1979 Kansas City Royals Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

Franchise Encyclopedia: 1978 / 1980

85-77, Finished 2nd in AL West (Schedule and Results)
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Manager: Whitey Herzog (85-77)
Scored 851 runs, Allowed 816 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 84-78

Ballpark: Royals Stadium (ballparks.com) · Attendance: 2,261,845 (4th of 14)
Park Factors Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.
multi-year: Batting - 102, Pitching - 101 · one-year: Batting - 103, Pitching - 103

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1978 / 1980 Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

Team Batting

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Rk	Pos		Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1	C	Darrell Porter*	27	157	679	533	101	155	23	10	20	112	3	4	121	65	.291	.421	.484	.905	142	258	11	8	4	13	8
2	1B	Pete LaCock*	27	132	453	408	54	113	25	4	3	56	2	1	37	26	.277	.334	.380	.714	91	155	16	1	1	6	7
3	2B	Frank White	28	127	503	467	73	124	26	4	10	48	28	8	25	54	.266	.300	.403	.703	87	188	11	1	3	7	3
4	SS	Freddie Patek	34	106	338	306	30	77	17	0	1	37	11	12	16	42	.252	.293	.317	.610	64	97	6	3	10	3	0
5	3B	George Brett*	26	154	701	645	119	212	42	20	23	107	17	10	51	36	.329	.376	.563	.939	148	363	8	0	1	4	14
6	LF	Willie Wilson#	23	154	640	588	113	185	18	13	6	49	83	12	28	92	.315	.351	.420	.771	106	247	1	7	13	4	3
7	CF	Amos Otis	32	151	660	577	100	170	28	2	18	90	30	5	68	92	.295	.369	.444	.813	117	256	12	3	7	5	8
8	RF	Al Cowens	27	136	568	516	69	152	18	7	9	73	10	8	40	44	.295	.345	.409	.753	101	211	12	3	2	7	4
9	DH	Hal McRae	33	101	443	393	55	113	32	4	10	74	5	4	38	46	.288	.351	.466	.816	117	183	6	4	1	7	0
Rk	Pos		Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
10	MI	U L Washington#	25	101	300	268	32	68	12	5	2	25	10	7	20	44	.254	.299	.358	.658	76	96	1	0	6	6	1
11	UT	John Wathan	29	90	216	199	26	41	7	3	2	28	2	1	7	24	.206	.227	.302	.529	41	60	7	0	5	5	1
12	OF	Clint Hurdle*	21	59	204	171	16	41	10	3	3	30	0	1	28	24	.240	.343	.386	.729	96	66	4	1	0	4	4
13	1B	George Scott	35	44	162	146	19	39	8	2	1	20	1	1	12	32	.267	.329	.370	.699	87	54	12	2	1	1	1
14	UT	Steve Braun*	31	58	139	116	15	31	2	0	4	10	0	0	22	11	.267	.384	.388	.772	108	45	2	0	1	0	2
15	SS	Todd Cruz	23	55	126	118	9	24	7	0	2	15	0	1	3	19	.203	.224	.314	.538	43	37	2	1	1	3	0
16	UT	Jamie Quirk*	24	51	85	79	8	24	6	1	1	11	0	0	5	13	.304	.353	.443	.796	112	35	0	1	0	0	0
17	UT	Jerry Terrell	32	31	42	40	5	12	3	0	1	2	1	0	1	1	.300	.317	.450	.767	103	18	2	0	1	0	0
18	OF	Tom Poquette*	27	21	28	26	1	5	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	4	.192	.214	.192	.407	10	5	0	0	0	1	0
19	UT	Jim Nettles*	32	11	26	23	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	2	.087	.192	.087	.279	-22	2	0	0	0	0	0
20	OF	Joe Zdeb	26	15	25	23	3	4	1	1	0	0	1	0	2	4	.174	.240	.304	.544	45	7	1	0	0	0	0
21	C	Jim Gaudet	24	3	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.167	.167	.167	.333	-10	1	0	0	0	0	0
22	UT	German Barranca*	22	5	5	5	3	3	1	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	.600	.600	.800	1.400	272	4	0	0	0	0	0
Rk	Pos		Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
23	P	Marty Pattin	36	0	0	0					0
24	P	Rich Gale	25	0	0	0					0
25	P	George Throop	28	0	0	0					0
26	P	Eduardo Rodriguez	27	0	0	0					0
27	P	Dennis Leonard	28	0	0	0					0
28	P	Renie Martin	23	0	0	0					0
29	P	Craig Eaton	24	0	0	0					0
30	P	Steve Busby	29	0	0	0					0
31	P	Steve Mingori*	35	0	0	0					0
32	P	Al Hrabosky	29	0	0	0					0
33	P	Larry Gura#	31	0	0	0					0
34	P	Craig Chamberlain	22	0	0	0					0
35	P	Bill Paschall	25	0	0	0					0
36	P	Dan Quisenberry	26	0	0	0					0
37	P	Paul Splittorff*	32	0	0	0					0
38	P	Gary Christenson*	26	0	0	0					0
		Team Totals	27.9	162	6349	5653	851	1596	286	79	116	791	207	76	528	675	.282	.343	.422	.766	104	2388	114	35	57	76	56
		Rank in 14 AL teams				1	2	1	4	1	11		1	3	6	10	2	3	4	4		3
Rk	Pos		Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB

* - bats left-handed, # - bats both, else - bats right, ? - unknown; OPS_lg for OPS+ does not include pitchers.

Team Pitching

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Rk	Pos		Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
1	SP	Paul Splittorff*	32	15	17	.469	4.24	36	35	0	11	0	0	240.0	248	137	113	25	77	1	77	5	0	1	1026	101	1.354	9.3	0.9	2.9	2.9	1.00
2	SP	Dennis Leonard	28	14	12	.538	4.08	32	32	0	12	5	0	236.0	226	117	107	33	56	3	126	2	0	8	966	105	1.195	8.6	1.3	2.1	4.8	2.25
3	SP	Larry Gura*	31	13	12	.520	4.47	39	33	1	7	1	0	233.2	226	137	116	29	73	4	85	7	1	5	991	96	1.280	8.7	1.1	2.8	3.3	1.16
4	SP	Rich Gale	25	9	10	.474	5.65	34	31	0	2	1	0	181.2	197	131	114	19	99	4	103	4	0	5	830	76	1.629	9.8	0.9	4.9	5.1	1.04
5	SP	Steve Busby	29	6	6	.500	3.63	22	12	5	4	0	0	94.1	71	45	38	10	64	3	45	0	0	1	405	118	1.431	6.8	1.0	6.1	4.3	0.70
Rk	Pos		Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
6	CL	Al Hrabosky*	29	9	4	.692	3.74	58	0	37	0	0	11	65.0	67	31	27	3	41	10	39	1	0	7	294	114	1.662	9.3	0.4	5.7	5.4	0.95
7	RP	Marty Pattin	36	5	2	.714	4.58	31	7	11	1	0	3	94.1	109	50	48	11	21	2	41	1	0	4	403	93	1.378	10.4	1.0	2.0	3.9	1.95
8	RP	Eduardo Rodriguez	27	4	1	.800	4.84	29	1	13	1	0	2	74.1	79	42	40	9	34	4	26	3	0	4	330	88	1.520	9.6	1.1	4.1	3.1	0.76
9	RP	Steve Mingori*	35	3	3	.500	5.79	30	1	8	0	0	1	46.2	69	36	30	10	17	2	18	1	1	0	223	74	1.843	13.3	1.9	3.3	3.5	1.06
10	RP	Dan Quisenberry	26	3	2	.600	3.15	32	0	21	0	0	5	40.0	42	16	14	5	7	5	13	0	0	1	163	136	1.225	9.5	1.1	1.6	2.9	1.86
Rk	Pos		Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
11		Craig Chamberlain	22	4	4	.500	3.75	10	10	0	4	0	0	69.2	68	31	29	7	18	0	30	1	0	2	287	114	1.234	8.8	0.9	2.3	3.9	1.67
12		Renie Martin	23	0	3	.000	5.19	25	0	11	0	0	5	34.2	32	20	20	1	14	3	25	1	0	2	149	82	1.327	8.3	0.3	3.6	6.5	1.79
13		Bill Paschall	25	0	1	.000	6.59	7	0	5	0	0	0	13.2	18	11	10	2	5	3	3	2	0	0	68	65	1.683	11.9	1.3	3.3	2.0	0.60
14		Gary Christenson*	26	0	0		3.38	6	0	1	0	0	0	10.2	10	5	4	1	2	0	4	0	0	0	43	127	1.125	8.4	0.8	1.7	3.4	2.00
15		Craig Eaton	24	0	0		2.70	5	0	4	0	0	0	10.0	8	3	3	0	3	2	4	0	0	0	41	158	1.100	7.2	0.0	2.7	3.6	1.33
16		George Throop	28	0	0		13.50	4	0	2	0	0	0	2.2	7	4	4	0	5	2	1	0	0	0	20	32	4.500	23.6	0.0	16.9	3.4	0.20
17		Jerry Terrell	32	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3		0.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
		Team Totals	29.0	85	77	.525	4.46	162	162	120	42	7	27	1448.1	1477	816	717	165	536	48	640	28	2	40	6242	96	1.390	9.2	1.0	3.3	4.0	1.19
		Rank in 14 AL teams		6	8		10				7	8	10	1	7	11	10	11	7		10116
Rk	Pos		Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB

* - throws left-handed, # - throws both, else - throws right, ? - unknown

Team Fielding--Totals

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	Age	G	GS	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzrd	Rtzhm	Rof	Rdp	Rctch	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	Pos. Summary
German Barranca	22	3	1	10.0	11	4	7	0	3	1.000	0.6	72.0	0.6	0.0	0.6		0		9.90	3.67						2B-3B-DH
Steve Braun	31	31	14	128.0	29	26	3	0	0	1.000	-0.9	-8.4	-1.9	0.0	-1.9	1			2.04	0.94						LF-3B-DH
George Brett	26	158	153	1338.1	585	176	378	31	34	.947	16.0	14.3	17.0	10.8	6.2		-1		3.73	3.51						3B-1B-DH
Steve Busby	29	22	12	94.1	28	4	24	0	1	1.000									2.67	1.27						P
Craig Chamberlain	22	10	10	69.2	7	5	2	0	0	1.000									0.90	0.70						P
Gary Christenson	26	6	0	10.2	3	2	1	0	1	1.000									2.53	0.50						P
Al Cowens	27	136	132	1170.1	296	288	3	5	0	.983	-11.3	-11.6	-7.3	-5.4	-1.9	-4			2.24	2.14						RF-CF-DH
Todd Cruz	23	57	35	345.1	179	54	118	7	16	.961	6.8	23.6	7.8	0.7	7.2		-1		4.48	3.02						SS-3B
Craig Eaton	24	5	0	10.0	2	1	1	0	1	1.000									1.80	0.40						P
Rich Gale	25	34	31	181.2	38	9	25	4	3	.895									1.68	1.00						P
Jim Gaudet	24	3	1	14.0	13	13	0	0	0	1.000	-1.0	-85.7						-1	8.36	4.33	0	0	3	0	0%	C
Larry Gura	31	39	33	233.2	55	15	38	2	5	.964									2.04	1.36						P
Al Hrabosky	29	58	0	65.0	8	2	4	2	0	.750									0.83	0.10						P
Clint Hurdle	21	55	47	372.0	94	88	3	3	0	.968	-1.4	-4.5	-0.4	-0.8	0.4	-1	0		2.20	1.65						LF-RF-3B-DH
Pete LaCock	27	124	94	816.0	900	829	68	3	79	.997	2.8	4.1	2.8	2.4	0.4		0		9.89	7.23						1B-DH
Dennis Leonard	28	32	32	236.0	52	19	32	1	2	.981									1.94	1.59						P
Renie Martin	23	25	0	34.2	14	5	8	1	0	.929									3.38	0.52						P
Hal McRae	33	100																		0.00						DH
Steve Mingori	35	30	1	46.2	12	6	4	2	0	.833									1.93	0.33						P
Jim Nettles	32	9	6	57.0	20	20	0	0	0	1.000	0.9	18.9	0.9	0.0	0.9	0			3.16	2.22						LF-RF-1B
Amos Otis	32	150	143	1266.1	397	383	11	3	5	.992	-6.6	-6.3	-8.6	-7.0	-1.6	2			2.80	2.63						CF-DH
Bill Paschall	25	7	0	13.2	2	0	2	0	0	1.000									1.32	0.29						P
Freddie Patek	34	104	95	796.2	421	153	249	19	54	.955	-9.5	-14.3	-10.5	-8.4	-2.1		1		4.54	3.87						SS
Marty Pattin	36	31	7	94.1	18	4	13	1	0	.944									1.62	0.55						P
Tom Poquette	27	10	4	47.0	8	7	1	0	1	1.000	-0.5	-12.8	-0.5	-0.2	-0.3	0			1.53	0.80						RF-LF
Darrell Porter	27	156	141	1230.0	709	628	68	13	15	.982	9.0	8.8						9	5.09	4.46	15	38	64	57	47%	C-DH
Jamie Quirk	24	26	4	59.1	26	16	9	1	0	.962	0.6	12.1	0.6	0.2	0.4		0	0	3.79	0.96	0	0	1	0	0%	C-3B-SS-DH
Dan Quisenberry	26	32	0	40.0	11	0	10	1	2	.909									2.25	0.31						P
Eduardo Rodriguez	27	29	1	74.1	9	0	8	1	0	.889									0.97	0.28						P
George Scott	35	44	38	331.1	360	335	21	4	27	.989	1.3	4.7	1.3	1.3	-0.1		0		9.67	8.09						1B-3B-DH
Paul Splittorff	32	36	35	240.0	45	15	27	3	3	.933									1.58	1.17						P
Jerry Terrell	32	29	8	104.0	39	10	28	1	4	.974	0.4	4.6	0.4	0.9	-0.4		0		3.29	1.31						3B-2B-P-SS-DH
George Throop	28	4	0	2.2	0	0	0	0	0										0.00	0.00						P
U L Washington	25	100	72	703.0	435	174	243	18	68	.959	2.3	3.9	0.3	0.2	-0.0		2		5.34	4.17						SS-2B-3B-DH
John Wathan	29	86	43	422.1	363	336	24	3	30	.992	-1.1	-3.1	-1.1	0.5	-1.7	0	0	0	7.67	4.19	0	2	7	2	22%	1B-C-LF-RF-DH
Frank White	28	125	125	1076.1	661	317	332	12	78	.982	0.0	0.0	2.0	-0.2	2.3		-2		5.43	5.19						2B
Willie Wilson	23	162	135	1251.1	406	388	12	6	0	.985	24.6	23.6	21.6	10.7	11.0	3			2.88	2.47						LF-CF-RF-DH
Joe Zdeb	26	9	5	49.0	13	13	0	0	0	1.000	1.7	41.6	1.7	0.9	0.8	0			2.39	1.44						LF-RF
Team Totals	28.0	162	1458	13035.0	6268	4345	1777	146	433	.977	34.7	3.2	26.7	6.6	20.2	1	-1	8	4.23	2.96	15	40	75	59	44%
Rank in 14 AL teams								4	9	10
	Age	G	GS	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzrd	Rtzhm	Rof	Rdp	Rctch	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	Pos. Summary

1978 / 1980 Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

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