1981 Kansas City Royals Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 50-53
Finished 4th in the AL's West Division
Attendance: 1,279,403, Avg. 27,222
Ballpark: Royals Stadium
Won Division
American League West Division Series - Lost to Oakland Athletics 3-0
Manager: Jim Frey (30-40)
Manager: Dick Howser (20-13)
Location: Kansas City, Kansas

1981 Kansas City Royals Roster
1981 Kansas City Royals Results

The Kansas City Royals of the American League ended the 1981 season with a record of 50 wins and 53 losses, finishing fourth in the AL's West Division.

The Royals plated 397 runs and yielded 405 runs. Willie Aikens paced Kansas City with 17 home runs Amos Otis recorded 57 runs batted in. George Brett led hitters with significant playing time by connecting at a .314 clip. Dennis Leonard topped the squad with 13 wins, while Larry Gura recorded a 2.72 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Jim Frey and Dick Howser coached the team. The 1981 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	13	11	.542	2.99	26	26	0	9	2	0	201.7	202	79	67	15	41	5	107	3	1	5	837
Larry Gura	11	8	.579	2.72	23	23	0	12	2	0	172.3	139	61	52	11	35	0	61	4	0	3	680
Mike Jones	6	3	.667	3.21	12	11	0	0	0	0	75.7	74	30	27	7	28	0	29	2	0	1	323
Rich Gale	6	6	.500	5.40	19	15	2	2	0	0	101.7	107	63	61	14	38	0	47	2	0	0	440
Paul Splittorff	5	5	.500	4.36	21	15	1	1	0	0	99.0	111	48	48	12	23	4	48	1	2	0	419
Renie Martin	4	5	.444	2.77	29	0	12	0	0	4	61.7	55	25	19	2	29	7	25	0	0	2	264
Jim Wright	2	3	.400	3.46	17	4	7	0	0	0	52.0	57	21	20	5	21	7	27	2	0	0	230
Ken Brett	1	1	.500	4.18	22	0	14	0	0	2	32.3	35	16	15	2	14	4	7	1	0	0	144
Atlee Hammaker	1	3	.250	5.54	10	6	2	0	0	0	39.0	44	24	24	2	12	1	11	0	1	0	169
Dan Quisenberry	1	4	.200	1.73	40	0	35	0	0	18	62.3	59	16	12	1	15	8	20	1	0	0	254
Jeff Schattinger	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	3.0	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	0	0	14
Bill Paschall	0	0		4.50	2	0	2	0	0	0	2.0	2	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	7
Juan Berenguer	0	4	.000	8.69	8	3	4	0	0	0	19.7	22	21	19	4	16	0	20	2	0	1	97
Totals	50	53	.485	3.56	230	103	79	24	4	24	922.3	909	405	365	75	273	36	404	20	4	13	3878

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
Willie Wilson	102	465	439	54	133	10	7	1	32	34	8	18	42	.303	.335	.364	.700	160	5	4	3	1	3
George Brett	89	379	347	42	109	27	7	6	43	14	6	27	23	.314	.361	.484	.846	168	7	1	0	4	7
Hal McRae	101	433	389	38	106	23	2	7	36	3	4	34	33	.272	.330	.396	.726	154	11	2	3	5	3
Amos Otis	99	417	372	49	100	22	3	9	57	16	7	31	59	.269	.321	.417	.738	155	7	2	3	9	1
Willie Aikens	101	419	349	45	93	16	0	17	53	0	0	62	47	.266	.377	.458	.836	160	11	3	0	5	12
Frank White	94	390	364	35	91	17	1	9	38	4	2	19	50	.250	.285	.376	.661	137	10	0	4	3	0
U. L. Washington	98	384	339	40	77	19	1	2	29	10	10	41	43	.227	.310	.307	.616	104	6	0	3	1	1
John Wathan	89	330	301	24	76	9	3	1	19	11	6	19	23	.252	.298	.312	.611	94	9	2	5	3	1
Cesar Geronimo	59	133	118	14	29	0	2	2	13	6	1	11	16	.246	.305	.331	.636	39	3	0	2	2	2
Darryl Motley	42	135	125	15	29	4	0	2	8	1	3	7	15	.232	.276	.312	.588	39	2	1	1	1	0
Clint Hurdle	28	89	76	12	25	3	1	4	15	0	0	13	10	.329	.427	.553	.980	42	2	0	0	0	3
Jamie Quirk	46	107	100	8	25	7	0	0	10	0	2	6	17	.250	.299	.320	.619	32	5	1	0	0	1
Jerry Grote	22	62	56	4	17	3	1	1	9	1	0	3	2	.304	.344	.446	.791	25	1	1	1	1	0
Lee May	26	58	55	3	16	3	0	0	8	0	1	3	14	.291	.328	.345	.673	19	2	0	0	0	0
Dave Chalk	27	56	49	2	11	3	0	0	5	0	1	4	2	.224	.283	.286	.569	14	1	0	3	0	0
Rance Mulliniks	24	46	44	6	10	3	0	0	5	0	1	2	7	.227	.261	.295	.556	13	2	0	0	0	0
Ken Phelps	21	23	22	1	3	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	13	.136	.174	.227	.401	5	0	0	0	0	0
Danny Garcia	12	14	14	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.143	.143	.143	.286	2	0	0	0	0	0
Pat Sheridan	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	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
Jeff Schattinger	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Paul Splittorff	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dan Quisenberry	40	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Renie Martin	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Juan Berenguer	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Ken Brett	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Onix Concepcion	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Rich Gale	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Larry Gura	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Atlee Hammaker	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Tim Ireland	4	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Jones	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Greg Keatley	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dennis Leonard	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Wright	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1321	3941	3560	397	952	169	29	61	381	100	53	301	419	.267	.325	.383	.707	1362	84	17	28	35	34

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Willie Aikens	1B	99	96	854.3	844	56	7	79	.992	9.481	9.091	0	0	0
Lee May	1B	8	7	58.0	63	2	0	8	1.000	1.086	8.125	0	0	0
Tim Ireland	1B	4	0	4.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	6.750	.750	0	0	0
Ken Phelps	1B	2	0	3.0	4	1	0	0	1.000	15.000	2.500	0	0	0
Danny Garcia	1B	2	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	.500	0	0	0
John Wathan	1B	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0
Frank White	2B	93	93	824.3	226	263	6	70	.988	5.339	5.258	0	0	0
Dave Chalk	2B	10	6	57.0	10	19	0	2	1.000	4.579	2.900	0	0	0
Rance Mulliniks	2B	10	4	40.0	14	13	3	4	.900	6.075	2.700	0	0	0
Jamie Quirk	2B	1	0	1.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0
George Brett	3B	88	87	758.3	74	170	14	7	.946	2.896	2.773	0	0	0
Dave Chalk	3B	14	7	74.0	9	12	1	3	.955	2.554	1.500	0	0	0
Jamie Quirk	3B	8	6	62.0	5	13	3	1	.857	2.613	2.250	0	0	0
Rance Mulliniks	3B	5	3	28.0	4	5	1	1	.900	2.893	1.800	0	0	0
John Wathan	C	73	68	615.3	300	26	7	1	.979	4.768	4.466	2	45	18	28.6
Jerry Grote	C	22	20	171.0	87	6	0	0	1.000	4.895	4.227	0	14	4	22.2
Jamie Quirk	C	22	15	134.0	58	9	1	1	.985	4.500	3.045	5	13	4	23.5
Greg Keatley	C	2	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	.500	0	0	0
Willie Wilson	OF	101	100	884.3	299	14	4	3	.987	3.185	3.099	0	0	0
Amos Otis	OF	97	97	870.3	294	6	2	1	.993	3.102	3.093	0	0	0
Cesar Geronimo	OF	57	31	315.7	96	1	2	0	.980	2.766	1.702	0	0	0
Darryl Motley	OF	39	36	309.3	88	3	3	1	.968	2.648	2.333	0	0	0
Clint Hurdle	OF	28	26	200.0	59	1	0	0	1.000	2.700	2.143	0	0	0
John Wathan	OF	16	13	115.0	15	2	0	0	1.000	1.330	1.063	0	0	0
Danny Garcia	OF	6	2	34.3	6	0	0	0	1.000	1.573	1.000	0	0	0
Hal McRae	OF	4	4	31.0	10	0	1	0	.909	2.903	2.500	0	0	0
Pat Sheridan	OF	3	0	5.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	3.600	.667	0	0	0
Jamie Quirk	OF	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Dennis Leonard	P	26	26	201.7	13	31	0	3	1.000	1.964	1.692	0	0	0
Larry Gura	P	23	23	172.3	9	30	0	4	1.000	2.037	1.696	0	0	0
Rich Gale	P	19	15	101.7	6	8	1	1	.933	1.239	.737	0	0	0
Paul Splittorff	P	21	15	99.0	2	22	0	2	1.000	2.182	1.143	0	0	0
Mike Jones	P	12	11	75.7	3	14	0	0	1.000	2.022	1.417	0	0	0
Dan Quisenberry	P	40	0	62.3	8	23	1	1	.969	4.476	.775	0	0	0
Renie Martin	P	29	0	61.7	3	15	2	2	.900	2.627	.621	0	0	0
Jim Wright	P	17	4	52.0	2	6	0	0	1.000	1.385	.471	0	0	0
Atlee Hammaker	P	10	6	39.0	1	4	0	1	1.000	1.154	.500	0	0	0
Ken Brett	P	22	0	32.3	5	6	0	1	1.000	3.062	.500	0	0	0
Juan Berenguer	P	8	3	19.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Jeff Schattinger	P	1	0	3.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Bill Paschall	P	2	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
U. L. Washington	SS	98	97	868.0	135	297	12	58	.973	4.479	4.408	0	0	0
Rance Mulliniks	SS	7	6	51.3	7	21	1	4	.966	4.909	4.000	0	0	0
Dave Chalk	SS	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Onix Concepcion	SS	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Totals		1153	927	8301.0	2767	1100	72	259	.982	4.193	3.354	7	72	26	26.5

Postseason - Pitching:

Player	Rnd	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BF
Dan Quisenberry	AWDIV	0		0.00	1	0	1	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4
Renie Martin	AWDIV	0		0.00	2	0	2	5.3	1	0	0	0	2	2	19
Dennis Leonard	AWDIV	1	.000	1.13	1	1	0	8.0	7	4	1	2	1	3	32
Mike Jones	AWDIV	1	.000	2.25	1	1	0	8.0	9	2	2	0	0	2	33
Larry Gura	AWDIV	1	.000	7.36	1	1	0	3.7	7	4	3	1	3	3	20
Totals		3	.000	2.08	6	3	3	26.0	25	10	6	3	6	10	108

Postseason - Batting:

Player	Rnd	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	SH
Willie Wilson	AWDIV	3	13	13	0	4	0	1	0	0	.308	.308	.308	.615	4	0	0
Willie Aikens	AWDIV	3	12	9	0	3	0	0	3	2	.333	.500	.333	.833	3	0	0
John Wathan	AWDIV	3	11	10	1	3	0	0	1	1	.300	.364	.300	.664	3	0	0
Clint Hurdle	AWDIV	3	12	11	0	3	0	0	1	1	.273	.333	.273	.606	3	0	0
U. L. Washington	AWDIV	3	10	9	0	2	0	0	0	1	.222	.222	.222	.444	2	0	1
Frank White	AWDIV	3	12	11	1	2	0	0	1	1	.182	.250	.182	.432	2	0	0
George Brett	AWDIV	3	12	12	0	2	0	0	0	0	.167	.167	.167	.333	2	0	0
Hal McRae	AWDIV	3	12	11	0	1	1	0	1	1	.091	.167	.182	.348	2	0	0
Amos Otis	AWDIV	3	12	12	0	0	0	1	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	2	0
Cesar Geronimo	AWDIV	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0
Larry Gura	AWDIV	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0
Mike Jones	AWDIV	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0
Dennis Leonard	AWDIV	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0
Renie Martin	AWDIV	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0
Lee May	AWDIV	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0
Dan Quisenberry	AWDIV	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0
Totals		35	106	98	2	20	1	2	7	11	.204	.257	.214	.471	21	2	1

Postseason - Fielding:

Player	Rnd	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G
Willie Aikens	AWDIV	1B	3	3	25.0	28	1	0	1	1.000	1.440	9.667
Lee May	AWDIV	1B	1	0	1.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	18.000	2.000
Frank White	AWDIV	2B	3	3	26.0	5	6	1	1	.917	3.808	3.667
George Brett	AWDIV	3B	3	3	26.0	1	6	1	0	.875	2.423	2.333
John Wathan	AWDIV	C	3	3	26.0	11	4	1	0	.938	5.192	5.000
Amos Otis	AWDIV	CF	3	3	26.0	12	0	0	0	1.000	4.154	4.000
Willie Wilson	AWDIV	LF	3	3	26.0	6	0	0	0	1.000	2.077	2.000
Dennis Leonard	AWDIV	P	1	1	8.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.125	1.000
Mike Jones	AWDIV	P	1	1	8.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Renie Martin	AWDIV	P	2	0	5.3	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.688	.500
Larry Gura	AWDIV	P	1	1	3.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Dan Quisenberry	AWDIV	P	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Clint Hurdle	AWDIV	RF	3	3	26.0	6	0	0	0	1.000	2.077	2.000
U. L. Washington	AWDIV	SS	3	3	26.0	6	11	1	1	.944	5.885	5.667
Totals			31	27	234.0	78	29	4	3	.964	4.115	3.452

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