Year:
Team:
  1977 | 1979
All Years
All Teams
Home Leaders Baseball Mogul


1978 American League West
Team Record GB
Kansas City Royals 92 - 70 —
California Angels 87 - 75 5.0
Texas Rangers 87 - 75 5.0
Minnesota Twins 73 - 89 19.0
Chicago White Sox 71 - 90 20.5
Oakland Athletics 69 - 93 23.0
Seattle Mariners 56 - 104 35.0

1st (AL West)
Runs Scored: 743
Runs Allowed: 634
Attendance: 2,255,493

1978 Kansas City Royals Batting (Starters)
Player Pos Age G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB K SB CS SH HBP GDP AVG OBP SLG OPS
Darrell Porter C 26 150 520 77 138 27 6 18 78 75 14 75 0 5 1 2 13 .265 .358 .444 .802
Pete LaCock 1B 26 118 322 44 95 21 2 5 48 21 2 27 1 0 1 0 8 .295 .335 .419 .754
Frank White 2B 27 143 461 66 127 24 6 7 50 26 1 59 13 10 9 3 2 .275 .317 .399 .716
George Brett 3B 25 128 510 79 150 45 8 9 62 39 6 35 23 7 3 1 6 .294 .342 .467 .809
Freddie Patek SS 33 138 440 54 109 23 1 2 46 42 1 56 38 11 9 1 6 .248 .312 .318 .630
Willie Wilson LF 22 127 198 43 43 8 2 0 16 16 0 33 46 12 5 2 2 .217 .280 .278 .558
Amos Otis CF 31 141 486 74 145 30 7 22 96 66 7 54 32 8 1 4 10 .298 .380 .525 .905
Al Cowens RF 26 132 485 63 133 24 8 5 63 31 3 54 14 6 1 6 7 .274 .319 .388 .707
Hal McRae DH 32 156 623 90 170 39 5 16 72 51 6 62 17 8 1 6 15 .273 .329 .429 .758

1978 Kansas City Royals Batting (Bench)
Player Age G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB K SB CS SH HBP GDP AVG OBP SLG OPS
Clint Hurdle 20 133 417 48 110 25 5 7 56 56 1 84 1 3 1 1 6 .264 .348 .398 .746
Tom Poquette 26 80 204 16 44 9 2 4 30 14 1 9 2 0 2 0 6 .216 .259 .338 .597
Jerry Terrell 31 73 133 14 27 1 0 0 8 4 0 13 8 4 9 0 4 .203 .225 .211 .436
U L Washington 24 69 129 10 34 2 1 0 9 10 0 20 12 6 2 0 2 .264 .314 .295 .609
John Wathan 28 67 190 19 57 10 1 2 28 3 1 12 2 1 3 4 5 .300 .320 .395 .715
Steve Braun 30 64 137 16 36 10 1 0 14 28 1 16 3 2 1 0 1 .263 .386 .350 .736
Joe Zdeb 25 60 127 18 32 2 3 0 11 7 0 18 3 0 5 0 2 .252 .287 .315 .602
Jamie Quirk 23 17 29 3 6 2 0 0 2 5 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 .207 .324 .276 .600
Joe Lahoud 31 13 16 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 .125 .125 .125 .250
Art Kusnyer 32 9 13 1 3 1 0 1 2 2 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 .231 .333 .538 .871
Luis Silverio 21 8 11 7 6 2 1 0 3 2 0 3 1 1 1 0 0 .545 .615 .909 1.524
Dave Cripe 27 7 13 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 .154 .154 .154 .308
Jim Gaudet 23 3 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Randy Bass 24 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000

1978 Kansas City Royals Pitching (Starters)
Player Age G GS W L Pct. ERA IP R ER H HR BB K OBA HB WP CG SO SV BS DICE
Dennis Leonard 27 40 40 21 17 .553 3.33 294.2 125 109 283 27 78 183 .250 9 12 20 4 0 3.83
Paul Splittorff 31 39 38 19 13 .594 3.40 262.0 113 99 244 22 60 76 .243 3 3 13 2 0 4.23
Rich Gale 24 31 30 14 8 .636 3.09 192.1 78 66 171 10 100 88 .238 3 5 9 3 0 4.37
Larry Gura 30 35 26 16 4 .800 2.72 221.2 73 67 183 13 60 81 .222 4 1 8 2 0 3.90
Andy Hassler 26 11 9 1 4 .200 4.32 58.1 36 28 76 1 24 26 .311 2 3 1 0 0 3.67
Steve Busby 28 7 5 1 0 1.000 7.59 21.1 18 18 24 2 15 10 .276 2 0 0 0 0 5.67

1978 Kansas City Royals Pitching (Bullpen)
Player Age G GS W L Pct. ERA IP R ER H HR BB K OBA HB WP CG SO SV BS DICE
Al Hrabosky 28 58 0 8 7 .533 2.88 75.0 24 24 52 6 35 60 .191 1 2 0 0 20 3.88
Steve Mingori 34 45 0 1 4 .200 2.74 69.0 25 21 64 5 16 28 .237 3 1 0 0 7 3.96
Doug Bird 28 40 6 6 6 .500 5.29 98.2 63 58 110 8 31 48 .274 2 9 0 0 1 4.08
Marty Pattin 35 32 5 3 3 .500 3.32 78.2 41 29 72 8 25 30 .241 2 1 2 0 4 4.59
Randy McGilberry 24 18 0 0 1 .000 4.21 25.2 16 12 27 2 18 12 .265 0 0 0 0 0 5.18
Jim Colborn 32 8 3 1 2 .333 4.76 28.1 18 15 31 4 12 8 .272 2 0 0 0 0 5.75
Steve Foucault 28 3 0 0 0 .000 3.86 2.1 1 1 5 0 1 0 .417 0 0 0 0 0 4.29
Bill Paschall 24 2 0 0 1 .000 3.38 8.0 3 3 6 0 0 5 .200 1 0 0 0 1 2.12
George Throop 27 1 0 1 0 1.000 0.00 3.0 0 0 2 0 3 2 .200 0 0 0 0 0 4.67