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Rangers 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Rangers Projected Batting

Through games of Wednesday, 12 August 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 0.998)

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: 116 464 425 99 17 0 19 173 34 0 2 3 0 665
Jake Burger, projected: 116 463 427 104 20 1 23 195 26 0 3 7 0 737
Evan Carter, actual: 102 340 286 55 9 2 8 92 42 7 1 4 0 563
Evan Carter, projected: 102 339 292 63 12 3 10 111 37 3 1 6 0 685
Cameron Cauley, actual: 27 64 57 12 3 1 1 20 5 1 0 1 0 513
Cameron Cauley, projected: 27 64 57 12 3 1 1 20 5 1 0 1 0 477
Elias Díaz, actual: 47 131 124 30 7 0 3 46 3 2 1 1 0 455
Elias Díaz, projected: 47 131 120 30 6 0 3 46 9 0 1 1 0 579
Ezequiel Durán, actual: 112 427 387 104 22 3 13 171 31 1 5 3 0 818
Ezequiel Durán, projected: 112 426 395 101 21 2 9 154 24 1 2 4 0 618
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Justin Foscue, actual: 66 158 143 37 7 1 7 67 12 0 1 2 0 797
Justin Foscue, projected: 66 158 145 30 7 1 5 54 10 0 1 1 0 488
Cody Freeman, actual: 7 18 17 4 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 381
Cody Freeman, projected: 7 18 17 4 1 0 0 6 1 0 0 0 0 316
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: 15 35 30 5 1 0 1 9 1 1 1 2 0 411
Michael Helman, projected: 15 35 31 7 2 0 1 13 2 1 0 1 0 532
Kyle Higashioka, actual: 56 186 165 36 4 0 7 61 19 0 0 2 0 640
Kyle Higashioka, projected: 56 186 172 37 7 0 8 70 11 0 1 1 0 562
Danny Jansen, actual: 41 142 123 21 6 1 3 38 13 1 0 5 0 383
Danny Jansen, projected: 41 142 124 27 6 0 6 51 14 0 1 2 0 695
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Josh Jung, actual: 92 396 354 104 23 1 9 156 33 0 3 6 0 859
Josh Jung, projected: 92 395 367 97 18 1 13 158 24 0 1 3 0 708
Jarred Kelenic, actual: 9 15 13 2 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 181
Jarred Kelenic, projected: 9 15 14 3 1 0 0 5 1 0 0 0 0 380
Wyatt Langford, actual: 69 294 269 68 14 2 13 125 22 0 0 3 0 827
Wyatt Langford, projected: 69 294 259 64 13 1 11 112 30 0 2 2 0 816
Nicky Lopez, actual: 64 202 181 50 3 1 1 58 9 8 1 3 0 481
Nicky Lopez, projected: 64 202 181 45 7 1 1 56 15 4 0 2 0 516
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: 115 486 439 121 27 4 13 195 39 0 2 6 0 819
Brandon Nimmo, projected: 115 485 416 110 22 4 15 183 56 1 2 9 0 931
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Alejandro Osuna, actual: 76 220 192 49 5 0 1 57 19 1 0 8 0 631
Alejandro Osuna, projected: 76 220 190 45 5 0 2 55 22 1 1 6 0 564
Joc Pederson, actual: 109 363 313 79 11 2 22 160 43 0 3 3 1 962
Joc Pederson, projected: 109 362 311 74 15 1 17 144 42 0 2 7 1 834
Corey Seager, actual: 62 263 228 46 8 0 12 90 31 0 2 2 0 616
Corey Seager, projected: 62 263 233 66 14 1 12 117 26 0 2 2 0 986
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 46 15 1 1 4 0 656
Austin Wynns, actual: 11 23 22 6 0 0 1 9 1 0 0 0 0 755
Austin Wynns, projected: 11 23 21 5 1 0 1 7 1 0 0 0 0 501
Rangers, Actual: 121 4517 4026 979 173 19 136 1598 388 22 24 56 1 516
Rangers, Projected: 121 4511 4024 985 193 17 145 1651 386 13 22 61 1 530


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.243 0.245
Slugging Average: 0.397 0.410
Walks (per PA): 0.086 0.086
SOs (per PA): 0.228 0.229
On-Base Average: 0.317 0.319
Power Factor: 1.632 1.676
OPS: 0.714 0.729
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 516
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 530
Actual Runs Scored: 497

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