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Blue Jays 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Blue Jays 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 1.003)

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
Addison Barger, actual: 9 28 22 1 1 0 0 2 5 0 1 0 0 145
Addison Barger, projected: 9 28 26 6 2 0 1 11 2 0 0 0 0 564
Brett Bateman, actual: 6 29 27 7 2 0 0 9 2 0 0 0 0 567
Brett Bateman, projected: 6 29 27 7 2 0 0 9 2 0 0 0 0 567
Jonatan Clase, actual: 9 25 22 6 0 0 2 12 3 0 0 0 0 1186
Jonatan Clase, projected: 9 25 23 5 1 0 1 8 2 0 0 0 0 659
Ernie Clement, actual: 119 480 458 129 28 1 9 186 16 0 4 2 0 700
Ernie Clement, projected: 119 481 453 120 24 2 9 174 19 4 3 3 0 598
Andrés Giménez, actual: 116 395 363 87 18 1 8 131 13 2 5 12 0 548
Andrés Giménez, projected: 116 396 358 90 16 2 9 136 20 2 3 13 0 672
Vladimir Guerrero Jr., actual: 113 479 423 111 19 0 7 151 47 0 5 4 0 662
Vladimir Guerrero Jr., projected: 113 480 425 121 24 1 19 205 49 0 3 4 0 934
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Tyler Heineman, actual: 31 87 78 12 1 0 1 16 2 4 0 3 0 169
Tyler Heineman, projected: 31 87 76 17 3 0 1 23 6 3 0 3 0 427
Eloy Jiménez, actual: 12 35 31 9 0 0 0 9 3 0 1 0 0 657
Eloy Jiménez, projected: 12 35 32 9 1 0 2 15 2 0 0 0 0 796
Sean Keys, actual: 12 37 36 6 1 0 1 10 1 0 0 0 0 299
Sean Keys, projected: 12 37 36 6 1 0 1 10 1 0 0 0 0 299
Alejandro Kirk, actual: 47 178 157 41 4 0 4 57 18 0 3 0 0 725
Alejandro Kirk, projected: 47 179 157 42 7 0 4 62 18 0 2 1 0 725
Nathan Lukes, actual: 87 308 281 75 11 0 6 104 17 4 1 5 0 624
Nathan Lukes, projected: 87 309 274 72 12 2 7 108 25 5 3 2 0 643
Charles McAdoo, actual: 11 37 34 7 0 0 2 13 2 0 1 0 0 544
Charles McAdoo, projected: 11 37 34 7 0 0 2 13 2 0 1 0 0 544
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Kazuma Okamoto, actual: 117 479 430 98 16 0 24 186 41 0 2 6 0 725
Kazuma Okamoto, projected: 117 480 431 98 16 0 24 187 41 0 2 6 0 710
Yohendrick Pinango, actual: 58 180 169 44 8 0 5 67 11 0 0 0 0 586
Yohendrick Pinango, projected: 58 181 170 44 8 0 5 67 11 0 0 0 0 569
Jesús Sánchez, actual: 83 261 237 63 15 0 8 102 14 0 4 6 0 712
Jesús Sánchez, projected: 83 262 237 57 12 1 9 100 21 0 1 2 0 665
Davis Schneider, actual: 61 140 113 16 6 0 3 31 25 1 1 0 0 492
Davis Schneider, projected: 61 140 119 25 6 0 5 47 19 0 1 2 0 729
Josh Smith, actual: 9 20 17 4 0 0 1 7 2 1 0 0 0 606
Josh Smith, projected: 9 20 17 4 1 0 0 6 2 0 0 0 0 465
Lenyn Sosa, actual: 28 84 80 15 4 0 1 22 1 1 1 1 0 277
Lenyn Sosa, projected: 28 84 80 19 3 0 3 30 3 0 0 1 0 552
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
George Springer, actual: 91 387 340 80 14 2 12 134 39 0 2 3 3 739
George Springer, projected: 91 388 338 90 15 1 18 160 41 0 2 5 1 952
Myles Straw, actual: 108 233 211 48 13 1 3 72 15 3 3 1 0 506
Myles Straw, projected: 108 234 209 51 10 1 1 66 21 2 2 1 0 571
Luis Urías, actual: 26 59 52 13 3 0 3 25 6 0 1 0 0 799
Luis Urías, projected: 26 59 51 12 2 0 2 19 6 0 0 1 0 715
Brandon Valenzuela, actual: 70 218 194 45 7 0 8 76 22 1 1 0 0 694
Brandon Valenzuela, projected: 70 219 195 45 7 0 8 76 22 1 1 0 0 679
Daulton Varsho, actual: 99 365 333 81 19 2 7 125 29 0 1 2 0 667
Daulton Varsho, projected: 99 366 330 75 16 3 14 139 30 1 2 3 0 689
Blue Jays, Actual: 122 4544 4108 998 190 7 115 1547 334 17 37 45 3 482
Blue Jays, Projected: 122 4556 4098 1022 189 13 145 1671 365 18 26 47 1 523


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.243 0.249
Slugging Average: 0.377 0.408
Walks (per PA): 0.074 0.080
SOs (per PA): 0.196 0.204
On-Base Average: 0.304 0.316
Power Factor: 1.550 1.635
OPS: 0.681 0.724
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 482
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 523
Actual Runs Scored: 482

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