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PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Seth Lugo	Concussion	06-20-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 21
Carlos Estevez	Shoulder	06-28-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 29
Cole Ragans	Elbow	06-27-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 28
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
Alec Marsh	Shoulder	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Nick Mears	Shoulder	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15
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	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15
LaMonte Wade	Hamstring	06-21-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 22
Ronel Blanco	Elbow	07-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 1
Yainer Diaz	Oblique	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15
Nick Allen	Hamstring	06-18-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 19
Bennett Sousa	Elbow	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15
Cristian Javier	Shoulder	06-24-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 25
Braden Shewmake	Thigh	06-18-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 19
Hunter Brown	Shoulder	06-15-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 16
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	72	286	36	82	28	9	32	56	.287	.358	.455	.813	19	1	26	4	247
M. Garcia 3B	65	254	32	68	28	3	23	43	.268	.326	.382	.708	16	2	5	3	165
V. Pasquantino 1B	68	254	28	57	32	6	32	51	.224	.309	.350	.659	10	2	3	0	162
J. Caglianone RF	66	219	28	59	20	8	22	73	.269	.344	.438	.782	11	1	3	1	137
C. Jensen C	66	218	30	48	35	8	22	71	.220	.289	.390	.679	13	0	0	0	137
S. Perez C	66	257	25	52	26	9	12	54	.202	.248	.331	.579	6	0	0	0	126
I. Collins LF	63	193	24	42	17	3	32	59	.218	.341	.306	.647	8	0	3	4	109
M. Massey 2B	55	156	19	41	23	6	5	30	.263	.280	.455	.735	12	0	1	0	105
K. Isbel CF	56	164	16	40	11	3	10	41	.244	.298	.354	.652	7	1	5	0	87
L. Thomas CF	57	134	14	30	16	3	26	36	.224	.354	.321	.675	4	0	3	3	86
N. Loftin 2B	36	95	14	21	18	1	14	14	.221	.330	.358	.688	8	1	0	0	76
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
S. Marte RF	31	71	5	18	5	1	5	23	.254	.316	.338	.654	3	0	0	1	28
T. Tolbert RF	19	14	5	3	0	0	2	6	.214	.313	.214	.527	0	0	5	2	15
K. Misner CF	5	12	0	6	3	0	1	3	.500	.538	.500	1.038	0	0	1	0	10
J. Rojas 3B	2	5	1	1	2	0	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	0	0	0	0	4
Total	72	2402	288	581	277	64	247	578	.242	.316	.378	.694	120	8	55	18	1528

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	14	14	4-5	0	0	88.0	3.58	75	37	35	10	27	69	.231	1.16	188
S. Lugo SP	14	14	2-4	0	0	79.1	3.86	82	37	34	7	25	66	.270	1.35	147
N. Cameron SP	13	13	3-4	0	0	70.0	4.11	68	36	32	8	17	64	.247	1.21	141
S. Kolek SP	8	8	4-1	0	0	50.1	2.68	42	18	15	5	10	34	.225	1.03	138
K. Bubic SP	9	9	3-2	0	0	50.1	4.11	36	23	23	4	26	51	.200	1.23	113
L. Erceg RP	28	0	3-3	12	18	26.1	5.81	32	19	17	2	19	22	.308	1.94	111
D. Lynch RP	30	0	2-0	1	3	30.0	1.80	18	9	6	1	9	29	.167	0.90	90
A. Lange RP	30	0	0-4	4	4	32.2	4.13	28	17	15	2	19	35	.235	1.44	58
C. Ragans RP	8	8	1-4	0	0	35.1	4.84	27	20	19	10	23	45	.213	1.42	55
M. Strahm RP	23	0	3-1	0	3	21.2	5.40	20	13	13	8	7	18	.235	1.25	48
J. Schreiber RP	31	0	0-3	1	2	28.2	2.83	23	10	9	5	11	21	.228	1.19	44
S. Cruz RP	19	0	1-2	0	1	20.1	5.75	18	14	13	7	12	27	.234	1.48	28
N. Mears RP	21	0	2-3	0	2	19.1	5.12	18	11	11	2	11	15	.257	1.50	24
L. Avila RP	13	4	1-3	0	0	32.0	6.19	36	22	22	4	22	28	.298	1.81	22
M. Black RP	10	0	0-0	0	0	13.2	2.63	15	4	4	2	8	15	.283	1.68	19
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 RF	2	0	0-0	0	0	1.2	10.80	4	2	2	1	1	0	.500	3.00	15
E. Cerantola RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	9.00	3	4	4	2	4	7	.214	1.75	4
B. Way RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	3.1	10.80	6	4	4	1	1	6	.375	2.10	2
M. Spence RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	13.50	4	6	6	1	5	3	.267	2.25	-1
C. Estevez RP	1	0	0-1	0	1	0.1	162.00	4	6	6	1	2	0	.800	18.00	-16
B. Falter RP	5	2	0-2	0	0	9.2	13.97	24	15	15	4	6	6	.471	3.10	-23
Total	72	72	29-43	19	35	638.1	4.44	606	337	315	91	273	576	.251	1.38	1225

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
Y. Alvarez DH	72	261	49	85	54	24	46	54	.326	.433	.651	1.084	13	0	1	0	299
C. Walker 1B	72	271	41	67	52	18	23	64	.247	.314	.502	.816	13	1	0	0	224
I. Paredes 3B	66	236	28	54	33	9	27	46	.229	.331	.394	.725	12	0	0	0	168
C. Smith RF	72	239	28	52	26	7	26	74	.218	.303	.356	.659	10	1	8	1	147
J. Altuve 2B	50	189	31	45	15	6	22	46	.238	.319	.386	.705	10	0	1	2	119
J. Pena SS	35	133	25	36	12	3	12	20	.271	.342	.391	.733	7	0	5	1	103
C. Correa SS	32	122	22	34	16	3	18	26	.279	.369	.418	.787	8	0	1	0	96
C. Vazquez C	49	143	15	32	19	4	12	25	.224	.284	.350	.634	6	0	0	0	83
B. Matthews CF	60	164	18	36	18	6	12	56	.220	.271	.372	.643	5	1	2	4	81
J. Meyers CF	36	107	12	23	10	3	8	22	.215	.274	.336	.610	4	0	1	2	56
Y. Diaz C	26	101	7	24	14	2	3	16	.238	.255	.347	.602	5	0	0	1	50
B. Shewmake SS	28	74	8	18	8	3	2	13	.243	.260	.405	.665	3	0	0	0	41
T. Trammell CF	26	73	9	21	7	0	6	29	.288	.350	.384	.734	5	1	1	0	38
J. Loperfido LF	25	69	9	16	7	0	10	22	.232	.333	.304	.637	5	0	1	1	38
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
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
R. Delgado 3B	1	3	0	1	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.666	0	0	0	0	0
Total	73	2457	333	596	320	96	245	600	.243	.318	.411	.729	116	5	24	12	1684

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
S. Arrighetti SP	11	11	7-2	0	0	63.0	2.57	45	20	18	3	32	60	.200	1.22	168
P. Lambert SP	10	10	5-4	0	0	57.0	3.47	44	22	22	5	25	53	.212	1.21	129
B. King RP	28	0	1-1	6	9	30.1	2.37	27	10	8	1	12	24	.235	1.29	96
K. Teng RP	20	7	3-5	0	0	51.0	3.71	41	24	21	6	24	49	.219	1.27	86
A. Blubaugh RP	28	0	3-2	0	0	44.2	4.03	32	20	20	5	25	39	.203	1.28	86
M. Burrows SP	14	14	3-8	0	0	78.1	5.86	94	54	51	18	30	65	.297	1.58	79
E. De Los Santos RP	29	0	0-1	4	5	30.0	4.50	27	16	15	2	8	29	.235	1.17	77
S. Okert RP	32	1	0-0	0	0	32.1	2.78	21	10	10	3	10	26	.188	0.96	67
B. Abreu RP	27	0	2-3	5	5	23.1	6.56	21	19	17	5	24	31	.247	1.93	54
T. Imai SP	9	9	3-3	0	0	35.0	6.43	29	25	25	5	24	37	.227	1.51	53
L. McCullers SP	8	8	2-3	0	0	39.1	6.86	38	32	30	7	22	43	.257	1.53	52
J. Hader RP	5	0	1-0	2	2	5.0	0.00	0	0	0	0	1	7	.000	0.20	38
H. Brown SP	2	2	1-0	0	0	10.2	0.84	5	1	1	0	6	17	.135	1.03	38
N. Pearson RP	8	0	1-0	1	1	9.2	2.79	7	3	3	1	4	10	.200	1.14	34
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	3	0	0-0	0	0	3.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	5	.100	0.33	10
J. Murray RP	7	0	0-0	0	0	11.1	7.15	16	9	9	0	7	5	.356	2.03	4
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	73	73	33-40	19	23	643.1	4.91	591	372	351	90	336	609	.244	1.44	1129

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