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Blue Jays 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Blue Jays Projected Batting

Through games of Monday, 21 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: 38 172 150 48 6 1 2 62 17 2 1 2 0 1062
Brett Bateman, projected: 38 172 150 48 6 1 2 62 17 2 1 2 0 1062
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: 153 604 573 151 32 1 9 212 22 0 7 2 0 597
Ernie Clement, projected: 153 605 568 149 29 2 10 213 24 4 5 4 0 570
Andrés Giménez, actual: 144 496 458 111 23 1 9 163 16 2 5 15 0 548
Andrés Giménez, projected: 144 497 449 113 20 2 11 170 25 2 4 16 0 662
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Vladimir Guerrero Jr., actual: 141 596 529 139 24 0 9 190 56 0 6 5 0 654
Vladimir Guerrero Jr., projected: 141 597 528 151 29 1 24 253 60 0 3 5 0 930
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 22 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: 21 56 51 10 2 0 2 18 3 0 1 1 0 596
Sean Keys, projected: 21 56 51 10 2 0 2 18 3 0 1 1 0 553
Alejandro Kirk, actual: 75 299 265 75 7 0 10 112 31 0 3 0 0 849
Alejandro Kirk, projected: 75 299 264 71 11 0 8 106 30 0 3 2 0 761
Nathan Lukes, actual: 121 433 393 108 14 0 10 152 24 7 3 6 0 648
Nathan Lukes, projected: 121 434 386 103 17 2 10 154 33 7 4 3 0 639
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Rudy Martin, actual: 2 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Rudy Martin, projected: 2 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Charles McAdoo, actual: 33 95 88 22 3 0 2 31 6 0 1 0 0 651
Charles McAdoo, projected: 33 95 88 22 3 0 2 31 6 0 1 0 0 621
Kazuma Okamoto, actual: 151 617 553 130 24 0 33 253 55 0 3 6 0 764
Kazuma Okamoto, projected: 151 618 554 130 24 0 33 253 55 0 3 6 0 747
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: 99 299 269 70 18 0 8 112 17 0 5 8 0 680
Jesús Sánchez, projected: 99 299 271 65 14 2 10 113 24 0 2 3 0 675
Davis Schneider, actual: 65 144 117 17 6 0 4 35 25 1 1 0 0 528
Davis Schneider, projected: 65 144 122 25 6 0 5 48 19 0 1 2 0 711
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Josh Smith, actual: 30 76 63 13 1 0 5 29 9 2 1 1 0 807
Josh Smith, projected: 30 76 66 15 3 0 2 23 7 0 0 2 0 665
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: 123 506 451 113 22 2 15 184 47 0 2 3 3 772
George Springer, projected: 123 507 442 117 20 2 23 209 53 0 3 6 2 956
Myles Straw, actual: 142 318 283 67 19 1 3 97 27 4 3 1 0 583
Myles Straw, projected: 142 319 284 70 13 1 2 91 29 3 2 1 0 580
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: 88 264 233 51 9 0 8 84 28 1 1 1 0 616
Brandon Valenzuela, projected: 88 264 233 51 9 0 8 84 28 1 1 1 0 597
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Daulton Varsho, actual: 99 365 333 81 19 2 7 125 29 0 1 2 0 667
Daulton Varsho, projected: 99 366 331 75 16 3 14 138 30 1 2 3 0 681
Blue Jays, Actual: 157 5866 5289 1311 247 8 149 2021 444 24 49 57 3 640
Blue Jays, Projected: 157 5874 5269 1332 243 16 182 2146 477 23 36 62 2 684


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.248 0.253
Slugging Average: 0.382 0.407
Walks (per PA): 0.076 0.081
SOs (per PA): 0.190 0.198
On-Base Average: 0.310 0.320
Power Factor: 1.542 1.611
OPS: 0.692 0.727
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 640
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 684
Actual Runs Scored: 632

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