2016 Kansas City Royals Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 81-81
Finished 3rd in the AL's Central Division
Attendance: 2,557,712, Avg. 31,577
Ballpark: Kauffman Stadium
Manager: Ned Yost (81-81)
Location: Kansas City, Kansas

2016 Kansas City Royals Roster
2016 Kansas City Royals Results

The Kansas City Royals of the American League ended the 2016 season with a record of 81 wins and 81 losses, finishing third in the AL's Central Division.

The Royals scored 675 runs and allowed 712 runs. Kendrys Morales walloped 30 home runs for Kansas City, while Alex Gordon, Eric Hosmer and Salvador Perez each swatted 20 or more, too. Eric Hosmer drove in 104 runs. Paulo Orlando led all regular hitters by connecting at a .302 clip. Danny Duffy topped the squad with 12 wins and a team-best 3.51 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Ned Yost 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
Danny Duffy	12	3	.800	3.51	42	26	5	1	0	179.7	163	71	70	27	42	0	188	7	0	4	731
Ian Kennedy	11	11	.500	3.68	33	33	0	0	0	195.7	173	81	80	33	66	1	184	13	0	4	818
Yordano Ventura	11	12	.478	4.45	32	32	0	2	0	186.0	190	96	92	23	78	1	144	8	1	13	816
Edinson Volquez	10	11	.476	5.37	34	34	0	0	0	189.3	217	124	113	23	76	1	139	7	1	5	853
Dillon Gee	8	9	.471	4.68	33	14	3	0	0	125.0	146	67	65	24	37	3	89	6	1	1	551
Chien-Ming Wang	6	0	1.000	4.22	38	0	24	0	0	53.3	60	27	25	6	18	0	30	2	0	1	231
Joakim Soria	5	8	.385	4.05	70	0	18	0	1	66.7	70	31	30	10	27	0	68	2	3	2	293
Chris Young	3	9	.250	6.19	34	13	7	0	1	88.7	104	63	61	28	43	1	94	1	0	3	406
Peter Moylan	2	0	1.000	3.43	50	0	11	0	0	44.7	42	19	17	4	16	0	34	2	0	3	191
Wade Davis	2	1	.667	1.87	45	0	40	0	27	43.3	33	9	9	0	16	0	47	3	0	4	176
Brooks Pounders	2	1	.667	9.24	13	0	6	0	0	12.7	19	13	13	6	3	0	13	0	1	0	58
Matt Strahm	2	2	.500	1.23	21	0	1	0	0	22.0	13	4	3	0	11	1	30	1	0	1	88
Luke Hochevar	2	3	.400	3.86	40	0	1	0	0	37.3	31	17	16	6	9	0	40	3	0	2	151
Kelvin Herrera	2	6	.250	2.75	72	0	23	0	12	72.0	57	23	22	6	12	0	86	3	0	3	283
Kevin McCarthy	1	0	1.000	6.48	10	0	1	0	0	8.3	11	8	6	1	5	0	7	0	0	0	41
Brian Flynn	1	2	.333	2.60	36	1	11	0	0	55.3	38	19	16	5	23	0	44	1	0	8	221
Kris Medlen	1	3	.250	7.77	6	6	0	0	0	24.3	30	25	21	2	20	0	18	0	0	1	119
Drew Butera	0	0		0.00	2	0	2	0	0	1.3	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	5
Jason Vargas	0	0		2.25	3	3	0	0	0	12.0	8	3	3	1	3	0	11	0	0	0	47
Scott Alexander	0	0		3.32	17	0	4	0	0	19.0	24	7	7	1	7	0	16	0	0	0	84
Alec Mills	0	0		13.50	3	0	2	0	0	3.3	3	5	5	0	5	0	4	1	0	0	19
Totals	81	81	.500	4.21	634	162	159	3	41	1440.0	1433	712	674	206	517	8	1287	60	7	55	6182

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
Alcides Escobar	162	682	637	57	166	24	6	7	55	17	4	27	96	.261	.292	.350	.642	223	16	3	10	5	2
Eric Hosmer	158	667	605	80	161	24	1	25	104	5	3	57	132	.266	.328	.433	.761	262	18	1	0	4	5
Kendrys Morales	154	618	558	65	147	24	0	30	93	0	0	48	120	.263	.327	.468	.795	261	20	7	0	5	2
Paulo Orlando	128	483	457	52	138	24	4	5	43	14	3	13	105	.302	.329	.405	.734	185	12	7	3	3	1
Cheslor Cuthbert	128	510	475	49	130	28	1	12	46	2	0	32	96	.274	.318	.413	.731	196	14	0	1	2	0
Salvador Perez	139	546	514	57	127	28	2	22	64	0	0	22	119	.247	.288	.438	.725	225	12	8	0	2	3
Lorenzo Cain	103	434	397	56	114	19	1	9	56	14	5	31	84	.287	.339	.408	.747	162	15	2	0	4	3
Alex Gordon	128	506	445	62	98	16	2	17	40	8	1	52	148	.220	.312	.380	.692	169	9	8	0	1	3
Whit Merrifield	81	332	311	44	88	22	3	2	29	8	3	19	72	.283	.323	.392	.716	122	1	0	1	1	1
Jarrod Dyson	107	337	299	46	83	14	8	1	25	30	7	26	39	.278	.340	.388	.728	116	4	3	8	1	2
Drew Butera	56	133	123	18	35	10	1	4	16	0	0	8	36	.285	.328	.480	.808	59	2	0	2	0	0
Christian Colon	54	161	147	13	34	6	0	1	13	0	1	11	31	.231	.294	.293	.586	43	4	2	1	0	0
Omar Infante	39	149	134	16	32	9	1	0	11	0	0	9	23	.239	.279	.321	.600	43	0	0	2	4	0
Mike Moustakas	27	113	104	12	25	6	0	7	13	0	1	9	13	.240	.301	.500	.801	52	5	0	0	0	0
Adalberto Mondesi	47	149	135	16	25	1	3	2	13	9	1	6	48	.185	.231	.281	.512	38	1	2	6	0	0
Brett Eibner	26	85	78	11	18	6	0	3	10	0	0	6	23	.231	.286	.423	.709	33	1	0	1	0	1
Rey Fuentes	13	44	41	2	13	1	0	0	5	0	2	3	8	.317	.364	.341	.705	14	0	0	0	0	0
Billy Burns	24	40	37	7	9	0	0	0	1	3	2	0	7	.243	.275	.243	.518	9	0	2	0	1	0
Hunter Dozier	8	21	19	4	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	8	.211	.286	.263	.549	5	0	0	0	0	0
Yordano Ventura	32	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0	0	0
Danny Duffy	42	6	5	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.400	1	0	0	1	0	0
Daniel Nava	9	12	11	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.091	.167	.182	.348	2	0	0	0	0	0
Edinson Volquez	34	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chris Young	34	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dillon Gee	33	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	2	0	0
Terrance Gore	17	3	3	6	0	0	0	0	0	11	2	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ian Kennedy	33	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tony Cruz	4	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	1	0
Brian Flynn	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jason Vargas	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Scott Alexander	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Wade Davis	45	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Chien-Ming Wang	38	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Joakim Soria	70	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Brooks Pounders	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Kris Medlen	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Kelvin Herrera	72	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Peter Moylan	50	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Luke Hochevar	40	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Alec Mills	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Kevin McCarthy	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Matt Strahm	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2244	6051	5552	675	1450	264	33	147	640	121	35	382	1224	.261	.312	.400	.712	2221	134	45	38	34	23

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Eric Hosmer	1B	154	154	1351.0	1240	74	6	118	.995	8.754	8.532	0	0	0
Kendrys Morales	1B	7	6	53.0	46	3	0	4	1.000	8.321	7.000	0	0	0
Daniel Nava	1B	6	1	22.0	17	2	0	2	1.000	7.773	3.167	0	0	0
Whit Merrifield	1B	1	1	9.0	9	0	0	1	1.000	9.000	9.000	0	0	0
Salvador Perez	1B	1	0	3.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	3.000	0	0	0
Drew Butera	1B	2	0	2.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0
Whit Merrifield	2B	65	55	502.7	92	156	4	39	.984	4.440	3.815	0	0	0
Adalberto Mondesi	2B	42	40	354.7	75	96	3	23	.983	4.339	4.071	0	0	0
Omar Infante	2B	39	38	335.7	66	102	4	17	.977	4.504	4.308	0	0	0
Christian Colon	2B	32	29	247.0	45	94	0	18	1.000	5.065	4.344	0	0	0
Cheslor Cuthbert	3B	127	123	1096.3	77	216	16	15	.948	2.405	2.307	0	0	0
Mike Moustakas	3B	26	26	221.0	29	40	2	4	.972	2.810	2.654	0	0	0
Christian Colon	3B	15	10	92.7	8	21	1	0	.967	2.817	1.933	0	0	0
Whit Merrifield	3B	5	3	30.0	1	8	1	2	.900	2.700	1.800	0	0	0
Salvador Perez	C	128	128	1105.7	989	77	4	4	.996	8.677	8.328	5	40	37	48.1
Drew Butera	C	51	34	325.3	288	16	6	1	.981	8.410	5.961	1	15	5	25.0
Tony Cruz	C	4	0	9.0	9	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	2.250	1	0	0
Alex Gordon	OF	126	125	1100.3	222	6	2	1	.991	1.865	1.810	0	0	0
Paulo Orlando	OF	122	115	1045.0	235	6	4	2	.984	2.076	1.975	0	0	0
Lorenzo Cain	OF	101	101	874.3	257	3	3	0	.989	2.676	2.574	0	0	0
Jarrod Dyson	OF	95	83	758.7	196	11	2	0	.990	2.456	2.179	0	0	0
Brett Eibner	OF	18	18	153.0	39	0	0	0	1.000	2.294	2.167	0	0	0
Whit Merrifield	OF	16	14	118.0	28	3	0	2	1.000	2.364	1.938	0	0	0
Rey Fuentes	OF	12	12	98.0	23	1	1	0	.960	2.204	2.000	0	0	0
Billy Burns	OF	17	8	86.7	20	0	0	0	1.000	2.077	1.176	0	0	0
Hunter Dozier	OF	7	5	44.0	13	0	0	0	1.000	2.659	1.857	0	0	0
Kendrys Morales	OF	5	5	37.0	8	0	0	0	1.000	1.946	1.600	0	0	0
Terrance Gore	OF	2	0	5.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	5.400	1.500	0	0	0
Ian Kennedy	P	33	33	195.7	9	8	0	2	1.000	.782	.515	0	0	0
Edinson Volquez	P	34	34	189.3	13	25	1	0	.974	1.806	1.118	0	0	0
Yordano Ventura	P	32	32	186.0	6	27	5	1	.868	1.597	1.031	0	0	0
Danny Duffy	P	42	26	179.7	1	18	3	0	.864	.952	.452	0	0	0
Dillon Gee	P	33	14	125.0	5	12	3	3	.850	1.224	.515	0	0	0
Chris Young	P	34	13	88.7	1	9	1	0	.909	1.015	.294	0	0	0
Kelvin Herrera	P	72	0	72.0	2	7	0	1	1.000	1.125	.125	0	0	0
Joakim Soria	P	70	0	66.7	5	15	0	0	1.000	2.700	.286	0	0	0
Brian Flynn	P	36	1	55.3	2	8	2	3	.833	1.627	.278	0	0	0
Chien-Ming Wang	P	38	0	53.3	1	3	1	0	.800	.675	.105	0	0	0
Peter Moylan	P	50	0	44.7	2	10	3	3	.800	2.418	.240	0	0	0
Wade Davis	P	45	0	43.3	1	4	0	0	1.000	1.038	.111	0	0	0
Luke Hochevar	P	40	0	37.3	0	3	0	1	1.000	.723	.075	0	0	0
Kris Medlen	P	6	6	24.3	2	2	0	1	1.000	1.479	.667	0	0	0
Matt Strahm	P	21	0	22.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	.409	.048	0	0	0
Scott Alexander	P	17	0	19.0	1	2	1	1	.750	1.421	.176	0	0	0
Brooks Pounders	P	13	0	12.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	.711	.077	0	0	0
Jason Vargas	P	3	3	12.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	1.500	.667	0	0	0
Kevin McCarthy	P	10	0	8.3	1	2	0	0	1.000	3.240	.300	0	0	0
Alec Mills	P	3	0	3.3	1	1	0	0	1.000	5.400	.667	0	0	0
Drew Butera	P	2	0	1.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Alcides Escobar	SS	162	162	1412.0	221	426	14	95	.979	4.124	3.994	0	0	0
Adalberto Mondesi	SS	7	0	19.0	3	5	1	1	.889	3.789	1.143	0	0	0
Christian Colon	SS	4	0	9.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	3.000	.750	0	0	0
Totals		2033	1458	12960.0	4320	1526	94	365	.984	4.060	2.876	7	55	42	43.3

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