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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
Edward Cabrera	Finger	06-05-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 6
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	06-03-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 4
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	06-03-2026Probable for Jun 4
Kris Bubic	Elbow	06-17-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 18
James McArthur	Elbow	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
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	61	245	26	62	33	4	29	20	.253	.338	.359	.697	14	0	12	1	193
I. Happ LF	58	220	40	51	31	13	37	82	.232	.350	.473	.823	12	1	2	0	178
P. Crow-Armstrong CF	62	228	34	55	28	8	22	66	.241	.326	.399	.725	8	2	12	5	168
M. Busch 1B	61	221	26	54	36	6	40	60	.244	.368	.394	.762	11	2	1	0	166
A. Bregman 3B	61	247	28	63	19	5	27	47	.255	.337	.356	.693	8	1	2	1	145
D. Swanson SS	59	197	34	36	27	7	30	55	.183	.290	.330	.620	6	1	5	0	139
S. Suzuki RF	48	180	26	43	20	8	20	54	.239	.324	.400	.724	5	0	0	0	114
C. Kelly C	45	145	18	41	17	2	15	28	.283	.362	.366	.728	6	0	0	0	92
M. Ballesteros DH	49	131	15	30	20	6	15	30	.229	.304	.405	.709	5	0	0	0	88
M. Conforto DH	38	79	12	21	13	4	14	25	.266	.372	.532	.904	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	35	86	15	19	9	3	13	23	.221	.350	.349	.699	2	0	0	0	59
P. Ramirez 2B	6	11	1	2	1	0	1	0	.182	.250	.273	.523	1	0	0	0	6
S. Kingery 2B	8	4	2	1	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	0	0	1	0	5
K. Alcantara DH	8	7	0	1	0	0	1	3	.143	.250	.143	.393	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	62	2105	289	502	266	69	270	515	.238	.333	.388	.721	93	7	38	9	1484

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
S. Imanaga SP	12	12	4-6	0	0	70.0	4.37	57	35	34	13	18	69	.218	1.07	148
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
E. Cabrera SP	10	10	3-2	0	0	54.0	4.00	53	29	24	8	20	47	.262	1.35	110
J. Taillon SP	12	12	2-5	0	0	66.2	5.13	63	39	38	20	21	57	.245	1.26	105
H. Milner RP	28	0	1-0	1	2	27.2	2.28	20	7	7	2	6	14	.202	0.94	69
J. Webb RP	26	0	1-1	1	3	25.2	2.45	25	10	7	3	9	32	.250	1.32	61
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
R. Rolison RP	16	0	3-1	0	1	19.0	2.84	16	8	6	3	10	16	.242	1.37	49
C. Thielbar RP	16	0	2-2	2	4	13.1	4.05	12	7	6	3	8	15	.235	1.50	39
T. Thornton RP	10	0	2-1	0	0	13.2	1.98	8	3	3	2	4	6	.174	0.88	38
E. Roberts RP	13	0	0-1	0	0	16.2	1.62	10	4	3	0	7	12	.182	1.02	29
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	22	0	0-1	0	0	19.0	7.11	23	15	15	3	10	22	.303	1.74	12
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	62	62	32-30	10	17	549.1	4.15	491	272	253	84	185	490	.238	1.23	1139

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
B. Witt SS	62	244	31	69	26	9	28	48	.283	.356	.467	.823	16	1	20	3	213
M. Garcia 3B	56	224	28	60	21	3	20	35	.268	.325	.384	.709	15	1	4	3	142
V. Pasquantino 1B	59	220	22	47	28	6	29	46	.214	.303	.345	.648	7	2	2	0	137
S. Perez C	59	227	22	47	25	9	12	49	.207	.259	.352	.611	6	0	0	0	119
C. Jensen C	57	181	23	39	26	7	21	62	.215	.296	.376	.672	8	0	0	0	108
J. Caglianone RF	57	189	20	46	14	6	17	64	.243	.316	.397	.713	9	1	2	1	100
I. Collins LF	53	165	21	35	16	3	25	55	.212	.327	.309	.636	7	0	3	3	92
M. Massey 2B	46	124	15	32	19	5	5	27	.258	.280	.452	.732	9	0	1	0	83
K. Isbel CF	52	151	15	36	11	3	8	38	.238	.288	.358	.646	7	1	5	0	82
L. Thomas CF	48	111	10	24	14	2	23	28	.216	.350	.306	.656	4	0	3	3	71
N. Loftin 2B	30	78	13	17	16	1	11	12	.218	.326	.346	.672	7	0	0	0	64
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
S. Marte RF	26	61	4	16	2	0	4	19	.262	.324	.311	.635	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	14	9	3	2	0	0	2	3	.222	.364	.222	.586	0	0	3	1	10
Total	62	2054	238	483	231	58	214	504	.235	.312	.375	.687	101	6	43	15	1294

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	12	12	4-3	0	0	75.1	3.23	58	28	27	8	26	65	.214	1.12	184
S. Lugo SP	12	12	2-4	0	0	71.0	3.55	73	31	28	4	23	60	.269	1.35	136
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	24	0	2-0	1	2	24.1	1.85	16	8	5	1	8	28	.178	0.99	77
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	25	0	0-2	1	1	27.0	4.33	23	14	13	2	14	28	.237	1.37	40
M. Strahm RP	18	0	1-1	0	1	17.1	4.15	15	8	8	4	7	17	.224	1.27	31
J. Schreiber RP	26	0	0-3	1	1	23.1	2.70	20	8	7	3	11	14	.244	1.33	30
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	10
E. Cerantola RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	9.00	3	4	4	2	4	7	.214	1.75	4
S. Cruz RP	14	0	0-2	0	1	14.0	8.36	15	14	13	7	11	20	.268	1.86	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	62	62	24-38	15	27	548.1	4.43	518	288	270	74	245	511	.250	1.39	1040

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