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Nationals 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Nationals Projected Batting

Through games of Wednesday, 22 July 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 0.964)

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
CJ Abrams, actual: 99 423 371 106 20 2 24 202 36 0 6 10 0 1139
CJ Abrams, projected: 99 408 370 94 20 3 13 160 24 1 3 10 0 761
Andrés Chaparro, actual: 35 79 66 14 3 0 4 29 12 0 0 1 0 897
Andrés Chaparro, projected: 35 76 68 14 5 0 2 26 6 0 0 2 0 540
Dylan Crews, actual: 52 213 192 41 6 0 7 68 14 0 0 7 0 603
Dylan Crews, projected: 52 205 186 39 6 1 6 66 15 0 0 4 0 555
Harry Ford, actual: 3 13 11 3 1 0 1 7 1 0 0 1 0 1473
Harry Ford, projected: 3 13 10 2 1 0 1 5 1 0 1 1 0 1305
Luis García Jr., actual: 95 338 322 90 16 4 21 177 15 0 1 0 0 924
Luis García Jr., projected: 95 326 307 82 17 2 10 132 15 0 3 0 0 680
Brady House, actual: 44 177 163 37 7 0 7 65 13 0 1 0 0 652
Brady House, projected: 44 171 160 37 7 0 4 56 8 0 2 0 0 460
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Daylen Lile, actual: 101 428 393 96 22 4 11 159 26 0 4 5 0 639
Daylen Lile, projected: 101 413 378 102 20 8 11 169 25 1 4 5 1 784
Curtis Mead, actual: 85 318 279 72 17 1 17 142 35 0 0 4 0 974
Curtis Mead, projected: 85 307 275 68 13 1 8 108 24 0 1 6 0 656
Drew Millas, actual: 50 152 130 24 4 0 2 34 14 2 1 3 2 399
Drew Millas, projected: 50 147 128 30 6 0 2 42 13 2 0 1 1 543
Nasim Nuñez, actual: 95 330 288 73 4 3 1 86 34 6 1 1 0 692
Nasim Nuñez, projected: 95 318 274 68 4 2 3 86 34 8 1 1 0 658
Abimelec Ortiz, actual: 1 2 2 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
Abimelec Ortiz, projected: 1 2 2 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
Keibert Ruiz, actual: 66 225 212 58 19 0 7 98 8 0 3 2 0 712
Keibert Ruiz, projected: 66 217 203 51 11 0 5 77 10 0 1 3 0 561
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
José Tena, actual: 76 199 182 45 10 2 5 74 15 0 0 2 0 619
José Tena, projected: 76 192 177 44 10 1 3 65 13 0 0 1 0 556
Jorbit Vivas, actual: 74 219 187 46 8 1 3 65 21 2 4 4 1 698
Jorbit Vivas, projected: 74 211 180 41 7 1 3 59 19 1 3 5 2 608
Joey Wiemer, actual: 32 83 70 20 5 1 3 36 12 0 0 1 0 1157
Joey Wiemer, projected: 32 80 71 15 4 0 3 27 7 0 1 1 0 669
James Wood, actual: 103 484 396 107 25 1 28 218 81 0 3 4 0 1284
James Wood, projected: 103 467 399 105 23 2 21 194 63 0 2 3 0 999
Jacob Young, actual: 91 306 283 65 12 2 9 108 17 1 0 5 0 634
Jacob Young, projected: 91 295 266 65 12 1 3 88 19 5 1 5 0 528
Nationals, Actual: 103 3989 3547 898 180 21 150 1570 354 11 24 50 3 528
Nationals, Projected: 103 3848 3454 858 167 22 98 1362 296 18 23 48 4 430


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.253 0.248
Slugging Average: 0.443 0.394
Walks (per PA): 0.089 0.077
SOs (per PA): 0.215 0.212
On-Base Average: 0.328 0.315
Power Factor: 1.748 1.587
OPS: 0.770 0.709
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 528
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 430
Actual Runs Scored: 567

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