1988 Kansas City Royals Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 84-77
Finished 3rd in the AL's West Division
Attendance: 2,350,181, Avg. 29,365
Ballpark: Royals Stadium
Manager: John Wathan (84-77)
Location: Kansas City, Kansas

1988 Kansas City Royals Roster
1988 Kansas City Royals Results

The Kansas City Royals of the American League ended the 1988 season with a record of 84 wins and 77 losses, finishing third in the AL's West Division.

The Royals scored 704 runs and conceded 648 runs. Danny Tartabull led Kansas City with 26 home runs, while George Brett and Bo Jackson walloped 20 or more also. George Brett drove in 103 runs and topped all qualifying hitters on the roster by connecting at a .306 clip. Mark Gubicza paced the squad with 20 wins and a team-best 2.70 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

John Wathan 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
Mark Gubicza	20	8	.714	2.70	35	35	0	8	4	0	269.7	237	94	81	11	83	3	183	6	4	12	1111
Bret Saberhagen	14	16	.467	3.80	35	35	0	9	0	0	260.7	271	122	110	18	59	5	171	4	0	9	1089
Charlie Leibrandt	13	12	.520	3.19	35	35	0	7	2	0	243.0	244	98	86	20	62	3	125	4	4	10	1002
Floyd Bannister	12	13	.480	4.33	31	31	0	2	0	0	189.3	182	102	91	22	68	6	113	5	2	6	816
Jeff Montgomery	7	2	.778	3.45	45	0	13	0	0	1	62.7	54	25	24	6	30	1	47	2	6	3	271
Steve Farr	5	4	.556	2.50	62	1	49	0	0	20	82.7	74	25	23	5	30	6	72	2	2	4	344
Ted Power	5	6	.455	5.94	22	12	3	2	2	0	80.3	98	54	53	7	30	3	44	3	2	3	360
Israel Sanchez	3	2	.600	4.54	19	1	6	0	0	1	35.7	36	20	18	0	18	2	14	0	1	3	157
Rick Anderson	2	1	.667	4.24	7	3	0	0	0	0	34.0	41	17	16	3	9	2	9	1	0	1	147
Buddy Black	2	1	.667	4.91	17	0	5	0	0	0	22.0	23	12	12	2	11	2	19	0	2	0	98
Luis Aquino	1	0	1.000	2.79	7	5	0	1	1	0	29.0	33	15	9	1	17	0	11	1	1	1	136
Mark Lee	0	0		3.60	4	0	4	0	0	0	5.0	6	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	21
Dan Quisenberry	0	1	.000	3.55	20	0	13	0	0	1	25.3	32	11	10	0	5	2	9	0	1	1	110
Jose de Jesus	0	1	.000	27.00	2	1	0	0	0	0	2.7	6	10	8	0	5	1	2	0	0	0	19
Tom Gordon	0	2	.000	5.17	5	2	0	0	0	0	15.7	16	9	9	1	7	0	18	0	0	0	67
Jerry Don Gleaton	0	4	.000	3.55	42	0	20	0	0	3	38.0	33	17	15	2	17	1	29	3	0	2	164
Gene Garber	0	4	.000	3.58	26	0	19	0	0	6	32.7	29	15	13	4	13	2	20	2	2	0	138
Totals	84	77	.522	3.65	414	161	132	29	9	32	1428.3	1415	648	580	102	465	39	886	33	27	55	6050

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	157	681	589	90	180	42	3	24	103	14	3	82	51	.306	.389	.509	.898	300	15	3	0	7	15
Kevin Seitzer	149	643	559	90	170	32	5	5	60	10	8	72	64	.304	.388	.406	.794	227	15	6	3	3	4
Willie Wilson	147	628	591	81	155	17	11	1	37	35	7	22	106	.262	.289	.333	.622	197	5	2	8	5	1
Danny Tartabull	146	593	507	80	139	38	3	26	102	8	5	76	119	.274	.369	.515	.884	261	10	4	0	6	4
Frank White	150	575	537	48	126	25	1	8	58	7	3	21	67	.235	.266	.330	.595	177	16	4	7	6	3
Kurt Stillwell	128	518	459	63	115	28	5	10	53	6	5	47	76	.251	.322	.399	.721	183	7	3	6	3	0
Bo Jackson	124	468	439	63	108	16	4	25	68	27	6	25	146	.246	.287	.472	.758	207	6	1	1	2	6
Pat Tabler	89	330	301	37	93	17	2	1	49	2	3	23	41	.309	.358	.389	.746	117	6	2	0	4	0
Bill Buckner	89	263	242	18	62	14	0	3	34	3	1	13	19	.256	.290	.351	.641	85	6	0	4	4	5
Mike Macfarlane	70	236	211	25	56	15	0	4	26	0	0	21	37	.265	.332	.393	.725	83	5	1	1	2	2
Jamie Quirk	84	232	196	22	47	7	1	8	25	1	5	28	41	.240	.333	.408	.741	80	2	1	4	3	2
Jim Eisenreich	82	214	202	26	44	8	1	1	19	9	3	6	31	.218	.236	.282	.518	57	2	0	2	4	1
Bill Pecota	90	206	178	25	37	3	3	1	15	7	2	18	34	.208	.286	.275	.562	49	1	2	7	1	0
Brad Wellman	71	116	107	11	29	3	0	1	6	1	2	6	23	.271	.322	.327	.649	35	1	2	1	0	0
Larry Owen	37	94	81	5	17	1	0	1	3	0	0	9	23	.210	.304	.259	.564	21	0	2	2	0	0
Gary Thurman	35	70	66	6	11	1	0	0	2	5	1	4	20	.167	.214	.182	.396	12	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Balboni	21	64	63	2	9	2	0	2	5	0	0	1	20	.143	.156	.270	.426	17	0	0	0	0	0
Scotti Madison	16	39	35	4	6	2	0	0	2	1	0	4	5	.171	.256	.229	.485	8	0	0	0	0	0
Ed Hearn	7	18	18	1	4	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.222	.222	.333	.556	6	1	0	0	0	0
Thad Bosley	15	24	21	1	4	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	6	.190	.250	.190	.440	4	0	0	0	1	1
Nick Capra	14	31	29	3	4	1	0	0	0	1	0	2	3	.138	.194	.172	.366	5	3	0	0	0	0
Luis de los Santos	11	26	22	1	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	4	4	.091	.231	.227	.458	5	3	0	0	0	0
Rey Palacios	5	11	11	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.091	.091	.091	.182	1	1	0	0	0	0
Dave Owen	7	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Floyd Bannister	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Buddy Black	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Luis Aquino	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jose de Jesus	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Charlie Leibrandt	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Rick Anderson	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Farr	62	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Israel Sanchez	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bret Saberhagen	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Gene Garber	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jerry Don Gleaton	42	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Ted Power	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mark Gubicza	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Gordon	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jeff Montgomery	45	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mark Lee	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dan Quisenberry	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2158	6085	5469	704	1419	275	40	121	671	137	54	486	944	.259	.321	.391	.712	2137	105	33	46	51	44

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
George Brett	1B	124	124	1075.0	1126	70	10	105	.992	1.013	9.645	0	0	0
Bill Buckner	1B	21	18	164.0	160	12	1	11	.994	9.439	8.190	0	0	0
Steve Balboni	1B	13	10	93.0	94	5	2	11	.980	9.581	7.615	0	0	0
Pat Tabler	1B	7	5	40.3	40	4	4	6	.917	9.818	6.286	0	0	0
Luis de los Santos	1B	5	3	25.0	31	1	0	3	1.000	11.520	6.400	0	0	0
Bill Pecota	1B	11	0	20.0	17	0	0	2	1.000	7.650	1.545	0	0	0
Scotti Madison	1B	2	1	8.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	3.375	1.500	0	0	0
Jamie Quirk	1B	1	0	3.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	3.000	0	0	0
Frank White	2B	148	139	1186.3	293	426	4	88	.994	5.455	4.858	0	0	0
Brad Wellman	2B	46	22	235.0	54	85	4	21	.972	5.323	3.022	0	0	0
Bill Pecota	2B	3	0	7.0	4	2	0	1	1.000	7.714	2.000	0	0	0
Kevin Seitzer	3B	147	147	1286.3	93	297	26	33	.938	2.729	2.653	0	0	0
Bill Pecota	3B	21	14	132.0	10	36	1	2	.979	3.136	2.190	0	0	0
Brad Wellman	3B	4	0	5.0	0	3	0	2	1.000	5.400	.750	0	0	0
Pat Tabler	3B	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Jamie Quirk	3B	1	0	2.0	0	3	0	0	1.000	13.500	3.000	0	0	0
Rey Palacios	3B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Mike Macfarlane	C	68	63	553.0	309	18	2	3	.994	5.322	4.809	8	45	14	23.7
Jamie Quirk	C	79	60	543.7	409	31	8	5	.982	7.284	5.570	2	53	20	27.4
Larry Owen	C	37	31	259.7	168	13	2	1	.989	6.273	4.892	1	15	8	34.8
Ed Hearn	C	4	3	27.0	12	1	0	0	1.000	4.333	3.250	1	2	0	0.0
Scotti Madison	C	4	2	23.0	18	1	0	0	1.000	7.435	4.750	0	0	0
Rey Palacios	C	3	2	21.0	17	1	0	0	1.000	7.714	6.000	0	2	0	0.0
Bill Pecota	C	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Willie Wilson	OF	142	141	1194.0	365	1	4	0	.989	2.759	2.577	0	0	0
Danny Tartabull	OF	130	130	1110.3	227	8	9	1	.963	1.905	1.808	0	0	0
Bo Jackson	OF	121	118	1023.3	246	11	7	2	.973	2.260	2.124	0	0	0
Jim Eisenreich	OF	64	33	368.7	109	0	4	0	.965	2.661	1.703	0	0	0
Pat Tabler	OF	37	35	283.0	68	1	1	0	.986	2.194	1.865	0	0	0
Gary Thurman	OF	32	17	175.3	36	1	2	0	.949	1.899	1.156	0	0	0
Nick Capra	OF	11	6	67.0	15	0	0	0	1.000	2.015	1.364	0	0	0
Bill Pecota	OF	9	2	38.3	8	0	1	0	.889	1.878	.889	0	0	0
Thad Bosley	OF	6	1	18.0	4	0	0	0	1.000	2.000	.667	0	0	0
Scotti Madison	OF	3	0	6.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	3.000	.667	0	0	0
Kevin Seitzer	OF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Mark Gubicza	P	35	35	269.7	29	44	1	3	.986	2.436	2.086	0	0	0
Bret Saberhagen	P	35	35	260.7	15	34	3	3	.942	1.692	1.400	0	0	0
Charlie Leibrandt	P	35	35	243.0	19	43	3	2	.954	2.296	1.771	0	0	0
Floyd Bannister	P	31	31	189.3	8	25	1	1	.971	1.569	1.065	0	0	0
Steve Farr	P	62	1	82.7	3	7	0	0	1.000	1.089	.161	0	0	0
Ted Power	P	22	12	80.3	5	8	0	1	1.000	1.456	.591	0	0	0
Jeff Montgomery	P	45	0	62.7	3	10	1	0	.929	1.867	.289	0	0	0
Jerry Don Gleaton	P	42	0	38.0	3	3	0	0	1.000	1.421	.143	0	0	0
Israel Sanchez	P	19	1	35.7	2	7	1	0	.900	2.271	.474	0	0	0
Rick Anderson	P	7	3	34.0	1	3	0	0	1.000	1.059	.571	0	0	0
Gene Garber	P	26	0	32.7	3	6	1	1	.900	2.480	.346	0	0	0
Luis Aquino	P	7	5	29.0	2	2	1	1	.800	1.241	.571	0	0	0
Dan Quisenberry	P	20	0	25.3	0	9	0	1	1.000	3.197	.450	0	0	0
Buddy Black	P	17	0	22.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	.409	.059	0	0	0
Tom Gordon	P	5	2	15.7	2	2	0	0	1.000	2.298	.800	0	0	0
Mark Lee	P	4	0	5.0	0	1	0	1	1.000	1.800	.250	0	0	0
Jose de Jesus	P	2	1	2.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Kurt Stillwell	SS	124	121	1058.3	170	349	13	60	.976	4.414	4.185	0	0	0
Bill Pecota	SS	41	33	287.0	59	107	4	20	.976	5.206	4.049	0	0	0
Brad Wellman	SS	15	5	58.0	13	13	2	4	.929	4.034	1.733	0	0	0
Dave Owen	SS	7	2	24.0	7	9	1	6	.941	6.000	2.286	0	0	0
George Brett	SS	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Totals		1910	1449	12855.0	4285	1714	124	401	.980	4.200	3.141	12	117	42	26.4

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