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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	05-08-2026Expected to be out until at least May 9

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	39	154	17	46	17	4	19	31	.299	.371	.461	.832	11	1	12	2	130
M. Garcia 3B	37	145	19	39	15	3	15	26	.269	.333	.414	.747	10	1	4	2	102
V. Pasquantino 1B	37	137	16	26	18	5	17	32	.190	.277	.358	.635	4	2	1	0	87
S. Perez C	38	149	14	29	17	5	6	35	.195	.238	.329	.567	5	0	0	0	71
C. Jensen C	36	115	15	25	17	6	14	43	.217	.305	.391	.696	2	0	0	0	70
K. Isbel CF	32	92	13	26	10	3	6	24	.283	.347	.424	.771	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	35	115	15	28	8	4	11	39	.243	.320	.417	.737	6	1	0	1	63
L. Thomas RF	31	67	7	15	7	1	16	14	.224	.376	.284	.660	1	0	3	2	47
M. Massey 2B	26	70	9	16	9	2	3	18	.229	.253	.414	.667	7	0	1	0	43
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	39	1289	161	311	154	39	141	327	.241	.320	.390	.710	65	5	29	12	854

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
K. Bubic SP	8	8	3-1	0	0	46.1	3.50	31	18	18	3	23	47	.190	1.17	117
M. Wacha SP	7	7	3-2	0	0	44.1	3.05	32	15	15	5	15	36	.204	1.06	114
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	14	0	1-0	0	1	13.2	3.29	10	5	5	2	6	14	.196	1.17	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
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
S. Cruz RP	5	0	0-0	0	0	5.0	14.40	7	8	8	4	4	7	.318	2.20	0
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	39	39	18-21	13	20	346.1	4.31	306	176	166	43	169	329	.238	1.37	723

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
Y. Alvarez DH	39	145	27	47	29	13	22	21	.324	.424	.655	1.079	9	0	1	0	168
C. Walker 1B	39	142	24	42	27	9	15	29	.296	.369	.549	.918	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
I. Paredes 3B	34	121	16	32	16	3	14	23	.264	.364	.397	.761	7	0	0	0	87
J. Altuve 2B	35	136	24	33	9	3	17	31	.243	.331	.382	.713	10	0	1	2	87
C. Smith 3B	38	131	18	29	17	4	15	41	.221	.307	.359	.666	6	0	4	0	86
B. Matthews SS	30	79	10	18	13	4	8	32	.228	.295	.456	.751	4	1	2	0	55
Y. Diaz C	26	101	7	24	14	2	3	16	.238	.255	.347	.602	5	0	0	1	50
C. Vazquez C	21	65	7	19	12	3	5	13	.292	.343	.492	.835	4	0	0	0	49
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
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
B. Shewmake SS	9	17	4	6	2	2	0	3	.353	.353	.706	1.059	0	0	0	0	16
Z. Cole OF	4	11	2	3	5	2	0	4	.273	.273	.818	1.091	0	0	0	0	14
N. Allen SS	17	29	6	7	0	0	2	5	.241	.290	.276	.566	1	0	0	0	13
Z. Dezenzo SS	2	6	1	1	2	1	0	1	.167	.167	.667	.834	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	39	1335	195	352	185	51	141	305	.264	.340	.439	.779	75	3	15	6	1004

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
S. Arrighetti P	4	4	4-0	0	0	23.0	1.96	16	5	5	1	14	25	.195	1.30	76
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
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
E. De Los Santos RP	14	0	0-1	3	3	15.0	4.80	15	8	8	1	4	12	.250	1.27	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	18	1	0-0	0	0	15.2	4.60	15	8	8	2	7	11	.259	1.40	22
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	13	0	1-2	1	1	12.1	9.49	13	14	13	4	16	20	.277	2.35	8
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	39	39	16-23	8	9	341.1	5.67	346	222	215	53	202	350	.264	1.61	488

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