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Rangers 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Rangers Projected Batting

Through games of Monday, 10 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: 114 456 417 99 17 0 19 173 34 0 2 3 0 690
Jake Burger, projected: 114 455 419 103 20 1 22 192 26 0 3 7 0 740
Evan Carter, actual: 100 334 280 54 9 2 8 91 42 7 1 4 0 573
Evan Carter, projected: 100 333 286 62 12 3 10 109 37 3 1 5 0 694
Cameron Cauley, actual: 26 63 56 12 3 1 1 20 5 1 0 1 0 532
Cameron Cauley, projected: 26 63 56 12 3 1 1 20 5 1 0 1 0 494
Elias Díaz, actual: 45 126 119 29 7 0 3 45 3 2 1 1 0 467
Elias Díaz, projected: 45 126 116 28 6 0 3 44 8 0 1 1 0 564
Ezequiel Durán, actual: 110 419 380 103 22 3 13 170 30 1 5 3 0 831
Ezequiel Durán, projected: 110 418 388 99 21 2 9 151 23 1 2 4 0 627
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Justin Foscue, actual: 64 156 141 36 7 1 7 66 12 0 1 2 0 788
Justin Foscue, projected: 64 156 143 29 7 1 5 53 10 0 1 1 0 479
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 50 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 0 703
Jarred Kelenic, actual: 7 10 8 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 177
Jarred Kelenic, projected: 7 10 9 2 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 280
Wyatt Langford, actual: 67 288 263 68 14 2 13 125 22 0 0 3 0 866
Wyatt Langford, projected: 67 287 254 63 13 1 10 110 30 0 2 2 0 813
Nicky Lopez, actual: 62 196 176 50 3 1 1 58 9 8 1 2 0 501
Nicky Lopez, projected: 62 196 175 43 7 1 1 55 14 4 0 2 0 506
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: 113 478 431 119 27 4 13 193 39 0 2 6 0 828
Brandon Nimmo, projected: 113 477 409 108 21 4 15 180 55 1 2 9 0 939
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: 107 356 310 77 11 2 21 155 39 0 3 3 1 907
Joc Pederson, projected: 107 355 305 72 14 1 17 141 41 0 2 7 1 834
Corey Seager, actual: 60 255 220 43 7 0 11 83 31 0 2 2 0 596
Corey Seager, projected: 60 254 226 64 14 1 11 114 25 0 2 2 0 964
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: 10 21 20 5 0 0 1 8 1 0 0 0 0 689
Austin Wynns, projected: 10 21 19 4 1 0 0 7 1 0 0 0 0 286
Rangers, Actual: 119 4445 3960 966 172 19 134 1578 383 22 24 55 1 511
Rangers, Projected: 119 4437 3958 967 190 17 141 1625 380 13 22 60 1 521


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.244 0.244
Slugging Average: 0.398 0.411
Walks (per PA): 0.086 0.086
SOs (per PA): 0.228 0.229
On-Base Average: 0.318 0.318
Power Factor: 1.634 1.680
OPS: 0.716 0.729
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 511
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 521
Actual Runs Scored: 493

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