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Rays 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Rays Projected Batting

Through games of Monday, 21 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 0.985)

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: 149 648 563 156 26 0 22 248 66 0 8 11 0 907
Jonathan Aranda, projected: 149 638 558 154 29 0 21 246 64 0 6 11 0 866
Junior Caminero, actual: 155 677 592 164 24 1 41 313 78 0 3 4 0 973
Junior Caminero, projected: 155 667 602 161 27 1 40 310 57 0 4 3 0 857
Jonny DeLuca, actual: 105 341 324 84 22 0 9 133 14 3 0 0 0 578
Jonny DeLuca, projected: 105 336 314 77 15 3 7 119 18 2 0 2 0 585
Yandy Díaz, actual: 149 664 593 173 25 1 22 266 55 0 6 10 0 930
Yandy Díaz, projected: 149 654 575 167 31 1 18 255 69 0 4 6 0 932
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 39 19 2 1 0 0 445
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Nick Fortes, actual: 104 309 284 75 17 0 5 107 12 4 1 8 0 570
Nick Fortes, projected: 104 304 277 64 12 0 7 97 15 3 2 6 0 489
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: 36 123 105 32 5 0 4 49 14 0 1 3 0 1078
Liam Hicks, projected: 36 121 104 28 4 0 3 42 13 1 1 3 0 857
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: 26 70 64 9 1 0 1 13 3 1 1 1 0 207
Jorge Mateo, projected: 26 69 64 14 3 1 1 23 4 1 0 1 0 469
Víctor Mesa Jr., actual: 73 241 215 54 6 3 14 108 22 2 1 1 0 862
Víctor Mesa Jr., projected: 73 237 210 51 7 3 13 101 23 3 1 1 0 808
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Cedric Mullins, actual: 131 483 421 85 10 3 14 143 42 6 4 7 3 540
Cedric Mullins, projected: 131 476 423 102 20 3 15 173 40 3 3 5 1 722
Richie Palacios, actual: 119 381 329 77 13 2 10 124 44 2 2 4 0 690
Richie Palacios, projected: 119 375 325 77 14 1 9 119 42 1 2 4 0 698
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: 147 597 556 172 16 6 0 200 26 9 6 0 0 772
Chandler Simpson, projected: 147 588 549 167 18 5 0 194 26 7 5 0 1 709
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: 90 258 227 58 8 2 11 103 24 1 3 3 0 868
Ryan Vilade, projected: 90 254 225 52 6 2 9 89 22 2 3 2 0 645
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Taylor Walls, actual: 121 420 357 77 16 2 2 103 44 12 4 3 0 499
Taylor Walls, projected: 121 414 359 71 16 2 5 106 46 4 3 1 0 479
Ben Williamson, actual: 84 273 250 61 10 1 3 82 20 1 0 2 0 527
Ben Williamson, projected: 84 269 249 62 11 0 2 80 17 1 0 1 0 478
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: 155 5841 5198 1345 217 22 164 2098 495 45 42 58 3 711
Rays, Projected: 155 5754 5142 1314 225 22 158 2058 494 31 35 47 2 675


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.259 0.256
Slugging Average: 0.404 0.400
Walks (per PA): 0.085 0.086
SOs (per PA): 0.186 0.192
On-Base Average: 0.328 0.324
Power Factor: 1.560 1.566
OPS: 0.731 0.725
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 711
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 675
Actual Runs Scored: 707

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