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PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Estevez	Shoulder	08-19-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 20
Cole Ragans	Elbow	05-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Jun 1
Maikel Garcia	Hand	07-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 1
Connor Seabold	Lat	07-27-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 28
Kris Bubic	Elbow	08-09-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 10
Kyle Isbel	Foot	07-27-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 28
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	Back	07-30-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 31
Alec Marsh	Shoulder	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Nick Mears	Shoulder	08-03-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 4
Jac Caglianone	Shoulder	07-23-2026Probable for Jul 24

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Chris Devenski	Illness	07-27-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 28
Oneil Cruz	Hand	08-07-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 8
Jake Mangum	Foot	07-23-2026Probable for Jul 24
Evan Sisk	Elbow	07-23-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 24
Endy Rodriguez	Lower Body	07-23-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 24
Spencer Horwitz	Hamstring	07-23-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 24
Konnor Griffin	Finger	09-03-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 4

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Royals KC-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Pirates PIT-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
B. Witt SS	94	369	51	103	39	13	41	73	.279	.350	.450	.800	22	1	30	5	316
C. Jensen C	96	337	44	81	52	14	35	107	.240	.310	.433	.743	23	0	1	0	226
J. Caglianone RF	95	337	46	87	37	16	25	105	.258	.316	.463	.779	17	2	3	1	220
S. Perez C	96	373	36	78	43	14	16	84	.209	.257	.359	.616	14	0	0	0	197
I. Collins LF	93	290	37	71	34	6	40	78	.245	.346	.372	.718	17	1	6	5	193
V. Pasquantino 1B	76	282	33	65	33	6	37	55	.230	.320	.348	.668	11	2	4	0	183
L. Thomas CF	89	258	29	61	36	9	37	69	.236	.334	.403	.737	16	0	6	3	182
M. Massey 2B	84	252	35	69	33	7	15	47	.274	.311	.429	.740	18	0	2	0	171
M. Garcia 3B	69	268	32	70	30	3	24	45	.261	.320	.373	.693	17	2	5	3	170
N. Loftin 3B	66	198	28	49	32	4	21	30	.247	.330	.394	.724	15	1	1	0	151
K. Isbel CF	56	164	16	40	11	3	10	41	.244	.298	.354	.652	7	1	5	0	87
T. Tolbert SS	40	61	18	20	5	2	4	11	.328	.364	.443	.807	1	0	12	3	69
S. Marte RF	46	119	13	32	9	1	8	35	.269	.331	.328	.659	4	0	2	2	57
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
J. Rojas 3B	20	49	5	13	6	1	1	9	.265	.280	.388	.668	3	0	0	0	26
J. Rave RF	9	18	3	4	1	1	3	7	.222	.333	.611	.944	2	1	0	0	14
L. Maile C	3	10	2	2	3	1	1	3	.200	.273	.500	.773	0	0	0	0	9
A. Velazquez SS	2	7	0	1	0	0	0	1	.143	.143	.143	.286	0	0	1	0	2
Total	104	3503	441	868	421	105	329	835	.248	.317	.399	.716	191	11	81	23	2307

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	20	20	5-7	0	0	125.1	3.66	111	53	51	15	36	101	.239	1.17	262
S. Lugo SP	21	21	4-6	0	0	117.2	4.36	123	65	57	15	38	94	.274	1.37	211
N. Cameron SP	19	19	5-8	0	0	100.2	5.27	113	64	59	14	34	92	.279	1.46	150
L. Erceg RP	40	0	4-3	12	18	38.1	5.40	42	27	23	5	23	27	.286	1.70	133
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 IV RP	42	0	3-2	1	3	42.1	2.13	27	13	10	2	12	34	.176	0.92	111
S. Kolek SP	10	10	4-3	0	0	54.0	4.50	55	30	27	8	12	34	.262	1.24	111
L. Avila SP	19	10	5-3	0	0	63.0	4.86	63	34	34	6	35	57	.272	1.56	106
A. Lange RP	40	0	1-5	9	11	41.0	6.15	39	30	28	4	23	41	.252	1.51	93
S. Cruz RP	34	2	2-3	1	2	36.0	4.75	30	20	19	10	16	43	.224	1.28	69
T. Tolbert SS	5	0	0-0	0	0	4.2	25.07	17	13	13	4	3	0	.586	4.29	69
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	43	0	0-3	1	3	39.1	3.89	38	20	17	7	15	29	.262	1.35	53
M. Strahm RP	38	0	3-3	0	3	34.0	6.88	35	26	26	10	14	28	.257	1.44	45
B. Way RP	18	0	1-0	0	0	22.1	3.22	24	11	8	4	10	21	.276	1.52	42
R. Dobnak RP	4	2	0-0	0	0	19.0	1.42	17	3	3	2	9	10	.239	1.37	33
C. Seabold RP	5	0	0-0	0	0	5.0	9.00	7	6	5	0	4	5	.318	2.20	31
N. Mears RP	21	0	2-3	0	2	19.1	5.12	18	11	11	2	11	15	.257	1.50	24
E. Morgan RP	16	0	0-1	1	1	19.1	5.12	24	11	11	5	9	16	.300	1.71	22
M. Black RP	12	0	0-0	0	0	17.2	3.57	19	7	7	3	11	15	.279	1.70	21
J. Cuas RP	5	0	0-0	0	0	6.1	2.84	8	2	2	0	2	9	.296	1.58	11
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
M. Spence RP	3	1	0-2	0	0	9.1	21.21	19	22	22	3	9	6	.413	3.00	-29
Total	104	104	43-61	25	44	915.2	4.92	924	538	501	140	393	786	.263	1.44	1697

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
B. Reynolds LF	103	374	71	103	59	14	64	107	.275	.391	.463	.854	24	2	7	0	335
B. Lowe 2B	95	375	61	91	65	21	39	115	.243	.312	.472	.784	21	1	1	0	288
N. Gonzales 3B	97	364	58	114	46	6	28	72	.313	.371	.415	.786	17	1	4	2	259
R. O'Hearn RF	88	328	51	90	64	16	28	84	.274	.338	.460	.798	13	0	1	0	259
O. Cruz CF	64	250	45	66	44	14	30	98	.264	.350	.472	.822	10	0	21	4	229
S. Horwitz 1B	74	246	36	69	33	10	40	40	.280	.386	.455	.841	11	1	1	0	208
J. Mangum LF	81	251	35	76	21	2	14	47	.303	.353	.375	.728	10	1	19	6	178
K. Griffin SS	59	225	35	62	25	5	16	65	.276	.332	.404	.736	10	2	20	1	177
E. Valdez RF	34	113	24	33	34	13	17	50	.292	.382	.717	1.099	7	1	0	1	130
J. Triolo SS	68	206	23	51	19	1	18	51	.248	.317	.320	.637	12	0	7	1	116
M. Ozuna DH	65	234	20	48	28	8	26	80	.205	.290	.333	.623	6	0	0	0	114
H. Davis C	66	177	24	29	27	8	18	45	.164	.259	.328	.587	5	0	2	1	112
E. Rodriguez C	35	100	15	26	16	5	21	29	.260	.388	.470	.858	6	0	2	0	88
J. Gonzalez 1B	7	17	3	5	5	2	0	1	.294	.294	.706	1.000	1	0	0	0	77
T. Callihan RF	36	86	13	20	15	3	9	33	.233	.309	.430	.739	4	2	1	0	60
N. Yorke 3B	27	76	6	15	6	1	7	17	.197	.279	.276	.555	3	0	0	0	33
B. Cook CF	60	43	10	9	2	0	0	17	.209	.209	.279	.488	1	1	5	1	24
R. Flores C	8	15	2	4	2	1	4	2	.267	.421	.533	.954	1	0	0	0	15
J. Garcia CF	13	35	2	7	2	0	1	10	.200	.243	.229	.472	1	0	0	0	9
J. Brannigan 3B	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Total	103	3578	543	933	519	132	382	985	.261	.339	.424	.763	164	12	91	17	2711

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
P. Skenes SP	21	21	9-8	0	0	115.1	3.43	94	51	44	11	26	138	.221	1.04	297
B. Ashcraft SP	20	20	9-4	0	0	116.1	3.95	108	56	51	16	28	130	.245	1.17	294
G. Soto RP	42	0	5-2	13	18	41.2	3.89	27	20	18	5	18	47	.181	1.08	199
M. Keller SP	20	20	6-7	0	0	108.1	4.90	105	64	59	13	37	83	.252	1.31	191
C. Mlodzinski RP	22	9	6-3	2	3	86.1	3.34	87	39	32	7	30	69	.258	1.36	186
B. Chandler SP	20	19	3-8	0	0	100.2	4.47	84	56	50	10	56	90	.223	1.39	142
Y. Ramirez RP	42	0	6-2	1	3	53.1	3.21	41	22	19	4	31	59	.211	1.35	127
M. Montgomery RP	41	5	3-3	1	3	40.1	3.79	31	18	17	4	19	60	.207	1.24	97
J. Jones SP	9	9	2-1	0	0	40.0	4.05	32	19	18	5	12	48	.213	1.10	94
E. Sisk RP	32	0	1-0	0	2	36.1	2.23	30	9	9	2	13	43	.231	1.18	79
T. Callihan RF	3	0	0-0	0	0	2.0	0.00	2	0	0	0	3	0	.250	2.50	60
I. Mattson RP	34	0	0-0	0	2	32.2	4.13	31	15	15	3	14	29	.248	1.38	51
B. Eisert RP	5	0	0-1	0	0	3.2	12.27	5	5	5	0	4	4	.333	2.45	49
W. Dotel RP	10	0	1-2	0	0	21.1	5.06	17	12	12	2	9	24	.215	1.22	35
B. Bidois RP	15	0	0-0	0	0	15.2	6.32	19	16	11	5	12	20	.297	1.98	14
K. Curtis SP	1	0	0-0	0	0	5.0	0.00	2	0	0	0	2	4	.133	0.80	13
H. Stratton RP	2	0	0-0	0	0	2.1	7.71	5	2	2	0	0	2	.417	2.14	3
C. Devenski RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	2.1	7.71	5	2	2	1	0	3	.417	2.14	1
J. Urquidy RP	5	0	0-1	1	1	6.1	8.53	15	10	6	1	2	6	.441	2.68	1
A. Kelly RP	2	0	0-0	0	0	4.1	10.38	6	5	5	2	2	1	.333	1.85	0
H. Barco RP	5	0	0-1	0	1	11.2	7.71	14	12	10	3	9	8	.292	1.97	-1
Total	103	103	53-50	20	38	919.0	4.26	833	492	435	107	370	943	.239	1.31	1932

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