1982 Kansas City Royals Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 90-72
Finished 2nd in the AL's West Division
Attendance: 2,284,464, Avg. 28,493
Ballpark: Royals Stadium
Manager: Dick Howser (90-72)
Location: Kansas City, Kansas

1982 Kansas City Royals Roster
1982 Kansas City Royals Results

The Kansas City Royals of the American League ended the 1982 season with a record of 90 wins and 72 losses, finishing second in the AL's West Division.

The Royals scored 784 runs and conceded 717 runs. Hal McRae led Kansas City with 27 home runs, while George Brett, Jerry Martin and Willie Aikens each walloped 20 or more also. Hal McRae recorded 133 runs batted in. Willie Wilson paced batters with significant playing time by connecting at a .332 clip. Larry Gura topped the team with 18 wins, and Dan Quisenberry registered a 2.57 earned run average, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Dick Howser 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
Larry Gura	18	12	.600	4.03	37	37	0	8	3	0	248.0	251	124	111	31	64	2	98	6	0	6	1042
Vida Blue	13	12	.520	3.78	31	31	0	6	2	0	181.0	163	80	76	20	80	3	103	0	0	4	773
Dennis Leonard	10	6	.625	5.10	21	21	0	2	0	0	130.7	145	82	74	20	46	3	58	2	0	4	579
Paul Splittorff	10	10	.500	4.28	29	28	0	0	0	0	162.0	166	83	77	14	57	1	74	3	0	1	692
Dan Quisenberry	9	7	.563	2.57	72	0	68	0	0	35	136.7	126	43	39	12	12	2	46	0	0	1	529
Dave Frost	6	6	.500	5.51	21	14	4	0	0	0	81.7	103	53	50	7	30	0	26	3	0	4	368
Mike Armstrong	5	5	.500	3.20	52	0	25	0	0	6	112.7	88	45	40	9	43	4	75	3	1	7	466
Don Hood	4	0	1.000	3.51	30	3	17	0	0	1	66.7	71	31	26	7	22	1	31	2	1	3	288
Buddy Black	4	6	.400	4.58	22	14	2	0	0	0	88.3	92	48	45	10	34	6	40	3	7	4	386
Grant Jackson	3	1	.750	5.17	20	0	10	0	0	0	38.3	42	27	22	7	21	4	15	2	1	2	180
Bill Castro	3	2	.600	3.45	21	4	7	0	0	1	75.7	72	34	29	8	20	4	37	2	0	2	322
Bob Tufts	2	0	1.000	4.50	10	0	6	0	0	2	20.0	24	10	10	3	3	0	13	0	0	0	86
Derek Botelho	2	1	.667	4.13	8	4	3	0	0	0	24.0	25	11	11	4	8	0	12	0	0	1	100
Keith Creel	1	4	.200	5.40	9	6	1	0	0	0	41.7	43	28	25	8	25	0	13	0	0	4	190
Jim Wright	0	0		5.32	7	0	3	0	0	0	23.7	32	18	14	3	6	0	9	0	1	0	108
Totals	90	72	.556	4.08	390	162	146	16	5	45	1431.0	1443	717	649	163	471	30	650	26	11	43	6109

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	136	621	585	87	194	19	15	3	46	37	11	26	81	.332	.365	.431	.796	252	4	6	2	2	2
Hal McRae	159	676	613	91	189	46	8	27	133	4	4	55	61	.308	.369	.542	.910	332	8	5	1	2	7
George Brett	144	629	552	101	166	32	9	21	82	6	1	71	51	.301	.378	.505	.884	279	12	1	0	5	14
Frank White	145	554	524	71	156	45	6	11	56	10	7	16	65	.298	.318	.469	.788	246	12	2	7	5	1
Jerry Martin	147	565	519	52	138	22	1	15	65	1	1	38	138	.266	.316	.399	.715	207	8	2	2	4	0
Amos Otis	125	524	475	73	136	25	3	11	88	9	5	37	65	.286	.335	.421	.756	200	17	2	1	9	3
Willie Aikens	134	519	466	50	131	29	1	17	74	0	1	45	70	.281	.345	.457	.802	213	19	3	0	5	7
U. L. Washington	119	487	437	64	125	19	3	10	60	23	7	38	48	.286	.338	.412	.750	180	4	0	5	7	0
John Wathan	121	502	448	79	121	11	3	3	51	36	9	48	46	.270	.343	.328	.671	147	26	2	3	1	0
Onix Concepcion	74	215	205	17	48	9	1	0	15	2	1	5	18	.234	.256	.288	.544	59	6	1	4	0	0
Greg Pryor	73	166	152	23	41	10	1	2	12	2	0	10	20	.270	.315	.388	.703	59	5	0	4	0	0
Don Slaught	43	126	115	14	32	6	0	3	8	0	0	9	12	.278	.331	.409	.739	47	3	0	2	0	0
Cesar Geronimo	53	131	119	14	32	6	3	4	23	2	0	8	16	.269	.305	.471	.776	56	5	0	0	4	2
Steve Hammond	46	131	126	14	29	5	1	1	11	0	1	4	18	.230	.252	.310	.561	39	7	0	0	1	0
Lee May	42	107	91	12	28	5	2	3	12	0	0	14	18	.308	.393	.505	.898	46	0	0	0	2	1
Jamie Quirk	36	82	78	8	18	3	0	1	5	0	0	3	15	.231	.256	.308	.564	24	2	0	0	1	0
Tom Poquette	24	69	62	4	9	1	0	0	3	1	0	4	5	.145	.206	.161	.367	10	0	1	1	1	0
Ron Johnson	8	18	14	2	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	4	3	.286	.444	.429	.873	6	0	0	0	0	0
Dennis Werth	41	19	15	5	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	4	2	.133	.316	.133	.449	2	1	0	0	0	0
Buddy Biancalana	3	3	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	.500	.667	1.500	2.167	3	1	0	0	0	0
Tim Ireland	7	8	7	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.143	.250	.143	.393	1	0	0	0	0	0
Bombo Rivera	5	10	10	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.100	.100	.100	.200	1	0	0	0	0	0
Mark Ryal	6	14	13	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.077	.143	.077	.220	1	0	0	0	0	0
Kelly Heath	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Tufts	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dan Quisenberry	72	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Paul Splittorff	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dennis Leonard	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Armstrong	52	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Buddy Black	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Vida Blue	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Derek Botelho	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Castro	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Keith Creel	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Frost	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Larry Gura	37	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Don Hood	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Grant Jackson	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Wright	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2083	6177	5629	784	1603	295	58	132	746	133	48	442	758	.285	.337	.428	.765	2410	140	25	32	49	37

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Willie Aikens	1B	128	122	1057.7	1048	75	7	95	.994	9.556	8.773	0	0	0
Lee May	1B	32	27	188.3	175	10	2	18	.989	8.841	5.781	0	0	0
Dennis Werth	1B	35	4	79.0	93	9	1	10	.990	11.620	2.914	0	0	0
Ron Johnson	1B	7	4	40.3	39	2	1	3	.976	9.149	5.857	0	0	0
Jamie Quirk	1B	6	3	30.0	33	6	0	1	1.000	11.700	6.500	0	0	0
John Wathan	1B	3	2	18.7	19	2	0	2	1.000	1.125	7.000	0	0	0
Greg Pryor	1B	14	0	17.0	22	4	0	1	1.000	13.765	1.857	0	0	0
Frank White	2B	144	143	1216.7	361	389	17	99	.978	5.548	5.208	0	0	0
Onix Concepcion	2B	24	11	119.0	29	30	0	3	1.000	4.462	2.458	0	0	0
Greg Pryor	2B	15	8	81.3	25	23	0	7	1.000	5.311	3.200	0	0	0
Tim Ireland	2B	4	0	11.0	1	5	0	1	1.000	4.909	1.500	0	0	0
Kelly Heath	2B	1	0	3.0	1	2	0	1	1.000	9.000	3.000	0	0	0
George Brett	3B	134	132	1150.0	107	294	17	22	.959	3.138	2.993	0	0	0
Greg Pryor	3B	40	30	277.0	26	72	5	7	.951	3.184	2.450	0	0	0
Jamie Quirk	3B	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Tim Ireland	3B	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
John Wathan	C	120	116	991.3	463	38	10	3	.980	4.548	4.175	4	61	40	39.6
Don Slaught	C	43	32	287.3	156	7	1	1	.994	5.106	3.791	1	13	8	38.1
Jamie Quirk	C	29	14	150.3	77	6	0	0	1.000	4.969	2.862	1	11	5	31.3
Dennis Werth	C	2	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	.500	0	0	0
Jerry Martin	OF	142	137	1214.0	333	4	7	2	.980	2.498	2.373	0	0	0
Willie Wilson	OF	135	135	1162.0	376	4	5	0	.987	2.943	2.815	0	0	0
Amos Otis	OF	125	124	1055.7	308	5	1	1	.997	2.668	2.504	0	0	0
Cesar Geronimo	OF	44	25	274.0	93	3	0	0	1.000	3.153	2.182	0	0	0
Steve Hammond	OF	37	31	269.0	81	3	0	1	1.000	2.810	2.270	0	0	0
Tom Poquette	OF	23	14	144.3	44	1	2	0	.957	2.806	1.957	0	0	0
George Brett	OF	12	11	99.0	23	1	0	1	1.000	2.182	2.000	0	0	0
Mark Ryal	OF	5	4	34.0	9	0	1	0	.900	2.382	1.800	0	0	0
Bombo Rivera	OF	3	2	21.0	4	0	0	0	1.000	1.714	1.333	0	0	0
Tim Ireland	OF	2	2	10.0	3	0	1	0	.750	2.700	1.500	0	0	0
Hal McRae	OF	1	1	9.0	1	0	1	0	.500	1.000	1.000	0	0	0
Jamie Quirk	OF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Larry Gura	P	37	37	248.0	7	50	2	6	.966	2.069	1.541	0	0	0
Vida Blue	P	31	31	181.0	14	22	2	0	.947	1.790	1.161	0	0	0
Paul Splittorff	P	29	28	162.0	7	24	1	4	.969	1.722	1.069	0	0	0
Dan Quisenberry	P	72	0	136.7	18	46	2	3	.970	4.215	.889	0	0	0
Dennis Leonard	P	21	21	130.7	16	18	3	2	.919	2.342	1.619	0	0	0
Mike Armstrong	P	52	0	112.7	9	8	0	1	1.000	1.358	.327	0	0	0
Buddy Black	P	22	14	88.3	6	12	1	1	.947	1.834	.818	0	0	0
Dave Frost	P	21	14	81.7	5	6	1	1	.917	1.212	.524	0	0	0
Bill Castro	P	21	4	75.7	6	4	0	0	1.000	1.189	.476	0	0	0
Don Hood	P	30	3	66.7	6	11	1	0	.944	2.295	.567	0	0	0
Keith Creel	P	9	6	41.7	1	8	0	1	1.000	1.944	1.000	0	0	0
Grant Jackson	P	20	0	38.3	1	5	1	0	.857	1.409	.300	0	0	0
Derek Botelho	P	8	4	24.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	1.125	.375	0	0	0
Jim Wright	P	7	0	23.7	1	2	1	0	.750	1.141	.429	0	0	0
Bob Tufts	P	10	0	20.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	.450	.100	0	0	0
U. L. Washington	SS	117	114	995.0	173	371	22	63	.961	4.921	4.650	0	0	0
Onix Concepcion	SS	46	42	376.0	63	138	11	25	.948	4.811	4.370	0	0	0
Greg Pryor	SS	7	5	49.0	5	13	0	3	1.000	3.306	2.571	0	0	0
Buddy Biancalana	SS	3	1	11.0	2	8	0	1	1.000	8.182	3.333	0	0	0
Totals		1876	1458	12879.0	4293	1743	127	390	.979	4.218	3.217	6	85	53	38.4

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