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Major League Baseball

Record: 85-77   .525.... 2nd in American League West
Stadium: Royals Stadium
Playoffs: Did not Qualify
Attendance: 2,261,845

Top Draft Pick: Atlee Hammaker (#21)   MLB

General Manager - Joe Burke
Manager - Whitey Herzog

Pitching Coach - Galen Cisco  Third Base Coach - Chuck Hiller  Bullpen Coach - John Sullivan  Assistant Coach - Steve Boros  Scout - Murray Cook

Affiliates - AAA Omaha Royals AA Jacksonville Suns A+ Fort Myers Royals Rk GCL Royals Blue Rk GCL Royals Gold

Team Leaders

HR: Brett [23]
RBI: Porter [112]
2B: Brett [42]
SB: Wilson [83]
W: Splittorff [15]
SV: Hrabosky [11]
SO: Leonard [126]

Oldest Player: Marty Pattin [36]
Youngest Player: Clint Hurdle [21]
Longest Tenure: Amos Otis, Paul Splittorff [10]

Major League Debuts

Batters: German Barranca (Sep 2)
Pitchers: Craig Chamberlain (Aug 12) Gary Christenson (Sep 1) Craig Eaton (Sep 5) Renie Martin (May 9) Dan Quisenberry (Jul 8)

2009 Independent League Statistics have been updated.

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Batting Statistics

Pos	Player Name	Age	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	HBP	IBB	SH	SF	DP	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
C	Darrell Porter	27	157	533	101	155	23	10	20	112	3	4	121	65	8	8	4	13	11	.291	.421	.484	905
1B	Pete LaCock	27	132	408	54	113	25	4	3	56	2	1	37	26	1	7	1	6	16	.277	.334	.380	714
2B	Frank White	28	127	467	73	124	26	4	10	48	28	8	25	54	1	3	3	7	11	.266	.300	.403	703
3B	George Brett	26	154	645	119	212	42	20	23	107	17	10	51	36	0	14	1	4	8	.329	.376	.563	939
SS	Freddie Patek	34	106	306	30	77	17	0	1	37	11	12	16	42	3	0	10	3	6	.252	.293	.317	610
OF	Willie Wilson	23	154	588	113	185	18	13	6	49	83	12	28	92	7	3	13	4	1	.315	.351	.420	771
OF	Amos Otis	32	151	577	100	170	28	2	18	90	30	5	68	92	3	8	7	5	12	.295	.369	.444	813
OF	Al Cowens	27	136	516	69	152	18	7	9	73	10	8	40	44	3	4	2	7	12	.295	.345	.409	754
DH	Hal McRae	33	101	393	55	113	32	4	10	74	5	4	38	46	4	0	1	7	6	.288	.351	.466	817

SS-2B	U.L. Washington	25	101	268	32	68	12	5	2	25	10	7	20	44	0	1	6	6	1	.254	.299	.358	657
P	Steve Busby	29	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
1B-C	John Wathan	29	90	199	26	41	7	3	2	28	2	1	7	24	0	1	5	5	7	.206	.227	.302	529
P	Rich Gale	25	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
OF	Clint Hurdle	21	59	171	16	41	10	3	3	30	0	1	28	24	1	4	0	4	4	.240	.343	.386	729
P	Larry Gura	31	39	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
1B	George Scott	35	44	146	19	39	8	2	1	20	1	1	12	32	2	1	1	1	12	.267	.329	.370	699
P	Al Hrabosky	29	58	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
SS	Todd Cruz	23	55	118	9	24	7	0	2	15	0	1	3	19	1	0	1	3	2	.203	.224	.314	538
P	Dennis Leonard	28	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
OF-DH	Steve Braun	31	58	116	15	31	2	0	4	10	0	0	22	11	0	2	1	0	2	.267	.384	.388	772
P	Steve Mingori	35	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
DH-C	Jamie Quirk	24	51	79	8	24	6	1	1	11	0	0	5	13	1	0	0	0	0	.304	.353	.443	796
P	Bill Paschall	25	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
3B-2B	Jerry Terrell	32	31	40	5	12	3	0	1	2	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	2	.300	.317	.450	767
P	Marty Pattin	36	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
OF	Tom Poquette	27	21	26	1	5	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	4	0	0	0	1	0	.192	.214	.192	406
P	Paul Splittorff	32	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
OF	Jim Nettles	32	11	23	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	.087	.192	.087	279
P	George Throop	28	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
OF	Joe Zdeb	26	15	23	3	4	1	1	0	0	1	0	2	4	0	0	0	0	1	.174	.240	.304	544
C	Jim Gaudet	24	3	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.167	.167	.167	334
DH-3B	German Barranca	22	5	5	3	3	1	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.600	.600	.800	1400
P	Craig Chamberlain	22	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
P	Gary Christenson	26	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
P	Craig Eaton	24	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
P	Renie Martin	23	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
P	Dan Quisenberry	26	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
P	Eduardo Rodriguez	27	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
Batting Totals			162	5653	851	1596	286	79	116	791	207	76	528	675	35	56	57	76	114	.282	.343	.422	765