1989 Kansas City Royals Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 92-70
Finished 2nd in the AL's West Division
Attendance: 2,477,700, Avg. 30,942
Ballpark: Royals Stadium
Manager: John Wathan (92-70)
Location: Kansas City, Kansas

1989 Kansas City Royals Roster
1989 Kansas City Royals Results

The Kansas City Royals of the American League ended the 1989 season with a record of 92 wins and 70 losses, finishing second in the AL's West Division.

The Royals scored 690 runs and yielded 635 runs. Bo Jackson walloped 32 home runs for Kansas City, while Danny Tartabull swatted 20 or more also. Bo Jackson drove in 105 runs. Jim Eisenreich paced batters with significant playing time by connecting at a .293 clip. Bret Saberhagen earned 23 wins on the mound for the squad, and Tom Gordon and Mark Gubicza also added 15 or more victories also Bret Saberhagen registered a 2.16 earned run average, best 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
Bret Saberhagen	23	6	.793	2.16	36	35	0	12	4	0	262.3	209	74	63	13	43	6	193	2	1	8	1021
Tom Gordon	17	9	.654	3.64	49	16	16	1	1	1	163.0	122	67	66	10	86	4	153	1	0	12	677
Mark Gubicza	15	11	.577	3.04	36	36	0	8	2	0	255.0	252	100	86	10	63	8	173	5	0	9	1060
Jeff Montgomery	7	3	.700	1.37	63	0	39	0	0	18	92.0	66	16	14	3	25	4	94	2	1	6	363
Luis Aquino	6	8	.429	3.50	34	16	7	2	1	0	141.3	148	62	55	6	35	4	68	4	0	4	591
Terry Leach	5	6	.455	4.15	30	3	6	0	0	0	73.7	78	46	34	4	36	9	34	1	1	1	328
Charlie Leibrandt	5	11	.313	5.14	33	27	3	3	1	0	161.0	196	98	92	13	54	4	73	2	2	9	712
Floyd Bannister	4	1	.800	4.66	14	14	0	0	0	0	75.3	87	40	39	8	18	1	35	1	0	1	323
Steve Crawford	3	1	.750	2.83	25	0	5	0	0	0	54.0	48	19	17	2	19	3	33	3	0	0	224
Rick Luecken	2	1	.667	3.42	19	0	12	0	0	1	23.7	23	9	9	3	13	4	16	0	1	0	104
Larry McWilliams	2	2	.500	4.13	8	5	0	1	0	0	32.7	31	15	15	2	8	1	24	3	0	2	136
Steve Farr	2	5	.286	4.12	51	2	40	0	0	18	63.3	75	35	29	5	22	5	56	1	0	2	279
Kevin Appier	1	4	.200	9.14	6	5	0	0	0	0	21.7	34	22	22	3	12	1	10	0	0	0	106
Jose de Jesus	0	0		4.50	3	1	1	0	0	0	8.0	7	4	4	1	8	0	2	0	0	0	37
Jerry Don Gleaton	0	0		5.65	15	0	5	0	0	0	14.3	20	10	9	0	6	0	9	0	1	0	66
Bob Buchanan	0	0		16.20	2	0	1	0	0	0	3.3	5	6	6	1	3	2	3	0	0	1	18
Stan Clarke	0	2	.000	15.43	2	2	0	0	0	0	7.0	14	12	12	2	4	0	2	0	0	1	36
Totals	92	70	.568	3.55	426	162	135	27	9	38	1451.7	1415	635	572	86	455	56	978	25	7	56	6081

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
Kevin Seitzer	160	715	597	78	168	17	2	4	48	17	8	102	76	.281	.387	.337	.723	201	16	5	4	7	7
Jim Eisenreich	134	519	475	64	139	33	7	9	59	27	8	37	44	.293	.341	.448	.790	213	8	0	3	4	9
Bo Jackson	135	561	515	86	132	15	6	32	105	26	9	39	172	.256	.310	.495	.805	255	10	3	0	4	8
George Brett	124	528	457	67	129	26	3	12	80	14	4	59	47	.282	.362	.431	.793	197	18	3	0	9	14
Kurt Stillwell	130	516	463	52	121	20	7	7	54	9	6	42	64	.261	.325	.380	.705	176	3	3	5	3	2
Danny Tartabull	133	515	441	54	118	22	0	18	62	4	2	69	123	.268	.369	.440	.809	194	12	3	0	2	2
Bob Boone	131	469	405	33	111	13	2	1	43	3	2	49	37	.274	.351	.323	.675	131	16	2	8	5	4
Frank White	135	458	418	34	107	22	1	2	36	3	2	30	52	.256	.307	.328	.635	137	7	2	5	3	0
Pat Tabler	123	434	390	36	101	11	1	2	42	0	0	37	42	.259	.325	.308	.633	120	14	2	3	2	0
Willie Wilson	112	423	383	58	97	17	7	3	43	24	6	27	78	.253	.300	.358	.657	137	8	1	6	6	0
Brad Wellman	103	189	178	30	41	4	0	2	12	5	3	7	36	.230	.263	.287	.550	51	7	1	3	0	0
Bill Buckner	79	183	176	7	38	4	1	1	16	1	0	6	11	.216	.240	.267	.507	47	4	0	0	1	2
Mike Macfarlane	69	167	157	13	35	6	0	2	19	0	0	7	27	.223	.263	.299	.563	47	8	2	0	1	0
Matt Winters	42	122	107	14	25	6	0	2	9	0	0	14	23	.234	.320	.346	.665	37	3	0	0	1	1
Luis de los Santos	28	92	87	6	22	3	1	0	6	0	0	5	14	.253	.293	.310	.604	27	2	0	0	0	0
Bill Pecota	65	92	83	21	17	4	2	3	5	5	0	7	9	.205	.275	.410	.684	34	4	1	1	0	1
Gary Thurman	72	105	87	24	17	2	1	0	5	16	0	15	26	.195	.311	.241	.552	21	0	0	2	1	0
Rey Palacios	55	53	47	12	8	2	0	1	8	0	1	2	14	.170	.216	.277	.492	13	1	1	2	1	0
Jeff Schulz	7	9	9	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.222	.222	.222	.444	2	0	0	0	0	0
Bret Saberhagen	39	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jeff Montgomery	63	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Larry McWilliams	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Rick Luecken	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Luis Aquino	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Floyd Bannister	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Buchanan	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Stan Clarke	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Crawford	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jose de Jesus	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Farr	51	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jerry Don Gleaton	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Gordon	49	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mark Gubicza	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Terry Leach	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Charlie Leibrandt	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Kevin Appier	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2266	6150	5475	690	1428	227	41	101	653	154	51	554	897	.261	.329	.373	.702	2040	141	29	42	50	50

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
George Brett	1B	104	105	901.3	896	80	2	71	.998	9.746	9.385	0	0	0
Luis de los Santos	1B	27	21	198.3	203	16	3	23	.986	9.938	8.111	0	0	0
Bill Buckner	1B	24	20	174.7	181	13	3	19	.985	9.996	8.083	0	0	0
Pat Tabler	1B	20	12	104.0	126	13	1	10	.993	12.029	6.950	0	0	0
Rey Palacios	1B	18	4	63.3	59	4	1	8	.984	8.953	3.500	0	0	0
Bill Pecota	1B	4	0	8.0	8	0	0	1	1.000	9.000	2.000	0	0	0
Kevin Seitzer	1B	2	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Frank White	2B	132	126	1057.3	238	407	10	64	.985	5.490	4.886	0	0	0
Brad Wellman	2B	64	31	338.3	74	128	1	27	.995	5.373	3.156	0	0	0
Bill Pecota	2B	12	5	50.0	8	19	0	3	1.000	4.860	2.250	0	0	0
Pat Tabler	2B	3	0	6.0	2	4	0	0	1.000	9.000	2.000	0	0	0
Kevin Seitzer	3B	159	158	1357.3	112	272	20	28	.950	2.546	2.415	0	0	0
Rey Palacios	3B	21	3	69.3	13	10	1	0	.958	2.986	1.095	0	0	0
Bill Pecota	3B	7	1	21.0	2	6	1	2	.889	3.429	1.143	0	0	0
Brad Wellman	3B	3	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Pat Tabler	3B	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Bob Boone	C	129	127	1082.0	752	64	7	6	.991	6.787	6.326	3	60	43	41.7
Mike Macfarlane	C	59	34	338.7	249	17	1	4	.996	7.069	4.508	9	17	12	41.4
Rey Palacios	C	13	1	31.0	24	1	0	0	1.000	7.258	1.923	0	2	1	33.3
Jim Eisenreich	OF	123	110	1002.0	273	4	3	0	.989	2.488	2.252	0	0	0
Bo Jackson	OF	110	109	954.0	224	11	8	2	.967	2.217	2.136	0	0	0
Willie Wilson	OF	108	95	831.7	252	2	6	0	.977	2.749	2.352	0	0	0
Danny Tartabull	OF	71	73	604.3	108	3	2	0	.982	1.653	1.563	0	0	0
Pat Tabler	OF	55	51	400.0	89	8	3	1	.970	2.183	1.764	0	0	0
Gary Thurman	OF	60	21	277.7	54	2	3	0	.949	1.815	.933	0	0	0
Matt Winters	OF	31	23	212.3	45	1	3	0	.939	1.950	1.484	0	0	0
Bill Pecota	OF	15	2	39.3	5	0	0	0	1.000	1.144	.333	0	0	0
Jeff Schulz	OF	5	1	17.3	6	0	0	0	1.000	3.115	1.200	0	0	0
Kevin Seitzer	OF	3	1	10.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	.900	.333	0	0	0
George Brett	OF	2	0	5.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	3.600	1.000	0	0	0
Rey Palacios	OF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Frank White	OF	1	0	0.0	0	0	0	0			.000	0	0	0
Bret Saberhagen	P	36	35	262.3	21	36	4	1	.934	1.956	1.583	0	0	0
Mark Gubicza	P	36	36	255.0	18	49	5	0	.931	2.365	1.861	0	0	0
Tom Gordon	P	49	16	163.0	15	26	0	7	1.000	2.264	.837	0	0	0
Charlie Leibrandt	P	33	27	161.0	6	26	2	0	.941	1.789	.970	0	0	0
Luis Aquino	P	34	16	141.3	11	23	0	3	1.000	2.165	1.000	0	0	0
Jeff Montgomery	P	63	0	92.0	11	6	2	1	.895	1.663	.270	0	0	0
Floyd Bannister	P	14	14	75.3	3	15	0	3	1.000	2.150	1.286	0	0	0
Terry Leach	P	30	3	73.7	5	19	4	0	.857	2.932	.800	0	0	0
Steve Farr	P	51	2	63.3	7	4	0	0	1.000	1.563	.216	0	0	0
Steve Crawford	P	25	0	54.0	7	13	0	1	1.000	3.333	.800	0	0	0
Larry McWilliams	P	8	5	32.7	1	4	0	0	1.000	1.378	.625	0	0	0
Rick Luecken	P	19	0	23.7	2	2	0	0	1.000	1.521	.211	0	0	0
Kevin Appier	P	6	5	21.7	1	0	0	0	1.000	.415	.167	0	0	0
Jerry Don Gleaton	P	15	0	14.3	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.256	.133	0	0	0
Jose de Jesus	P	3	1	8.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.125	.333	0	0	0
Stan Clarke	P	2	2	7.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.286	.500	0	0	0
Bob Buchanan	P	2	0	3.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Kurt Stillwell	SS	130	124	1088.3	179	334	16	65	.970	4.242	3.946	0	0	0
Brad Wellman	SS	34	21	193.0	30	56	1	15	.989	4.010	2.529	0	0	0
Bill Pecota	SS	29	17	150.3	27	54	1	8	.988	4.849	2.793	0	0	0
Kevin Seitzer	SS	6	0	20.0	5	5	0	2	1.000	4.500	1.667	0	0	0
Totals		2012	1458	13064.7	4355	1761	114	375	.982	4.213	3.040	12	79	56	41.5

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