1971 Kansas City Royals Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 85-76
Finished 2nd in the AL's West Division
Attendance: 910,784, Avg. 12,650
Ballpark: Municipal Stadium II
Manager: Bob Lemon (85-76)
Location: Kansas City, Kansas

1971 Kansas City Royals Roster
1971 Kansas City Royals Results

The Kansas City Royals of the American League ended the 1971 season with a record of 85 wins and 76 losses, finishing second in the AL's West Division.

The Royals scored 603 runs and yielded 566 runs. Amos Otis led Kansas City with 15 home runs and recorded 79 runs batted in, while leading all regular batters by connecting at a .301 clip. Dick Drago topped the team with 17 wins, plus Mike Hedlund, too added 15 or more wins, too Paul Splittorff registered a 2.68 earned run average, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Bob Lemon coached the team.

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Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Dick Drago	17	11	.607	2.98	35	34	0	15	4	0	241.3	251	84	80	14	46	1	109	9	0	4	977
Mike Hedlund	15	8	.652	2.71	32	30	1	7	1	0	205.7	168	68	62	15	72	1	76	1	0	2	833
Tom Burgmeier	9	7	.563	1.73	67	0	34	0	0	17	88.3	71	23	17	3	30	4	44	7	0	2	364
Bruce Dal Canton	8	6	.571	3.44	25	22	1	2	0	0	141.3	144	63	54	8	44	0	58	0	0	3	603
Paul Splittorff	8	9	.471	2.68	22	22	0	6	3	0	144.3	129	49	43	4	35	1	80	4	0	1	583
Al Fitzmorris	7	5	.583	4.17	36	15	6	2	1	0	127.3	112	61	59	6	55	2	53	1	1	15	527
Jim York	5	5	.500	2.89	53	0	21	0	0	3	93.3	70	32	30	7	44	7	103	3	0	4	399
Ted Abernathy	4	6	.400	2.56	63	0	46	0	0	23	81.0	60	28	23	3	50	4	55	6	0	1	348
Monty Montgomery	3	0	1.000	2.11	3	2	1	0	0	0	21.3	16	5	5	0	3	0	12	0	0	0	82
Ken Wright	3	6	.333	3.69	21	12	3	1	1	1	78.0	66	34	32	6	47	0	56	3	0	3	344
Wally Bunker	2	3	.400	5.01	7	6	1	0	0	0	32.3	35	19	18	7	6	0	15	0	0	0	136
Jim Rooker	2	7	.222	5.33	20	7	3	1	1	0	54.0	59	35	32	2	24	1	31	1	0	4	240
Lance Clemons	1	0	1.000	4.13	10	3	2	0	0	0	24.0	26	16	11	2	12	0	20	1	0	2	114
Bill Butler	1	2	.333	3.45	14	6	3	0	0	0	44.3	45	19	17	6	18	0	32	0	0	0	190
Mike McCormick	0	0		9.31	4	1	1	0	0	0	9.7	14	10	10	0	5	0	2	0	0	0	46
Roger Nelson	0	1	.000	5.29	13	1	4	0	0	0	34.0	35	20	20	1	5	0	29	0	0	0	139
Totals	85	76	.528	3.25	425	161	127	34	11	44	1420.3	1301	566	513	84	496	21	775	36	1	41	5925

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
Amos Otis	147	607	555	80	167	26	4	15	79	52	8	40	74	.301	.345	.443	.789	246	18	2	2	8	2
Freddie Patek	147	648	591	86	158	21	11	6	36	49	14	44	80	.267	.323	.371	.693	219	6	5	7	1	3
Paul Schaal	161	659	548	80	150	31	6	11	63	7	5	103	51	.274	.387	.412	.799	226	9	2	0	6	5
Lou Piniella	126	476	448	43	125	21	5	3	51	5	3	21	43	.279	.311	.368	.679	165	12	2	0	5	4
Cookie Rojas	115	463	414	56	124	22	2	6	59	8	3	39	35	.300	.357	.406	.763	168	12	2	1	7	3
Bob Oliver	128	398	373	35	91	12	2	8	52	0	0	14	88	.244	.277	.351	.628	131	13	5	1	5	3
Joe Keough	110	392	351	34	87	14	2	3	30	0	6	35	26	.248	.316	.325	.641	114	10	1	3	2	5
Gail Hopkins	103	339	295	35	82	16	1	9	47	3	1	37	13	.278	.364	.431	.794	127	8	4	1	2	9
Ed Kirkpatrick	120	423	365	46	80	12	1	9	46	3	4	48	60	.219	.308	.332	.640	121	11	2	1	7	8
Jerry May	71	249	218	16	55	13	2	1	24	0	0	27	37	.252	.329	.344	.673	75	7	0	0	4	8
Bobby Knoop	72	180	161	14	33	8	1	1	11	1	0	15	36	.205	.270	.286	.555	46	6	0	2	2	1
Chuck Harrison	49	158	143	9	31	4	0	2	21	0	0	11	19	.217	.266	.287	.553	41	1	0	0	4	2
Dennis Paepke	60	161	152	11	31	6	0	2	14	0	0	8	29	.204	.242	.283	.525	43	6	0	0	1	1
Sandy Valdespino	18	65	63	10	20	6	0	2	15	0	0	2	5	.317	.338	.508	.846	32	2	0	0	0	0
Al Fitzmorris	36	47	44	6	11	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	16	.250	.244	.273	.517	12	0	0	2	1	0
Bobby Floyd	31	73	66	8	10	3	0	0	2	0	0	7	21	.152	.233	.197	.430	13	0	0	0	0	0
Dick Drago	35	92	77	3	10	3	0	0	4	0	0	8	44	.130	.212	.169	.381	13	1	0	7	0	0
Rich Severson	16	33	30	4	9	0	2	0	1	0	0	3	5	.300	.364	.433	.797	13	0	0	0	0	0
Carl Taylor	20	46	39	3	7	0	0	0	3	0	1	5	13	.179	.261	.179	.440	7	1	0	0	2	0
Buck Martinez	22	53	46	3	7	2	0	0	1	0	1	5	9	.152	.231	.196	.426	9	1	0	1	1	0
Mike Hedlund	32	75	68	2	6	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	26	.088	.114	.088	.203	6	1	0	5	0	0
Tom Burgmeier	68	21	20	2	5	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	.250	.286	.350	.636	7	0	0	0	0	0
Ted Savage	19	32	29	2	5	0	0	0	1	2	0	3	6	.172	.250	.172	.422	5	2	0	0	0	0
Paul Splittorff	22	52	48	3	5	1	0	0	1	0	0	3	8	.104	.157	.125	.282	6	1	0	1	0	0
Bruce Dal Canton	25	53	46	4	4	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	19	.087	.106	.087	.193	4	0	0	6	0	0
Roger Nelson	13	7	6	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.333	.429	.333	.762	2	0	0	0	0	0
Lance Clemons	10	9	7	4	2	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	1	.286	.375	1.000	1.375	7	0	0	1	0	0
Jim York	53	18	17	1	2	1	0	1	3	0	0	1	7	.118	.167	.353	.520	6	0	0	0	0	0
Ken Wright	21	24	22	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	10	.091	.130	.091	.221	2	0	0	1	0	0
Bill Butler	14	13	12	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	10	.083	.077	.083	.160	1	0	0	0	1	0
Ted Abernathy	63	14	13	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	.077	.077	.077	.154	1	0	0	1	0	0
Jim Rooker	21	13	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	.000	.167	.000	.167	0	0	0	1	0	0
Monty Montgomery	3	9	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.125	.000	.125	0	0	0	1	0	0
Wally Bunker	7	10	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	.000	.100	.000	.100	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike McCormick	4	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1962	5914	5295	603	1323	225	40	80	573	130	46	490	819	.250	.313	.353	.666	1868	128	25	45	59	54

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Gail Hopkins	1B	83	81	669.0	669	57	7	76	.990	9.767	8.747	0	0	0
Bob Oliver	1B	68	44	428.0	470	31	6	53	.988	1.535	7.368	0	0	0
Chuck Harrison	1B	39	36	323.0	335	24	3	31	.992	1.003	9.205	0	0	0
Cookie Rojas	2B	111	111	941.0	252	293	5	76	.991	5.213	4.910	0	0	0
Bobby Knoop	2B	52	41	398.0	89	120	7	31	.968	4.726	4.019	0	0	0
Rich Severson	2B	6	5	41.0	7	20	0	7	1.000	5.927	4.500	0	0	0
Bobby Floyd	2B	8	4	40.0	13	13	0	3	1.000	5.850	3.250	0	0	0
Paul Schaal	3B	161	161	1407.0	107	335	28	31	.940	2.827	2.745	0	0	0
Bob Oliver	3B	2	0	8.0	2	3	1	0	.833	5.625	2.500	0	0	0
Rich Severson	3B	1	0	3.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Bobby Knoop	3B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Bobby Floyd	3B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Jerry May	C	71	67	577.0	314	38	1	6	.997	5.490	4.958	5	25	18	41.9
Ed Kirkpatrick	C	59	55	474.0	294	28	7	5	.979	6.114	5.458	4	22	18	45.0
Dennis Paepke	C	32	25	232.0	139	15	1	1	.994	5.974	4.813	0	13	6	31.6
Buck Martinez	C	21	14	138.0	84	6	3	0	.968	5.870	4.286	2	6	2	25.0
Amos Otis	OF	144	142	1241.0	404	10	4	4	.990	3.002	2.875	0	0	0
Lou Piniella	OF	115	113	994.0	201	6	3	2	.986	1.874	1.800	0	0	0
Joe Keough	OF	100	94	819.0	164	4	3	1	.982	1.846	1.680	0	0	0
Ed Kirkpatrick	OF	61	47	443.0	118	2	1	1	.992	2.438	1.967	0	0	0
Bob Oliver	OF	48	44	392.0	94	3	1	0	.990	2.227	2.021	0	0	0
Sandy Valdespino	OF	15	15	127.0	18	1	1	0	.950	1.346	1.267	0	0	0
Dennis Paepke	OF	17	13	108.0	21	0	2	0	.913	1.750	1.235	0	0	0
Carl Taylor	OF	12	9	85.0	27	0	1	0	.964	2.859	2.250	0	0	0
Ted Savage	OF	9	6	50.0	4	2	0	0	1.000	1.080	.667	0	0	0
Cookie Rojas	OF	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Dick Drago	P	35	34	241.0	7	42	2	9	.961	1.830	1.400	0	0	0
Mike Hedlund	P	32	30	206.0	16	47	2	5	.969	2.752	1.969	0	0	0
Paul Splittorff	P	22	22	144.0	7	32	2	3	.951	2.437	1.773	0	0	0
Bruce Dal Canton	P	25	22	141.0	11	16	2	0	.931	1.723	1.080	0	0	0
Al Fitzmorris	P	36	15	127.0	15	25	2	4	.952	2.835	1.111	0	0	0
Jim York	P	53	0	93.0	6	10	1	1	.941	1.548	.302	0	0	0
Tom Burgmeier	P	67	0	88.0	7	28	1	3	.972	3.580	.522	0	0	0
Ted Abernathy	P	63	0	81.0	8	20	2	0	.933	3.111	.444	0	0	0
Ken Wright	P	21	12	78.0	1	16	1	2	.944	1.962	.810	0	0	0
Jim Rooker	P	20	7	54.0	1	5	1	1	.857	1.000	.300	0	0	0
Bill Butler	P	14	6	44.0	0	7	1	0	.875	1.432	.500	0	0	0
Roger Nelson	P	13	1	34.0	2	9	0	0	1.000	2.912	.846	0	0	0
Wally Bunker	P	7	6	32.0	1	5	0	0	1.000	1.688	.857	0	0	0
Lance Clemons	P	10	3	24.0	1	4	1	0	.833	1.875	.500	0	0	0
Monty Montgomery	P	3	2	21.0	2	3	0	0	1.000	2.143	1.667	0	0	0
Mike McCormick	P	4	1	10.0	1	8	0	0	1.000	8.100	2.250	0	0	0
Freddie Patek	SS	147	145	1260.0	301	459	25	107	.968	5.429	5.170	0	0	0
Bobby Floyd	SS	15	12	115.0	21	43	2	11	.970	5.009	4.267	0	0	0
Rich Severson	SS	6	3	36.0	8	15	2	4	.920	5.750	3.833	0	0	0
Cookie Rojas	SS	2	1	10.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.800	1.000	0	0	0
Totals		1833	1449	12781.0	4244	1805	132	478	.979	4.260	3.300	11	66	44	40.0

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