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PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Estevez	Shoulder	06-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 15
Cole Ragans	Elbow	06-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 17
Maikel Garcia	Hamstring	06-05-2026Probable for Jun 6
Kris Bubic	Elbow	06-17-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 18
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	06-11-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 12

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
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
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	06-11-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 12
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	64	252	33	71	26	9	30	51	.282	.358	.464	.822	17	1	22	3	222
M. Garcia 3B	58	225	28	60	22	3	21	35	.267	.327	.382	.709	15	1	4	3	144
V. Pasquantino 1B	61	227	23	48	29	6	30	47	.211	.302	.344	.646	8	2	2	0	141
S. Perez C	61	235	22	48	26	9	12	49	.204	.254	.345	.599	6	0	0	0	121
C. Jensen C	59	190	24	40	28	7	21	65	.211	.288	.368	.656	9	0	0	0	111
J. Caglianone RF	59	195	21	49	15	6	19	64	.251	.327	.405	.732	10	1	2	1	108
I. Collins LF	55	171	22	37	16	3	27	56	.216	.333	.310	.643	7	0	3	3	97
M. Massey 2B	48	132	16	36	20	6	5	27	.273	.293	.477	.770	9	0	1	0	92
K. Isbel CF	54	159	16	39	11	3	9	39	.245	.297	.358	.655	7	1	5	0	86
L. Thomas CF	50	113	11	25	14	2	23	29	.221	.353	.310	.663	4	0	3	3	72
N. Loftin 2B	32	84	14	18	16	1	12	12	.214	.324	.333	.657	7	0	0	0	67
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
S. Marte RF	28	62	4	16	2	0	4	20	.258	.319	.306	.625	3	0	0	1	20
E. Diaz C	10	22	3	5	5	2	1	5	.227	.261	.591	.852	2	0	0	0	19
T. Tolbert RF	15	9	4	2	0	0	2	3	.222	.364	.222	.586	0	0	3	1	11
J. Rojas 2B	1	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	0	0	0	0	3
Total	64	2125	249	503	240	59	224	515	.237	.313	.375	.688	105	6	45	15	1348

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	13	13	4-4	0	0	81.0	3.44	66	33	31	9	26	67	.223	1.14	185
S. Lugo SP	13	13	2-4	0	0	76.0	3.91	79	36	33	7	24	64	.271	1.36	141
K. Bubic SP	9	9	3-2	0	0	50.1	4.11	36	23	23	4	26	51	.200	1.23	113
N. Cameron SP	11	11	2-4	0	0	59.2	4.22	58	31	28	6	17	56	.250	1.26	110
S. Kolek SP	6	6	3-1	0	0	38.0	3.32	29	16	14	5	8	27	.207	0.97	103
L. Erceg RP	24	0	3-3	11	17	22.1	6.45	29	18	16	2	15	20	.326	1.97	100
D. Lynch RP	25	0	2-0	1	2	25.1	1.78	17	8	5	1	8	29	.181	0.99	79
C. Ragans RP	8	8	1-4	0	0	35.1	4.84	27	20	19	10	23	45	.213	1.42	55
A. Lange RP	26	0	0-2	2	2	28.0	4.18	24	14	13	2	15	28	.238	1.39	48
M. Strahm RP	19	0	2-1	0	1	18.1	3.93	15	8	8	4	7	17	.214	1.20	41
J. Schreiber RP	27	0	0-3	1	2	24.1	2.96	21	9	8	4	11	16	.244	1.32	32
L. Avila RP	11	2	1-2	0	0	26.1	4.44	29	13	13	2	16	25	.290	1.71	30
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	7	0	0-0	0	0	8.2	2.08	10	2	2	1	3	9	.286	1.50	15
E. Morgan RP	13	0	0-1	1	1	16.1	5.51	23	10	10	4	8	15	.324	1.90	15
T. Tolbert RF	2	0	0-0	0	0	1.2	10.80	4	2	2	1	1	0	.500	3.00	11
S. Cruz RP	15	0	0-2	0	1	15.1	7.63	16	14	13	7	11	22	.262	1.76	7
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	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	2	.250	1.00	3
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	64	64	25-39	16	29	565.1	4.46	537	299	280	79	247	524	.251	1.39	1076

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
Y. Alvarez DH	64	231	43	73	44	21	42	48	.316	.429	.645	1.074	13	0	1	0	261
C. Walker 1B	64	238	38	59	46	16	22	55	.248	.321	.500	.821	10	1	0	0	201
I. Paredes 3B	59	212	25	51	32	9	23	40	.241	.333	.415	.748	10	0	0	0	155
C. Smith RF	64	212	26	45	24	6	24	66	.212	.302	.344	.646	8	1	8	1	133
J. Altuve 2B	43	167	27	41	12	4	19	37	.246	.324	.377	.701	10	0	1	2	103
C. Correa SS	32	122	22	34	16	3	18	26	.279	.369	.418	.787	8	0	1	0	96
J. Pena SS	27	107	21	33	10	3	7	16	.308	.364	.449	.813	6	0	3	1	86
C. Vazquez C	42	124	12	30	18	4	11	22	.242	.304	.379	.683	5	0	0	0	77
B. Matthews CF	52	148	15	30	14	4	11	53	.203	.256	.324	.580	4	1	2	3	62
Y. Diaz C	26	101	7	24	14	2	3	16	.238	.255	.347	.602	5	0	0	1	50
J. Meyers CF	28	84	9	19	7	2	6	19	.226	.283	.345	.628	4	0	1	2	42
B. Shewmake SS	28	74	8	18	8	3	2	13	.243	.260	.405	.665	3	0	0	0	41
N. Allen SS	35	61	12	16	5	1	3	14	.262	.303	.344	.647	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
J. Loperfido LF	20	58	7	16	7	0	6	19	.276	.348	.362	.710	5	0	1	1	33
T. Trammell CF	19	60	7	18	6	0	4	23	.300	.354	.400	.754	4	1	1	0	32
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
S. Whitcomb 3B	14	17	1	2	4	1	1	9	.118	.167	.294	.461	0	0	0	0	6
C. Price C	1	3	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.250	.000	.250	0	0	0	0	0
L. Wade 1B	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	-1
Total	65	2184	294	536	282	83	215	532	.245	.320	.411	.731	102	5	22	11	1487

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
S. Arrighetti SP	9	9	7-1	0	0	51.0	1.94	33	13	11	3	27	46	.184	1.18	152
P. Lambert SP	9	9	5-4	0	0	50.2	3.55	39	20	20	3	25	47	.212	1.26	111
K. Teng RP	19	6	3-4	0	0	47.0	3.06	34	17	16	6	21	44	.204	1.17	94
E. De Los Santos RP	25	0	0-1	4	4	27.0	3.00	20	10	9	1	5	27	.198	0.93	83
B. King RP	24	0	0-1	6	9	27.1	2.63	25	10	8	1	11	21	.240	1.32	82
M. Burrows SP	12	12	3-7	0	0	68.1	5.66	79	44	43	15	26	57	.292	1.54	77
A. Blubaugh RP	25	0	3-2	0	0	38.2	4.66	30	20	20	5	22	33	.216	1.34	70
S. Okert RP	30	1	0-0	0	0	29.0	3.10	18	10	10	3	10	25	.180	0.97	59
L. McCullers SP	8	8	2-3	0	0	39.1	6.86	38	32	30	7	22	43	.257	1.53	52
T. Imai SP	7	7	2-3	0	0	29.1	5.52	20	18	18	5	20	28	.196	1.36	46
B. Abreu RP	23	0	2-2	3	3	20.1	7.52	17	18	17	5	24	28	.230	2.02	39
H. Brown SP	2	2	1-0	0	0	10.2	0.84	5	1	1	0	6	17	.135	1.03	38
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
J. Hader RP	2	0	0-0	1	1	2.0	0.00	0	0	0	0	1	4	.000	0.50	14
A. Santa RP	4	0	0-1	0	0	6.0	1.50	0	2	1	0	2	5	.000	0.33	12
N. Pearson RP	5	0	0-0	1	1	4.2	5.79	5	3	3	1	3	5	.278	1.71	12
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
R. Weiss RP	9	2	0-3	0	0	26.0	7.62	35	24	22	8	20	30	.315	2.12	1
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	65	65	29-36	16	19	572.1	4.97	518	329	316	84	309	541	.242	1.44	984

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