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Rays 2026 Projected Pitching Performance


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2026 Rays Projected Pitching

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 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 1.016)

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
Bryan Baker, actual: 65 244 218 35 9 1 4 58 22 12 187 1 1 2 2 1 2 358
Bryan Baker, projected: 65 248 222 47 9 1 6 77 22 24 187 1 2 1 1 1 4 511
Hunter Bigge, actual: 18 85 70 14 6 0 1 23 14 17 58 0 1 0 0 1 4 664
Hunter Bigge, projected: 18 86 76 17 3 0 3 29 10 10 58 0 0 0 0 0 2 702
Cam Booser, actual: 42 152 144 25 4 0 5 44 6 10 123 0 2 0 0 0 1 359
Cam Booser, projected: 42 154 138 30 5 0 6 53 13 16 123 0 2 1 1 1 1 586
Joe Boyle, actual: 4 81 70 13 6 0 1 22 9 13 57 0 1 0 1 0 3 592
Joe Boyle, projected: 4 82 69 15 4 0 2 24 11 12 57 0 1 1 1 0 4 770
Aaron Brooks, actual: 1 4 2 1 0 0 1 4 2 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 10113
Aaron Brooks, projected: 1 4 4 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1944
Garrett Cleavinger, actual: 51 181 152 37 6 1 6 63 22 23 124 0 5 2 0 2 2 823
Garrett Cleavinger, projected: 51 184 158 34 4 1 6 58 19 20 124 0 2 4 1 1 4 715
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Alex Cook, actual: 4 24 22 4 1 0 1 8 2 3 17 0 0 0 1 0 0 679
Alex Cook, projected: 4 24 22 4 1 0 1 8 2 3 17 0 0 0 1 0 0 689
Mason Englert, actual: 15 179 166 52 11 0 13 102 9 27 118 1 2 1 2 3 4 1221
Mason Englert, projected: 15 182 167 47 10 1 8 84 11 26 118 1 1 1 2 1 4 983
Yoendrys Gómez, actual: 9 82 69 19 2 0 5 36 10 13 52 1 1 1 0 2 5 1197
Yoendrys Gómez, projected: 9 83 72 17 3 0 3 29 10 11 52 0 1 1 1 0 2 954
Michael Grove, actual: 3 28 27 7 1 0 3 17 0 5 21 0 1 0 0 0 0 937
Michael Grove, projected: 3 28 26 7 1 0 1 12 2 4 21 0 0 0 0 0 1 702
Jonathan Heasley, actual: 1 19 19 8 2 0 2 16 0 5 12 0 0 0 0 0 1 1783
Jonathan Heasley, projected: 1 19 17 5 1 0 1 9 2 3 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 972
Brody Hopkins, actual: 6 24 18 2 0 0 1 5 6 3 16 0 0 0 0 0 2 749
Brody Hopkins, projected: 6 24 18 2 0 0 1 5 6 3 16 0 0 0 0 0 2 756
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Griffin Jax, actual: 34 459 412 97 15 0 15 157 35 56 337 4 6 2 7 1 12 632
Griffin Jax, projected: 34 466 422 97 17 2 15 162 33 55 337 2 4 4 5 2 10 643
Ty Johnson, actual: 8 34 28 7 2 0 1 12 4 3 23 1 1 0 0 0 0 806
Ty Johnson, projected: 8 35 28 7 2 0 1 12 4 3 23 1 1 0 0 0 0 790
Kevin Kelly, actual: 71 279 263 55 9 1 6 84 11 23 221 1 1 3 4 3 7 389
Kevin Kelly, projected: 71 283 264 60 12 1 7 97 12 29 221 1 1 5 3 2 7 500
Craig Kimbrel, actual: 19 80 68 13 6 0 1 22 10 8 56 0 0 2 1 0 6 640
Craig Kimbrel, projected: 19 81 71 12 2 0 2 20 9 7 56 0 0 1 1 0 2 503
Casey Legumina, actual: 47 252 226 58 9 1 7 90 16 24 180 1 4 5 0 3 1 665
Casey Legumina, projected: 47 256 225 61 13 1 8 99 22 36 180 1 3 4 2 2 1 817
Nick Martinez, actual: 31 722 687 171 34 2 22 275 26 62 540 3 3 3 1 0 13 569
Nick Martinez, projected: 31 733 670 172 37 3 24 285 49 83 540 3 5 7 5 1 12 695
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Trevor Martin, actual: 6 54 48 14 2 0 4 28 4 8 34 0 0 2 0 0 2 1314
Trevor Martin, projected: 6 55 48 15 3 0 3 27 5 11 34 0 0 2 1 0 3 1404
Steven Matz, actual: 36 342 311 74 15 2 15 138 25 50 241 1 3 2 3 0 8 790
Steven Matz, projected: 36 347 317 82 15 1 12 137 24 42 241 2 1 3 3 1 7 756
Shane McClanahan, actual: 24 487 441 93 18 1 10 143 39 52 354 2 0 4 5 0 15 540
Shane McClanahan, projected: 24 495 454 99 18 1 14 160 36 46 354 1 0 2 4 0 8 554
Freddy Peralta, actual: 10 218 197 41 4 1 6 65 15 20 166 2 1 3 0 0 3 462
Freddy Peralta, projected: 10 221 197 41 9 1 7 72 20 23 166 1 1 3 1 0 3 583
Drew Rasmussen, actual: 30 669 627 125 18 1 14 187 32 53 516 0 3 7 5 0 23 419
Drew Rasmussen, projected: 30 680 630 135 21 2 15 204 41 57 516 1 2 4 4 1 17 464
Manuel Rodríguez, actual: 6 35 25 6 3 0 1 12 8 3 20 1 0 1 1 1 2 1358
Manuel Rodríguez, projected: 6 36 31 7 1 0 1 11 4 4 20 0 0 1 0 0 1 837
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Chris Roycroft, actual: 11 86 79 24 3 0 6 45 4 14 58 0 1 2 0 1 0 1073
Chris Roycroft, projected: 11 87 74 21 3 1 3 35 10 14 58 1 1 2 1 0 2 1119
Jesse Scholtens, actual: 12 209 188 49 10 1 12 97 15 25 143 0 3 3 3 1 0 968
Jesse Scholtens, projected: 12 212 192 54 7 0 10 90 16 29 143 0 2 2 3 1 3 945
Ian Seymour, actual: 47 551 503 114 21 5 25 220 36 67 398 3 4 5 5 4 8 711
Ian Seymour, projected: 47 560 508 114 20 4 21 205 39 71 398 3 4 6 6 4 8 686
Chase Solesky, actual: 1 17 16 6 2 0 1 11 1 2 9 0 0 0 1 0 0 2322
Chase Solesky, projected: 1 17 16 6 2 0 1 11 1 2 9 0 0 0 1 0 0 2268
Cole Sulser, actual: 51 236 215 53 16 0 7 90 17 31 169 2 2 0 1 4 5 660
Cole Sulser, projected: 51 240 213 49 11 1 6 80 24 27 169 2 1 0 1 2 4 613
Andrew Wantz, actual: 1 11 7 2 0 0 1 5 2 5 5 0 0 2 0 0 1 2873
Andrew Wantz, projected: 1 11 10 2 0 0 0 4 1 1 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 486
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Tyler Wells, actual: 14 66 58 8 1 0 2 15 5 4 54 1 2 0 1 0 1 340
Tyler Wells, projected: 14 67 62 13 2 0 3 24 4 7 54 0 0 0 0 0 1 509
Ben Williamson, actual: 5 21 20 5 1 0 1 9 1 2 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 723
Ben Williamson, projected: 5 21 20 5 1 0 1 9 1 2 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 713
Jake Woodford, actual: 1 8 7 3 2 0 1 8 1 3 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 3193
Jake Woodford, projected: 1 8 7 2 0 0 0 3 1 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 648
Rays, Actual: 162 5939 5403 1235 239 17 201 2111 409 650 4329 25 48 52 44 27 131 631
Rays, Projected: 162 6029 5448 1280 237 21 192 2137 464 683 4329 21 35 55 49 20 113 660


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.229 0.235
Slugging Average: 0.391 0.392
Walks (per PA): 0.069 0.077
SOs (per PA): 0.223 0.236
On-Base Average: 0.287 0.300
Power Factor: 1.709 1.670
OPS: 0.678 0.692
Runs Calculated from Actual Stats: 631
Runs Calculated from Projected Stats: 660
Actual Runs Scored: 650

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