1978 Kansas City Royals
92 - 70
1977 / 1979 (Organization)
1st place in the AL West
Home Record:
Away Record: 		56 - 25 (.691)
36 - 45 (.444)		 +9.6 wins
+1.4 wins
   
Scored/Expected: 743 / 683 ( +60 )
Allowed/Expected: 634 / 688 ( +54 )
Pyth Record: 93 - 69 (-1)
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Royals Stadium
Attendance: 2,255,493 Avg Att: 27,846 (1.53)
Att Rank: 3 / 14 Lg Avg: 18,152
       
Park Factor: 1.01    
HR Factor: 0.90 R/L HR: 0.92 / 0.87
Notes:
- West Division Champions
- Lost to New York Yankees in the ALCS

Batting

Filters
Bats
#
R
H
K
1 Amos Otis
CF
31.2
567
41.6
17.5
67.4
89.8
-7.9
6.0
3.1
11.8
49.9
12.7
30.2
17.9
31.1
1.1
27.1
21.7
23.4
7.1
2 George Brett
3B
25.1
558
20.9
16.1
40.9
26.9
-3.5
20.2
4.0
-0.5
24.8
30.8
8.7
-8.5
13.6
-1.9
13.7
14.4
16.2
4.3
3 Darrell Porter
C
26.5
602
16.0
1.4
30.0
44.8
-11.8
0.1
1.7
7.8
28.6
-4.3
18.7
24.0
20.8
-1.1
20.9
-11.2
-12.8
-3.1
4 Hal McRae
DH
33.0
692
10.8
6.4
26.1
15.1
-4.6
9.8
0.3
3.5
19.7
19.5
1.2
-7.9
1.3
2.5
6.2
5.8
7.1
1.4
5 Clint Hurdle
1B
20.9
481
8.6
0.5
4.7
15.0
-5.9
3.5
1.5
-1.2
4.2
-27.6
10.2
15.2
17.2
-1.5
-4.8
-7.8
-10.1
-1.5
6 Pete LaCock
1B
26.5
347
4.7
10.5
10.4
-11.4
10.2
5.5
-0.5
-0.9
-0.0
13.8
2.9
-8.5
6.4
-1.8
1.5
-5.0
-8.6
0.4
7 Steve Braun
LF
30.1
167
4.2
0.0
-5.0
9.8
-2.4
2.5
-0.2
-2.8
-5.0
3.6
9.8
13.8
12.1
-0.9
16.4
-0.6
-0.7
-0.1
8 Luis Silverio
LF
21.7
14
3.3
3.1
5.7
3.5
0.7
1.4
0.9
-0.3
2.6
-1.4
3.8
0.8
2.9
-0.1
-0.2
0.7
1.5
-0.2
9 Al Cowens
RF
26.7
534
2.0
5.6
0.3
-16.7
7.7
1.4
4.4
-4.7
-5.3
8.8
-4.2
-14.5
0.6
3.3
-8.1
5.1
5.7
1.5
10 Art Kusnyer
C
32.5
15
0.9
-0.4
2.0
3.0
-1.5
0.4
-0.1
0.7
2.4
-2.2
0.1
0.7
0.6
-0.1
-0.9
-0.2
-0.3
0.0
11 Frank White
2B
27.8
501
0.6
5.9
5.6
-19.2
7.1
2.8
2.6
-2.0
-0.3
-0.1
-4.8
-16.7
-2.7
0.4
-16.8
5.0
10.3
-1.4
12 Randy Bass
-
24.3
2
-0.3
-0.5
-0.8
-0.5
-0.3
-0.1
-0.0
-0.0
-0.2
0.2
-0.7
-0.2
-0.6
-0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
13 John Wathan
1B
28.7
203
-0.5
7.1
1.5
-21.4
10.4
1.4
-0.4
-1.7
-5.6
11.9
-1.4
-14.3
-1.5
3.0
-5.7
-1.4
-2.5
0.1
14 Jamie Quirk
3B
23.7
34
-0.7
-1.6
-3.2
0.4
-1.6
0.5
-0.2
-0.6
-1.6
-0.0
-0.1
2.1
1.0
-0.2
2.1
-0.6
-1.0
0.0
15 Jim Gaudet
C
23.1
8
-1.3
-2.1
-3.1
-1.8
-1.3
-0.3
-0.1
-0.1
-1.0
-2.1
-2.6
-0.7
-2.3
-0.0
-2.2
0.0
0.0
0.0
16 Dave Cripe
3B
27.2
13
-1.7
-1.4
-3.0
-3.0
-0.2
-0.6
-0.1
-0.2
-1.6
-0.5
-2.2
-1.1
-1.8
-0.1
-1.4
-0.1
-0.2
0.0
17 Joe Lahoud
DH
31.2
16
-2.2
-2.2
-4.2
-3.6
-0.6
-0.7
-0.1
-0.3
-2.0
0.9
-3.2
-1.4
-2.7
-0.1
-0.7
-0.1
-0.2
0.0
18 U L Washington
SS
24.7
142
-4.2
0.1
-11.9
-9.4
7.7
-4.2
-0.0
-2.5
-12.1
-3.3
-1.8
-2.1
-5.6
-0.7
-4.5
9.3
13.6
0.8
19 Joe Zdeb
LF
25.0
141
-4.3
-1.4
-9.2
-11.0
3.7
-4.0
2.0
-2.5
-7.8
-1.4
-5.5
-5.0
-4.3
-0.7
-6.0
0.7
-0.7
1.1
20 Willie Wilson
LF
23.0
223
-5.4
-9.0
-21.7
16.9
-3.7
-1.8
0.4
-3.9
-12.6
-6.8
-10.3
-3.0
-18.4
0.9
-7.9
42.7
52.6
10.0
21 Freddie Patek
SS
33.7
496
-6.8
-6.6
-30.4
-0.3
0.9
2.0
-2.4
-7.0
-23.8
2.3
-7.2
-0.2
-10.3
-1.6
1.5
29.7
35.7
7.6
22 Tom Poquette
LF
26.7
226
-8.6
-9.6
-10.0
-5.5
-8.1
-1.1
0.4
0.2
-0.4
17.6
-15.3
-5.2
-14.2
-1.2
7.5
-0.9
-2.7
0.8
23 Jerry Terrell
2B
32.0
147
-14.4
-8.0
-23.5
-21.4
1.7
-5.2
-1.0
-2.7
-15.6
4.3
-14.1
-8.5
-20.1
-0.8
-5.4
6.0
8.8
0.5
6129
63.4
31.4
68.6
100.1
-3.4
39.6
16.1
-9.8
37.2
76.6
12.1
-23.1
23.1
-1.6
32.2
113.2
135.1
29.3
 
#
R
H
K
1
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0

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