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PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Estevez	Shoulder	07-09-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 10
Cole Ragans	Elbow	08-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Sep 1
Maikel Garcia	Hand	07-03-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 4
Connor Seabold	Lat	07-27-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 28
Kris Bubic	Elbow	07-27-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 28
Kyle Isbel	Foot	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Stephen Kolek	Personal	07-01-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 2
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	07-03-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 4
Vinnie Pasquantino	Hand	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Chris Devenski	Illness	07-04-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 5
Oneil Cruz	Hand	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Spencer Horwitz	Hamstring	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Wilber Dotel	Lat	07-02-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 3

	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	81	317	44	93	36	12	37	60	.293	.366	.476	.842	20	1	28	4	291
C. Jensen C	80	275	40	68	46	12	27	83	.247	.312	.440	.752	17	0	1	0	195
J. Caglianone RF	80	276	39	73	30	14	25	91	.264	.334	.475	.809	12	2	3	1	188
M. Garcia 3B	69	268	32	70	30	3	24	45	.261	.320	.373	.693	17	2	5	3	170
V. Pasquantino 1B	68	254	28	57	32	6	32	51	.224	.309	.350	.659	10	2	3	0	162
S. Perez C	81	318	29	64	30	10	12	69	.201	.241	.327	.568	10	0	0	0	146
I. Collins LF	76	238	30	55	24	3	34	65	.231	.339	.328	.667	14	0	4	4	143
M. Massey 2B	68	199	24	52	27	7	10	35	.261	.292	.437	.729	14	0	2	0	134
L. Thomas CF	72	193	20	41	23	5	30	51	.212	.322	.332	.654	8	0	4	3	118
N. Loftin 3B	50	144	21	33	24	3	18	22	.229	.325	.389	.714	12	1	1	0	114
K. Isbel CF	56	164	16	40	11	3	10	41	.244	.298	.354	.652	7	1	5	0	87
S. Marte RF	39	97	11	26	7	1	8	28	.268	.330	.340	.670	4	0	1	1	48
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
T. Tolbert SS	29	35	10	7	1	0	4	10	.200	.275	.200	.475	0	0	7	2	29
K. Misner CF	14	33	1	9	4	0	1	13	.273	.294	.303	.597	1	0	3	1	14
J. Rave RF	9	18	3	4	1	1	3	7	.222	.333	.611	.944	2	1	0	0	14
J. Rojas 3B	8	15	2	4	4	1	0	2	.267	.267	.533	.800	1	0	0	0	13
Total	87	2914	361	709	343	85	284	691	.243	.314	.390	.704	152	10	67	19	1900

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	17	17	5-5	0	0	108.2	3.31	94	42	40	10	30	84	.234	1.14	246
S. Lugo SP	17	17	3-6	0	0	96.1	4.20	103	49	45	12	30	76	.278	1.38	168
N. Cameron SP	16	16	4-6	0	0	83.2	4.95	93	51	46	10	25	75	.277	1.41	135
L. Erceg RP	34	0	3-3	12	18	32.2	5.23	36	21	19	3	20	25	.288	1.71	123
S. Kolek SP	9	9	4-2	0	0	52.0	4.15	51	27	24	8	11	34	.255	1.19	118
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 RP	35	0	2-2	1	3	34.0	2.65	24	13	10	2	11	30	.190	1.03	81
A. Lange RP	35	0	0-4	7	7	36.1	4.95	33	22	20	2	21	37	.244	1.49	78
L. Avila RP	16	7	3-3	0	0	46.2	5.40	48	28	28	5	30	43	.276	1.67	60
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	30	0	3-1	0	3	27.2	5.53	25	17	17	8	10	20	.234	1.27	55
J. Schreiber RP	36	0	0-3	1	2	33.0	3.27	30	14	12	6	12	26	.252	1.27	49
S. Cruz RP	24	1	2-2	0	1	26.1	5.47	23	17	16	8	14	35	.230	1.41	47
C. Seabold RP	5	0	0-0	0	0	5.0	9.00	7	6	5	0	4	5	.318	2.20	31
T. Tolbert SS	4	0	0-0	0	0	3.2	17.18	11	7	7	2	2	0	.550	3.55	29
B. Way RP	11	0	0-0	0	0	15.0	3.60	15	6	6	3	7	15	.259	1.47	24
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	12	0	0-0	0	0	17.2	3.57	19	7	7	3	11	15	.279	1.70	21
E. Morgan RP	14	0	0-1	1	1	17.1	5.19	23	10	10	4	8	15	.311	1.79	18
J. Cuas RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	2.0	4.50	2	1	1	0	0	3	.250	1.00	4
E. Cerantola RP	4	0	0-0	0	0	5.1	10.13	4	6	6	2	10	7	.235	2.63	0
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	87	87	35-52	22	38	767.2	4.87	769	441	415	112	333	668	.262	1.44	1411

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
B. Reynolds LF	87	314	58	88	53	11	56	84	.280	.395	.462	.857	20	2	5	0	285
B. Lowe 2B	80	313	51	75	57	20	35	93	.240	.315	.498	.813	19	1	0	0	254
O. Cruz CF	64	250	45	66	44	14	30	98	.264	.350	.472	.822	10	0	21	4	229
R. O'Hearn RF	72	269	41	77	51	13	22	66	.286	.342	.472	.814	11	0	1	0	212
S. Horwitz 1B	74	246	36	69	33	10	40	40	.280	.386	.455	.841	11	1	1	0	208
N. Gonzales 3B	81	300	45	90	36	3	21	61	.300	.357	.373	.730	11	1	4	2	195
K. Griffin SS	56	212	33	57	23	5	14	62	.269	.323	.406	.729	10	2	16	1	160
J. Mangum LF	66	192	25	58	14	1	12	38	.302	.351	.359	.710	8	0	14	5	127
M. Ozuna DH	57	210	17	42	26	7	21	71	.200	.279	.324	.603	5	0	0	0	98
H. Davis C	55	147	18	22	20	7	14	36	.150	.241	.327	.568	5	0	2	1	89
J. Triolo SS	54	160	17	38	14	1	14	45	.238	.311	.306	.617	8	0	5	1	83
E. Rodriguez C	32	89	14	24	15	4	19	26	.270	.398	.472	.870	6	0	2	0	81
E. Valdez RF	18	53	11	16	12	6	6	20	.302	.373	.717	1.090	4	0	0	0	57
T. Callihan RF	25	59	9	14	13	3	8	23	.237	.333	.492	.825	2	2	1	0	50
N. Yorke 3B	27	76	6	15	6	1	7	17	.197	.279	.276	.555	3	0	0	0	33
B. Cook CF	48	30	7	5	0	0	0	11	.167	.167	.200	.367	1	0	4	1	14
R. Flores C	2	3	2	2	2	1	2	0	.667	.800	2.000	2.800	1	0	0	0	12
J. Garcia CF	13	35	2	7	2	0	1	10	.200	.243	.229	.472	1	0	0	0	9
D. Wendzel 1B	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Total	87	3020	446	780	427	109	324	822	.258	.337	.418	.755	137	9	76	15	2196

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
B. Ashcraft SP	17	17	8-3	0	0	102.2	3.33	88	42	38	11	23	115	.232	1.08	281
P. Skenes SP	18	18	6-8	0	0	97.0	3.62	76	46	39	11	22	119	.211	1.01	232
M. Keller SP	17	17	6-5	0	0	94.1	4.87	90	56	51	9	33	73	.250	1.30	182
G. Soto RP	36	0	4-2	11	15	35.0	4.37	24	19	17	4	15	41	.190	1.11	162
C. Mlodzinski SP	17	9	4-3	2	2	72.2	3.47	77	35	28	6	26	60	.269	1.42	145
B. Chandler SP	17	16	3-8	0	0	85.2	4.62	71	50	44	9	48	79	.220	1.39	115
Y. Ramirez RP	37	0	5-2	1	3	47.2	3.59	37	22	19	4	27	55	.211	1.34	110
E. Sisk RP	32	0	1-0	0	2	36.1	2.23	30	9	9	2	13	43	.231	1.18	79
D. Santana RP	37	0	2-3	2	4	35.1	5.09	32	22	20	5	19	32	.235	1.44	62
M. Montgomery RP	33	4	2-3	0	2	32.2	4.68	30	18	17	4	16	46	.236	1.41	57
T. Callihan RF	2	0	0-0	0	0	1.1	0.00	1	0	0	0	1	0	.200	1.50	50
I. Mattson RP	27	0	0-0	0	2	25.2	3.51	21	10	10	1	12	22	.221	1.29	44
J. Jones SP	6	6	1-1	0	0	25.0	5.76	27	17	16	5	9	25	.270	1.44	37
W. Dotel RP	9	0	1-2	0	0	18.1	5.89	16	12	12	2	9	19	.232	1.36	24
B. Bidois RP	15	0	0-0	0	0	15.2	6.32	19	16	11	5	12	20	.297	1.98	14
C. Sanders RP	7	0	0-0	0	0	7.2	7.04	7	6	6	0	7	10	.241	1.83	7
A. Kelly RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	2.1	7.71	2	2	2	1	1	1	.250	1.29	2
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
H. Barco RP	5	0	0-1	0	1	11.2	7.71	14	12	10	3	9	8	.292	1.97	-1
Total	87	87	43-44	17	33	777.2	4.28	704	426	370	88	316	802	.238	1.31	1604

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