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Rays 2026 Projected Pitching Performance


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2026 Rays 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 1.01)

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: 39 144 130 20 6 0 2 32 12 7 112 0 1 1 0 0 1 306
Bryan Baker, projected: 39 145 131 28 5 1 4 46 13 15 112 0 1 1 0 0 2 532
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 9 10 58 0 0 0 0 0 2 684
Cam Booser, actual: 18 72 67 9 1 0 3 19 4 3 60 0 1 0 0 0 1 338
Cam Booser, projected: 18 73 64 14 2 0 3 26 7 8 60 0 1 0 0 0 0 603
Joe Boyle, actual: 3 66 58 11 5 0 1 19 6 11 47 0 1 0 1 0 3 606
Joe Boyle, projected: 3 67 56 12 3 0 1 19 9 10 47 0 0 1 1 0 3 702
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: 32 120 101 25 4 1 4 43 13 13 84 0 5 1 0 1 2 825
Garrett Cleavinger, projected: 32 121 105 22 3 1 4 38 12 12 84 0 2 3 0 0 3 709
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Mason Englert, actual: 14 157 145 43 10 0 9 80 8 19 107 1 2 1 1 3 3 1007
Mason Englert, projected: 14 159 146 41 9 1 7 71 9 21 107 1 1 1 1 1 3 914
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 9 10 52 0 1 1 1 0 2 882
Michael Grove, actual: 1 10 10 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 29
Michael Grove, projected: 1 10 9 2 0 0 0 4 1 2 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 486
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
Griffin Jax, actual: 26 312 276 69 9 0 13 117 26 43 225 4 4 2 5 1 10 737
Griffin Jax, projected: 26 315 285 66 11 1 10 111 23 38 225 2 2 3 3 2 7 648
Kevin Kelly, actual: 42 175 163 34 5 0 4 51 8 14 139 0 1 3 4 1 4 402
Kevin Kelly, projected: 42 177 164 38 7 1 5 61 8 19 139 0 1 4 2 1 4 544
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Craig Kimbrel, actual: 15 61 54 10 4 0 1 17 6 5 45 0 0 1 1 0 2 494
Craig Kimbrel, projected: 15 62 54 9 2 0 1 16 6 5 45 0 0 1 0 0 2 410
Casey Legumina, actual: 25 123 110 27 4 0 4 43 8 12 89 1 1 3 0 2 1 615
Casey Legumina, projected: 25 124 109 30 7 0 4 49 12 19 89 1 1 2 1 1 0 816
Nick Martinez, actual: 19 452 424 105 23 2 11 165 20 32 334 2 3 3 1 0 5 570
Nick Martinez, projected: 19 457 415 107 23 2 15 177 32 52 334 2 3 5 3 1 7 708
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 14 2 0 4 28 4 8 34 0 0 2 0 0 2 1296
Steven Matz, actual: 15 230 207 55 10 2 11 102 19 38 159 0 3 1 0 0 6 913
Steven Matz, projected: 15 232 212 55 10 1 8 92 16 28 159 1 1 2 2 1 5 778
Shane McClanahan, actual: 18 378 342 74 13 1 7 110 31 39 273 1 0 3 4 0 13 555
Shane McClanahan, projected: 18 382 351 77 14 1 10 124 28 35 273 1 0 2 3 0 6 549
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Drew Rasmussen, actual: 18 392 369 77 11 1 12 126 17 38 298 0 1 5 4 0 16 511
Drew Rasmussen, projected: 18 396 367 80 13 1 9 123 24 35 298 1 1 2 2 1 10 486
Chris Roycroft, actual: 5 41 38 10 1 0 3 20 3 6 30 0 0 0 0 1 0 795
Chris Roycroft, projected: 5 41 35 10 2 0 1 16 5 7 30 0 1 1 1 0 1 1069
Jesse Scholtens, actual: 9 164 149 37 8 1 8 71 11 18 113 0 1 3 2 1 0 866
Jesse Scholtens, projected: 9 166 150 42 6 0 7 69 13 23 113 0 1 1 2 1 2 900
Ian Seymour, actual: 34 283 247 53 12 1 12 103 26 39 203 2 4 4 2 4 5 697
Ian Seymour, projected: 34 286 253 55 11 1 9 95 25 39 203 2 3 4 3 3 4 653
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: 38 185 168 46 13 0 6 77 14 29 127 2 1 0 1 3 4 810
Cole Sulser, projected: 38 187 165 39 8 1 5 63 19 22 127 1 1 0 1 1 3 682
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
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
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
Rays, Actual: 99 3658 3309 775 154 9 127 1328 266 422 2640 14 31 36 27 20 89 408
Rays, Projected: 99 3696 3334 794 148 12 116 1321 289 427 2640 12 21 36 27 13 68 411


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.234 0.238
Slugging Average: 0.401 0.396
Walks (per PA): 0.073 0.078
SOs (per PA): 0.216 0.232
On-Base Average: 0.296 0.304
Power Factor: 1.714 1.664
OPS: 0.697 0.700
Runs Calculated from Actual Stats: 408
Runs Calculated from Projected Stats: 411
Actual Runs Scored: 422

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