Houston Astros at Kansas City Royals
Lineups
Lineups are usually announced ~90 minutes before first pitch. Check back soon.
Manager comparison
Both managers grade D+ / C entering this matchup.
Bullpen availability
- Available 7
- Limited 0
- Rest required 0
- Inactive 1
- Available 4
- Limited 3
- Rest required 0
- Inactive 1
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Tactical preview
Joe Espada (D+) faces Matt Quatraro (C). Lineup decisions are the largest single category of cost in the RunsLeft model.
Lineups not yet announced. They typically post ~90 minutes before first pitch.
Bullpen availability for both teams is in the section above. Full tactical analysis (manager cost, player execution, counterfactual outcome) will appear here after the game ends.
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How RunsLeft analyzes games
Standard content on this page comes from the MLB Stats API. Tactical analysis comes from a per-game Monte Carlo: 10,000 simulated games against the opposing starter's ERA, both for the actual lineup the manager wrote and for the optimal arrangement of those nine players. The three numbers — manager cost, player execution, game variance — separate which part of the result was the lineup, the players, or the dice.