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Rays 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Rays Projected Batting

Through games of Sunday, 27 September 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 0.986)

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
Jonathan Aranda, actual: 155 668 580 159 27 0 22 252 69 0 8 11 0 891
Jonathan Aranda, projected: 155 658 575 158 30 0 21 252 66 0 6 11 0 859
Junior Caminero, actual: 162 702 616 170 25 1 42 323 79 0 3 4 0 955
Junior Caminero, projected: 162 692 625 167 28 1 41 321 59 0 4 4 0 850
Jonny DeLuca, actual: 112 370 350 93 24 0 11 150 17 3 0 0 0 634
Jonny DeLuca, projected: 112 365 341 85 17 3 8 133 20 2 0 2 0 604
Yandy Díaz, actual: 154 686 614 180 26 1 22 274 56 0 6 10 0 928
Yandy Díaz, projected: 154 676 595 173 32 1 19 263 71 0 4 6 0 935
Oliver Dunn, actual: 9 12 11 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 73
Oliver Dunn, projected: 9 12 11 2 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 173
Hunter Feduccia, actual: 60 160 141 33 7 1 2 48 14 3 1 1 0 522
Hunter Feduccia, projected: 60 158 135 28 6 0 1 38 19 2 1 0 0 432
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Nick Fortes, actual: 109 323 298 77 17 0 6 112 12 4 1 8 0 556
Nick Fortes, projected: 109 318 290 67 12 0 7 102 16 3 2 7 0 476
Jake Fraley, actual: 31 97 88 19 7 0 2 32 9 0 0 0 0 568
Jake Fraley, projected: 31 96 84 21 4 0 3 34 10 0 0 1 0 771
Liam Hicks, actual: 41 145 125 36 7 0 4 55 16 0 1 3 0 954
Liam Hicks, projected: 41 143 123 33 4 0 4 49 15 1 2 3 0 891
Nick Madrigal, actual: 4 11 10 3 1 0 0 4 0 0 1 0 0 732
Nick Madrigal, projected: 4 11 10 3 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 494
Jorge Mateo, actual: 32 84 78 11 2 0 1 16 3 1 1 1 0 192
Jorge Mateo, projected: 32 83 77 17 4 1 2 27 4 1 1 1 0 500
Víctor Mesa Jr., actual: 79 262 235 61 8 3 14 117 23 2 1 1 0 873
Víctor Mesa Jr., projected: 79 258 230 58 9 3 13 110 24 3 1 1 0 823
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Cedric Mullins, actual: 137 502 439 90 10 3 15 151 43 6 4 7 3 552
Cedric Mullins, projected: 137 495 440 106 20 3 16 180 42 3 3 5 1 722
Richie Palacios, actual: 124 399 345 81 14 2 10 129 46 2 2 4 0 678
Richie Palacios, projected: 124 393 341 81 14 1 9 124 44 1 2 4 0 683
Kenny Piper, actual: 14 11 9 2 0 0 1 5 2 0 0 0 0 1307
Kenny Piper, projected: 14 11 9 2 0 0 1 5 2 0 0 0 0 1307
Chandler Simpson, actual: 151 612 571 175 16 6 0 203 26 9 6 0 0 761
Chandler Simpson, projected: 151 603 564 170 18 5 0 198 26 7 5 0 1 697
Austin Slater, actual: 7 25 22 6 2 0 0 8 3 0 0 0 0 967
Austin Slater, projected: 7 25 22 5 1 0 1 8 3 0 0 0 0 808
Ryan Vilade, actual: 96 278 245 60 8 2 11 105 26 1 3 3 0 837
Ryan Vilade, projected: 96 274 243 54 6 2 9 92 24 2 3 2 0 638
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Taylor Walls, actual: 124 433 369 82 18 2 2 110 45 12 4 3 0 522
Taylor Walls, projected: 124 427 371 74 16 2 5 110 47 4 3 1 0 485
Ben Williamson, actual: 88 286 261 62 10 1 3 83 22 1 0 2 0 508
Ben Williamson, projected: 88 282 261 64 11 0 2 82 18 1 0 1 0 464
Carson Williams, actual: 16 40 37 4 1 0 1 8 2 1 0 0 0 177
Carson Williams, projected: 16 39 37 6 1 0 2 12 2 1 0 0 0 370
Rays, Actual: 162 6106 5444 1405 230 22 169 2186 514 45 42 58 3 737
Rays, Projected: 162 6019 5384 1374 233 22 164 2146 514 31 37 49 2 704


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.258 0.255
Slugging Average: 0.402 0.399
Walks (per PA): 0.084 0.085
SOs (per PA): 0.188 0.192
On-Base Average: 0.326 0.324
Power Factor: 1.556 1.562
OPS: 0.728 0.722
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 737
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 704
Actual Runs Scored: 736

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