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Rays 2026 Projected Pitching Performance


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2026 Rays Projected Pitching

Through games of Monday, 7 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 1.012)

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: 58 217 193 31 8 0 4 51 20 12 165 1 1 2 2 1 2 372
Bryan Baker, projected: 58 220 197 42 8 1 6 69 19 22 165 1 1 1 1 1 3 525
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: 34 132 124 24 4 0 5 43 6 10 104 0 2 0 0 0 1 447
Cam Booser, projected: 34 134 119 27 4 0 5 48 12 14 104 0 2 1 1 1 1 634
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: 51 183 158 34 4 1 6 58 19 20 124 0 2 4 1 1 4 718
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: 2 17 15 4 1 0 1 8 2 3 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 1076
Alex Cook, projected: 2 17 15 4 1 0 1 8 2 3 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 1053
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 2 918
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
Griffin Jax, actual: 30 396 352 88 14 0 14 144 32 55 283 4 6 2 7 1 11 736
Griffin Jax, projected: 30 401 362 84 15 2 13 141 29 49 283 2 3 4 4 2 9 675
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Ty Johnson, actual: 1 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ty Johnson, projected: 1 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kevin Kelly, actual: 63 249 233 46 7 0 6 71 11 19 200 1 1 3 4 3 6 362
Kevin Kelly, projected: 63 252 234 53 10 1 7 85 11 26 200 1 1 5 3 2 6 509
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 8 7 56 0 0 1 1 0 2 495
Casey Legumina, actual: 41 222 198 50 9 1 4 73 14 21 159 1 4 5 0 3 1 610
Casey Legumina, projected: 41 225 197 53 12 1 6 85 20 32 159 1 3 4 1 2 1 786
Nick Martinez, actual: 27 643 611 152 29 2 19 242 24 54 480 2 3 3 1 0 9 567
Nick Martinez, projected: 27 651 594 153 32 3 21 253 44 74 480 3 4 6 5 1 10 696
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 2 0 3 27 5 9 34 0 0 2 0 0 2 1215
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Steven Matz, actual: 29 309 280 69 13 2 14 128 23 48 216 1 3 2 2 0 7 828
Steven Matz, projected: 29 313 285 74 13 1 11 123 21 38 216 2 1 3 3 1 7 771
Shane McClanahan, actual: 24 487 441 93 18 1 10 143 39 52 354 2 0 4 5 0 15 540
Shane McClanahan, projected: 24 493 453 99 18 1 14 159 36 45 354 1 0 2 3 0 8 554
Freddy Peralta, actual: 6 131 121 28 2 1 6 50 6 18 100 0 1 3 0 0 3 594
Freddy Peralta, projected: 6 133 118 25 5 0 4 43 12 14 100 1 0 2 1 0 2 567
Drew Rasmussen, actual: 27 598 561 112 16 1 14 172 27 51 460 0 3 7 5 0 19 436
Drew Rasmussen, projected: 27 605 561 120 19 1 14 183 36 52 460 1 2 4 3 1 14 468
Manuel Rodríguez, actual: 4 24 18 5 2 0 1 10 4 2 14 1 0 1 0 1 2 1348
Manuel Rodríguez, projected: 4 24 21 5 1 0 1 7 2 3 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 891
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 4 1 3 34 9 14 58 1 1 2 1 0 2 1090
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Jesse Scholtens, actual: 11 196 177 46 9 1 10 87 14 22 134 0 2 3 3 1 0 927
Jesse Scholtens, projected: 11 198 180 50 7 0 8 83 15 27 134 0 2 2 3 1 3 928
Ian Seymour, actual: 43 486 443 102 20 5 22 198 33 61 349 2 4 4 5 4 8 741
Ian Seymour, projected: 43 492 446 101 19 3 18 182 35 64 349 2 4 5 6 3 7 697
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: 42 203 185 49 14 0 7 84 15 30 142 2 1 0 1 4 5 760
Cole Sulser, projected: 42 205 182 43 9 1 5 69 21 24 142 2 1 0 1 2 3 648
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
Tyler Wells, actual: 12 59 52 7 1 0 2 14 4 4 48 1 2 0 1 0 1 366
Tyler Wells, projected: 12 60 55 11 2 0 3 22 4 6 48 0 0 0 0 0 1 527
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
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: 143 5279 4798 1112 214 15 181 1899 362 600 3831 21 45 51 40 27 117 572
Rays, Projected: 143 5343 4828 1142 211 18 170 1899 406 609 3831 20 30 51 42 19 97 585


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.232 0.237
Slugging Average: 0.396 0.393
Walks (per PA): 0.069 0.076
SOs (per PA): 0.221 0.235
On-Base Average: 0.290 0.301
Power Factor: 1.708 1.663
OPS: 0.686 0.694
Runs Calculated from Actual Stats: 572
Runs Calculated from Projected Stats: 585
Actual Runs Scored: 600

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