Lake Bachar projection

Lake Bachar (RHP, PIT) projects to strike out 25.5% of batters, walk or hit 10.7% and allow home runs to 3.30%, working about 3.0 innings per start.

2026 season: 12 starts, 86.7 innings, 93 strikeouts, 40 walks + HBP, 13 home runs.

2025 Statcast: xwOBA allowed 0.327, CSW 30.709%.

Whiff rate 30.2%, barrels allowed 10.7%, hard-hit rate 41.5%. Projections are regressed toward league average by sample size (775 batters faced in the weighted sample), so small samples move less.

Recent starts

DateInningsPitches
2026-09-231.730
2026-09-20120
2026-09-15247
2026-09-091.727
2026-09-032.338

Runs allowed per nine innings this season: 3.63. How these numbers feed each game projection is explained on the methodology page, and how to read a pitcher projection explains each number above.

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