1972 Kansas City Royals Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 76-78
Finished 4th in the AL's West Division
Attendance: 717,082, Avg. 10,244
Ballpark: Municipal Stadium II
Manager: Bob Lemon (76-78)
Location: Kansas City, Kansas

1972 Kansas City Royals Roster
1972 Kansas City Royals Results

The Kansas City Royals of the American League ended the 1972 season with a record of 76 wins and 78 losses, finishing fourth in the AL's West Division.

The Royals scored 580 runs and yielded 545 runs. John Mayberry led Kansas City with 25 home runs and drove in 100 runs. Lou Piniella paced all qualifying hitters on the roster by connecting at a .312 clip. Dick Drago and Paul Splittorff topped the squad with 12 wins each, while Roger Nelson recorded a 2.08 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Bob Lemon coached the team.

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Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Paul Splittorff	12	12	.500	3.13	35	33	0	12	2	0	216.0	189	81	75	11	67	2	140	4	0	6	876
Dick Drago	12	17	.414	3.01	34	33	1	11	2	0	239.3	230	88	80	22	51	4	135	6	0	5	974
Roger Nelson	11	6	.647	2.08	34	19	9	10	6	2	173.3	120	41	40	13	31	1	120	1	0	4	652
Tom Burgmeier	6	2	.750	4.23	51	0	30	0	0	9	55.3	67	32	26	0	33	6	18	1	0	0	260
Bruce Dal Canton	6	6	.500	3.40	35	16	8	1	0	2	132.3	135	54	50	7	29	6	75	1	2	5	551
Jim Rooker	5	6	.455	4.38	18	10	3	4	2	0	72.0	78	37	35	3	24	0	44	1	0	3	310
Mike Hedlund	5	7	.417	4.78	29	16	4	1	0	0	113.0	119	67	60	10	41	1	52	4	1	2	488
Tom Murphy	4	4	.500	3.07	18	9	2	1	1	1	70.3	77	26	24	3	16	0	34	6	0	0	292
Steve Busby	3	1	.750	1.58	5	5	0	3	0	0	40.0	28	9	7	1	8	0	31	0	0	0	153
Monty Montgomery	3	3	.500	3.04	9	8	1	1	1	0	56.3	55	21	19	2	17	2	24	0	0	0	230
Ted Abernathy	3	4	.429	1.70	45	0	25	0	0	5	58.3	44	15	11	2	19	3	28	3	0	0	239
Norm Angelini	2	1	.667	2.25	21	0	5	0	0	2	16.0	13	4	4	1	12	1	16	1	0	2	70
Al Fitzmorris	2	5	.286	3.74	38	2	11	0	0	3	101.0	99	46	42	10	28	5	51	1	0	6	427
Ken Wright	1	2	.333	4.91	17	0	11	0	0	4	18.3	15	10	10	0	15	1	18	1	0	3	84
Mike Jackson	1	2	.333	6.41	7	3	0	0	0	0	19.7	24	14	14	0	14	1	15	0	0	1	92
Totals	76	78	.494	3.24	396	154	110	44	14	28	1381.3	1293	545	497	85	405	33	801	30	3	37	5698

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
Lou Piniella	151	624	574	65	179	33	4	11	72	7	2	34	59	.312	.356	.441	.797	253	25	8	4	4	9
Amos Otis	143	605	540	75	158	28	2	11	54	28	12	50	59	.293	.352	.413	.765	223	6	3	6	6	3
John Mayberry	149	588	503	65	150	24	3	25	100	0	2	78	74	.298	.394	.507	.900	255	12	3	1	3	13
Richie Scheinblum	134	518	450	60	135	21	4	8	66	0	1	58	40	.300	.383	.418	.800	188	19	4	3	3	3
Cookie Rojas	137	541	487	49	127	25	0	3	53	2	8	41	35	.261	.315	.331	.646	161	17	1	5	7	5
Freddie Patek	136	577	518	59	110	25	4	0	32	33	7	47	64	.212	.280	.276	.556	143	9	3	6	3	4
Ed Kirkpatrick	113	423	364	43	100	15	1	9	43	3	5	51	50	.275	.365	.396	.761	144	4	3	1	4	9
Paul Schaal	127	503	435	47	99	19	3	6	41	1	3	61	59	.228	.323	.326	.650	142	14	2	2	3	1
Steve Hovley	105	226	196	24	53	5	1	3	24	3	3	24	29	.270	.351	.352	.703	69	2	1	4	1	2
Carl Taylor	63	135	113	17	30	2	1	0	11	4	1	17	16	.265	.361	.301	.662	34	3	1	2	2	1
Bobby Floyd	61	140	134	9	24	3	0	0	5	1	0	5	29	.179	.209	.201	.410	27	4	0	1	0	0
Bobby Knoop	44	107	97	8	23	5	0	0	7	0	0	9	16	.237	.299	.289	.588	28	5	0	0	1	1
Jerry May	53	131	116	10	22	5	1	1	4	0	0	14	13	.190	.277	.276	.553	32	4	0	1	0	2
Bob Oliver	16	65	63	7	17	2	1	1	6	1	0	2	12	.270	.292	.381	.673	24	2	0	0	0	0
Paul Splittorff	35	83	71	9	16	0	1	0	3	0	0	4	8	.225	.276	.254	.530	18	2	1	7	0	0
Gail Hopkins	53	78	71	1	15	2	0	0	5	0	0	7	4	.211	.282	.239	.521	17	2	0	0	0	1
Joe Keough	56	75	64	8	14	2	0	0	5	2	0	8	7	.219	.324	.250	.574	16	0	2	1	0	1
Jim Wohlford	15	28	25	3	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	6	.240	.321	.280	.601	7	0	1	0	0	0
Mike Hedlund	29	35	32	1	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	17	.188	.188	.188	.375	6	0	0	3	0	0
Roger Nelson	34	61	54	2	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	19	.093	.140	.093	.233	5	0	0	4	0	0
Tom Burgmeier	51	12	12	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.333	.333	.333	.667	4	0	0	0	0	0
Al Fitzmorris	39	27	23	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	3	.174	.296	.174	.470	4	1	0	0	0	0
Ron Hansen	16	33	30	2	4	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	6	.133	.212	.133	.345	4	1	0	0	0	1
Bruce Dal Canton	35	47	41	3	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	14	.098	.119	.122	.241	5	1	0	5	0	0
Dick Drago	35	84	68	4	4	0	0	0	5	0	0	8	36	.059	.169	.059	.228	4	0	1	7	0	0
Steve Busby	5	15	15	0	3	1	0	0	4	0	0	0	3	.200	.200	.267	.467	4	0	0	0	0	0
Monty Montgomery	9	21	17	2	3	1	0	0	3	0	0	1	10	.176	.222	.235	.458	4	0	0	3	0	0
Jim Rooker	18	21	20	1	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	5	.100	.095	.100	.195	2	1	0	0	1	0
Dennis Paepke	2	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.143	.000	.143	0	0	0	0	0	1
Tom Murphy	21	19	13	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.071	.000	.071	0	0	0	5	0	0
Ted Abernathy	45	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Jackson	7	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Norm Angelini	21	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ken Wright	17	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1975	5845	5167	580	1317	220	26	78	547	85	44	534	711	.255	.327	.353	.679	1823	134	34	72	38	57

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
John Mayberry	1B	146	138	1249.0	1338	82	7	141	.995	1.232	9.726	0	0	0
Gail Hopkins	1B	13	11	86.0	97	2	1	7	.990	1.360	7.615	0	0	0
Carl Taylor	1B	6	5	44.0	50	2	1	3	.981	1.636	8.667	0	0	0
Ed Kirkpatrick	1B	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Cookie Rojas	2B	131	127	1100.0	265	360	9	82	.986	5.114	4.771	0	0	0
Bobby Knoop	2B	33	22	228.0	61	80	4	24	.972	5.566	4.273	0	0	0
Jim Wohlford	2B	8	5	49.0	7	12	1	1	.950	3.490	2.375	0	0	0
Bobby Floyd	2B	2	0	3.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	3.000	.500	0	0	0
Ron Hansen	2B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Paul Schaal	3B	123	122	1078.0	77	245	18	16	.947	2.688	2.618	0	0	0
Bobby Floyd	3B	30	22	212.0	24	34	2	3	.967	2.462	1.933	0	0	0
Cookie Rojas	3B	6	5	37.0	0	7	0	1	1.000	1.703	1.167	0	0	0
Ron Hansen	3B	4	4	31.0	1	15	0	2	1.000	4.645	4.000	0	0	0
Carl Taylor	3B	5	1	15.0	1	4	0	0	1.000	3.000	1.000	0	0	0
Bobby Knoop	3B	4	0	7.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Gail Hopkins	3B	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	1.000	0	0	0
Ed Kirkpatrick	C	108	104	915.0	590	49	6	5	.991	6.285	5.917	11	54	29	34.9
Jerry May	C	41	32	294.0	175	13	4	1	.979	5.755	4.585	2	19	9	32.1
Carl Taylor	C	21	17	155.0	101	6	2	2	.982	6.213	5.095	4	10	3	23.1
Dennis Paepke	C	2	1	18.0	14	2	3	0	.842	8.000	8.000	0	3	1	25.0
Lou Piniella	OF	150	150	1287.0	275	8	7	2	.976	1.979	1.887	0	0	0
Amos Otis	OF	137	137	1190.0	351	6	3	3	.992	2.700	2.606	0	0	0
Richie Scheinblum	OF	119	118	1005.0	215	6	8	2	.965	1.979	1.857	0	0	0
Steve Hovley	OF	68	34	404.0	103	6	2	0	.982	2.428	1.603	0	0	0
Bob Oliver	OF	16	16	143.0	45	1	1	0	.979	2.895	2.875	0	0	0
Joe Keough	OF	16	6	92.0	12	1	0	1	1.000	1.272	.813	0	0	0
Carl Taylor	OF	7	1	23.0	5	0	0	0	1.000	1.957	.714	0	0	0
Dick Drago	P	34	33	239.0	4	28	2	5	.941	1.205	.941	0	0	0
Paul Splittorff	P	35	33	216.0	6	51	0	5	1.000	2.375	1.629	0	0	0
Roger Nelson	P	34	19	173.0	8	33	1	1	.976	2.133	1.206	0	0	0
Bruce Dal Canton	P	35	16	132.0	5	14	1	1	.950	1.295	.543	0	0	0
Mike Hedlund	P	29	16	113.0	12	19	0	3	1.000	2.469	1.069	0	0	0
Al Fitzmorris	P	38	2	101.0	7	22	0	3	1.000	2.584	.763	0	0	0
Jim Rooker	P	18	10	72.0	3	16	0	1	1.000	2.375	1.056	0	0	0
Tom Murphy	P	18	9	70.0	3	15	1	1	.947	2.314	1.000	0	0	0
Ted Abernathy	P	45	0	58.0	6	12	3	2	.857	2.793	.400	0	0	0
Monty Montgomery	P	9	8	56.0	3	7	0	2	1.000	1.607	1.111	0	0	0
Tom Burgmeier	P	51	0	55.0	6	13	1	0	.950	3.109	.373	0	0	0
Steve Busby	P	5	5	40.0	1	4	1	0	.833	1.125	1.000	0	0	0
Mike Jackson	P	7	3	20.0	1	7	1	1	.889	3.600	1.143	0	0	0
Ken Wright	P	17	0	18.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	1.500	.176	0	0	0
Norm Angelini	P	21	0	16.0	2	1	0	0	1.000	1.688	.143	0	0	0
Freddie Patek	SS	136	133	1182.0	230	510	22	113	.971	5.635	5.441	0	0	0
Bobby Floyd	SS	29	18	167.0	30	49	3	12	.963	4.257	2.724	0	0	0
Ron Hansen	SS	6	3	27.0	4	13	1	1	.944	5.667	2.833	0	0	0
Cookie Rojas	SS	2	0	4.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	2.250	.500	0	0	0
Paul Schaal	SS	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Totals		1769	1386	12429.0	4140	1759	116	447	.981	4.272	3.335	17	86	42	32.8

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