1979 Kansas City Royals Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 85-77
Finished 2nd in the AL's West Division
Attendance: 2,261,845, Avg. 28,631
Ballpark: Royals Stadium
Manager: Whitey Herzog (85-77)
Location: Kansas City, Kansas

1979 Kansas City Royals Roster
1979 Kansas City Royals Results

The Kansas City Royals of the American League ended the 1979 season with a record of 85 wins and 77 losses, finishing second in the AL's West Division.

The Royals scored 851 runs and yielded 816 runs. George Brett led Kansas City with 23 home runs, while Amos Otis and Darrell Porter walloped 20 or more as well. Darrell Porter accounted for 112 RBI. George Brett paced all regular batters by connecting at a .329 clip. Paul Splittorff topped the team with 15 wins, and Dennis Leonard registered a 4.08 earned run average, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Whitey Herzog 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
Paul Splittorff	15	17	.469	4.24	36	35	0	11	0	0	240.0	248	137	113	25	77	1	77	5	0	1	1026
Dennis Leonard	14	12	.538	4.08	32	32	0	12	5	0	236.0	226	117	107	33	56	3	126	2	0	8	966
Larry Gura	13	12	.520	4.47	39	33	1	7	1	0	233.7	226	137	116	29	73	4	85	7	1	5	991
Al Hrabosky	9	4	.692	3.74	58	0	37	0	0	11	65.0	67	31	27	3	41	10	39	1	0	7	294
Rich Gale	9	10	.474	5.65	34	31	0	2	1	0	181.7	197	131	114	19	99	4	103	4	0	5	830
Steve Busby	6	6	.500	3.63	22	12	5	4	0	0	94.3	71	45	38	10	64	3	45	0	0	1	405
Marty Pattin	5	2	.714	4.58	31	7	11	1	0	3	94.3	109	50	48	11	21	2	41	1	0	4	403
Eduardo Rodriguez	4	1	.800	4.84	29	1	13	1	0	2	74.3	79	42	40	9	34	4	26	3	0	4	330
Craig Chamberlain	4	4	.500	3.75	10	10	0	4	0	0	69.7	68	31	29	7	18	0	30	1	0	2	287
Dan Quisenberry	3	2	.600	3.15	32	0	21	0	0	5	40.0	42	16	14	5	7	5	13	0	0	1	163
Steve Mingori	3	3	.500	5.79	30	1	8	0	0	1	46.7	69	36	30	10	17	2	18	1	1	0	223
Jerry Terrell	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Craig Eaton	0	0		2.70	5	0	4	0	0	0	10.0	8	3	3	0	3	2	4	0	0	0	41
Gary Christenson	0	0		3.38	6	0	1	0	0	0	10.7	10	5	4	1	2	0	4	0	0	0	43
George Throop	0	0		13.50	4	0	2	0	0	0	2.7	7	4	4	0	5	2	1	0	0	0	20
Bill Paschall	0	1	.000	6.59	7	0	5	0	0	0	13.7	18	11	10	2	5	3	3	2	0	0	68
Renie Martin	0	3	.000	5.19	25	0	11	0	0	5	34.7	32	20	20	1	14	3	25	1	0	2	149
Totals	85	77	.525	4.46	401	162	120	42	7	27	1448.3	1477	816	717	165	536	48	640	28	2	40	6242

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
George Brett	154	701	645	119	212	42	20	23	107	17	10	51	36	.329	.376	.563	.939	363	8	0	1	4	14
Willie Wilson	154	640	588	113	185	18	13	6	49	83	12	28	92	.315	.351	.420	.771	247	1	7	13	4	3
Amos Otis	151	660	577	100	170	28	2	18	90	30	5	68	92	.295	.369	.444	.813	256	12	3	7	5	8
Darrell Porter	157	679	533	101	155	23	10	20	112	3	4	121	65	.291	.421	.484	.905	258	11	8	4	13	8
Al Cowens	136	568	516	69	152	18	7	9	73	10	8	40	44	.295	.345	.409	.753	211	12	3	2	7	4
Frank White	127	503	467	73	124	26	4	10	48	28	8	25	54	.266	.300	.403	.703	188	11	1	3	7	3
Hal McRae	101	443	393	55	113	32	4	10	74	5	4	38	46	.288	.351	.466	.816	183	6	4	1	7	0
Pete LaCock	132	453	408	54	113	25	4	3	56	2	1	37	26	.277	.334	.380	.714	155	16	1	1	6	7
Freddie Patek	106	338	306	30	77	17	0	1	37	11	12	16	42	.252	.293	.317	.610	97	6	3	10	3	0
U. L. Washington	101	300	268	32	68	12	5	2	25	10	7	20	44	.254	.299	.358	.658	96	1	0	6	6	1
Clint Hurdle	59	204	171	16	41	10	3	3	30	0	1	28	24	.240	.343	.386	.729	66	4	1	0	4	4
John Wathan	90	216	199	26	41	7	3	2	28	2	1	7	24	.206	.227	.302	.529	60	7	0	5	5	1
George Scott	44	162	146	19	39	8	2	1	20	1	1	12	32	.267	.329	.370	.699	54	12	2	1	1	1
Steve Braun	58	139	116	15	31	2	0	4	10	0	0	22	11	.267	.384	.388	.772	45	2	0	1	0	2
Jamie Quirk	51	85	79	8	24	6	1	1	11	0	0	5	13	.304	.353	.443	.796	35	0	1	0	0	0
Todd Cruz	55	126	118	9	24	7	0	2	15	0	1	3	19	.203	.224	.314	.538	37	2	1	1	3	0
Jerry Terrell	31	42	40	5	12	3	0	1	2	1	0	1	1	.300	.317	.450	.767	18	2	0	1	0	0
Tom Poquette	21	28	26	1	5	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	4	.192	.214	.192	.407	5	0	0	0	1	0
Joe Zdeb	15	25	23	3	4	1	1	0	0	1	0	2	4	.174	.240	.304	.544	7	1	0	0	0	0
German Barranca	5	5	5	3	3	1	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	.600	.600	.800	1.400	4	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Nettles	11	26	23	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	2	.087	.192	.087	.279	2	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Gaudet	3	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	0	0	0
Renie Martin	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Busby	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Craig Chamberlain	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Gary Christenson	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Craig Eaton	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
George Throop	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Rich Gale	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Paul Splittorff	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Paschall	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Eduardo Rodriguez	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dan Quisenberry	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Larry Gura	39	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
Dennis Leonard	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Marty Pattin	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Mingori	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2162	6349	5653	851	1596	286	79	116	791	207	76	528	675	.282	.343	.422	.766	2388	114	35	57	76	56

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Pete LaCock	1B	108	94	816.0	829	68	3	79	.997	9.893	8.306	0	0	0
George Scott	1B	41	38	330.3	335	21	4	27	.989	9.699	8.683	0	0	0
John Wathan	1B	49	25	250.0	264	19	2	30	.993	1.188	5.776	0	0	0
George Brett	1B	8	5	51.0	47	5	1	6	.981	9.176	6.500	0	0	0
Jim Nettles	1B	1	0	1.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	18.000	2.000	0	0	0
Frank White	2B	125	125	1076.3	317	332	12	78	.982	5.427	5.192	0	0	0
U. L. Washington	2B	46	35	346.0	112	111	12	37	.949	5.801	4.848	0	0	0
Jerry Terrell	2B	7	1	17.0	5	7	0	3	1.000	6.353	1.714	0	0	0
German Barranca	2B	1	1	9.0	4	7	0	3	1.000	11.000	11.000	0	0	0
George Brett	3B	149	148	1287.3	129	373	30	28	.944	3.510	3.369	0	0	0
Jerry Terrell	3B	19	7	85.0	5	21	1	1	.963	2.753	1.368	0	0	0
Todd Cruz	3B	9	5	53.7	7	16	3	3	.885	3.857	2.556	0	0	0
Jamie Quirk	3B	3	2	14.3	1	4	0	0	1.000	3.140	1.667	0	0	0
U. L. Washington	3B	1	0	3.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	3.000	1.000	0	0	0
Steve Braun	3B	2	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
George Scott	3B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Clint Hurdle	3B	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0
German Barranca	3B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Darrell Porter	C	141	141	1230.0	628	68	13	15	.982	5.093	4.936	15	64	57	47.1
John Wathan	C	23	18	164.3	70	5	1	0	.987	4.108	3.261	0	7	2	22.2
Jamie Quirk	C	9	2	40.0	15	2	1	0	.944	3.825	1.889	0	1	0	0.0
Jim Gaudet	C	3	1	14.0	13	0	0	0	1.000	8.357	4.333	0	3	0	0.0
Amos Otis	OF	146	143	1266.3	385	11	3	5	.992	2.814	2.712	0	0	0
Willie Wilson	OF	152	135	1251.3	384	12	6	0	.985	2.848	2.605	0	0	0
Al Cowens	OF	134	132	1170.3	288	3	4	0	.986	2.238	2.172	0	0	0
Clint Hurdle	OF	50	47	371.0	88	2	3	0	.968	2.183	1.800	0	0	0
Steve Braun	OF	18	14	126.0	26	4	0	1	1.000	2.143	1.667	0	0	0
Jim Nettles	OF	8	6	56.0	19	0	0	0	1.000	3.054	2.375	0	0	0
Joe Zdeb	OF	9	5	49.0	13	0	0	0	1.000	2.388	1.444	0	0	0
Tom Poquette	OF	10	4	47.0	7	1	0	1	1.000	1.532	.800	0	0	0
John Wathan	OF	3	0	8.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	2.250	.667	0	0	0
Paul Splittorff	P	36	35	240.0	15	27	3	3	.933	1.575	1.167	0	0	0
Dennis Leonard	P	32	32	236.0	19	32	1	2	.981	1.945	1.594	0	0	0
Larry Gura	P	39	33	233.7	15	38	2	5	.964	2.041	1.359	0	0	0
Rich Gale	P	34	31	181.7	9	25	4	3	.895	1.684	1.000	0	0	0
Marty Pattin	P	31	7	94.3	4	13	1	0	.944	1.622	.548	0	0	0
Steve Busby	P	22	12	94.3	4	24	0	1	1.000	2.671	1.273	0	0	0
Eduardo Rodriguez	P	29	1	74.3	0	8	1	0	.889	.969	.276	0	0	0
Craig Chamberlain	P	10	10	69.7	5	2	0	0	1.000	.904	.700	0	0	0
Al Hrabosky	P	58	0	65.0	2	4	2	0	.750	.831	.103	0	0	0
Steve Mingori	P	30	1	46.7	6	4	2	0	.833	1.929	.333	0	0	0
Dan Quisenberry	P	32	0	40.0	0	10	1	2	.909	2.250	.313	0	0	0
Renie Martin	P	25	0	34.7	5	8	1	0	.929	3.375	.520	0	0	0
Bill Paschall	P	7	0	13.7	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.317	.286	0	0	0
Gary Christenson	P	6	0	10.7	2	1	0	1	1.000	2.531	.500	0	0	0
Craig Eaton	P	5	0	10.0	1	1	0	1	1.000	1.800	.400	0	0	0
George Throop	P	4	0	2.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Jerry Terrell	P	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Freddie Patek	SS	104	95	796.7	153	249	19	54	.955	4.541	3.865	0	0	0
U. L. Washington	SS	50	37	354.0	62	131	6	31	.970	4.907	3.860	0	0	0
Todd Cruz	SS	48	30	291.7	47	102	4	13	.974	4.598	3.104	0	0	0
Jamie Quirk	SS	5	0	5.0	0	3	0	0	1.000	5.400	.600	0	0	0
Jerry Terrell	SS	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Totals		1887	1458	13035.0	4345	1777	146	433	.977	4.227	3.244	15	75	59	44.0

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