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PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Salvador Perez	Elbow	08-14-2026Probable for Aug 15
Carlos Estevez	Shoulder	08-24-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 25
Cole Ragans	Elbow	05-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Jun 1
Maikel Garcia	Hand	08-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 17
Connor Seabold	Lat	08-29-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 30
James McArthur	Elbow	08-21-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 22
Jonathan India	Shoulder	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Alec Marsh	Shoulder	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Nick Mears	Shoulder	08-20-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 21
Beck Way	Back	08-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 15
Vinnie Pasquantino	Wrist	08-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 17
Luinder Avila	Elbow	01-31-2028Expected to be out until at least Feb 1, 2028

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Correa	Ankle	09-23-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 24
Michael Burrows	Elbow	08-17-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 18
Brandon Walter	Elbow	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Brice Matthews	Knee	08-17-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 18

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Royals KC-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Astros HOU-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
B. Witt SS	104	407	62	116	42	13	47	80	.285	.358	.447	.805	25	1	32	6	352
J. Caglianone RF	114	410	56	112	58	22	28	115	.273	.325	.495	.820	21	2	5	2	299
C. Jensen C	114	401	54	88	55	16	46	133	.219	.298	.404	.702	24	1	1	0	253
S. Perez DH	113	436	41	94	52	16	18	94	.216	.262	.369	.631	17	1	0	0	237
I. Collins LF	110	347	40	81	35	6	46	88	.233	.332	.360	.692	20	3	6	5	215
M. Massey 2B	102	314	41	83	41	10	16	61	.264	.296	.430	.726	20	1	2	0	206
V. Pasquantino 1B	79	293	34	68	33	6	37	60	.232	.318	.345	.663	11	2	4	0	185
N. Loftin 3B	85	258	33	62	35	5	29	45	.240	.327	.384	.711	20	1	2	1	182
M. Garcia 3B	69	268	32	70	30	3	24	45	.261	.320	.373	.693	17	2	5	3	170
T. Tolbert SS	55	90	24	28	6	3	9	18	.311	.370	.467	.837	5	0	17	3	103
K. Isbel CF	65	192	19	44	15	4	11	48	.229	.279	.339	.618	7	1	5	0	99
S. Marte RF	58	150	15	37	14	2	9	39	.247	.303	.320	.623	5	0	2	2	72
J. Rojas 3B	30	76	6	17	9	1	3	13	.224	.253	.303	.556	3	0	1	0	36
J. Rave RF	22	50	7	11	2	2	5	13	.220	.291	.460	.751	4	1	2	0	34
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
L. Maile C	7	19	2	5	5	1	1	6	.263	.300	.474	.774	1	0	0	0	14
A. Velazquez SS	6	15	0	1	0	0	0	2	.067	.067	.067	.134	0	0	1	0	2
Total	123	4122	510	1005	486	124	379	973	.244	.311	.395	.706	220	16	95	26	2493

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	24	24	5-8	0	0	150.2	3.46	132	62	58	18	41	117	.235	1.15	317
S. Lugo SP	25	25	5-7	0	0	139.1	4.59	146	79	71	16	46	108	.274	1.38	244
N. Cameron SP	23	22	6-8	0	0	129.1	4.45	125	69	64	14	42	118	.251	1.29	236
L. Erceg RP	46	0	4-4	12	18	43.1	6.02	52	34	29	5	27	31	.308	1.82	123
D. Lynch IV RP	48	2	4-4	1	3	50.0	2.88	37	20	16	4	14	40	.199	1.02	116
S. Kolek SP	10	10	4-3	0	0	54.0	4.50	55	30	27	8	12	34	.262	1.24	111
S. Cruz RP	43	2	2-3	4	5	45.1	4.17	37	22	21	11	18	51	.220	1.21	110
A. Lange RP	46	0	2-7	10	13	47.2	6.23	49	35	33	6	26	51	.266	1.57	104
T. Tolbert SS	5	0	0-0	0	0	4.2	25.07	17	13	13	4	3	0	.586	4.29	103
L. Avila SP	21	12	5-4	0	0	70.0	5.53	71	43	43	7	42	61	.272	1.61	100
N. Pearson RP	7	0	1-0	1	2	6.2	0.00	3	0	0	0	2	6	.136	0.75	80
R. Dobnak SP	7	5	2-1	0	0	36.0	2.00	34	8	8	2	14	19	.248	1.33	73
J. Schreiber RP	49	0	0-3	1	4	44.0	3.68	40	21	18	7	21	33	.250	1.39	60
C. Ragans RP	8	8	1-4	0	0	35.1	4.84	27	20	19	10	23	45	.213	1.42	55
C. Kimbrel RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	1.00	44
J. Rojas 3B	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	.250	1.00	36
B. Way RP	19	1	1-1	0	0	23.1	3.86	27	13	10	4	10	21	.293	1.59	34
M. Black RP	14	0	0-0	0	0	25.2	3.51	25	10	10	5	16	18	.258	1.60	33
C. Seabold RP	5	0	0-0	0	0	5.0	9.00	7	6	5	0	4	5	.318	2.20	31
N. Mears RP	21	0	2-3	0	2	19.1	5.12	18	11	11	2	11	15	.257	1.50	24
J. Cuas RP	10	0	0-0	0	0	11.0	1.64	12	2	2	0	4	13	.279	1.45	21
E. McGee RP	4	0	0-0	0	0	5.1	11.81	11	7	7	2	3	6	.423	2.63	2
A. Bummer RP	2	0	0-1	0	0	1.1	40.50	6	6	6	1	1	0	.600	5.25	-1
C. Estevez RP	1	0	0-1	0	1	0.1	162.00	4	6	6	1	2	0	.800	18.00	-16
M. Spence RP	3	1	0-2	0	0	9.1	21.21	19	22	22	3	9	6	.413	3.00	-29
Total	123	123	50-73	30	53	1080.1	4.85	1082	623	582	157	457	910	.261	1.42	2011

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
Y. Alvarez DH	121	439	81	142	88	36	85	91	.323	.437	.626	1.063	25	0	1	0	492
C. Walker 1B	119	437	61	104	70	23	42	112	.238	.317	.455	.772	24	1	0	0	325
I. Paredes 3B	116	427	46	109	65	15	46	69	.255	.347	.415	.762	21	1	0	0	315
C. Smith RF	120	396	53	89	45	16	35	108	.225	.295	.399	.694	15	3	10	2	261
J. Pena SS	75	298	57	86	39	13	21	67	.289	.346	.470	.816	13	1	8	1	244
J. Altuve 2B	97	376	55	91	35	13	33	83	.242	.305	.391	.696	15	1	4	2	236
D. Varsho CF	9	32	2	4	2	1	5	8	.125	.243	.219	.462	0	0	1	0	221
Y. Diaz C	63	226	25	57	28	8	9	37	.252	.282	.398	.680	9	0	0	1	133
T. Trammell LF	65	171	26	39	20	7	18	59	.228	.316	.409	.725	6	2	3	2	112
C. Vazquez C	72	206	19	44	23	5	16	42	.214	.269	.320	.589	7	0	1	0	105
B. Matthews LF	82	208	23	41	22	7	15	71	.197	.250	.332	.582	5	1	4	4	97
C. Correa SS	32	122	22	34	16	3	18	26	.279	.369	.418	.787	8	0	1	0	96
J. Meyers CF	54	141	15	30	11	3	10	31	.213	.268	.326	.594	7	0	1	2	67
N. Allen SS	68	110	19	28	12	1	7	24	.255	.298	.318	.616	4	0	2	0	66
J. Loperfido LF	39	102	13	22	12	1	14	31	.216	.314	.333	.647	7	1	1	1	59
L. Wade Jr. LF	31	78	11	17	15	2	15	19	.218	.344	.346	.690	4	0	0	0	58
B. Shewmake 3B	30	78	10	20	9	3	2	13	.256	.272	.423	.695	4	0	0	0	54
N. Velazquez LF	2	3	0	0	1	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	50
D. Harris LF	11	31	4	7	4	0	2	6	.226	.286	.290	.576	0	1	2	0	35
Z. Dezenzo LF	35	75	11	16	3	1	7	31	.213	.280	.307	.587	4	0	1	0	30
Z. Cole LF	19	51	4	8	8	3	1	21	.157	.189	.353	.542	1	0	0	0	21
R. Delgado 2B	17	33	3	9	4	1	2	5	.273	.314	.394	.708	1	0	0	0	19
L. Spence CF	14	37	4	6	3	0	3	15	.162	.244	.189	.433	1	0	0	1	9
C. Salazar C	9	18	0	1	1	0	3	3	.056	.227	.056	.283	0	0	0	0	4
C. Price C	7	12	1	2	0	0	1	6	.167	.231	.250	.481	1	0	0	0	2
Total	123	4148	569	1012	542	164	414	994	.244	.319	.412	.731	182	12	40	16	3111

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
P. Lambert SP	21	21	8-6	0	0	118.2	3.11	91	42	41	12	46	117	.208	1.15	277
J. Hader RP	30	0	4-1	17	17	29.0	0.93	12	3	3	1	10	40	.121	0.76	224
S. Okert RP	60	1	6-1	0	1	60.2	2.08	40	15	14	6	12	61	.189	0.86	179
A. Blubaugh RP	46	0	4-2	1	1	75.0	3.48	58	31	29	10	33	77	.213	1.21	166
H. Brown SP	12	12	3-2	0	0	63.2	3.68	46	28	26	8	35	67	.201	1.27	139
E. De Los Santos RP	54	0	2-3	5	7	57.1	4.24	54	31	27	7	13	53	.247	1.17	138
B. Abreu RP	47	0	4-3	7	8	44.0	4.50	31	24	22	7	32	57	.200	1.43	134
T. Imai SP	17	15	6-4	0	0	64.2	5.29	53	38	38	9	42	80	.222	1.47	134
B. King RP	48	1	2-3	6	10	50.0	3.96	50	24	22	7	19	41	.259	1.38	115
K. Teng RP	25	10	5-6	0	0	68.1	4.35	62	37	33	10	30	67	.238	1.35	113
M. Burrows SP	18	17	4-9	0	0	94.2	5.99	112	69	63	21	35	75	.292	1.55	102
J. Meyers CF	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00	67
H. Wesneski SP	3	3	2-0	0	0	18.2	3.86	16	8	8	2	6	12	.242	1.18	51
A. Santa RP	10	0	0-1	0	0	15.1	1.17	8	6	2	1	6	9	.160	0.91	29
C. Bolton RP	8	3	0-1	1	1	20.0	5.40	21	12	12	3	14	22	.269	1.75	25
C. Javier SP	10	6	1-3	0	0	32.1	6.68	39	24	24	6	16	25	.300	1.70	23
L. VanWey RP	5	0	1-0	0	0	6.0	1.50	5	2	1	0	0	5	.250	0.83	21
R. Blanco SP	4	4	0-1	0	0	19.1	6.98	15	15	15	6	11	17	.221	1.34	19
B. Sousa RP	16	0	0-1	0	0	13.0	3.46	11	7	5	1	7	15	.224	1.38	18
J. Alexander SP	4	2	1-1	0	0	18.1	9.33	21	19	19	4	8	14	.280	1.58	18
M. Ullola RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	5.0	5.40	4	3	3	2	1	7	.211	1.00	10
C. Salazar C	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	9.00	1	1	1	1	0	0	.250	1.00	4
R. Munoz RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	15.75	7	7	7	3	6	6	.368	3.25	-5
Total	123	123	63-60	38	46	1091.1	4.55	970	593	552	164	508	1072	.238	1.35	2001

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