1978 Kansas City Royals Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 92-70
Finished 1st in the AL's West Division
Attendance: 2,255,493, Avg. 28,194
Ballpark: Royals Stadium
Won Division
American League Championship Series - Lost to New York Yankees 3-1
Manager: Whitey Herzog (92-70)
Location: Kansas City, Kansas

1978 Kansas City Royals Roster
1978 Kansas City Royals Results

The Kansas City Royals of the American League ended the 1978 season with a record of 92 wins and 70 losses, finishing first in the AL's West Division.

The Royals scored 743 runs and surrendered 634 runs. Amos Otis led Kansas City with 22 home runs, while Hal McRae and Darrell Porter walloped 20 or more as well. Amos Otis recorded 96 runs batted in and topped batters with significant playing time by connecting at a .298 clip. Dennis Leonard paced the squad with 21 wins, plus Larry Gura and Paul Splittorff, too added 15 or more wins, too Larry Gura recorded a 2.72 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Whitey Herzog coached the team. The 1978 Kansas City Royals qualified for the playoffs as a division winner.

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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
Dennis Leonard	21	17	.553	3.33	40	40	0	20	4	0	294.7	283	125	109	27	78	7	183	9	0	12	1218
Paul Splittorff	19	13	.594	3.40	39	38	0	13	2	0	262.0	244	113	99	22	60	2	76	3	0	3	1069
Larry Gura	16	4	.800	2.72	35	26	1	8	2	0	221.7	183	73	67	13	60	3	81	4	1	1	890
Rich Gale	14	8	.636	3.09	31	30	0	9	3	0	192.3	171	78	66	10	100	3	88	3	0	5	821
Al Hrabosky	8	7	.533	2.88	58	0	47	0	0	20	75.0	52	24	24	6	35	2	60	1	1	2	308
Doug Bird	6	6	.500	5.29	40	6	13	0	0	1	98.7	110	63	58	8	31	5	48	2	2	9	434
Marty Pattin	3	3	.500	3.32	32	5	12	2	0	4	78.7	72	41	29	8	25	7	30	2	0	1	326
George Throop	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
Steve Busby	1	0	1.000	7.59	7	5	1	0	0	0	21.3	24	18	18	2	15	1	10	2	1	0	104
Jim Colborn	1	2	.333	4.76	8	3	1	0	0	0	28.3	31	18	15	4	12	1	8	2	0	0	128
Steve Mingori	1	4	.200	2.74	45	0	21	0	0	7	69.0	64	25	21	5	16	4	28	3	0	1	289
Andy Hassler	1	4	.200	4.32	11	9	1	1	0	0	58.3	76	36	28	1	24	0	26	2	1	3	270
Steve Foucault	0	0		3.86	3	0	2	0	0	0	2.3	5	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	13
Bill Paschall	0	1	.000	3.38	2	0	1	0	0	1	8.0	6	3	3	0	0	0	5	1	0	0	31
Randy McGilberry	0	1	.000	4.21	18	0	9	0	0	0	25.7	27	16	12	2	18	1	12	0	0	0	120
Totals	92	70	.568	3.44	370	162	109	53	11	33	1439.0	1350	634	550	108	478	37	657	34	6	37	6034

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
Hal McRae	156	692	623	90	170	39	5	16	72	17	8	51	62	.273	.329	.429	.757	267	15	6	1	11	6
George Brett	128	558	510	79	150	45	8	9	62	23	7	39	35	.294	.342	.467	.809	238	6	1	3	5	6
Amos Otis	141	567	486	74	145	30	7	22	96	32	8	66	54	.298	.380	.525	.905	255	10	4	1	10	7
Darrell Porter	150	602	520	77	138	27	6	18	78	0	5	75	75	.265	.358	.444	.802	231	13	2	1	4	14
Al Cowens	132	534	485	63	133	24	8	5	63	14	6	31	54	.274	.319	.388	.707	188	7	6	1	11	3
Frank White	143	501	461	66	127	24	6	7	50	13	10	26	59	.275	.317	.399	.716	184	2	3	9	2	1
Clint Hurdle	133	481	417	48	110	25	5	7	56	1	3	56	84	.264	.348	.398	.746	166	6	1	1	6	1
Freddie Patek	138	496	440	54	109	23	1	2	46	38	11	42	56	.248	.312	.318	.630	140	6	1	9	4	1
Pete LaCock	118	347	322	44	95	21	2	5	48	1	0	21	27	.295	.335	.419	.755	135	8	0	1	3	2
John Wathan	67	203	190	19	57	10	1	2	28	2	1	3	12	.300	.320	.395	.715	75	5	4	3	3	1
Tom Poquette	80	226	204	16	44	9	2	4	30	2	0	14	9	.216	.259	.338	.597	69	6	0	2	6	1
Willie Wilson	127	223	198	43	43	8	2	0	16	46	12	16	33	.217	.280	.278	.558	55	2	2	5	2	0
Steve Braun	64	167	137	16	36	10	1	0	14	3	2	28	16	.263	.386	.350	.736	48	1	0	1	1	1
U. L. Washington	69	142	129	10	34	2	1	0	9	12	6	10	20	.264	.314	.295	.609	38	2	0	2	1	0
Joe Zdeb	60	141	127	18	32	2	3	0	11	3	0	7	18	.252	.287	.315	.602	40	2	0	5	2	0
Jerry Terrell	73	147	133	14	27	1	0	0	8	8	4	4	13	.203	.225	.211	.435	28	4	0	9	1	0
Luis Silverio	8	14	11	7	6	2	1	0	3	1	1	2	3	.545	.615	.909	1.524	10	0	0	1	0	0
Jamie Quirk	17	34	29	3	6	2	0	0	2	0	0	5	4	.207	.324	.276	.599	8	0	0	0	0	0
Art Kusnyer	9	15	13	1	3	1	0	1	2	0	0	2	4	.231	.333	.538	.872	7	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Cripe	7	13	13	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.154	.154	.154	.308	2	0	0	0	0	0
Joe Lahoud	13	16	16	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.125	.125	.125	.250	2	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Gaudet	3	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Randy Bass	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Doug Bird	40	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Busby	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Colborn	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Foucault	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
George Throop	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Rich Gale	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Paul Splittorff	39	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Mingori	45	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Larry Gura	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Andy Hassler	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Al Hrabosky	58	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Marty Pattin	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dennis Leonard	40	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Paschall	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Randy McGilberry	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2208	6129	5474	743	1469	305	59	98	695	216	84	498	644	.268	.329	.399	.728	2186	95	30	55	72	44

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Pete LaCock	1B	106	80	723.3	700	39	5	67	.993	9.195	6.972	0	0	0
Clint Hurdle	1B	52	49	396.3	412	25	6	47	.986	9.923	8.404	0	0	0
John Wathan	1B	47	31	296.3	307	22	0	20	1.000	9.992	7.000	0	0	0
Jerry Terrell	1B	5	2	23.0	22	4	0	2	1.000	1.174	5.200	0	0	0
Frank White	2B	140	138	1194.3	325	385	16	96	.978	5.350	5.071	0	0	0
Jerry Terrell	2B	31	11	122.3	28	39	0	6	1.000	4.929	2.161	0	0	0
U. L. Washington	2B	19	13	121.7	32	37	1	10	.986	5.104	3.632	0	0	0
Joe Zdeb	2B	1	0	0.7	1	0	0	0	1.000	13.500	1.000	0	0	0
George Brett	3B	128	128	1102.3	104	289	16	25	.961	3.209	3.070	0	0	0
Jerry Terrell	3B	25	17	157.7	21	40	2	4	.968	3.482	2.440	0	0	0
Jamie Quirk	3B	10	6	61.7	10	15	2	1	.926	3.649	2.500	0	0	0
Steve Braun	3B	11	6	59.3	11	8	2	2	.905	2.882	1.727	0	0	0
Al Cowens	3B	5	3	30.0	5	10	1	1	.938	4.500	3.000	0	0	0
Dave Cripe	3B	5	2	27.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	.667	.400	0	0	0
Clint Hurdle	3B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Joe Zdeb	3B	1	0	0.0	0	0	0	0			.000	0	0	0
Darrell Porter	C	145	141	1229.7	608	62	8	10	.988	4.904	4.621	9	74	44	37.3
John Wathan	C	21	16	146.3	78	6	2	0	.977	5.166	4.000	1	11	6	35.3
Art Kusnyer	C	9	3	42.0	32	3	2	0	.946	7.500	3.889	1	5	2	28.6
Jim Gaudet	C	3	2	21.0	14	1	1	0	.938	6.429	5.000	0	0	0
Amos Otis	OF	136	133	1151.7	382	9	2	1	.995	3.056	2.875	0	0	0
Al Cowens	OF	127	123	1077.7	275	10	3	5	.990	2.380	2.244	0	0	0
Clint Hurdle	OF	78	68	584.3	132	5	6	1	.958	2.110	1.756	0	0	0
Willie Wilson	OF	112	45	541.3	171	6	4	2	.978	2.943	1.580	0	0	0
Tom Poquette	OF	63	54	423.0	144	5	7	0	.955	3.170	2.365	0	0	0
Joe Zdeb	OF	52	30	283.3	65	2	3	0	.957	2.128	1.288	0	0	0
Steve Braun	OF	33	27	202.7	52	1	2	0	.964	2.354	1.606	0	0	0
Luis Silverio	OF	6	3	29.0	5	0	1	0	.833	1.552	.833	0	0	0
Hal McRae	OF	3	3	23.0	3	1	0	0	1.000	1.565	1.333	0	0	0
Joe Lahoud	OF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Dennis Leonard	P	40	40	294.7	16	43	1	2	.983	1.802	1.475	0	0	0
Paul Splittorff	P	39	38	262.0	18	45	2	4	.969	2.164	1.615	0	0	0
Larry Gura	P	35	26	221.7	13	44	1	2	.983	2.314	1.629	0	0	0
Rich Gale	P	31	30	192.3	3	26	4	1	.879	1.357	.935	0	0	0
Doug Bird	P	40	6	98.7	6	13	0	0	1.000	1.733	.475	0	0	0
Marty Pattin	P	32	5	78.7	3	4	0	2	1.000	.801	.219	0	0	0
Al Hrabosky	P	58	0	75.0	3	9	0	1	1.000	1.440	.207	0	0	0
Steve Mingori	P	45	0	69.0	3	13	1	0	.941	2.087	.356	0	0	0
Andy Hassler	P	11	9	58.3	3	7	2	1	.833	1.543	.909	0	0	0
Jim Colborn	P	8	3	28.3	2	8	1	0	.909	3.176	1.250	0	0	0
Randy McGilberry	P	18	0	25.7	2	6	3	0	.727	2.805	.444	0	0	0
Steve Busby	P	7	5	21.3	0	5	1	0	.833	2.109	.714	0	0	0
Bill Paschall	P	2	0	8.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
George Throop	P	1	0	3.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	3.000	1.000	0	0	0
Steve Foucault	P	3	0	2.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	3.857	.333	0	0	0
Freddie Patek	SS	137	134	1136.3	240	350	32	84	.949	4.673	4.307	0	0	0
U. L. Washington	SS	49	20	224.7	47	55	8	8	.927	4.086	2.082	0	0	0
Jerry Terrell	SS	11	8	72.0	17	20	2	3	.949	4.625	3.364	0	0	0
Jamie Quirk	SS	2	0	4.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0
George Brett	SS	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Totals		1946	1458	12951.0	4317	1676	150	408	.976	4.165	3.080	11	90	52	36.6

Postseason - Pitching:

Player	Rnd	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	WP	BF
Larry Gura	ALCS	1	0	1.000	2.84	1	1	0	0	6.3	8	2	2	0	2	0	2	0	28
Al Hrabosky	ALCS	0	0		3.00	3	0	2	0	3.0	3	1	1	1	0	0	2	0	12
Paul Splittorff	ALCS	0	0		4.91	1	1	0	0	7.3	9	5	4	1	0	0	2	0	29
Steve Mingori	ALCS	0	0		7.36	1	0	0	0	3.7	5	3	3	0	3	1	0	0	18
Marty Pattin	ALCS	0	0		27.00	1	0	0	0	0.7	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	4
Doug Bird	ALCS	0	1	.000	9.00	2	0	1	0	1.0	2	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	6
Dennis Leonard	ALCS	0	2	.000	3.75	2	2	0	1	12.0	13	5	5	2	2	0	11	1	51
Totals		1	3	.250	4.76	11	4	3	1	34.0	42	19	18	5	7	1	18	1	148

Postseason - Batting:

Player	Rnd	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	SH	SF
George Brett	ALCS	4	18	18	7	7	1	1	3	3	0	0	0	1	.389	.389	1.056	1.444	19	0	0
Amos Otis	ALCS	4	17	14	2	6	2	0	0	1	4	0	3	5	.429	.529	.571	1.101	8	0	0
Darrell Porter	ALCS	4	17	14	1	5	1	0	0	3	0	0	2	0	.357	.412	.429	.840	6	0	1
Pete LaCock	ALCS	4	14	11	1	4	2	1	0	1	1	0	3	1	.364	.500	.727	1.227	8	0	0
Clint Hurdle	ALCS	4	10	8	1	3	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	3	.375	.500	.625	1.125	5	0	0
Frank White	ALCS	4	13	13	1	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	.231	.231	.231	.462	3	0	0
Hal McRae	ALCS	4	18	14	0	3	0	0	0	2	1	1	2	2	.214	.294	.214	.508	3	1	1
Al Cowens	ALCS	4	15	15	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.133	.133	.133	.267	2	0	0
Willie Wilson	ALCS	3	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0
Freddie Patek	ALCS	4	14	13	2	1	0	0	1	2	0	1	1	4	.077	.143	.308	.451	4	0	0
Steve Braun	ALCS	2	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.167	.000	.167	0	0	0
Tom Poquette	ALCS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0
John Wathan	ALCS	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0
Doug Bird	ALCS	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0
Larry Gura	ALCS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0
Al Hrabosky	ALCS	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0
Dennis Leonard	ALCS	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0
Steve Mingori	ALCS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0
Marty Pattin	ALCS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0
Paul Splittorff	ALCS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0
Totals		54	150	133	17	35	6	3	4	16	6	3	14	21	.263	.329	.444	.772	59	1	2

Postseason - Fielding:

Player	Rnd	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB
Pete LaCock	ALCS	1B	3	3	26.0	25	1	0	3	1.000	9.000	8.667	0
John Wathan	ALCS	1B	1	1	8.0	7	0	0	0	1.000	7.875	7.000	0
Frank White	ALCS	2B	4	4	34.0	11	12	0	3	1.000	6.088	5.750	0
George Brett	ALCS	3B	4	4	34.0	3	8	1	1	.917	2.912	2.750	0
Darrell Porter	ALCS	C	4	4	34.0	21	1	0	1	1.000	5.824	5.500	1
Amos Otis	ALCS	CF	4	4	34.0	8	0	1	0	.889	2.118	2.000	0
Clint Hurdle	ALCS	LF	2	2	14.0	6	1	0	1	1.000	4.500	3.500	0
Willie Wilson	ALCS	LF	3	1	11.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	1.636	.667	0
Steve Braun	ALCS	LF	1	1	9.0	5	0	0	0	1.000	5.000	5.000	0
Dennis Leonard	ALCS	P	2	2	12.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	.750	.500	0
Paul Splittorff	ALCS	P	1	1	7.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0
Larry Gura	ALCS	P	1	1	6.3	1	4	0	0	1.000	7.105	5.000	0
Steve Mingori	ALCS	P	1	0	3.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0
Al Hrabosky	ALCS	P	3	0	3.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0
Doug Bird	ALCS	P	2	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0
Marty Pattin	ALCS	P	1	0	0.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0
Al Cowens	ALCS	RF	4	4	34.0	5	0	0	0	1.000	1.324	1.250	0
Freddie Patek	ALCS	SS	4	4	34.0	7	9	2	2	.889	4.235	4.000	0
Totals			45	36	306.0	102	36	4	11	.972	4.059	3.067	1

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