2007 Kansas City Royals Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

Franchise Encyclopedia: 2006 / 2008

69-93, Finished 5th in AL Central (Schedule and Results)
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Manager: Buddy Bell (69-93)
Scored 706 runs, Allowed 778 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 74-88

Ballpark: Kauffman Stadium (ballparks.com) · Attendance: 1,616,867 (13th of 14)
Park Factors Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.
multi-year: Batting - 100, Pitching - 101 · one-year: Batting - 100, Pitching - 101

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2006 / 2008 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	John Buck	26	113	399	347	41	77	18	0	18	48	0	1	36	92	.222	.308	.429	.738	92	149	11	10	0	6	0
2	1B	Ross Gload*	31	102	346	320	37	92	22	3	7	51	2	2	16	39	.288	.318	.441	.759	98	141	13	2	0	8	2
3	2B	Mark Grudzielanek	37	116	486	453	70	137	32	3	6	51	1	2	23	60	.302	.346	.426	.772	103	193	14	8	0	2	2
4	SS	Tony Pena	26	152	536	509	58	136	25	7	2	47	5	6	10	78	.267	.284	.356	.640	68	181	13	4	8	5	0
5	3B	Alex Gordon*	23	151	600	543	60	134	36	4	15	60	14	4	41	137	.247	.314	.411	.725	90	223	12	13	1	2	4
6	LF	Emil Brown	32	113	397	366	44	94	13	1	6	62	12	2	24	71	.257	.300	.347	.647	70	127	7	1	0	6	2
7	CF	David DeJesus*	27	157	703	605	101	157	29	9	7	58	10	4	64	83	.260	.351	.372	.722	91	225	10	23	7	4	7
8	RF	Mark Teahen*	25	144	608	544	78	155	31	8	7	60	13	5	55	127	.285	.353	.410	.763	101	223	23	3	4	2	8
9	DH	Billy Butler	21	92	360	329	38	96	23	2	8	52	0	0	27	55	.292	.347	.447	.794	108	147	8	2	0	2	5
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	IF	Esteban German	29	121	405	348	49	92	15	6	4	37	11	7	43	60	.264	.351	.376	.727	93	131	11	5	6	3	0
11	DH	Mike Sweeney	33	74	289	265	26	69	15	1	7	38	0	0	17	29	.260	.315	.404	.719	88	107	9	5	0	2	4
12	LF	Joey Gathright*	26	74	261	228	28	70	8	0	0	19	9	8	20	36	.307	.371	.342	.713	90	78	2	3	10	0	0
13	C	Jason LaRue	33	66	195	169	14	25	9	0	4	13	1	0	17	66	.148	.240	.272	.512	35	46	6	4	3	2	0
14	1B	Ryan Shealy	27	52	189	172	18	38	6	0	3	21	0	0	13	53	.221	.286	.308	.594	57	53	4	3	0	1	0
15	UT	Shane Costa*	25	55	109	103	13	23	6	1	0	12	0	1	5	23	.223	.257	.301	.558	47	31	2	0	0	1	0
16	MI	Jason Smith*	29	40	89	85	9	16	2	1	6	14	0	0	3	29	.188	.213	.447	.661	69	38	2	0	0	1	0
17	UT	Reggie Sanders	39	24	85	73	12	23	7	0	2	11	0	1	11	15	.315	.412	.493	.905	138	36	2	1	0	0	0
18	2B	Fernando Cortez*	25	8	16	14	3	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	.286	.333	.357	.690	83	5	0	0	1	0	0
19	UT	Paul Phillips	30	8	15	14	2	2	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	1	.143	.200	.214	.414	10	3	1	0	0	0	0
20	IF	Angel Berroa	29	9	13	11	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	4	.091	.167	.091	.258	-29	1	1	1	1	0	0
21	UT	Justin Huber	24	8	10	10	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.100	.100	.100	.200	-47	1	0	0	0	0	0
22	1B	Craig Brazell*	27	5	5	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.250	.400	.250	.650	77	1	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	Jorge de la Rosa*	26	3	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
24	P	Odalis Perez*	30	2	5	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.200	.200	.200	.400	6	1	0	0	0	0	0
25	P	Brian Bannister	26	2	4	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.500	.333	.833	126	1	0	1	0	0	0
26	P	Gil Meche	28	2	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
27	P	Scott Elarton	31	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
28	P	Joel Peralta	31	5	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	2.000	3.000	668	2	0	0	0	0	0
29	P	Neal Musser*	26	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
30	P	Brandon Duckworth#	31	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	432	1	0	0	0	0	0
31	P	Zack Greinke	23	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
32	P	Octavio Dotel	33	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
33	P	Ryan Braun	26	0	0	0					0
34	P	Joakim Soria	23	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
35	P	David Riske	30	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
36	P	Luke Hudson	30	0	0	0					0
37	P	Leo Nunez	23	0	0	0					0
38	P	John Bale*	33	0	0	0					0
39	P	Kyle Davies	23	0	0	0					0
40	P	Jason Standridge	28	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
41	P	Todd Wellemeyer	28	0	0	0					0
42	P	Jimmy Gobble*	25	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
43	P	John Thomson	33	0	0	0					0
44	P	Luke Hochevar	23	0	0	0					0
45	P	Billy Buckner	23	0	0	0					0
		Team Totals	28.0	162	6139	5534	706	1447	300	46	102	660	78	44	428	1069	.261	.322	.388	.710	87	2145	151	89	41	47	34
		Rank in 14 AL teams				12	13	11	8	2	14		10	4	13	6	11	13	14	14		14		1		8
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	Gil Meche	28	9	13	.409	3.67	34	34	0	1	0	0	216.0	218	98	88	22	62	2	156	3	0	3	906	124	1.296	9.1	0.9	2.6	6.5	2.52
2	SP	Brian Bannister	26	12	9	.571	3.87	27	27	0	1	0	0	165.0	156	76	71	15	44	1	77	6	0	4	683	118	1.212	8.5	0.8	2.4	4.2	1.75
3	SP	Odalis Perez*	30	8	11	.421	5.57	26	26	0	0	0	0	137.1	178	90	85	14	50	5	64	4	0	3	626	82	1.660	11.7	0.9	3.3	4.2	1.28
4	SP	Jorge de la Rosa*	26	8	12	.400	5.82	26	23	1	0	0	0	130.0	160	88	84	20	53	6	82	3	1	4	589	78	1.638	11.1	1.4	3.7	5.7	1.55
5	SP	Kyle Davies	23	3	7	.300	6.66	11	11	0	0	0	0	50.0	63	41	37	10	26	1	40	3	0	7	239	68	1.780	11.3	1.8	4.7	7.2	1.54
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	Joakim Soria	23	2	3	.400	2.48	62	0	37	0	0	17	69.0	46	20	19	3	19	3	75	1	0	2	270	184	0.942	6.0	0.4	2.5	9.8	3.95
7	RP	Zack Greinke	23	7	7	.500	3.69	52	14	7	0	0	1	122.0	122	52	50	12	36	5	106	3	1	3	507	124	1.295	9.0	0.9	2.7	7.8	2.94
8	RP	Joel Peralta	31	1	3	.250	3.80	62	0	18	0	0	1	87.2	93	39	37	9	19	5	66	2	0	2	366	120	1.278	9.5	0.9	2.0	6.8	3.47
9	RP	David Riske	30	1	4	.200	2.45	65	0	27	0	0	4	69.2	61	19	19	8	27	4	52	1	0	0	289	186	1.263	7.9	1.0	3.5	6.7	1.93
10	RP	Jimmy Gobble*	25	4	1	.800	3.02	74	0	12	0	0	1	53.2	56	23	18	6	23	6	50	2	1	6	233	151	1.472	9.4	1.0	3.9	8.4	2.17
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		Brandon Duckworth	31	3	5	.375	4.63	26	3	6	0	0	1	46.2	51	30	24	3	23	2	21	1	0	7	211	99	1.586	9.8	0.6	4.4	4.1	0.91
12		Leo Nunez	23	2	4	.333	3.92	13	6	2	0	0	0	43.2	44	21	19	8	10	0	37	0	0	1	182	116	1.237	9.1	1.6	2.1	7.6	3.70
13		John Bale*	33	1	1	.500	4.05	26	0	5	0	0	0	40.0	45	18	18	1	17	2	42	1	0	2	179	113	1.550	10.1	0.2	3.8	9.5	2.47
14		Ryan Braun	26	2	0	1.000	6.64	26	0	10	0	0	0	39.1	46	32	29	4	22	1	24	0	0	3	183	69	1.729	10.5	0.9	5.0	5.5	1.09
15		Scott Elarton	31	2	4	.333	10.46	9	9	0	0	0	0	37.0	53	44	43	12	21	0	13	3	0	2	185	44	2.000	12.9	2.9	5.1	3.2	0.62
16		Billy Buckner	23	1	2	.333	5.29	7	5	1	0	0	0	34.0	37	20	20	5	16	0	17	0	0	0	143	86	1.559	9.8	1.3	4.2	4.5	1.06
17		Neal Musser*	26	0	1	.000	4.38	17	0	3	0	0	0	24.2	32	13	12	5	14	3	19	0	0	2	116	104	1.865	11.7	1.8	5.1	6.9	1.36
18		Octavio Dotel	33	2	1	.667	3.91	24	0	22	0	0	11	23.0	24	11	10	3	11	4	29	4	0	2	108	117	1.522	9.4	1.2	4.3	11.3	2.64
19		Todd Wellemeyer	28	0	1	.000	10.34	12	0	5	0	0	0	15.2	25	19	18	4	11	2	9	1	0	2	84	44	2.298	14.4	2.3	6.3	5.2	0.82
20		Luke Hochevar	23	0	1	.000	2.13	4	1	1	0	0	0	12.2	11	4	3	1	4	0	5	3	0	1	54	214	1.184	7.8	0.7	2.8	3.6	1.25
21		John Thomson	33	1	1	.500	3.38	2	2	0	0	0	0	10.2	13	5	4	0	3	0	3	0	1	0	46	135	1.500	11.0	0.0	2.5	2.5	1.00
22		Jason Standridge	28	0	1	.000	8.22	4	0	2	0	0	0	7.2	11	10	7	2	5	2	6	0	0	0	41	55	2.087	12.9	2.3	5.9	7.0	1.20
23		Luke Hudson	30	0	1	.000	18.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	2.0	2	5	4	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	13	25	3.000	9.0	4.5	18.0	0.0	0.00
		Team Totals	27.1	69	93	.426	4.50	162	162	159	2	0	36	1437.1	1547	778	719	168	520	54	993	41	4	56	6253	101	1.438	9.7	1.1	3.3	6.2	1.91
		Rank in 14 AL teams		12	2		7				10	11	10	9	11	8	7	10	7		14891
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
John Bale	33	26	0	40.0	9	1	8	0	1	1.000									2.02	0.35						P
Brian Bannister	26	27	27	165.0	33	12	21	0	1	1.000									1.80	1.22						P
Angel Berroa	29	6	2	26.0	15	4	11	0	6	1.000	2.0	92.3	1.0	0.7	0.3		1		5.19	2.50						SS-2B-3B
Ryan Braun	26	26	0	39.1	8	1	7	0	0	1.000									1.83	0.31						P
Craig Brazell	27	1	0	3.0	7	7	0	0	2	1.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0		0		21.00	7.00						1B
Emil Brown	32	106	83	757.0	211	197	8	6	2	.972	10.7	17.0	9.7	6.1	3.6	1			2.44	1.93						LF-RF-DH
John Buck	26	112	104	924.1	734	697	29	8	6	.989	-1.0	-1.3						-1	7.07	6.48	3	31	44	12	21%	C
Billy Buckner	23	7	5	34.0	4	1	3	0	2	1.000									1.06	0.57						P
Billy Butler	21	88	16	126.0	94	83	8	3	6	.968	-2.6	-24.8	-2.6	0.6	-3.2	0	0		6.50	1.03						1B-LF-DH
Fernando Cortez	25	6	3	33.0	24	12	11	1	4	.958	-1.2	-43.6	-1.2	-0.8	-0.4		0		6.27	3.83						2B
Shane Costa	25	31	18	171.0	55	54	0	1	0	.982	3.2	22.5	4.2	3.3	0.9	-1			2.84	1.74						LF-RF-DH
Kyle Davies	23	11	11	50.0	3	1	2	0	0	1.000									0.54	0.27						P
David DeJesus	27	156	153	1351.1	410	401	5	4	0	.990	8.5	7.5	10.5	12.2	-1.7	-2			2.70	2.60						CF
Octavio Dotel	33	24	0	23.0	2	1	1	0	0	1.000									0.78	0.08						P
Brandon Duckworth	31	26	3	46.2	13	7	6	0	1	1.000									2.51	0.50						P
Scott Elarton	31	9	9	37.0	3	1	2	0	1	1.000									0.73	0.33						P
Joey Gathright	26	74	64	575.1	177	170	3	4	0	.977	1.4	2.9	3.4	2.5	0.9	-2			2.71	2.34						LF-CF
Esteban German	29	116	83	741.2	271	105	157	9	33	.967	-7.2	-11.6	-7.2	-3.0	-4.2	0	0		3.18	2.26						2B-3B-LF-SS-DH
Ross Gload	31	99	81	729.1	682	633	46	3	78	.996	-4.6	-7.6	-5.6	-1.1	-4.5	0	1		8.38	6.86						1B-LF-DH
Jimmy Gobble	25	74	0	53.2	12	2	9	1	2	.917									1.84	0.15						P
Alex Gordon	23	170	145	1295.0	504	233	256	15	38	.970	-0.1	-0.1	-0.1	6.2	-6.3		0		3.40	2.88						3B-1B-SS
Zack Greinke	23	52	14	122.0	18	11	7	0	0	1.000									1.33	0.35						P
Mark Grudzielanek	37	119	110	951.1	493	185	302	6	68	.988	5.8	7.3	4.8	2.9	1.9		1		4.61	4.09						2B-SS
Luke Hochevar	23	4	1	12.2	5	1	4	0	1	1.000									3.55	1.25						P
Justin Huber	24	4	2	18.0	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0			1.00	0.50						LF-DH
Luke Hudson	30	1	1	2.0	0	0	0	0	0										0.00	0.00						P
Jason LaRue	33	66	55	480.1	341	311	25	5	3	.985	0.7	1.7	-0.3	-0.3	0.0		0	1	6.30	5.09	2	22	26	14	35%	C-3B
Gil Meche	28	34	34	216.0	40	15	22	3	5	.925									1.54	1.09						P
Neal Musser	26	17	0	24.2	0	0	0	0	0										0.00	0.00						P
Leo Nunez	23	13	6	43.2	2	2	0	0	0	1.000									0.41	0.15						P
Tony Pena	26	151	145	1279.2	674	210	441	23	99	.966	7.7	7.2	6.7	-4.6	11.3		1		4.58	4.31						SS-2B
Joel Peralta	31	62	0	87.2	11	4	7	0	1	1.000									1.13	0.18						P
Odalis Perez	30	26	26	137.1	24	7	17	0	0	1.000									1.57	0.92						P
Paul Phillips	30	8	3	39.2	32	31	1	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0		0	0	7.26	4.00	0	3	0	0		C-1B
David Riske	30	65	0	69.2	16	5	11	0	2	1.000									2.07	0.25						P
Jorge de la Rosa	26	26	23	130.0	17	3	13	1	1	.941									1.11	0.62						P
Reggie Sanders	39	23	15	120.0	38	38	0	0	0	1.000	0.3	3.0	0.3	0.7	-0.4	0			2.85	1.65						RF-LF-DH
Ryan Shealy	27	52	49	421.0	431	402	29	0	37	1.000	2.5	7.1	2.5	3.2	-0.7		0		9.21	8.29						1B
Jason Smith	29	34	20	186.2	99	44	50	5	12	.949	-2.8	-18.0	-2.8	-3.2	0.4		0		4.53	2.76						SS-2B-3B-1B
Joakim Soria	23	62	0	69.0	14	4	9	1	0	.929									1.70	0.21						P
Jason Standridge	28	4	0	7.2	1	0	1	0	0	1.000									1.17	0.25						P
Mike Sweeney	33	70	6	39.1	43	40	2	1	5	.977	-0.3	-9.2	-0.3	0.5	-0.8		0		9.61	0.60						1B-DH
Mark Teahen	25	151	139	1229.2	394	371	17	6	11	.985	-14.6	-14.2	-16.6	-3.6	-13.0	2	0		2.84	2.57						RF-1B-CF
John Thomson	33	2	2	10.2	2	1	1	0	0	1.000									1.69	1.00						P
Todd Wellemeyer	28	12	0	15.2	3	2	1	0	0	1.000									1.72	0.25						P
Team Totals	27.8	162	1458	12936.0	5971	4312	1553	106	428	.982	8.4	0.8	6.4	22.3	-15.9	-2	4	0	4.08	2.60	5	56	70	26	27%
Rank in 14 AL teams								4	7	11
	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

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