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Cardinals 2026 Projected Pitching Performance


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2026 Cardinals Projected Pitching

Through games of Monday, 31 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 0.995)

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: 60 293 252 66 16 0 3 91 25 31 199 1 7 8 0 2 9 755
Justin Bruihl, projected: 60 292 253 67 14 0 6 99 24 36 199 2 5 7 0 5 7 743
Hunter Dobbins, actual: 11 231 204 49 9 1 7 81 24 24 162 1 0 2 1 0 0 683
Hunter Dobbins, projected: 11 230 208 52 11 1 6 83 19 25 162 0 0 2 2 0 0 677
Caleb Ferguson, actual: 9 41 33 11 3 0 2 20 8 8 25 0 0 0 0 0 1 1411
Caleb Ferguson, projected: 9 41 36 9 2 0 1 13 4 5 25 0 0 1 0 0 1 828
Ryan Fernandez, actual: 15 89 79 18 6 0 2 30 9 14 61 0 1 0 2 0 2 763
Ryan Fernandez, projected: 15 89 77 19 3 1 2 31 10 13 61 0 1 1 1 1 3 799
Luis Gastelum, actual: 22 102 92 21 6 1 5 44 8 18 75 0 1 1 0 0 2 719
Luis Gastelum, projected: 22 101 92 21 6 1 5 44 8 18 75 0 1 1 0 0 2 722
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: 54 269 232 42 12 0 5 69 30 24 205 0 5 2 0 2 3 422
Gordon Graceffo, projected: 54 268 236 54 16 3 4 89 24 33 205 0 5 2 2 1 3 576
Kyle Leahy, actual: 26 545 498 131 30 1 13 202 38 45 388 2 1 5 1 0 7 662
Kyle Leahy, projected: 26 542 493 124 28 1 11 188 39 51 388 1 4 4 1 0 4 611
Matthew Liberatore, actual: 27 589 530 151 24 1 25 252 47 87 404 1 6 5 5 0 21 931
Matthew Liberatore, projected: 27 586 527 144 32 2 19 236 46 79 404 2 7 5 4 1 16 846
Quinn Mathews, actual: 4 89 78 23 3 0 1 29 8 11 59 0 2 1 0 0 0 829
Quinn Mathews, projected: 4 89 78 23 3 0 1 29 8 11 59 0 2 1 0 0 0 810
Brycen Mautz, actual: 2 29 26 9 1 0 1 13 3 6 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 1193
Brycen Mautz, projected: 2 29 26 9 1 0 1 13 3 6 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 1215
Dustin May, actual: 21 459 412 105 21 1 7 149 35 56 327 1 3 7 3 0 6 621
Dustin May, projected: 21 457 407 96 17 2 12 153 38 53 327 1 2 8 4 1 10 656
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: 26 586 543 140 29 2 20 233 38 65 427 0 4 1 3 0 3 667
Michael McGreevy, projected: 26 583 543 139 26 4 18 226 33 65 427 1 3 3 3 0 2 642
Riley O'Brien, actual: 56 235 199 44 9 0 3 62 23 26 164 2 1 10 0 2 2 553
Riley O'Brien, projected: 56 234 195 44 8 1 4 66 27 24 164 1 1 9 0 2 2 622
Pedro Pagés, actual: 2 7 7 2 0 0 1 5 0 1 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 724
Pedro Pagés, projected: 2 7 7 2 0 0 1 5 0 1 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 729
Andre Pallante, actual: 24 564 515 128 24 1 10 184 41 56 408 0 2 6 4 0 13 593
Andre Pallante, projected: 24 561 505 132 24 1 12 195 49 65 408 1 2 4 2 0 17 675
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
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
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 39 7 1 4 60 16 20 129 2 1 3 2 1 1 630
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 15 4 6 16 0 1 1 1 0 1 1689
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 39 11 2 0 1 17 5 6 27 0 1 0 0 0 1 940
George Soriano, actual: 61 252 219 48 11 0 9 86 27 28 177 1 3 2 0 2 10 718
George Soriano, projected: 61 251 217 53 12 0 10 96 26 36 177 1 3 4 0 1 4 813
Ryne Stanek, actual: 60 228 198 46 7 1 9 82 28 28 160 0 0 1 0 1 2 722
Ryne Stanek, projected: 60 227 197 43 7 1 7 74 27 26 160 0 1 1 1 2 3 667
Peter Strzelecki, actual: 8 61 52 13 4 0 1 20 6 9 42 0 1 2 0 0 2 750
Peter Strzelecki, projected: 8 61 53 12 3 0 1 19 5 6 42 0 1 2 0 0 2 648
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
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
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
Cade Winquest, actual: 1 6 5 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cade Winquest, projected: 1 6 5 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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 11 1 3 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 972
Cardinals, Actual: 138 5260 4677 1186 242 11 138 1864 464 625 3690 13 41 61 24 12 92 607
Cardinals, Projected: 138 5237 4662 1164 235 21 133 1848 448 624 3690 12 45 63 24 15 82 593


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.254 0.250
Slugging Average: 0.399 0.396
Walks (per PA): 0.088 0.086
SOs (per PA): 0.206 0.205
On-Base Average: 0.326 0.321
Power Factor: 1.572 1.588
OPS: 0.725 0.717
Runs Calculated from Actual Stats: 607
Runs Calculated from Projected Stats: 593
Actual Runs Scored: 625

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