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PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Shelby Miller	Elbow	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Tyler Austin	Knee	06-30-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 1
Hunter Harvey	Triceps	06-25-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 26
Matthew Boyd	Knee	06-11-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 12
Justin Steele	Elbow	07-31-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 1
Cade Horton	Elbow	07-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Aug 1, 2027
Porter Hodge	Elbow	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Matt Shaw	Back	06-05-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 6
Riley Martin	Elbow	06-21-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 22

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

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Cubs CHC-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Royals KC-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
N. Hoerner 2B	63	252	26	63	33	4	29	20	.250	.333	.353	.686	14	0	12	2	193
I. Happ LF	60	226	42	53	34	14	37	85	.235	.350	.487	.837	13	1	2	0	187
P. Crow-Armstrong CF	64	234	35	58	30	9	23	68	.248	.335	.415	.750	8	2	13	5	180
M. Busch 1B	63	227	27	55	36	6	42	63	.242	.368	.392	.760	12	2	1	0	169
A. Bregman 3B	63	255	29	64	19	5	28	48	.251	.333	.353	.686	9	1	2	1	149
D. Swanson SS	61	205	34	37	28	7	30	56	.180	.285	.322	.607	6	1	5	0	141
S. Suzuki RF	50	182	29	45	21	9	23	54	.247	.340	.423	.763	5	0	0	0	126
C. Kelly C	46	149	18	43	18	2	15	29	.289	.365	.369	.734	6	0	0	0	94
M. Ballesteros DH	50	135	15	32	21	6	15	31	.237	.309	.407	.716	5	0	0	0	90
M. Conforto DH	40	85	12	22	13	4	14	28	.259	.360	.506	.866	9	0	0	0	68
M. Shaw RF	42	95	10	23	12	3	6	18	.242	.291	.400	.691	6	0	3	1	63
M. Amaya C	36	90	15	20	10	3	13	24	.222	.346	.356	.702	3	0	0	0	62
P. Ramirez 2B	8	16	2	4	1	0	1	0	.250	.294	.313	.607	1	0	0	0	9
S. Kingery 2B	8	4	2	1	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	0	0	1	0	5
K. Alcantara DH	10	9	1	1	0	0	1	4	.111	.200	.111	.311	0	0	0	1	0
D. Carlson LF	3	4	1	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Total	64	2173	299	521	276	72	277	532	.240	.333	.390	.723	97	7	39	10	1536

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
S. Imanaga SP	13	13	4-6	0	0	76.0	4.74	63	41	40	17	19	74	.221	1.08	156
B. Brown RP	17	5	2-2	1	2	51.2	1.92	33	13	11	1	15	53	.180	0.93	138
C. Rea SP	13	10	5-3	1	1	64.2	4.59	65	34	33	9	22	52	.259	1.35	130
J. Taillon SP	12	12	2-5	0	0	66.2	5.13	63	39	38	20	21	57	.245	1.26	105
E. Cabrera SP	11	11	3-3	0	0	57.2	4.99	61	37	32	11	21	53	.276	1.42	102
C. Kelly C	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	18.00	2	2	2	2	0	0	.400	2.00	94
R. Rolison RP	17	0	4-1	0	1	20.2	2.61	16	8	6	3	10	19	.225	1.26	62
J. Webb RP	26	0	1-1	1	3	25.2	2.45	25	10	7	3	9	32	.250	1.32	61
H. Milner RP	29	0	1-0	1	2	28.0	4.18	25	13	13	3	6	14	.240	1.11	58
D. Palencia RP	15	0	1-0	3	3	13.2	1.98	13	3	3	2	4	14	.250	1.24	56
M. Boyd SP	5	5	2-1	0	0	24.0	6.00	25	17	16	2	6	31	.266	1.29	52
J. Assad RP	8	3	3-1	0	0	26.0	5.88	26	17	17	4	7	14	.263	1.27	51
C. Thielbar RP	17	0	2-2	2	4	14.1	3.77	12	7	6	3	8	15	.222	1.40	42
T. Thornton RP	11	0	2-1	0	0	15.0	1.80	9	3	3	2	6	6	.176	1.00	39
E. Roberts RP	14	0	0-1	0	0	18.1	1.96	13	5	4	1	7	14	.206	1.09	31
C. Horton P	2	2	1-0	0	0	7.1	2.45	4	2	2	1	2	4	.167	0.82	26
R. Martin P	8	1	0-0	0	0	8.1	2.16	5	2	2	1	2	10	.179	0.84	21
P. Maton RP	23	0	0-1	0	0	20.1	7.08	24	16	16	3	11	23	.300	1.72	13
T. Blach RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	3.0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	2	.111	0.33	9
V. Velasquez SP	1	0	0-0	0	0	2.1	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	1	.125	0.43	6
Y. Rios RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.2	0.00	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	0.00	6
H. Harvey RP	4	0	0-1	0	0	4.0	6.75	5	3	3	2	1	4	.294	1.50	0
L. Little RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.0	9.00	2	1	1	1	0	1	.400	2.00	0
G. Hollowell RP	1	0	0-0	0	0	1.2	10.80	2	2	2	1	4	1	.286	3.60	-2
J. Wicks SP	2	2	0-2	0	0	6.1	15.63	13	11	11	1	1	6	.406	2.21	-14
Total	64	64	33-31	10	17	567.1	4.39	517	296	277	95	190	507	.242	1.25	1242

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

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