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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	05-21-2026Expected to be out until at least May 22
James McArthur	Elbow	05-23-2026Expected to be out until at least May 24
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
Bailey Falter	Elbow	05-09-2026Expected to be out until at least May 10

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Correa	Ankle	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Lance McCullers	Finger	05-11-2026Expected to be out until at least May 12
Josh Hader	Biceps	05-23-2026Expected to be out until at least May 24
Taylor Trammell	Groin	05-17-2026Expected to be out until at least May 18
Ronel Blanco	Elbow	07-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 1
Yainer Diaz	Oblique	05-14-2026Expected to be out until at least May 15
Jake Meyers	Oblique	05-21-2026Expected to be out until at least May 22
Bennett Sousa	Elbow	05-21-2026Expected to be out until at least May 22
Nate Pearson	Elbow	05-10-2026Expected to be out until at least May 11
Cristian Javier	Shoulder	06-24-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 25
Jeremy Pena	Hamstring	05-14-2026Expected to be out until at least May 15
Hunter Brown	Shoulder	06-04-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 5
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
Joey Loperfido	Quadriceps	05-17-2026Expected to be out until at least May 18
Tatsuya Imai	Arm	05-10-2026Expected to be out until at least May 11

	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	40	158	18	47	19	5	19	31	.297	.369	.475	.844	11	1	12	2	137
M. Garcia 3B	38	148	20	40	15	3	16	26	.270	.337	.419	.756	11	1	4	3	105
V. Pasquantino 1B	38	141	16	27	18	5	17	33	.191	.276	.355	.631	4	2	1	0	87
C. Jensen C	37	117	16	26	17	6	15	43	.222	.313	.402	.715	3	0	0	0	74
S. Perez C	39	152	14	29	17	5	6	37	.191	.233	.322	.555	5	0	0	0	70
K. Isbel CF	33	95	13	26	10	3	6	24	.274	.337	.411	.748	4	0	5	0	69
I. Collins LF	34	104	15	26	13	3	17	36	.250	.363	.375	.738	4	0	2	3	69
J. Caglianone 1B	36	118	16	29	8	4	11	40	.246	.321	.415	.736	6	1	0	1	65
M. Massey 2B	27	73	10	17	12	3	3	18	.233	.256	.452	.708	7	0	1	0	51
L. Thomas RF	32	70	7	15	7	1	16	15	.214	.364	.271	.635	1	0	3	2	46
N. Loftin 1B	15	39	8	11	10	0	7	4	.282	.383	.410	.793	5	0	0	0	39
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
S. Marte RF	14	35	2	11	2	0	1	10	.314	.342	.400	.742	3	0	0	1	14
E. Diaz C	6	14	2	4	3	1	1	1	.286	.333	.643	.976	2	0	0	0	14
T. Tolbert SS	8	5	1	1	0	0	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.400	0	0	1	1	2
Total	40	1317	166	317	159	41	143	332	.241	.319	.393	.712	67	5	29	13	876

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	8	8	4-2	0	0	51.1	2.63	34	15	15	5	17	42	.188	0.99	143
K. Bubic SP	8	8	3-1	0	0	46.1	3.50	31	18	18	3	23	47	.190	1.17	117
L. Erceg RP	17	0	3-1	10	12	16.1	3.31	11	7	6	0	12	14	.200	1.41	113
S. Lugo SP	8	8	1-2	0	0	47.2	3.21	48	18	17	1	17	42	.270	1.36	94
D. Lynch SP	15	0	1-0	1	2	15.2	1.72	5	6	3	1	4	20	.094	0.57	57
C. Ragans RP	8	8	1-4	0	0	35.1	4.84	27	20	19	10	23	45	.213	1.42	55
N. Cameron P	6	6	2-2	0	0	31.2	5.40	40	22	19	5	11	28	.301	1.61	46
N. Mears RP	16	0	2-1	0	2	14.0	1.93	9	3	3	0	7	10	.191	1.14	37
M. Strahm RP	15	0	1-0	0	1	14.2	3.68	12	6	6	2	6	15	.214	1.23	33
S. Kolek RP	1	1	1-0	0	0	6.0	4.50	4	3	3	1	0	3	.182	0.67	22
E. Morgan RP	7	0	0-1	1	1	10.1	2.61	8	3	3	2	6	9	.205	1.35	20
J. Schreiber RP	16	0	0-2	1	1	15.0	3.60	14	6	6	2	8	5	.264	1.47	15
A. Lange RP	15	0	0-2	0	0	17.0	6.35	15	13	12	2	12	20	.234	1.59	11
M. Black P	4	0	0-0	0	0	4.2	0.00	7	0	0	0	2	5	.350	1.93	7
S. Cruz RP	6	0	0-0	0	0	6.0	12.00	7	8	8	4	4	9	.280	1.83	3
T. Tolbert SS	1	0	0-0	0	0	0.2	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	.500	1.50	2
E. Cerantola P	2	0	0-0	0	0	3.0	9.00	2	3	3	1	4	5	.200	2.00	2
M. Spence SP	1	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	13.50	4	6	6	1	5	3	.267	2.25	-1
L. Avila SP	6	1	0-2	0	0	12.0	6.75	19	9	9	1	6	12	.373	2.08	-2
B. Falter SP	2	0	0-0	0	0	3.1	13.50	8	5	5	1	2	4	.444	3.00	-3
C. Estevez RP	1	0	0-1	0	1	0.1	162.00	4	6	6	1	2	0	.800	18.00	-16
Total	40	40	19-21	13	20	355.1	4.23	310	177	167	43	171	338	.235	1.35	755

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
Y. Alvarez DH	40	147	27	48	29	13	24	22	.327	.432	.660	1.092	10	0	1	0	172
C. Walker 1B	40	146	24	42	27	9	15	29	.288	.360	.534	.894	9	0	0	0	131
C. Correa SS	32	122	22	34	16	3	18	26	.279	.369	.418	.787	8	0	1	0	96
J. Altuve 2B	36	140	24	34	9	3	17	31	.243	.329	.379	.708	10	0	1	2	88
I. Paredes 3B	35	125	16	32	16	3	14	23	.256	.354	.384	.738	7	0	0	0	87
C. Smith 3B	39	135	18	29	17	4	15	43	.215	.299	.348	.647	6	0	4	0	85
B. Matthews SS	31	82	10	18	13	4	8	32	.220	.286	.439	.725	4	1	2	0	55
C. Vazquez C	22	67	7	19	12	3	6	14	.284	.342	.478	.820	4	0	0	0	50
Y. Diaz C	26	101	7	24	14	2	3	16	.238	.255	.347	.602	5	0	0	1	50
D. Harris 1B	11	31	4	7	4	0	2	6	.226	.286	.290	.576	0	1	2	0	35
J. Loperfido OF	20	58	7	16	7	0	6	19	.276	.348	.362	.710	5	0	1	1	33
J. Meyers CF	12	37	5	9	4	1	4	8	.243	.326	.378	.704	2	0	1	2	24
B. Shewmake SS	10	20	5	7	3	3	0	3	.350	.350	.800	1.150	0	0	0	0	22
T. Trammell LF	10	29	4	10	4	0	4	9	.345	.424	.448	.872	1	1	1	0	22
J. Pena SS	10	43	5	11	0	0	3	6	.256	.304	.349	.653	4	0	1	0	22
Z. Cole OF	5	13	2	4	5	2	0	4	.308	.308	.846	1.154	1	0	0	0	16
N. Allen SS	17	29	6	7	0	0	2	5	.241	.290	.276	.566	1	0	0	0	13
Z. Dezenzo SS	3	7	1	1	2	1	0	2	.143	.143	.571	.714	0	0	0	0	6
S. Whitcomb SS	12	15	1	2	4	1	1	9	.133	.188	.333	.521	0	0	0	0	6
D. Johnson CF	8	14	1	2	0	0	2	3	.143	.294	.143	.437	0	0	0	0	4
C. Salazar C	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Total	40	1364	196	356	186	52	144	310	.261	.337	.436	.773	77	3	15	6	1017

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
S. Arrighetti P	5	5	4-1	0	0	28.2	1.88	21	8	6	1	17	30	.206	1.33	82
M. Burrows SP	8	8	2-4	0	0	44.2	5.04	52	25	25	8	14	42	.292	1.48	62
P. Lambert RP	4	4	2-2	0	0	22.1	2.42	15	6	6	0	11	23	.188	1.16	54
K. Teng SP	14	1	1-2	0	0	23.0	2.35	15	6	6	3	7	22	.183	0.96	49
E. De Los Santos RP	15	0	0-1	3	3	16.0	4.50	15	8	8	1	4	14	.238	1.19	44
L. McCullers SP	7	7	2-3	0	0	34.0	7.41	31	30	28	5	20	37	.246	1.50	44
B. King P	13	0	0-1	3	4	15.2	3.45	16	8	6	0	5	15	.262	1.34	40
H. Brown SP	2	2	1-0	0	0	10.2	0.84	5	1	1	0	6	17	.135	1.03	38
A. Blubaugh P	15	0	2-2	0	0	23.0	5.09	19	13	13	4	13	21	.229	1.39	37
S. Okert RP	19	1	0-0	0	0	16.2	4.32	15	8	8	2	7	11	.246	1.32	25
C. Bolton RP	5	3	0-1	1	1	11.2	4.63	12	6	6	1	9	14	.273	1.80	16
T. Imai SP	3	3	1-0	0	0	8.2	7.27	7	7	7	0	11	13	.219	2.08	13
B. Abreu RP	14	0	1-2	1	1	12.2	9.24	13	14	13	4	16	20	.271	2.29	9
J. Murray SP	4	0	0-0	0	0	6.0	6.00	7	4	4	0	5	5	.318	2.00	4
J. France SP	3	0	0-0	0	0	6.2	8.10	6	6	6	1	5	4	.240	1.65	4
L. VanWey RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	2	.250	1.00	3
R. Weiss SP	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. Salazar C	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	9.00	1	1	1	1	0	0	.250	1.00	0
C. Gordon P	4	1	0-0	0	0	9.1	11.57	21	12	12	6	3	11	.467	2.57	-3
J. Alexander SP	2	0	0-0	0	0	6.1	14.21	11	10	10	2	5	6	.379	2.53	-4
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	40	40	16-24	8	9	349.1	5.56	351	225	216	53	205	357	.263	1.59	502

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