Rangers vs Royals match player stats | 2025 Monday, August 18th

Rangers vs Royals match player stats | 2025 Monday, August 18th

TEX @ KC

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Rangers @ Royals Matchup Details

Teams : Texas Rangers at Kansas City Royals
Series :
Date : Todays Game is on Monday, August 18th
Time : 18/08/25 19:40:00 PM EST First Pitch

Positives for the Texas Rangers Game Today

Michael Wacha has experienced some negative variance in regards to his strikeouts this year, compiling a 6.64 K/9 despite the leading projection system (THE BAT) estimating his true talent level to be 7.68,— a 1.05 K/9 discrepancy.

Negatives with the Kansas City Royals Game Today

Built 886 feet above sea level, Kauffman Stadium has the 4th-highest elevation among all parks, which generally leads to better offense.

A correlation exists between high heat and more offense (and fewer whiffs), and this game is expected to have the hottest weather of all games on the slate at 93°.

In his last start, Michael Wacha struggled when it came to striking hitters out and only managed to tally 2 Ks.

Michael Wacha’s 92.5-mph velocity on his fastball this year is a sizeable 1.1-mph fall off from last year’s 93.6-mph figure.

Michael Wacha’s change-up utilization has fallen by 6% from last season to this one (32.3% to 26.3%) .

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