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Nationals 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Nationals 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 0.966)

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: 147 634 562 146 30 3 31 275 54 0 6 12 0 940
CJ Abrams, projected: 147 612 556 140 29 5 20 238 37 2 4 14 0 758
Andrés Chaparro, actual: 79 213 183 47 13 0 11 93 25 0 0 5 0 1055
Andrés Chaparro, projected: 79 206 182 42 13 0 8 79 18 0 0 5 0 724
Dylan Crews, actual: 104 423 386 86 19 1 12 143 28 0 1 8 0 602
Dylan Crews, projected: 104 408 372 81 15 2 12 134 29 0 1 7 0 581
Harry Ford, actual: 36 111 95 18 6 0 3 33 15 0 0 1 0 569
Harry Ford, projected: 36 107 91 17 5 0 3 31 14 0 1 2 0 579
Luis García Jr., actual: 104 374 357 101 20 5 23 200 16 0 1 0 0 936
Luis García Jr., projected: 104 361 341 92 18 2 11 148 17 0 3 0 0 680
Brady House, actual: 91 340 307 74 17 0 10 121 27 0 3 3 0 702
Brady House, projected: 91 328 304 72 15 0 7 110 19 0 4 2 0 520
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Daylen Lile, actual: 155 638 586 146 28 8 22 256 40 0 6 6 0 729
Daylen Lile, projected: 155 616 565 151 27 12 19 259 38 1 6 6 1 799
Curtis Mead, actual: 87 327 284 72 17 1 17 142 39 0 0 4 0 960
Curtis Mead, projected: 87 316 282 69 13 1 9 109 26 0 1 7 0 664
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: 50 147 128 30 6 0 2 42 13 2 0 1 1 543
Yohandy Morales, actual: 13 36 36 11 4 0 3 24 0 0 0 0 0 1112
Yohandy Morales, projected: 13 35 35 11 4 0 3 23 0 0 0 0 0 1178
Nasim Nuñez, actual: 142 481 421 88 5 3 1 102 48 9 2 1 0 457
Nasim Nuñez, projected: 142 464 402 87 6 2 4 108 49 11 2 1 0 503
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Abimelec Ortiz, actual: 42 131 124 24 5 0 5 44 7 0 0 0 0 441
Abimelec Ortiz, projected: 42 127 120 23 5 0 5 42 7 0 0 0 0 449
Andrew Pinckney, actual: 17 29 25 7 0 1 1 12 1 0 2 1 0 908
Andrew Pinckney, projected: 17 28 24 7 0 1 1 12 1 0 2 1 0 832
Keibert Ruiz, actual: 101 344 322 91 24 0 10 145 16 0 3 3 0 772
Keibert Ruiz, projected: 101 332 310 79 16 0 8 119 16 0 2 4 0 591
José Tena, actual: 113 287 256 57 13 2 7 95 27 0 1 3 0 568
José Tena, projected: 113 277 253 61 14 2 4 91 22 0 1 2 0 557
Jorbit Vivas, actual: 118 355 302 74 15 1 3 100 41 3 4 4 1 701
Jorbit Vivas, projected: 118 343 292 68 14 1 3 93 37 2 3 6 2 625
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: 130 602 495 131 30 1 30 253 99 0 4 4 0 1176
James Wood, projected: 130 581 496 129 29 2 25 237 80 0 3 3 0 985
Jacob Young, actual: 137 459 409 103 22 3 10 161 33 4 3 9 1 742
Jacob Young, projected: 137 443 396 98 19 2 5 135 30 8 2 8 0 570
Nationals, Actual: 157 6020 5350 1320 277 30 204 2269 542 19 37 68 4 763
Nationals, Projected: 157 5812 5220 1272 252 32 152 2037 460 27 36 70 4 645


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.247 0.244
Slugging Average: 0.424 0.390
Walks (per PA): 0.090 0.079
SOs (per PA): 0.218 0.215
On-Base Average: 0.322 0.311
Power Factor: 1.719 1.601
OPS: 0.746 0.702
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 763
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 645
Actual Runs Scored: 800

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