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PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Justin Verlander	Hamstring	07-07-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 8
Javier Baez	Ankle	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Burch Smith	Shoulder	07-20-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 21
Jack Flaherty	Ankle	06-27-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 28
Gleyber Torres	Oblique	07-06-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 7
Wenceel Perez	Orbital	07-06-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 7
Parker Meadows	Arm	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17
Reese Olson	Shoulder	02-28-2027Expected to be out until at least Mar 1
Jackson Jobe	Elbow	08-14-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 15
Trey Sweeney	Shoulder	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Brant Hurter	Back	07-22-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 23
Bailey Horn	Elbow	06-30-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 1

PLAYERS	INJURY	EXPECTED RETURN
Carlos Estevez	Shoulder	06-30-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 1
Cole Ragans	Elbow	08-03-2026Expected to be out until at least Aug 4
Maikel Garcia	Hand	07-03-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 4
Kris Bubic	Elbow	07-05-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 6
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
Bobby Witt	Knee	06-25-2026Probable for Jun 26
Alec Marsh	Shoulder	01-31-2027Expected to be out until at least Feb 1
Nick Mears	Shoulder	06-27-2026Expected to be out until at least Jun 28
Vinnie Pasquantino	Hand	07-16-2026Expected to be out until at least Jul 17

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Tigers DET-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Royals KC-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
K. McGonigle SS	78	294	47	83	28	6	48	46	.282	.387	.425	.812	18	3	9	0	245
D. Dingler C	74	276	42	74	57	19	23	65	.268	.336	.543	.879	15	2	0	0	245
R. Greene LF	81	291	40	85	34	9	44	92	.292	.386	.440	.826	16	0	1	1	203
S. Torkelson 1B	80	268	30	56	31	12	35	101	.209	.307	.407	.714	17	0	0	1	157
C. Keith 3B	73	215	28	54	17	4	11	45	.251	.296	.363	.659	8	2	4	0	122
G. Torres 2B	43	157	26	44	18	4	29	33	.280	.395	.395	.790	6	0	0	0	120
M. Vierling CF	68	198	17	40	27	5	17	36	.202	.260	.343	.603	11	1	2	2	113
K. Carpenter RF	58	160	18	35	29	10	15	56	.219	.297	.456	.753	4	2	0	0	111
W. Perez RF	53	161	22	29	17	7	14	29	.180	.246	.348	.594	4	1	3	1	99
Z. McKinstry 2B	56	162	11	29	12	2	20	35	.179	.266	.265	.531	4	2	1	3	67
H. Lee 2B	43	115	8	29	10	2	5	34	.252	.283	.365	.648	5	1	1	1	49
J. Baez SS	24	78	10	20	6	2	2	16	.256	.280	.397	.677	5	0	1	1	43
J. Outman CF	10	19	2	3	2	1	2	12	.158	.238	.316	.554	0	0	1	0	33
J. Rogers C	26	67	6	10	6	1	7	25	.149	.234	.254	.488	2	1	1	0	26
J. Jones DH	53	91	7	13	7	2	9	32	.143	.220	.231	.451	2	0	0	2	26
P. Meadows CF	12	36	3	9	2	0	2	10	.250	.308	.333	.641	1	1	3	0	21
G. Workman 3B	16	38	3	6	5	2	0	16	.158	.158	.395	.553	3	0	0	0	15
J. Jung DH	3	6	1	1	0	0	2	1	.167	.375	.167	.542	0	0	0	0	3
B. Malgeri RF	2	6	1	2	1	0	0	3	.333	.286	.333	.619	0	0	0	0	2
T. Cruz RF	2	5	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	-1
Total	81	2679	325	628	311	88	292	702	.234	.313	.391	.704	123	16	27	12	1699

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
F. Valdez SP	16	16	4-5	0	0	89.2	3.91	85	44	39	9	34	75	.245	1.33	170
K. Montero SP	15	14	3-5	0	0	80.2	3.68	64	35	33	9	17	53	.213	1.00	166
T. Skubal SP	10	10	3-4	0	0	59.2	3.32	51	24	22	8	8	66	.230	0.99	145
C. Mize SP	11	11	2-5	0	0	58.0	2.95	48	19	19	4	14	58	.224	1.07	125
T. Melton SP	6	6	4-1	0	0	37.2	2.39	23	10	10	7	9	25	.173	0.85	116
D. Anderson RP	28	2	3-3	2	4	49.0	4.04	43	24	22	7	19	63	.231	1.27	112
K. Jansen RP	22	0	1-3	9	13	19.0	4.26	12	9	9	4	10	22	.179	1.16	92
K. Finnegan RP	36	0	2-0	1	5	38.0	1.89	31	8	8	2	24	27	.233	1.45	85
B. Hurter RP	21	0	4-1	0	0	25.1	2.84	15	9	8	1	12	18	.174	1.07	72
E. De Jesus RP	21	0	2-0	1	1	29.2	4.25	27	17	14	1	12	29	.239	1.31	71
J. Flaherty SP	15	15	1-8	0	0	65.2	5.35	69	47	39	8	34	78	.264	1.57	59
W. Vest RP	26	0	3-4	2	6	25.2	5.61	24	19	16	2	10	25	.253	1.32	52
T. Holton RP	35	2	1-4	0	1	37.0	3.41	42	16	14	4	9	33	.290	1.38	47
T. Madden RP	7	1	0-0	0	0	20.0	3.15	16	7	7	2	5	23	.211	1.05	42
J. Rogers C	2	0	0-0	0	0	1.1	0.00	2	0	0	0	0	1	.333	1.50	26
B. Smith RP	13	1	0-2	0	0	17.0	3.18	18	8	6	2	7	20	.277	1.47	20
B. Hanifee RP	14	2	0-0	0	0	13.2	3.29	15	5	5	2	4	6	.283	1.39	19
D. Sommers RP	10	0	0-0	0	0	6.2	0.00	4	0	0	0	3	10	.174	1.05	17
J. Waguespack RP	4	0	0-0	0	0	6.0	3.00	3	2	2	2	1	5	.143	0.67	13
B. Brieske RP	4	0	0-0	0	0	4.1	12.46	6	6	6	2	4	4	.353	2.31	-1
J. Verlander SP	1	1	0-1	0	0	3.2	12.27	6	5	5	1	2	1	.353	2.18	-6
R. Vanasco RP	5	0	0-1	0	1	6.1	15.63	14	12	11	2	6	4	.412	3.16	-15
Total	81	81	34-47	15	31	709.2	3.80	635	332	300	81	249	660	.237	1.25	1427

HITTING	G	AB	R	H	RBI	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	2B	3B	SB	CS	FPTS
B. Witt SS	76	299	40	88	32	10	35	57	.294	.368	.465	.833	19	1	28	4	270
J. Caglianone RF	76	261	39	70	30	14	24	87	.268	.339	.483	.822	12	1	3	1	184
C. Jensen C	75	254	39	62	42	11	27	76	.244	.314	.437	.751	16	0	1	0	184
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	76	298	29	60	30	10	12	61	.201	.244	.332	.576	9	0	0	0	145
I. Collins LF	72	227	28	51	23	3	33	65	.225	.333	.313	.646	11	0	4	4	131
M. Massey 2B	63	184	24	49	27	7	7	32	.266	.289	.457	.746	14	0	2	0	130
N. Loftin 3B	46	133	21	33	24	3	17	20	.248	.344	.421	.765	12	1	1	0	114
L. Thomas CF	67	173	19	38	22	5	29	43	.220	.335	.347	.682	7	0	3	3	113
K. Isbel CF	56	164	16	40	11	3	10	41	.244	.298	.354	.652	7	1	5	0	87
S. Marte RF	36	88	9	23	7	1	7	26	.261	.323	.341	.664	4	0	0	1	41
J. India 2B	17	48	8	8	8	2	8	13	.167	.310	.313	.623	1	0	0	0	34
T. Tolbert SS	25	29	9	7	1	0	4	10	.241	.324	.241	.565	0	0	5	2	24
J. Rave RF	7	13	3	4	1	1	3	5	.308	.438	.846	1.284	2	1	0	0	15
J. Rojas 2B	5	10	2	3	4	1	0	1	.300	.300	.700	1.000	1	0	0	0	12
K. Misner CF	11	28	1	8	4	0	1	12	.286	.310	.321	.631	1	0	2	1	12
Total	82	2753	350	676	333	82	274	650	.246	.318	.394	.712	145	9	62	19	1828

PITCHING	GP	GS	W-L	SV	SVO	IP	ERA	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BAA	WHIP	FPTS
M. Wacha SP	16	16	5-5	0	0	101.0	3.48	88	41	39	10	29	77	.236	1.16	224
S. Lugo SP	16	16	3-5	0	0	90.1	4.18	94	46	42	10	30	69	.272	1.37	161
N. Cameron SP	15	15	4-5	0	0	80.0	4.50	84	45	40	8	22	75	.263	1.33	147
L. Erceg RP	31	0	3-3	12	18	29.2	5.16	34	19	17	2	19	25	.296	1.79	119
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	33	0	2-1	1	3	33.0	2.45	20	12	9	2	11	30	.168	0.94	88
A. Lange RP	33	0	0-4	6	6	35.0	3.86	29	17	15	2	19	36	.228	1.37	78
L. Avila RP	15	6	3-3	0	0	42.2	5.06	42	24	24	4	27	39	.268	1.62	59
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	34	0	0-3	1	2	31.2	2.56	24	10	9	5	12	24	.220	1.14	53
M. Strahm RP	28	0	3-1	0	3	25.2	5.96	25	17	17	8	10	20	.248	1.36	49
C. Seabold RP	4	0	0-0	0	0	4.1	8.31	7	4	4	0	2	5	.350	2.08	33
S. Cruz RP	21	0	1-2	0	1	23.0	6.26	23	17	16	8	13	30	.256	1.57	29
N. Mears RP	21	0	2-3	0	2	19.1	5.12	18	11	11	2	11	15	.257	1.50	24
T. Tolbert SS	3	0	0-0	0	0	2.2	23.63	10	7	7	2	1	0	.588	4.13	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
B. Way RP	8	0	0-0	0	0	11.1	3.97	11	5	5	2	6	11	.250	1.50	17
E. Cerantola RP	3	0	0-0	0	0	4.0	9.00	3	4	4	2	4	7	.214	1.75	4
M. Spence SP	2	1	0-1	0	0	8.0	13.50	11	12	12	1	6	4	.324	2.13	-8
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	82	82	34-48	21	37	724.1	4.66	707	399	375	102	309	633	.256	1.40	1387

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