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. 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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