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Nationals 2026 Projected Pitching Performance


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2026 Nationals Projected Pitching

Through games of Wednesday, 1 July 2026.
All results are from true, unadjusted data.

Explanation of the Table

The Table below shows two lines for each pitcher 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 BFPs (Batters Faced Pitcher, the equivalent of Plate Appearances for batters) to his career BFPs, 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 BFPs. So, as a hypothetical example, a man with 5,000 career BFPs and 250 BFPs this season would have a ratio of 250/5000, or .050; so, if he had yielded, 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 BFPs 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 BFPs the man or team will see in any given number of innings.

To clarify: imagine a staff with a great .250 on-base percentage; that number means that, on average, one man in four that they see at 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, the batters, to make the three outs that constitute an inning, will send 4 men to the plate. If we next imagine a staff with an equally absurd .500 on-base percentage, only half the batters it faces make an out: thus, to make the three outs that define an inning, the batters 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 BFPs for this season, are slightly inaccurate, because his—and the team’s—BFPs 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 behind him on the bases) and multiply it by his percentage of the staff’s total BFPs; 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 BFP total. We can then adjust each projected stat line by the ratio of expected team BFPs to actual BFPs (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 pitching, the adjustment factor, rounded to three decimal places—the actual calculations use many more decimals— is 0.991)

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 TPP 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 batting numbers) at our “Projected Team-Performances” page.

The Table

Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Andrew Alvarez, actual: 11 174 157 41 10 2 2 61 16 14 124 0 0 1 0 0 2 627
Andrew Alvarez, projected: 11 172 155 36 8 1 2 52 16 14 124 0 0 1 1 0 2 545
Clayton Beeter, actual: 25 109 86 15 2 0 2 23 18 9 76 2 1 2 0 3 6 549
Clayton Beeter, projected: 25 108 87 15 2 0 2 25 18 11 76 1 1 1 0 1 5 531
Cade Cavalli, actual: 18 397 351 91 14 0 7 126 29 45 271 1 4 12 3 0 6 730
Cade Cavalli, projected: 18 393 348 95 15 1 9 137 28 49 271 1 3 12 4 0 7 810
Riley Cornelio, actual: 4 47 33 10 1 0 0 11 10 9 28 1 3 0 0 0 0 1190
Riley Cornelio, projected: 4 47 33 10 1 0 0 11 10 9 28 1 3 0 0 0 0 1175
Julian Fernández, actual: 3 18 15 3 0 0 1 6 2 3 12 0 1 0 0 0 1 1011
Julian Fernández, projected: 3 18 16 4 1 0 1 8 2 4 12 0 0 0 0 0 1 1134
Andre Granillo, actual: 8 50 39 13 2 0 2 21 8 12 28 1 1 1 0 0 0 1574
Andre Granillo, projected: 8 50 41 12 2 1 2 21 5 8 28 1 1 1 0 0 0 1235
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Foster Griffin, actual: 17 400 366 77 11 0 16 136 25 37 295 1 1 7 5 0 4 592
Foster Griffin, projected: 17 396 357 76 14 0 14 134 27 40 295 3 2 7 5 0 5 591
Cole Henry, actual: 10 61 51 14 2 0 3 25 6 10 36 0 0 3 1 0 1 1348
Cole Henry, projected: 10 60 49 11 2 0 2 19 8 7 36 0 0 3 0 0 2 972
Jake Irvin, actual: 11 228 199 48 10 0 7 79 22 34 155 0 1 6 2 0 6 799
Jake Irvin, projected: 11 226 204 52 10 1 9 91 19 31 155 0 1 2 2 0 3 810
Zak Kent, actual: 7 36 33 7 2 0 1 12 2 4 26 0 1 0 2 0 1 722
Zak Kent, projected: 7 36 31 8 1 0 1 12 4 5 26 0 0 0 1 0 1 741
Justin Lawrence, actual: 1 5 4 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 801
Justin Lawrence, projected: 1 5 4 1 0 0 0 2 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 810
Zack Littell, actual: 17 348 315 83 11 1 22 162 25 54 240 1 5 2 4 0 7 977
Zack Littell, projected: 17 345 319 82 16 1 14 143 19 40 240 1 2 3 2 0 4 753
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Brad Lord, actual: 26 239 212 46 5 0 6 69 20 21 170 0 1 5 4 2 0 588
Brad Lord, projected: 26 237 213 52 8 1 7 83 19 26 170 1 1 2 2 1 1 648
Richard Lovelady, actual: 27 114 91 26 6 0 3 41 17 10 69 3 0 3 0 3 1 1034
Richard Lovelady, projected: 27 113 97 25 6 0 3 42 11 15 69 1 1 3 0 1 1 870
Miles Mikolas, actual: 18 357 334 92 15 0 18 161 17 56 253 0 6 0 3 0 6 853
Miles Mikolas, projected: 18 354 329 87 17 2 12 143 17 43 253 1 3 3 3 1 3 711
Carson Palmquist, actual: 2 17 16 4 1 0 0 5 1 1 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 365
Carson Palmquist, projected: 2 17 14 4 1 0 1 8 2 3 13 0 1 0 0 0 1 1296
Mitchell Parker, actual: 22 178 159 46 5 1 9 80 13 31 119 4 0 2 2 0 0 965
Mitchell Parker, projected: 22 176 160 43 9 1 6 71 13 26 119 1 2 1 1 0 1 847
Cionel Pérez, actual: 16 73 62 16 1 0 2 23 11 12 48 0 0 0 1 0 0 837
Cionel Pérez, projected: 16 72 62 16 2 0 1 23 9 9 48 0 0 1 1 0 1 729
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
PJ Poulin, actual: 33 142 122 25 7 0 4 44 19 12 103 0 0 1 1 1 3 582
PJ Poulin, projected: 33 141 120 27 5 0 3 42 18 12 103 0 1 2 1 1 3 619
Orlando Ribalta, actual: 26 99 87 19 5 0 2 30 10 11 73 1 1 0 1 0 0 518
Orlando Ribalta, projected: 26 98 84 23 5 0 3 38 12 14 73 0 1 1 2 0 0 879
Jackson Rutledge, actual: 1 12 10 6 1 1 0 9 2 7 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 7475
Jackson Rutledge, projected: 1 12 11 3 1 0 1 6 1 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 2268
Paxton Schultz, actual: 25 143 128 39 5 1 5 61 11 23 92 1 1 1 1 1 5 1092
Paxton Schultz, projected: 25 142 127 37 8 1 5 61 11 22 92 1 2 1 1 1 3 1056
Gus Varland, actual: 32 148 129 41 12 1 6 73 15 23 95 1 3 0 0 1 7 1245
Gus Varland, projected: 32 147 128 39 9 1 4 64 16 21 95 1 1 1 1 1 6 1078
Jorbit Vivas, actual: 1 6 6 4 2 0 0 6 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 7532
Jorbit Vivas, projected: 1 6 6 4 2 0 0 6 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 7452
Pitcher (alphabetical by last name) G PA AB H 2B 3B HR TB BB R OUTS SH SF HBP ROE IBB SB TPP
Ken Waldichuk, actual: 5 41 34 8 0 0 4 20 6 7 28 0 0 1 0 0 0 1075
Ken Waldichuk, projected: 5 41 35 9 3 0 2 17 4 6 28 0 0 1 0 0 0 875
Joey Wiemer, actual: 2 16 12 7 1 0 1 11 2 5 6 0 1 1 0 0 0 5399
Joey Wiemer, projected: 2 16 12 7 1 0 1 11 2 5 6 0 1 1 0 0 0 5427
Nationals, Actual: 88 3458 3051 782 131 7 123 1296 308 453 2369 17 31 48 30 11 57 446
Nationals, Projected: 88 3428 3042 778 149 11 105 1270 292 426 2369 14 27 47 27 7 50 420


Assorted Team Stats:
Stat Actual Projected
Batting Average: 0.256 0.256
Slugging Average: 0.425 0.417
Walks (per PA): 0.089 0.085
SOs (per PA): 0.201 0.206
On-Base Average: 0.331 0.328
Power Factor: 1.657 1.632
OPS: 0.756 0.745
Runs Calculated from Actual Stats: 446
Runs Calculated from Projected Stats: 420
Actual Runs Scored: 453

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