It looks like the Royals lost Mike Moustakas for the season:

This time, he has a torn right ACL. Yeah, the basketball injury.

He was placed on the 15-day disabled list, but he won’t be back in 15 days. He won’t be back this season. When hoopsters have the surgery, they’re typically out for roughly a year. Some make it back within nine or 10 months, but for others, like Derrick Rose, it takes longer than a year.

The injury happened Sunday, when Moustakas and outfielder Alex Gordon collided — smashing knees and thighs together — while chasing a foul popup by the White Sox’s Melky Cabrera. At first, it appeared Gordon got the worst of the collision; he went on the DL with a fractured right wrist the next day and is expected to be out about a month.

I don’t know how much this will hurt the Royals, since Moustakas mostly reverted to form this season. He was hitting for power, but his batting average and OBP returned to his career levels after an outlier season in 2015. He’s been an out machine this year with a .301 OBP.