1977 KANSAS CITY ROYALS

| Level: MLB

Location:
Team Record: 102-60 .630
Result: 1st in American League - West Division
Manager(s): Whitey Herzog
General Manager: Joe Burke
Stadium: Royals Stadium
Attendance: 1,852,603
Playoffs: Lost ALCS (Yankees)

Kansas City Royals affiliate history

Oldest Player: Cookie Rojas (38)
Youngest Player: Clint Hurdle (19)
Longest Tenure: Paul Splittorff, Buck Martinez, Amos Otis, Cookie Rojas (8)
Top Hitter: Hal McRae (3)
Top Pitcher: Dennis Leonard (1)
Top Draft Pick: Mike Jones (#21)

Roster Continuity: 79.99%

American League Standings

West	W	L	Pct	GB
KC Royals	102	60	.630	--
Texas	94	68	.580	8.0
Chi White Sox	90	72	.556	12.0
Minnesota	84	77	.522	17.5
California	74	88	.457	28.0
Seattle	64	98	.395	38.0
Oakland	63	98	.391	38.5

BATTING STATISTICS

Basic Stats

Advanced Stats

Extra

Batting Orders

Defensive Lineups

Feats

Splits Analysis

#	Player	Pos	Rk	Age	Drafted	HiLvl	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	HBP	IBB	SH	SF	DP	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	PA	OUT	RC	RC/G	babip
11	Hal McRae	of	3	31	1965-6-117	MLB	162	641	104	191	54	11	21	92	18	14	59	43	13	5	2	5	12	.298	.366	.515	881	330	720	483	138	7.7	.292
18	Al Cowens	of	5	25	1969-75-1026	MLB	162	606	98	189	32	14	23	112	16	12	41	64	8	4	1	5	14	.312	.361	.525	885	318	661	449	123	7.4	.317
5	George Brett	3b-1b	7	24	1971-2-29	MLB	139	564	105	176	32	13	22	88	14	12	55	24	2	9	3	3	12	.312	.373	.532	905	300	627	418	125	8.1	.296
7	John Mayberry	1b	39	28	1967-1-6	MLB	153	543	73	125	22	1	23	82	1	3	83	86	7	9	1	7	13	.230	.336	.401	737	218	641	442	81	4.9	.231
2	Freddie Patek	ss	35	32	1965-22-421	MLB	154	497	72	130	26	6	5	60	53	13	41	84	5	2	13	7	6	.262	.320	.368	688	183	563	406	68	4.5	.301
26	Amos Otis	of	55	30	1965-5-95	MLB	142	478	85	120	20	8	17	78	23	7	71	88	0	5	3	9	13	.251	.342	.433	775	207	561	390	78	5.4	.270
20	Frank White	2b	44	26	UDFA: 1970	MLB	152	474	59	116	21	5	5	50	23	5	25	67	2	0	11	2	4	.245	.284	.342	626	162	514	380	52	3.7	.275
15	Darrell Porter	c	-	25	1970-1-4	MLB	130	425	61	117	21	3	16	60	1	0	53	70	1	6	1	6	6	.275	.353	.452	804	192	486	321	75	6.3	.293
25	Tom Poquette	of	-	25	1970-4-80	MLB	106	342	43	100	23	6	2	33	1	4	19	21	5	2	4	2	4	.292	.337	.412	749	141	372	256	55	5.8	.305
8	Pete LaCock	1b-of	-	25	1970-1-20	MLB	88	218	25	66	12	1	3	29	2	1	15	25	1	1	0	4	4	.303	.345	.408	753	89	238	161	34	5.7	.325
19	Joe Zdeb	of	-	24	1971-4-75	MLB	105	195	26	58	5	2	2	23	6	5	16	23	0	3	3	3	5	.297	.346	.374	720	73	217	153	26	4.6	.324
1	Cookie Rojas	2b	-	38	UDFA: 1956	MLB	64	156	8	39	9	1	0	10	1	3	8	17	0	2	1	1	5	.250	.285	.321	605	50	166	127	14	2.9	.279
12	John Wathan	c-1b	-	27	1971-1-4	MLB	55	119	18	39	5	3	2	21	2	0	5	8	0	1	0	3	1	.328	.346	.471	817	56	127	84	23	7.3	.330
21	Buck Martinez	c	-	28	UDFA: 1967	MLB	29	80	3	18	4	0	1	9	0	1	3	12	0	0	2	0	1	.225	.253	.312	566	25	85	66	6	2.4	.254
10	Joe Lahoud	of	-	30	UDFA: 1966	MLB	34	65	8	17	5	0	2	8	1	0	11	16	0	1	0	1	2	.262	.364	.431	794	28	77	51	11	5.7	.312
6	Bob Heise	ss-2b	-	30	UDFA: 1966	MLB	54	62	11	16	2	1	0	5	0	1	2	8	1	0	1	0	0	.258	.292	.323	615	20	66	48	6	3.4	.296
3	Dave Nelson	2b-3b	-	33	UDFA: 1964	MLB	27	48	8	9	3	1	0	4	1	3	7	11	0	0	0	0	1	.187	.291	.292	583	14	55	43	3	2.0	.243
32	Willie Wilson	of-cf	-	21	1974-16-379	MLB	13	34	10	11	2	0	0	1	6	3	1	8	0	0	2	0	1	.324	.343	.382	725	13	37	29	4	3.6	.423
9	Clint Hurdle	of	-	19	1975-1-9	MLB	9	26	5	8	0	0	2	7	0	0	2	7	0	0	0	0	0	.308	.357	.538	896	14	28	18	5	7.3	.353
30	U.L. Washington	ss	-	23	UDFA: 1973	MLB	10	20	0	4	1	1	0	1	1	0	5	4	0	0	1	0	0	.200	.360	.350	710	7	26	17	3	5.5	.250
17	Mark Littell	p	-	24	1971-12-267	MLB	48	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	1	1	-	-	.000
Totals: (21 players)							162	5594	822	1549	299	77	146	773	170	87	522	687	45	50	49	58	104	.277	.340	.436	776	2440	6268	4343	928	5.8	.291

PITCHING STATISTICS

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Advanced Stats

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Starting Pitcher Log

Feats

Splits Analysis

Draft Picks

#	Player	Rk	Age	Drafted	HiLvl	W	L	ERA	G	GS	CG	SH	GF	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	WP	Bk	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	BB/SO	BABIP	GB/FB
22	Dennis Leonard	1	26	1972-2-42	MLB	20	12	3.04	38	37	21	5	1	1	292.2	246	117	99	18	79	244	14	2	1.11	7.56	0.55	2.43	7.50	0.32	.278	1.07
48	Jim Colborn	29	31	UDFA: 1967	MLB	18	14	3.62	36	35	6	1	0	0	239.0	233	106	96	22	81	103	8	3	1.31	8.77	0.83	3.05	3.88	0.79	.267	1.11
34	Paul Splittorff	17	30	1968-25-574	MLB	16	6	3.69	37	37	6	2	0	0	229.0	243	104	94	11	83	99	5	0	1.42	9.55	0.43	3.26	3.89	0.84	.304	0.95
16	Andy Hassler	-	25	1969-25-579	MLB	9	6	4.20	29	27	3	1	1	0	156.1	166	88	73	7	75	83	8	1	1.54	9.56	0.40	4.32	4.78	0.90	.303	2.03
33	Marty Pattin	-	34	1965-7-127	MLB	10	3	3.58	31	10	4	0	8	0	128.1	115	56	51	16	37	55	3	0	1.18	8.06	1.12	2.59	3.86	0.67	.245	1.15
29	Doug Bird	49	27	1969-8-152	MLB	11	4	3.88	53	5	0	0	31	14	118.1	120	52	51	14	29	83	3	0	1.26	9.13	1.06	2.21	6.31	0.35	.305	0.87
37	Larry Gura	62	29	1969-2-40	MLB	8	5	3.13	52	6	1	1	24	10	106.1	108	43	37	8	28	46	4	1	1.28	9.14	0.68	2.37	3.89	0.61	.283	1.07
17	Mark Littell	60	24	1971-12-267	MLB	8	4	3.61	48	5	0	0	29	12	104.2	73	49	42	6	55	106	8	2	1.22	6.28	0.52	4.73	9.11	0.52	.262	0.83
23	Steve Mingori	-	33	UDFA: 1965	MLB	2	4	3.09	43	0	0	0	22	4	64.0	59	26	22	4	19	19	3	0	1.22	8.30	0.56	2.67	2.67	1.00	.264	0.89
42	Tom Hall	-	29	1966-3-53	MLB	0	0	3.52	6	0	0	0	2	0	7.2	4	3	3	2	6	10	0	0	1.30	4.70	2.35	7.04	11.74	0.60	.143	0.71
31	Randy McGilberry	-	23	1975-14-321	MLB	0	1	5.14	3	0	0	0	1	0	7.0	7	4	4	1	1	1	0	0	1.14	9.00	1.29	1.29	1.29	1.00	.261	1.13
35	George Throop	-	26	1972-16-378	MLB	0	0	3.38	4	0	0	0	1	1	5.1	1	2	2	1	4	1	0	0	0.94	1.69	1.69	6.75	1.69	4.00	.000	0.67
39	Gary Lance	-	28	1967-20-381	MLB	0	1	4.50	1	0	0	0	1	0	2.0	2	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	2.00	9.00	0.00	9.00	0.00	--	.286	1.00
Totals: (21 players)						102	60	3.54	162	162	41	10	121	42	1,461	1377	651	575	146	499	850	56	9	1.42	8.48	0.68	3.07	5.24	0.59	.274

FIELDING STATISTICS

Stats by Position

Games by Position

Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Darrell Porter	C	125		663	61	13	4	.982	0.00
John Wathan	C	35		130	9	1	0	.993	0.00
Buck Martinez	C	28		133	8	1	0	.993	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
John Mayberry	1B	145		1296	81	7	118	.995	0.00
Pete LaCock	1B	29		186	17	2	16	.990	0.00
John Wathan	1B	5		26	0	1	2	.963	0.00
Bob Heise	1B	1		0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Frank White	2B	152		310	434	8	86	.989	0.00
Bob Heise	2B	21		20	27	0	8	1.000	0.00
Cookie Rojas	2B	16		26	18	0	7	1.000	0.00
Dave Nelson	2B	11		11	14	2	3	.926	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
George Brett	3B	135		115	325	20	33	.957	0.00
Cookie Rojas	3B	31		23	62	5	6	.944	0.00
Bob Heise	3B	12		3	10	3	3	.812	0.00
Joe Zdeb	3B	1		0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Freddie Patek	SS	154		252	413	29	70	.958	0.00
Bob Heise	SS	21		19	30	3	8	.942	0.00
U.L. Washington	SS	9		13	21	5	4	.872	0.00
Frank White	SS	4		0	3	0	0	1.000	0.00
George Brett	SS	1		0	0	1	0	.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Al Cowens	OF	159		307	14	6	1	.982	0.00
Amos Otis	OF	140		326	10	3	0	.991	0.00
Tom Poquette	OF	96		177	4	0	1	1.000	0.00
Joe Zdeb	OF	93		93	4	3	0	.970	0.00
Hal McRae	OF	47		84	8	4	1	.958	0.00
Joe Lahoud	OF	15		18	2	1	0	.952	0.00
Pete LaCock	OF	12		17	2	0	0	1.000	0.00
Clint Hurdle	OF	9		17	0	0	0	1.000	0.00
Willie Wilson	OF	9		24	0	1	0	.960	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Doug Bird	P	53	118	6	13	0	0	1.000	1.45
Larry Gura	P	52	106	6	18	2	1	.923	2.04
Mark Littell	P	48	104	7	7	1	1	.933	1.21
Steve Mingori	P	43	64	3	14	1	1	.944	2.39
Dennis Leonard	P	38	292	21	29	4	2	.926	1.54
Paul Splittorff	P	37	229	9	38	2	3	.959	1.85
Jim Colborn	P	36	239	27	39	5	3	.930	2.49
Marty Pattin	P	31	128	6	19	0	0	1.000	1.76
Andy Hassler	P	29	156	6	28	3	2	.919	1.96
Tom Hall	P	6	7	0	2	0	0	1.000	2.50
George Throop	P	4	5	1	2	0	0	1.000	5.29
Randy McGilberry	P	3	7	1	2	0	0	1.000	3.86
Gary Lance	P	1	2	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Hal McRae	DH	115						.000	0.00
Pete LaCock	DH	26						.000	0.00
John Mayberry	DH	8						.000	0.00
Dave Nelson	DH	7						.000	0.00
Cookie Rojas	DH	6						.000	0.00
Joe Lahoud	DH	4						.000	0.00
Joe Zdeb	DH	4						.000	0.00
George Brett	DH	3						.000	0.00
John Wathan	DH	2						.000	0.00
Willie Wilson	DH	2						.000	0.00
Al Cowens	DH	1						.000	0.00
Dennis Leonard	DH	1						.000	0.00
Darrell Porter	DH	1						.000	0.00

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