2008 Kansas City Royals Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 75-87
Finished 4th in the AL's Central Division
Attendance: 1,578,922, Avg. 19,986
Ballpark: Kauffman Stadium
Manager: Trey Hillman (75-87)
Location: Kansas City, Kansas

2008 Kansas City Royals Roster
2008 Kansas City Royals Results

The Kansas City Royals of the American League ended the 2008 season with a record of 75 wins and 87 losses, finishing fourth in the AL's Central Division.

The Royals scored 691 runs and allowed 781 runs. Jose Guillen led Kansas City with 20 home runs, while Alex Gordon and Mark Teahen walloped 20 or more also. Jose Guillen drove in 97 runs. David DeJesus paced all regular hitters by connecting at a .307 clip. Gil Meche topped the team with 14 wins, and Zack Greinke recorded a 3.47 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Trey Hillman coached the team.

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Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Gil Meche	14	11	.560	3.98	34	34	0	0	0	210.3	204	98	93	19	73	2	183	0	0	5	886
Zack Greinke	13	10	.565	3.47	32	32	0	1	0	202.3	202	87	78	21	56	1	183	4	1	8	851
Kyle Davies	9	7	.563	4.06	21	21	0	0	0	113.0	121	57	51	10	43	0	71	2	1	8	487
Brian Bannister	9	16	.360	5.76	32	32	0	1	0	182.7	215	127	117	29	58	1	113	7	1	7	811
Luke Hochevar	6	12	.333	5.51	22	22	0	0	0	129.0	143	84	79	12	47	1	72	5	0	7	566
Ron Mahay	5	0	1.000	3.48	57	0	3	0	0	64.7	61	27	25	6	29	0	49	1	0	1	278
Juan Carlos Oviedo	4	1	.800	2.98	45	0	12	0	0	48.3	45	19	16	2	15	2	26	4	0	3	205
Ramon Ramirez	3	2	.600	2.64	71	0	15	0	1	71.7	57	23	21	2	31	6	70	0	1	6	295
Brandon Duckworth	3	3	.500	4.50	7	7	0	0	0	38.0	38	20	19	2	19	0	20	3	0	0	167
Rob Tejeda	2	2	.500	3.20	25	1	14	0	0	39.3	22	17	14	3	19	0	41	1	0	5	157
Joakim Soria	2	3	.400	1.60	63	0	57	0	42	67.3	39	13	12	5	19	1	66	6	1	1	260
Brett Tomko	2	7	.222	6.97	16	10	1	0	0	60.7	80	49	47	11	13	0	40	0	0	4	271
Horacio Ramirez	1	1	.500	2.59	15	0	4	0	0	24.3	21	9	7	1	1	0	11	2	0	1	96
Joel Peralta	1	2	.333	5.98	40	0	12	0	0	52.7	56	37	35	15	14	0	38	2	0	1	224
Yasuhiko Yabuta	1	3	.250	4.78	31	0	12	0	0	37.7	41	21	20	6	17	0	25	0	0	1	168
Neal Musser	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3
Tony Pena	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3
Carlos Rosa	0	0		2.70	2	0	1	0	0	3.3	3	1	1	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	12
Josh Newman	0	0		7.71	4	0	3	0	0	7.0	10	9	6	1	6	0	2	0	0	0	35
Devon Lowery	0	0		10.38	5	0	2	0	0	4.3	6	5	5	2	2	0	6	0	0	0	21
Hideo Nomo	0	0		18.69	3	0	2	0	0	4.3	10	9	9	3	4	0	3	0	0	1	27
Kip Wells	0	1	.000	8.71	10	0	2	0	0	10.3	10	10	10	1	11	0	9	1	0	1	50
Jeff Fulchino	0	1	.000	9.00	12	0	7	0	0	14.0	21	15	14	2	8	0	12	1	0	1	72
Jimmy Gobble	0	2	.000	8.81	39	0	10	0	1	31.7	39	31	31	5	23	1	27	2	0	6	159
John Bale	0	3	.000	4.39	13	3	1	0	0	26.7	29	13	13	1	6	0	14	0	0	1	110
Totals	75	87	.463	4.50	601	162	160	2	44	1445.7	1473	781	723	159	515	15	1085	41	5	68	6214

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
David DeJesus	135	577	518	70	159	25	7	12	73	11	8	46	71	.307	.366	.452	.818	234	10	5	4	4	3
Jose Guillen	153	633	598	66	158	42	1	20	97	2	1	23	106	.264	.300	.438	.738	262	23	9	0	3	3
Mark Teahen	149	623	572	66	146	31	4	15	59	4	3	46	131	.255	.313	.402	.715	230	6	3	0	2	4
Mike Aviles	102	441	419	68	136	27	4	10	51	8	3	18	58	.325	.354	.480	.833	201	12	2	0	2	4
Alex Gordon	134	571	493	72	128	35	1	16	59	9	2	66	120	.260	.351	.432	.783	213	8	6	1	5	5
Billy Butler	124	478	443	44	122	22	0	11	55	0	1	33	57	.275	.324	.400	.724	177	23	0	0	2	0
Ross Gload	122	418	388	46	106	18	1	3	37	3	4	23	39	.273	.317	.348	.664	135	12	3	1	3	4
Mark Grudzielanek	86	360	331	36	99	24	0	3	24	2	1	19	41	.299	.345	.399	.743	132	8	5	3	2	1
John Buck	109	418	370	48	83	23	1	9	48	0	3	38	96	.224	.304	.365	.669	135	12	6	0	4	2
Miguel Olivo	84	317	306	29	78	22	0	12	41	7	0	7	82	.255	.278	.444	.722	136	6	3	0	1	2
Joey Gathright	105	315	279	41	71	3	1	0	22	21	4	20	40	.254	.311	.272	.584	76	3	4	10	2	0
Alberto Callaspo	74	234	213	21	65	8	3	0	16	2	1	19	14	.305	.361	.371	.731	79	6	0	1	1	0
Esteban German	89	242	216	30	53	14	3	0	22	7	3	18	42	.245	.303	.338	.640	73	5	1	4	3	1
Tony Pena	95	235	225	22	38	4	1	1	14	3	1	6	49	.169	.189	.209	.398	47	4	0	2	2	2
Mitch Maier	34	97	91	9	26	1	1	0	9	0	2	2	18	.286	.316	.319	.634	29	3	2	2	0	0
Ryan Shealy	20	79	73	12	22	1	0	7	20	0	0	5	19	.301	.354	.603	.957	44	2	1	0	0	0
Kila Ka'aihue	12	24	21	4	6	0	0	1	1	0	0	3	2	.286	.375	.429	.804	9	0	0	0	0	0
Jason Smith	22	28	28	6	6	2	0	0	1	0	1	0	12	.214	.214	.286	.500	8	0	0	0	0	0
Zack Greinke	32	8	7	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.286	.286	.429	.714	3	1	0	1	0	0
Matt Tupman	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Brian Bannister	32	5	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0	1	0	0
Gil Meche	34	4	4	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0	0	0	0
Luke Hochevar	22	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Kyle Davies	21	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Brett Tomko	16	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kip Wells	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Carlos Rosa	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Joakim Soria	63	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Ramon Ramirez	71	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Rob Tejeda	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Yasuhiko Yabuta	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Horacio Ramirez	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Joel Peralta	40	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Brandon Duckworth	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jeff Fulchino	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jimmy Gobble	39	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Devon Lowery	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Ron Mahay	57	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Neal Musser	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Josh Newman	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Hideo Nomo	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Juan Carlos Oviedo	45	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
John Bale	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2250	6118	5608	691	1507	303	28	120	650	79	38	392	1005	.269	.320	.397	.717	2226	144	50	32	36	31

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Ross Gload	1B	111	95	878.3	837	43	4	86	.995	9.017	7.928	0	0	0
Billy Butler	1B	34	33	260.0	233	9	2	27	.992	8.377	7.118	0	0	0
Ryan Shealy	1B	20	20	169.0	155	12	2	18	.988	8.893	8.350	0	0	0
Mark Teahen	1B	14	13	121.3	130	10	1	13	.993	1.385	1.000	0	0	0
Kila Ka'aihue	1B	4	1	15.0	12	1	0	2	1.000	7.800	3.250	0	0	0
Jason Smith	1B	1	0	2.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	2.000	0	0	0
Mark Grudzielanek	2B	85	85	710.7	135	257	4	58	.990	4.964	4.612	0	0	0
Alberto Callaspo	2B	46	42	365.7	74	119	0	36	1.000	4.750	4.196	0	0	0
Esteban German	2B	35	23	214.0	41	77	3	19	.975	4.963	3.371	0	0	0
Mike Aviles	2B	28	9	114.3	26	33	0	5	1.000	4.644	2.107	0	0	0
Jason Smith	2B	9	3	41.0	5	16	0	2	1.000	4.610	2.333	0	0	0
Alex Gordon	3B	133	133	1180.0	112	230	16	21	.955	2.608	2.571	0	0	0
Mark Teahen	3B	19	19	166.0	18	24	3	3	.933	2.277	2.211	0	0	0
Esteban German	3B	6	5	43.0	2	5	0	2	1.000	1.465	1.167	0	0	0
Mike Aviles	3B	7	3	29.7	3	3	0	0	1.000	1.820	.857	0	0	0
Jason Smith	3B	5	1	19.0	5	1	0	0	1.000	2.842	1.200	0	0	0
Alberto Callaspo	3B	1	1	8.0	1	5	0	1	1.000	6.750	6.000	0	0	0
John Buck	C	107	106	950.3	751	24	8	6	.990	7.340	7.243	4	59	12	16.9
Miguel Olivo	C	58	56	494.3	378	32	5	6	.988	7.465	7.069	4	19	14	42.4
Matt Tupman	C	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
David DeJesus	OF	133	130	1112.7	310	3	1	1	.997	2.532	2.353	0	0	0
Mark Teahen	OF	119	115	1024.3	260	7	2	3	.993	2.346	2.244	0	0	0
Jose Guillen	OF	109	108	912.3	204	10	4	2	.982	2.111	1.963	0	0	0
Joey Gathright	OF	103	74	729.0	199	5	1	0	.995	2.519	1.981	0	0	0
Esteban German	OF	39	25	235.0	54	0	2	0	.964	2.068	1.385	0	0	0
Mitch Maier	OF	34	24	231.7	71	0	1	0	.986	2.758	2.088	0	0	0
Ross Gload	OF	11	9	77.0	21	0	0	0	1.000	2.455	1.909	0	0	0
Alberto Callaspo	OF	3	1	14.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Jason Smith	OF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Gil Meche	P	34	34	210.3	6	28	4	1	.895	1.455	1.000	0	0	0
Zack Greinke	P	32	32	202.3	11	24	1	1	.972	1.557	1.094	0	0	0
Brian Bannister	P	32	32	182.7	12	28	2	3	.952	1.971	1.250	0	0	0
Luke Hochevar	P	22	22	129.0	6	11	1	2	.944	1.186	.773	0	0	0
Kyle Davies	P	21	21	113.0	4	10	1	0	.933	1.115	.667	0	0	0
Ramon Ramirez	P	71	0	71.7	2	8	1	1	.909	1.256	.141	0	0	0
Joakim Soria	P	63	0	67.3	6	6	0	1	1.000	1.604	.190	0	0	0
Ron Mahay	P	57	0	64.7	0	8	1	1	.889	1.113	.140	0	0	0
Brett Tomko	P	16	10	60.7	2	11	0	0	1.000	1.929	.813	0	0	0
Joel Peralta	P	40	0	52.7	3	2	0	0	1.000	.854	.125	0	0	0
Juan Carlos Oviedo	P	45	0	48.3	1	4	1	0	.833	.931	.111	0	0	0
Rob Tejeda	P	25	1	39.3	1	2	2	0	.600	.686	.120	0	0	0
Brandon Duckworth	P	7	7	38.0	2	5	0	1	1.000	1.658	1.000	0	0	0
Yasuhiko Yabuta	P	31	0	37.7	4	2	1	0	.857	1.434	.194	0	0	0
Jimmy Gobble	P	39	0	31.7	0	2	0	0	1.000	.568	.051	0	0	0
John Bale	P	13	3	26.7	0	9	0	1	1.000	3.038	.692	0	0	0
Horacio Ramirez	P	15	0	24.3	2	8	0	0	1.000	3.699	.667	0	0	0
Jeff Fulchino	P	12	0	14.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Kip Wells	P	10	0	10.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	.871	.100	0	0	0
Josh Newman	P	4	0	7.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.286	.250	0	0	0
Hideo Nomo	P	3	0	4.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Devon Lowery	P	5	0	4.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Carlos Rosa	P	2	0	3.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Tony Pena	P	1	0	1.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0
Neal Musser	P	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Mike Aviles	SS	91	89	747.7	141	238	10	65	.974	4.562	4.165	0	0	0
Tony Pena	SS	94	61	592.0	74	180	9	35	.966	3.861	2.702	0	0	0
Alberto Callaspo	SS	18	9	84.0	18	30	2	8	.960	5.143	2.667	0	0	0
Esteban German	SS	3	3	22.0	2	4	1	0	.857	2.455	2.000	0	0	0
Totals		2083	1458	13011.0	4337	1548	96	431	.984	4.071	2.825	8	78	26	25.0

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