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Nationals 2026 Projected Batting Performance


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2026 Nationals Projected Batting

Through games of Wednesday, 12 August 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 0.962)

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: 118 508 447 127 23 3 29 243 44 0 6 11 0 1139
CJ Abrams, projected: 118 489 443 113 23 4 16 193 29 1 3 12 0 772
Andrés Chaparro, actual: 51 121 102 23 8 0 6 49 15 0 0 4 0 893
Andrés Chaparro, projected: 51 116 103 22 8 0 4 41 10 0 0 3 0 616
Dylan Crews, actual: 70 289 262 56 10 0 10 96 20 0 0 7 0 609
Dylan Crews, projected: 70 278 252 54 9 1 9 90 21 0 0 5 0 573
Harry Ford, actual: 15 51 44 10 5 0 2 21 6 0 0 1 0 817
Harry Ford, projected: 15 49 42 9 4 0 2 18 5 0 1 2 0 759
Luis García Jr., actual: 104 374 357 101 20 5 23 200 16 0 1 0 0 936
Luis García Jr., projected: 104 360 339 91 19 2 11 146 17 0 3 0 0 681
Brady House, actual: 59 229 212 50 10 0 8 84 15 0 1 1 0 648
Brady House, projected: 59 220 207 49 9 0 5 74 10 0 3 0 0 484
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Daylen Lile, actual: 120 496 458 113 23 5 15 191 28 0 4 6 0 664
Daylen Lile, projected: 120 477 439 118 21 9 14 198 28 1 4 6 1 781
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 0 653
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 1 535
Nasim Nuñez, actual: 113 400 348 80 4 3 1 93 43 6 2 1 0 604
Nasim Nuñez, projected: 113 385 331 77 5 2 3 96 43 8 2 1 0 604
Abimelec Ortiz, actual: 10 27 26 8 1 0 3 18 1 0 0 0 0 1143
Abimelec Ortiz, projected: 10 26 25 8 1 0 3 17 1 0 0 0 0 1227
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Andrew Pinckney, actual: 5 7 6 2 0 0 1 5 1 0 0 0 0 2252
Andrew Pinckney, projected: 5 7 6 2 0 0 1 5 1 0 0 0 0 2257
Keibert Ruiz, actual: 78 269 251 70 21 0 7 112 13 0 3 2 0 729
Keibert Ruiz, projected: 78 259 241 61 13 0 6 92 13 0 2 3 0 579
José Tena, actual: 92 236 213 51 11 2 6 84 20 0 0 3 0 614
José Tena, projected: 92 227 208 52 12 1 3 76 17 0 0 1 0 542
Jorbit Vivas, actual: 88 253 215 52 8 1 3 71 27 2 4 4 1 689
Jorbit Vivas, projected: 88 243 207 47 8 1 3 65 24 2 3 5 2 613
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: 114 535 437 116 26 1 30 234 90 0 4 4 0 1232
James Wood, projected: 114 515 439 114 25 2 23 212 71 0 2 3 0 988
Player (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB SH SF HBP CI TOP
Jacob Young, actual: 107 364 327 81 16 3 10 133 25 3 2 7 0 745
Jacob Young, projected: 107 350 313 77 15 2 4 107 24 6 1 6 0 561
Nationals, Actual: 122 4722 4189 1056 212 25 176 1846 429 14 28 59 3 627
Nationals, Projected: 122 4543 4075 1008 195 25 120 1608 360 21 26 56 4 511


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.252 0.247
Slugging Average: 0.441 0.395
Walks (per PA): 0.091 0.079
SOs (per PA): 0.215 0.212
On-Base Average: 0.328 0.315
Power Factor: 1.748 1.595
OPS: 0.769 0.710
Runs Expected from Actual Stats: 627
Runs Expected from Projected Stats: 511
Actual Runs Scored: 655

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