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PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Estevez	Shoulder	06-28-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 29
Cole Ragans	Elbow	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Kris Bubic	Elbow	06-29-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 30
Kyle Isbel	Foot	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
James McArthur	Elbow	07-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 1
Jonathan India	Shoulder	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Bobby Witt	Knee	06-22-2026Probable for Jun 23
Alec Marsh	Shoulder	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Nick Mears	Shoulder	06-27-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 28
Vinnie Pasquantino	Hand	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Correa	Ankle	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Lance McCullers	Shoulder	07-05-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 6
LaMonte Wade	Hamstring	06-24-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 25
Ronel Blanco	Elbow	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Nick Allen	Hamstring	06-28-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 29
Bennett Sousa	Elbow	06-24-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 25
Cristian Javier	Shoulder	06-26-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 27
Jeremy Pena	Hamstring	06-22-2026Probable for Jun 23
Braden Shewmake	Thigh	06-28-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 29
Hayden Wesneski	Elbow	07-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 1
Brandon Walter	Elbow	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1

	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	76	299	40	88	32	10	35	57	.294	.368	.465	.833	19	1	28	4	270
C. Jensen C	72	242	36	59	40	10	25	74	.244	.311	.434	.745	16	0	1	0	172
J. Caglianone RF	73	248	35	67	27	12	24	81	.270	.344	.472	.816	12	1	3	1	171
M. Garcia 3B	69	268	32	70	30	3	24	45	.261	.320	.373	.693	17	2	5	3	170
V. Pasquantino 1B	68	254	28	57	32	6	32	51	.224	.309	.350	.659	10	2	3	0	162
S. Perez C	73	287	28	59	28	10	12	59	.206	.249	.338	.587	8	0	0	0	141
I. Collins LF	70	220	28	50	23	3	33	62	.227	.338	.318	.656	11	0	4	4	132
M. Massey 2B	61	176	23	46	27	7	7	31	.261	.285	.449	.734	12	0	2	0	124
L. Thomas CF	64	164	19	38	22	5	29	40	.232	.350	.366	.716	7	0	3	3	115
N. Loftin 2B	43	120	17	29	22	2	17	20	.242	.343	.408	.751	12	1	1	0	100
K. Isbel CF	56	164	16	40	11	3	10	41	.244	.298	.354	.652	7	1	5	0	87
S. Marte RF	34	83	8	23	6	1	5	25	.277	.330	.361	.691	4	0	0	1	37
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
T. Tolbert SS	22	21	7	4	1	0	3	9	.190	.280	.190	.470	0	0	5	2	18
J. Rave RF	5	10	3	3	1	1	3	3	.300	.462	.900	1.362	1	1	0	0	14
K. Misner CF	8	20	1	7	3	0	1	7	.350	.381	.350	.731	0	0	1	1	9
J. Rojas 3B	2	5	1	1	2	0	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	0	0	0	0	4
Total	79	2651	333	654	320	77	269	623	.247	.320	.393	.713	139	9	61	19	1760

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	16	16	5-5	0	0	101.0	3.48	88	41	39	10	29	77	.236	1.16	224
S. Lugo SP	15	15	3-4	0	0	85.1	3.69	87	39	35	7	28	66	.269	1.35	166
N. Cameron SP	14	14	4-4	0	0	75.0	4.20	76	40	35	8	19	70	.255	1.27	152
S. Kolek SP	9	9	4-2	0	0	52.0	4.15	51	27	24	8	11	34	.255	1.19	118
L. Erceg RP	30	0	3-3	12	18	28.2	5.34	33	19	17	2	19	24	.295	1.81	117
K. Bubic SP	9	9	3-2	0	0	50.1	4.11	36	23	23	4	26	51	.200	1.23	113
D. Lynch RP	32	0	2-1	1	3	32.0	2.53	20	12	9	2	11	30	.172	0.97	85
A. Lange RP	33	0	0-4	6	6	35.0	3.86	29	17	15	2	19	36	.228	1.37	78
C. Ragans RP	8	8	1-4	0	0	35.1	4.84	27	20	19	10	23	45	.213	1.42	55
J. Schreiber RP	34	0	0-3	1	2	31.2	2.56	24	10	9	5	12	24	.220	1.14	53
L. Avila RP	14	5	2-3	0	0	37.2	5.50	39	23	23	4	23	33	.277	1.65	43
M. Strahm RP	26	0	3-1	0	3	23.2	6.46	25	17	17	8	9	18	.263	1.44	43
C. Seabold RP	2	0	0-0	0	0	2.1	0.00	1	0	0	0	1	2	.125	0.86	36
S. Cruz RP	20	0	1-2	0	1	22.0	6.55	22	17	16	8	13	30	.256	1.59	27
N. Mears RP	21	0	2-3	0	2	19.1	5.12	18	11	11	2	11	15	.257	1.50	24
M. Black RP	12	0	0-0	0	0	17.2	3.57	19	7	7	3	11	15	.279	1.70	21
E. Morgan RP	14	0	0-1	1	1	17.1	5.19	23	10	10	4	8	15	.311	1.79	18
T. Tolbert SS	2	0	0-0	0	0	1.2	10.80	4	2	2	1	1	0	.500	3.00	18
B. Way RP	6	0	0-0	0	0	9.1	3.86	9	4	4	1	5	11	.250	1.50	15
E. Cerantola RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	9.00	3	4	4	2	4	7	.214	1.75	4
M. Spence SP	2	1	0-1	0	0	8.0	13.50	11	12	12	1	6	4	.324	2.13	-8
C. Estevez RP	1	0	0-1	0	1	0.1	162.00	4	6	6	1	2	0	.800	18.00	-16
B. Falter RP	5	2	0-2	0	0	9.2	13.97	24	15	15	4	6	6	.471	3.10	-23
Total	79	79	33-46	21	37	699.1	4.53	673	376	352	97	297	613	.253	1.39	1363

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
Y. Alvarez DH	79	285	55	92	56	25	51	58	.323	.431	.639	1.070	15	0	1	0	322
C. Walker 1B	79	294	43	70	52	18	28	71	.238	.312	.476	.788	14	1	0	0	231
I. Paredes 3B	73	259	31	64	38	10	31	50	.247	.350	.417	.767	14	0	0	0	194
C. Smith RF	78	260	30	57	26	7	27	77	.219	.300	.354	.654	12	1	8	1	155
J. Altuve 2B	57	216	33	51	21	8	23	55	.236	.311	.398	.709	11	0	1	2	136
J. Pena SS	42	161	29	46	18	6	12	28	.286	.345	.453	.798	9	0	7	1	134
C. Correa SS	32	122	22	34	16	3	18	26	.279	.369	.418	.787	8	0	1	0	96
C. Vazquez C	52	151	16	33	19	4	13	27	.219	.280	.338	.618	6	0	0	0	85
B. Matthews LF	67	177	18	37	18	6	12	61	.209	.258	.350	.608	5	1	2	4	79
J. Meyers CF	43	122	13	25	11	3	9	28	.205	.263	.320	.583	5	0	1	2	59
Y. Diaz C	30	114	8	27	15	2	5	19	.237	.264	.342	.606	6	0	0	1	56
J. Loperfido LF	31	83	11	19	7	0	12	23	.229	.330	.313	.643	7	0	1	1	46
B. Shewmake SS	28	74	8	18	8	3	2	13	.243	.260	.405	.665	3	0	0	0	41
T. Trammell CF	30	77	9	21	7	0	6	32	.273	.333	.364	.697	5	1	1	0	37
N. Allen SS	37	64	12	16	5	1	3	14	.250	.290	.328	.618	2	0	1	0	37
D. Harris LF	11	31	4	7	4	0	2	6	.226	.286	.290	.576	0	1	2	0	35
Z. Cole LF	19	51	4	8	8	3	1	21	.157	.189	.353	.542	1	0	0	0	21
Z. Dezenzo LF	21	47	5	9	2	1	4	19	.191	.255	.340	.595	4	0	0	0	17
L. Wade LF	4	12	2	4	4	1	1	3	.333	.385	.750	1.135	2	0	0	0	14
S. Whitcomb 3B	17	23	2	3	5	2	1	11	.130	.167	.391	.558	0	0	0	0	11
R. Delgado 3B	7	14	1	4	2	0	0	2	.286	.286	.286	.572	0	0	0	0	6
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	80	2681	358	650	343	103	267	656	.242	.317	.410	.727	130	5	26	12	1818

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
S. Arrighetti SP	12	12	7-3	0	0	69.0	3.13	51	26	24	6	32	68	.206	1.20	172
P. Lambert SP	11	11	6-4	0	0	64.0	3.23	46	23	23	6	25	58	.199	1.11	159
B. King RP	31	0	2-1	6	9	33.0	2.45	28	11	9	1	14	26	.230	1.27	108
K. Teng RP	22	9	4-6	0	0	60.1	4.03	51	30	27	9	27	62	.227	1.29	105
A. Blubaugh RP	31	0	3-2	0	0	49.2	3.81	35	22	21	5	29	45	.201	1.29	96
S. Okert RP	36	1	0-0	0	0	36.1	2.48	21	10	10	3	11	34	.169	0.88	82
M. Burrows SP	15	14	3-8	0	0	79.1	5.79	95	54	51	18	30	66	.296	1.58	82
E. De Los Santos RP	32	0	0-2	4	5	33.1	4.32	29	17	16	2	8	33	.228	1.11	81
T. Imai SP	10	10	4-3	0	0	41.0	6.15	35	28	28	6	24	48	.230	1.44	78
J. Hader RP	8	0	1-0	5	5	8.0	1.13	2	1	1	1	1	13	.077	0.38	68
B. Abreu RP	29	0	2-3	5	5	25.1	6.39	22	20	18	6	24	33	.239	1.82	59
H. Brown SP	4	4	1-0	0	0	19.1	1.40	12	3	3	1	11	28	.176	1.19	54
L. McCullers SP	8	8	2-3	0	0	39.1	6.86	38	32	30	7	22	43	.257	1.53	52
N. Pearson RP	9	0	1-0	1	1	10.2	4.22	11	5	5	1	4	10	.268	1.41	31
A. Santa RP	8	0	0-1	0	0	12.2	0.71	5	5	1	0	5	8	.125	0.79	26
C. Bolton RP	8	3	0-1	1	1	20.0	5.40	21	12	12	3	14	22	.269	1.75	25
J. Alexander SP	4	2	1-1	0	0	18.1	9.33	21	19	19	4	8	14	.280	1.58	18
L. VanWey RP	4	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	2.25	4	1	1	0	0	5	.286	1.00	9
J. France RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	6.2	8.10	6	6	6	1	5	4	.240	1.65	4
C. Salazar C	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	9.00	1	1	1	1	0	0	.250	1.00	4
B. Sousa RP	5	0	0-0	0	0	3.1	8.10	3	3	3	0	5	4	.250	2.40	1
C. Gordon RP	4	1	0-0	0	0	9.1	11.57	21	12	12	6	3	11	.467	2.57	-3
R. Munoz RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	15.75	7	7	7	3	6	6	.368	3.25	-5
C. Javier SP	3	3	0-1	0	0	9.1	12.54	13	13	13	2	9	4	.351	2.36	-12
Total	80	80	37-43	22	26	705.1	4.84	642	401	379	102	351	689	.243	1.41	1294

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