1978 Kansas City Royals Pitching Statistics

1977 Season 1979 Season

Record: 92-70-0, Finished 1st in AL_West (Schedule and Results)

Postseason: Lost AL Championship Series (3-1) to New York Yankees

Manager: Whitey Herzog (92-70)

General Manager: Joe Burke

Scouting Director: John Schuerholz

Ballpark: Royals Stadium

Attendance: 2,255,493 (3rd of 14)

Park Factors: (Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.)
Multi-year: Batting - 102, Pitching - 101
One-year: Batting - 104, Pitching - 102

Pythagorean W-L: 93-69, 743 Runs, 634 Runs Allowed

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Rk	Pos	Name	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+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W
1	SP	Dennis Leonard	27	21	17	.553	3.33	40	40	0	20	4	0	294.2	283	125	109	27	78	7	183	9	0	12	1218	115	3.42	1.225	8.6	0.8	2.4	5.6	2.35
2	SP	Paul Splittorff*	31	19	13	.594	3.40	39	38	0	13	2	0	262.0	244	113	99	22	60	2	76	3	0	3	1069	112	3.82	1.160	8.4	0.8	2.1	2.6	1.27
3	SP	Larry Gura*	30	16	4	.800	2.72	35	26	1	8	2	0	221.2	183	73	67	13	60	3	81	4	1	1	890	141	3.48	1.096	7.4	0.5	2.4	3.3	1.35
4	SP	Rich Gale	24	14	8	.636	3.09	31	30	0	9	3	0	192.1	171	78	66	10	100	3	88	3	0	5	821	124	3.95	1.409	8.0	0.5	4.7	4.1	0.88
Rk	Pos	Name	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+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W
5	CL	Al Hrabosky*	28	8	7	.533	2.88	58	0	47	0	0	20	75.0	52	24	24	6	35	2	60	1	1	2	308	133	3.47	1.160	6.2	0.7	4.2	7.2	1.71
6	RP	Doug Bird	28	6	6	.500	5.29	40	6	13	0	0	1	98.2	110	63	58	8	31	5	48	2	2	9	434	72	3.67	1.429	10.0	0.7	2.8	4.4	1.55
7	RP	Marty Pattin	35	3	3	.500	3.32	32	5	12	2	0	4	78.2	72	41	29	8	25	7	30	2	0	1	326	116	4.17	1.233	8.2	0.9	2.9	3.4	1.20
8	RP	Steve Mingori*	34	1	4	.200	2.74	45	0	21	0	0	7	69.0	64	25	21	5	16	4	28	3	0	1	289	140	3.54	1.159	8.3	0.7	2.1	3.7	1.75
9	RP	Randy McGilberry	24	0	1	.000	4.21	18	0	9	0	0	0	25.2	27	16	12	2	18	1	12	0	0	0	120	92	4.77	1.753	9.5	0.7	6.3	4.2	0.67
Rk	Pos	Name	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+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W
10		Andy Hassler*	26	1	4	.200	4.32	11	9	1	1	0	0	58.1	76	36	28	1	24	0	26	2	1	3	270	89	3.25	1.714	11.7	0.2	3.7	4.0	1.08
11		Jim Colborn	32	1	2	.333	4.76	8	3	1	0	0	0	28.1	31	18	15	4	12	1	8	2	0	0	128	81	5.34	1.518	9.8	1.3	3.8	2.5	0.67
12		Steve Busby	28	1	0	1.000	7.59	7	5	1	0	0	0	21.1	24	18	18	2	15	1	10	2	1	0	104	51	5.26	1.828	10.1	0.8	6.3	4.2	0.67
13		Bill Paschall	24	0	1	.000	3.38	2	0	1	0	0	1	8.0	6	3	3	0	0	0	5	1	0	0	31	119	1.71	0.750	6.8	0.0	0.0	5.6
14		George Throop	27	1	0	1.000	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	3.0	2	0	0	0	3	0	2	0	0	0	13		4.25	1.667	6.0	0.0	9.0	6.0	0.67
15		Steve Foucault	28	0	0		3.86	3	0	2	0	0	0	2.1	5	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	13	116	3.87	2.571	19.3	0.0	3.9	0.0	0.00
		Team Totals	28.7	92	70	.568	3.44	162	162	109	53	11	33	1439.0	1350	634	550	108	478	37	657	34	6	37	6034	111	3.71	1.270	8.4	0.7	3.0	4.1	1.37
		Rank in 14 AL teams		4	11		3				6	5	2	7	3	4	3	5	4		12
Rk	Pos	Name	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+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W