1983 Kansas City Royals Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 79-83
Finished 2nd in the AL's West Division
Attendance: 1,963,875, Avg. 24,859
Ballpark: Royals Stadium
Manager: Dick Howser (79-83)
Location: Kansas City, Kansas

1983 Kansas City Royals Roster
1983 Kansas City Royals Results

The Kansas City Royals of the American League ended the 1983 season with a record of 79 wins and 83 losses, finishing second in the AL's West Division.

The Royals plated 696 runs and conceded 767 runs. George Brett paced Kansas City with 25 home runs, and Willie Aikens walloped 20 or more, too. George Brett drove in 93 runs. Hal McRae topped all qualifying hitters on the roster by connecting at a .311 clip. Paul Splittorff led the squad with 13 wins, while Dan Quisenberry registered a 1.94 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
Paul Splittorff	13	8	.619	3.63	27	27	0	4	0	0	156.0	159	77	63	9	52	2	61	1	0	3	667
Larry Gura	11	18	.379	4.90	34	31	1	5	0	0	200.3	220	119	109	23	76	6	57	8	0	0	881
Buddy Black	10	7	.588	3.79	24	24	0	3	0	0	161.3	159	75	68	19	43	1	58	2	0	4	672
Mike Armstrong	10	7	.588	3.86	58	0	33	0	0	3	102.7	86	53	44	11	45	3	52	3	0	5	432
Dennis Leonard	6	3	.667	3.71	10	10	0	1	0	0	63.0	69	29	26	3	19	1	31	0	0	1	270
Steve Renko	6	11	.353	4.30	25	17	2	1	0	1	121.3	144	63	58	9	36	1	54	0	0	4	536
Dan Quisenberry	5	3	.625	1.94	69	0	62	0	0	45	139.0	118	35	30	6	11	2	48	0	0	0	536
Gaylord Perry	4	4	.500	4.27	14	14	0	1	1	0	84.3	98	48	40	6	26	1	40	1	0	4	374
Eric Rasmussen	3	6	.333	4.78	11	9	1	2	1	0	52.7	61	28	28	4	22	0	18	0	0	0	236
Bill Castro	2	0	1.000	6.64	18	0	6	0	0	0	40.7	51	34	30	4	12	1	17	5	0	1	190
Frank Wills	2	1	.667	4.15	6	4	1	0	0	0	34.7	35	17	16	2	15	0	23	0	0	3	152
Mark Huismann	2	1	.667	5.58	13	0	5	0	0	0	30.7	29	20	19	1	17	3	20	0	1	4	135
Don Hood	2	3	.400	2.27	27	0	15	0	0	0	47.7	48	20	12	5	14	2	17	2	0	3	199
Keith Creel	2	5	.286	6.35	25	10	9	1	0	0	89.3	116	66	63	17	35	0	31	2	0	1	404
Danny Jackson	1	1	.500	5.21	4	3	0	0	0	0	19.0	26	12	11	1	6	0	9	0	0	0	87
Joe Simpson	0	0		3.00	2	0	2	0	0	0	3.0	4	1	1	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	15
Bob Tufts	0	0		8.10	6	0	3	0	0	0	6.7	16	8	6	1	5	0	3	1	0	1	42
Vida Blue	0	5	.000	6.01	19	14	4	1	0	0	85.3	96	62	57	12	35	0	53	2	2	6	382
Totals	79	83	.488	4.26	392	163	144	19	2	49	1437.7	1535	767	681	133	471	23	593	27	3	40	6210

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	157	654	589	84	183	41	6	12	82	2	3	50	68	.311	.372	.462	.833	272	18	10	0	5	7
Willie Wilson	137	611	576	90	159	22	8	2	33	59	8	33	75	.276	.316	.352	.669	203	4	1	1	0	2
George Brett	123	525	464	90	144	38	2	25	93	0	1	57	39	.310	.385	.563	.947	261	9	1	0	3	13
Frank White	146	579	549	52	143	35	6	11	77	13	5	20	51	.260	.283	.406	.690	223	18	0	4	6	4
U. L. Washington	144	604	547	76	129	19	6	5	41	40	7	48	78	.236	.298	.320	.618	175	3	1	7	1	0
Willie Aikens	125	458	410	49	124	26	1	23	72	0	0	45	75	.302	.373	.539	.912	221	16	2	0	1	9
John Wathan	128	469	437	49	107	18	3	2	32	28	7	27	56	.245	.289	.314	.603	137	11	1	2	2	0
Amos Otis	98	384	356	35	93	16	3	4	41	5	2	27	63	.261	.313	.357	.669	127	7	0	0	1	3
Pat Sheridan	109	357	333	43	90	12	2	7	36	12	3	20	64	.270	.312	.381	.693	127	3	0	4	0	0
Don Slaught	83	290	276	21	86	13	4	0	28	3	1	11	27	.312	.336	.388	.723	107	8	0	1	2	0
Leon Roberts	84	234	213	24	55	7	0	8	24	1	1	17	27	.258	.313	.404	.717	86	7	1	1	2	1
Onix Concepcion	80	240	219	22	53	11	3	0	20	10	3	12	12	.242	.282	.320	.602	70	4	1	6	2	0
Butch Davis	33	130	122	13	42	2	6	2	18	4	3	4	19	.344	.359	.508	.868	62	3	0	2	2	0
Greg Pryor	68	125	115	9	25	4	0	1	14	0	0	7	8	.217	.260	.278	.538	32	3	0	2	1	0
Joe Simpson	91	135	119	16	20	2	2	0	8	1	1	11	21	.168	.248	.218	.467	26	1	2	2	1	2
Cesar Geronimo	38	91	87	2	18	4	0	0	4	0	1	2	13	.207	.242	.253	.495	22	1	2	0	0	0
Darryl Motley	19	72	68	9	16	1	2	3	11	2	1	2	8	.235	.264	.441	.705	30	3	1	0	1	0
Jerry Martin	13	48	44	4	14	2	0	2	13	1	0	1	7	.318	.313	.500	.813	22	0	0	0	3	0
Ron Johnson	9	30	27	2	7	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	1	.259	.333	.259	.593	7	0	0	0	0	0
Cliff Pastornicky	10	32	32	4	4	0	0	2	5	0	0	0	3	.125	.125	.313	.438	10	4	0	0	0	0
Buddy Biancalana	6	15	15	2	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	7	.200	.200	.200	.400	3	0	0	0	0	0
Paul Splittorff	27	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Tufts	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Armstrong	59	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Frank Wills	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Renko	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Eric Rasmussen	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Keith Creel	25	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
Don Hood	27	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mark Huismann	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Danny Jackson	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dennis Leonard	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Vida Blue	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Buddy Black	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Gaylord Perry	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dan Quisenberry	69	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Castro	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2093	6083	5598	696	1515	273	54	109	653	182	47	397	722	.271	.320	.397	.717	2223	123	23	32	33	41

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Willie Aikens	1B	112	109	865.0	884	64	11	101	.989	9.864	8.464	0	0	0
John Wathan	1B	37	27	238.0	244	26	3	24	.989	1.210	7.297	0	0	0
Joe Simpson	1B	54	8	148.7	167	14	1	18	.995	1.957	3.352	0	0	0
George Brett	1B	14	12	99.0	104	3	1	9	.991	9.727	7.643	0	0	0
Ron Johnson	1B	7	7	64.0	63	3	2	9	.971	9.281	9.429	0	0	0
Greg Pryor	1B	6	0	14.0	13	0	0	0	1.000	8.357	2.167	0	0	0
Frank White	2B	145	142	1241.3	390	442	8	123	.990	6.032	5.738	0	0	0
Onix Concepcion	2B	28	19	178.3	33	69	4	16	.962	5.148	3.643	0	0	0
Greg Pryor	2B	3	2	18.0	2	9	0	2	1.000	5.500	3.667	0	0	0
George Brett	3B	102	97	817.7	85	188	24	25	.919	3.005	2.676	0	0	0
Greg Pryor	3B	60	31	317.0	23	91	5	8	.958	3.237	1.900	0	0	0
Onix Concepcion	3B	31	26	231.0	19	54	7	8	.913	2.844	2.355	0	0	0
Cliff Pastornicky	3B	10	9	72.0	5	21	2	0	.929	3.250	2.600	0	0	0
John Wathan	C	92	89	786.7	360	32	6	5	.985	4.485	4.261	2	57	30	34.5
Don Slaught	C	79	74	647.0	299	18	12	7	.964	4.410	4.013	2	52	23	30.7
Ron Johnson	C	2	0	4.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	6.750	1.500	0	0	0
Willie Wilson	OF	136	132	1150.0	354	3	9	0	.975	2.794	2.625	0	0	0
Amos Otis	OF	96	96	809.3	233	6	1	1	.996	2.658	2.490	0	0	0
Pat Sheridan	OF	100	81	741.7	237	6	3	2	.988	2.949	2.430	0	0	0
Leon Roberts	OF	76	59	507.3	139	3	3	0	.979	2.519	1.868	0	0	0
Butch Davis	OF	33	33	287.0	83	1	2	0	.977	2.634	2.545	0	0	0
Joe Simpson	OF	38	22	211.7	75	4	1	2	.988	3.359	2.079	0	0	0
Cesar Geronimo	OF	35	21	205.0	69	2	1	0	.986	3.117	2.029	0	0	0
Darryl Motley	OF	18	17	150.0	42	2	1	0	.978	2.640	2.444	0	0	0
Jerry Martin	OF	13	13	111.0	22	0	1	0	.957	1.784	1.692	0	0	0
George Brett	OF	13	12	107.0	21	1	0	0	1.000	1.850	1.692	0	0	0
John Wathan	OF	9	3	33.0	11	0	0	0	1.000	3.000	1.222	0	0	0
Larry Gura	P	34	31	200.3	12	42	0	5	1.000	2.426	1.588	0	0	0
Buddy Black	P	24	24	161.3	7	32	1	5	.975	2.176	1.625	0	0	0
Paul Splittorff	P	27	27	156.0	9	23	1	2	.970	1.846	1.185	0	0	0
Dan Quisenberry	P	69	0	139.0	8	30	3	1	.927	2.460	.551	0	0	0
Steve Renko	P	25	17	121.3	8	13	0	1	1.000	1.558	.840	0	0	0
Mike Armstrong	P	58	0	102.7	8	12	0	1	1.000	1.753	.345	0	0	0
Keith Creel	P	25	10	89.3	6	8	0	0	1.000	1.410	.560	0	0	0
Vida Blue	P	19	14	85.3	3	10	0	1	1.000	1.371	.684	0	0	0
Gaylord Perry	P	14	14	84.3	4	14	0	1	1.000	1.921	1.286	0	0	0
Dennis Leonard	P	10	10	63.0	2	11	2	2	.867	1.857	1.300	0	0	0
Eric Rasmussen	P	11	9	52.7	2	7	0	1	1.000	1.538	.818	0	0	0
Don Hood	P	27	0	47.7	3	14	3	3	.850	3.210	.630	0	0	0
Bill Castro	P	18	0	40.7	5	7	3	0	.800	2.656	.667	0	0	0
Frank Wills	P	6	4	34.7	1	3	1	1	.800	1.038	.667	0	0	0
Mark Huismann	P	13	0	30.7	1	2	0	0	1.000	.880	.231	0	0	0
Danny Jackson	P	4	3	19.0	2	3	0	0	1.000	2.368	1.250	0	0	0
Bob Tufts	P	6	0	6.7	0	2	0	0	1.000	2.700	.333	0	0	0
Joe Simpson	P	2	0	3.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
U. L. Washington	SS	140	139	1224.7	201	448	36	91	.947	4.769	4.636	0	0	0
Onix Concepcion	SS	21	19	170.0	40	52	4	11	.958	4.871	4.381	0	0	0
Buddy Biancalana	SS	6	5	43.0	11	21	3	3	.914	6.698	5.333	0	0	0
Totals		1908	1467	12930.0	4313	1816	165	489	.974	4.266	3.212	4	109	53	32.7

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