 0 1 1 1 0 1 1736
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: 44 177 157 31 9 0 5 55 16 17 130 0 3 1 0 1 6 568
George Soriano, projected: 44 176 153 37 8 0 7 67 18 25 130 0 2 3 0 1 2 747
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: 43 171 146 35 4 0 6 57 23 22 115 0 0 1 0 1 2 783
Ryne Stanek, projected: 43 170 148 32 6 0 5 55 20 19 115 0 1 1 1 1 2 686
Matt Svanson, actual: 37 188 165 46 10 0 5 71 19 32 122 0 2 2 0 0 1 933
Matt Svanson, projected: 37 187 164 35 7 1 4 54 17 20 122 0 3 3 0 0 1 635
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: 99 3782 3357 841 168 8 99 1322 332 443 2650 10 29 50 20 7 67 434
Cardinals, Projected: 99 3758 3342 828 168 17 96 1317 322 443 2650 11 33 47 19 11 58 423


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.251 0.248
Slugging Average: 0.394 0.394
Walks (per PA): 0.088 0.086
SOs (per PA): 0.197 0.199
On-Base Average: 0.325 0.320
Power Factor: 1.572 1.591
OPS: 0.718 0.714
Runs Calculated from Actual Stats: 434
Runs Calculated from Projected Stats: 423
Actual Runs Scored: 443

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