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Nationals 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Nationals 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 0.963)

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: 132 570 502 135 26 3 29 254 50 0 6 12 0 1022
CJ Abrams, projected: 132 549 498 126 26 4 18 214 33 1 4 13 0 762
Andrés Chaparro, actual: 66 173 148 37 11 0 9 75 20 0 0 5 0 1000
Andrés Chaparro, projected: 66 167 148 33 11 0 6 63 14 0 0 4 0 654
Dylan Crews, actual: 88 358 326 71 14 1 10 117 25 0 0 7 0 597
Dylan Crews, projected: 88 345 313 67 11 2 10 111 25 0 0 6 0 563
Harry Ford, actual: 25 85 73 15 5 0 3 29 11 0 0 1 0 676
Harry Ford, projected: 25 82 70 14 4 0 3 26 10 0 1 2 0 663
Luis García Jr., actual: 104 374 357 101 20 5 23 200 16 0 1 0 0 936
Luis García Jr., projected: 104 360 340 92 19 2 11 147 17 0 3 0 0 688
Brady House, actual: 76 292 264 64 13 0 10 107 22 0 3 3 0 721
Brady House, projected: 76 281 261 62 12 0 7 95 15 0 4 1 0 520
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Daylen Lile, actual: 139 578 529 135 26 6 20 233 38 0 5 6 0 741
Daylen Lile, projected: 139 557 509 138 25 10 17 235 35 1 5 6 1 808
Curtis Mead, actual: 87 327 284 72 17 1 17 142 39 0 0 4 0 960
Curtis Mead, projected: 87 315 281 69 13 1 8 109 26 0 1 7 0 650
Miles Mikolas, actual: 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Miles Mikolas, projected: 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Drew Millas, actual: 50 152 130 24 4 0 2 34 14 2 1 3 2 399
Drew Millas, projected: 50 146 128 30 6 0 2 42 13 2 0 1 1 547
Yohandy Morales, actual: 1 5 5 3 1 0 1 7 0 0 0 0 0 5946
Yohandy Morales, projected: 1 5 5 3 1 0 1 7 0 0 0 0 0 5944
Nasim Nuñez, actual: 129 455 399 86 5 3 1 100 45 8 2 1 0 497
Nasim Nuñez, projected: 129 438 380 84 6 2 4 104 46 10 2 1 0 541
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Abimelec Ortiz, actual: 28 95 90 19 3 0 5 37 5 0 0 0 0 577
Abimelec Ortiz, projected: 28 91 87 18 3 0 5 36 5 0 0 0 0 579
Andrew Pinckney, actual: 13 25 22 6 0 1 1 11 1 0 1 1 0 907
Andrew Pinckney, projected: 13 24 21 6 0 1 1 11 1 0 1 1 0 993
Keibert Ruiz, actual: 90 314 293 83 22 0 9 132 16 0 3 2 0 775
Keibert Ruiz, projected: 90 302 282 72 15 0 7 108 15 0 2 3 0 591
José Tena, actual: 105 271 242 55 12 2 7 92 26 0 0 3 0 592
José Tena, projected: 105 261 238 58 13 2 4 86 21 0 0 2 0 562
Jorbit Vivas, actual: 105 313 265 64 12 1 3 87 36 3 4 4 1 677
Jorbit Vivas, projected: 105 301 255 58 11 1 3 80 33 2 3 6 2 618
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
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
James Wood, actual: 114 535 437 116 26 1 30 234 90 0 4 4 0 1232
James Wood, projected: 114 515 439 115 25 2 23 213 71 0 2 3 0 992
Jacob Young, actual: 123 422 378 94 19 3 10 149 30 4 2 8 0 729
Jacob Young, projected: 123 406 363 90 17 2 4 123 28 7 1 7 0 554
Nationals, Actual: 141 5428 4814 1200 241 28 193 2076 496 18 32 65 3 705
Nationals, Projected: 141 5226 4689 1150 222 29 137 1837 415 24 30 64 4 583


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.249 0.245
Slugging Average: 0.431 0.392
Walks (per PA): 0.091 0.079
SOs (per PA): 0.216 0.212
On-Base Average: 0.326 0.313
Power Factor: 1.730 1.597
OPS: 0.757 0.705
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 705
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 583
Actual Runs Scored: 735

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