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Rangers 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Rangers 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 0.999)

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
Jonah Bride, actual: 2 6 5 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 481
Jonah Bride, projected: 2 6 5 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 479
Jake Burger, actual: 155 620 556 127 23 0 28 234 56 0 4 4 0 709
Jake Burger, projected: 155 619 568 138 27 1 31 259 38 0 4 9 0 745
Evan Carter, actual: 141 455 391 76 14 3 9 123 47 10 2 5 0 500
Evan Carter, projected: 141 454 394 85 16 4 12 145 46 5 2 7 0 633
Cameron Cauley, actual: 34 65 58 12 3 1 1 20 5 1 0 1 0 509
Cameron Cauley, projected: 34 65 58 12 3 1 1 20 5 1 0 1 0 473
Elias Díaz, actual: 77 214 196 46 11 0 6 75 8 4 4 2 0 535
Elias Díaz, projected: 77 214 196 48 10 0 6 76 14 1 1 1 0 585
Ezequiel Durán, actual: 153 597 539 140 27 4 17 226 46 1 6 5 0 789
Ezequiel Durán, projected: 153 596 551 140 28 2 13 213 35 1 3 6 0 625
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Justin Foscue, actual: 100 247 225 61 13 1 11 109 17 0 1 4 0 896
Justin Foscue, projected: 100 247 227 53 12 1 9 94 16 0 1 3 0 636
Cody Freeman, actual: 36 97 85 21 1 1 1 27 8 3 0 1 0 513
Cody Freeman, projected: 36 97 88 21 2 0 2 29 6 2 0 0 0 459
Sam Haggerty, actual: 35 47 44 7 1 0 0 8 2 0 0 1 0 166
Sam Haggerty, projected: 35 47 42 10 2 0 1 14 4 0 0 1 0 720
Michael Helman, actual: 16 35 30 5 1 0 1 9 1 1 1 2 0 411
Michael Helman, projected: 16 35 31 7 2 0 1 13 2 1 0 1 0 531
Kyle Higashioka, actual: 56 186 165 36 4 0 7 61 19 0 0 2 0 640
Kyle Higashioka, projected: 56 186 172 38 7 0 8 70 11 0 1 1 0 569
Danny Jansen, actual: 67 227 197 40 9 1 8 75 18 4 0 8 0 529
Danny Jansen, projected: 67 227 198 43 9 0 10 81 23 1 1 4 0 706
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Josh Jung, actual: 104 444 398 119 27 1 12 184 35 0 3 8 0 877
Josh Jung, projected: 104 443 412 109 21 1 15 179 26 0 2 4 0 714
Jarred Kelenic, actual: 17 24 20 4 0 0 0 4 4 0 0 0 0 396
Jarred Kelenic, projected: 17 24 22 5 1 0 1 8 2 0 0 0 0 642
Wyatt Langford, actual: 110 471 411 98 20 2 17 173 55 0 1 4 0 799
Wyatt Langford, projected: 110 470 411 100 21 2 16 174 53 0 3 4 0 808
Nicky Lopez, actual: 96 265 232 64 5 1 1 74 12 12 2 7 0 507
Nicky Lopez, projected: 96 265 237 59 9 2 1 74 19 5 1 3 0 524
Andrew McCutchen, actual: 37 83 73 14 2 0 1 19 9 0 1 0 0 467
Andrew McCutchen, projected: 37 83 71 19 4 0 3 32 10 0 1 1 0 959
Brandon Nimmo, actual: 155 655 593 154 36 4 14 240 51 0 4 7 0 706
Brandon Nimmo, projected: 155 654 562 147 29 5 19 244 75 1 3 12 0 906
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Logan O'Hoppe, actual: 10 18 17 6 1 0 0 7 0 0 1 0 0 964
Logan O'Hoppe, projected: 10 18 17 4 0 0 1 6 1 0 0 0 0 692
Alejandro Osuna, actual: 84 233 204 53 6 0 1 62 19 1 0 9 0 649
Alejandro Osuna, projected: 84 233 202 48 6 0 2 59 23 1 1 6 0 566
Joc Pederson, actual: 136 432 374 88 12 2 26 182 49 0 3 5 1 865
Joc Pederson, projected: 136 431 370 88 17 2 21 171 50 1 2 8 1 845
Corey Seager, actual: 102 436 384 87 16 0 20 163 45 0 3 4 0 687
Corey Seager, projected: 102 435 387 110 23 1 20 194 42 0 3 4 0 972
Josh Smith, actual: 45 154 136 29 3 1 1 37 16 0 1 1 0 484
Josh Smith, projected: 45 154 134 31 6 0 3 47 15 1 1 4 0 644
Austin Wynns, actual: 14 32 29 8 0 0 1 11 2 1 0 0 0 846
Austin Wynns, projected: 14 32 30 7 1 0 1 10 2 0 0 0 0 516
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Rangers, Actual: 162 6043 5362 1296 235 22 183 2124 525 38 37 80 1 692
Rangers, Projected: 162 6035 5385 1323 256 22 197 2214 519 21 30 80 1 717


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.242 0.246
Slugging Average: 0.396 0.411
Walks (per PA): 0.087 0.086
SOs (per PA): 0.230 0.228
On-Base Average: 0.317 0.320
Power Factor: 1.639 1.673
OPS: 0.713 0.731
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 692
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 717
Actual Runs Scored: 673

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