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Blue Jays 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Blue Jays Projected Batting

Through games of Tuesday, 1 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 1.002)

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: 20 92 82 26 4 1 0 32 7 2 1 0 0 923
Brett Bateman, projected: 20 92 82 26 4 1 0 32 7 2 1 0 0 880
Daz Cameron, actual: 8 25 24 5 1 0 1 9 0 0 1 0 0 467
Daz Cameron, projected: 8 25 23 5 1 0 1 8 2 0 0 0 0 558
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: 135 538 512 141 29 1 9 199 19 0 5 2 0 651
Ernie Clement, projected: 135 539 506 134 26 2 9 192 21 4 4 4 0 587
Andrés Giménez, actual: 129 439 404 97 20 1 8 143 14 2 5 14 0 543
Andrés Giménez, projected: 129 440 397 100 18 2 10 150 22 2 4 15 0 673
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Vladimir Guerrero Jr., actual: 124 524 466 120 21 0 7 162 49 0 5 4 0 622
Vladimir Guerrero Jr., projected: 124 525 465 132 26 1 21 222 53 0 3 4 0 922
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 5 3 0 3 0 412
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: 62 242 213 59 6 0 8 89 26 0 3 0 0 837
Alejandro Kirk, projected: 62 242 213 57 9 0 6 85 25 0 3 2 0 765
Nathan Lukes, actual: 103 368 333 87 11 0 10 128 21 6 2 6 0 632
Nathan Lukes, projected: 103 369 327 85 14 2 9 130 29 6 4 3 0 640
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Charles McAdoo, actual: 23 79 73 17 2 0 2 25 5 0 1 0 0 573
Charles McAdoo, projected: 23 79 73 17 2 0 2 25 5 0 1 0 0 542
Kazuma Okamoto, actual: 134 546 489 112 21 0 28 217 48 0 3 6 0 743
Kazuma Okamoto, projected: 134 547 490 112 21 0 28 217 48 0 3 6 0 729
Yohendrick Pinango, actual: 58 180 169 44 8 0 5 67 11 0 0 0 0 586
Yohendrick Pinango, projected: 58 180 169 44 8 0 5 67 11 0 0 0 0 571
Jesús Sánchez, actual: 94 289 259 68 18 0 8 110 17 0 5 8 0 712
Jesús Sánchez, projected: 94 289 262 63 14 2 10 110 23 0 1 3 0 672
Davis Schneider, actual: 62 140 113 16 6 0 3 31 25 1 1 0 0 492
Davis Schneider, projected: 62 140 119 24 6 0 5 46 19 0 1 2 0 716
Josh Smith, actual: 14 33 28 7 0 0 2 13 3 2 0 0 0 843
Josh Smith, projected: 14 33 29 7 1 0 1 10 3 0 0 1 0 708
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
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
George Springer, actual: 107 444 394 99 19 2 14 164 42 0 2 3 3 787
George Springer, projected: 107 445 388 103 17 2 20 184 47 0 2 6 2 953
Myles Straw, actual: 125 275 247 56 17 1 3 84 21 3 3 1 0 554
Myles Straw, projected: 125 275 246 60 12 1 1 78 24 3 2 1 0 568
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 0 656
Brandon Valenzuela, actual: 80 241 214 48 9 0 8 81 24 1 1 1 0 634
Brandon Valenzuela, projected: 80 241 214 48 9 0 8 81 24 1 1 1 0 613
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 14 138 30 1 2 3 0 689
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Blue Jays, Actual: 139 5175 4674 1145 221 8 131 1775 382 22 43 51 3 556
Blue Jays, Projected: 139 5182 4657 1166 217 16 161 1891 414 22 32 56 2 597


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.245 0.250
Slugging Average: 0.380 0.406
Walks (per PA): 0.074 0.080
SOs (per PA): 0.194 0.202
On-Base Average: 0.306 0.317
Power Factor: 1.550 1.622
OPS: 0.686 0.723
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 556
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 597
Actual Runs Scored: 549

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