1987 Kansas City Royals Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 83-79
Finished 2nd in the AL's West Division
Attendance: 2,392,471, Avg. 29,906
Ballpark: Royals Stadium
Manager: Billy Gardner (62-64)
Manager: John Wathan (21-15)
Location: Kansas City, Kansas

1987 Kansas City Royals Roster
1987 Kansas City Royals Results

The Kansas City Royals of the American League ended the 1987 season with a record of 83 wins and 79 losses, finishing second in the AL's West Division.

The Royals scored 715 runs, worst in the league, and allowed 691 runs. Danny Tartabull walloped 34 home runs for Kansas City, while Kevin Seitzer, Steve Balboni, Frank White, George Brett and Bo Jackson each swatted 20 or more, too. Danny Tartabull accounted for 101 RBI. Kevin Seitzer led hitters with significant playing time by connecting at a .323 clip. Bret Saberhagen topped the team with 18 wins, and Charlie Leibrandt added 15 or more victories also Bret Saberhagen registered a 3.36 earned run average, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Billy Gardner and John Wathan 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
Bret Saberhagen	18	10	.643	3.36	33	33	0	15	4	0	257.0	246	99	96	27	53	2	163	6	1	6	1048
Charlie Leibrandt	16	11	.593	3.41	35	35	0	8	3	0	240.3	235	104	91	23	74	2	151	1	3	9	1015
Mark Gubicza	13	18	.419	3.98	35	35	0	10	2	0	241.7	231	114	107	18	120	3	166	6	1	14	1036
Danny Jackson	9	18	.333	4.02	36	34	1	11	2	0	224.0	219	115	100	11	109	1	152	7	0	5	981
Buddy Black	8	6	.571	3.60	29	18	4	0	0	1	122.3	126	63	49	16	35	2	61	5	0	6	520
John Davis	5	2	.714	2.27	27	0	12	0	0	2	43.7	29	13	11	0	26	4	24	2	0	2	181
Dan Quisenberry	4	1	.800	2.76	47	0	39	0	0	8	49.0	58	15	15	3	10	3	17	1	0	0	215
Steve Farr	4	3	.571	4.15	47	0	19	0	0	1	91.0	97	47	42	9	44	4	88	2	0	2	408
Jerry Don Gleaton	4	4	.500	4.26	48	0	22	0	0	5	50.7	38	28	24	4	28	3	44	0	1	4	210
Melido Perez	1	1	.500	7.84	3	3	0	0	0	0	10.3	18	12	9	2	5	0	5	0	0	0	53
Bob Stoddard	1	3	.250	4.28	17	2	4	0	0	1	40.0	51	26	19	3	22	2	23	3	0	4	190
Gene Garber	0	0		2.51	13	0	12	0	0	8	14.3	13	5	4	1	1	0	3	1	0	0	55
Dave Gumpert	0	0		6.05	8	0	3	0	0	0	19.3	27	16	13	3	6	0	13	0	0	1	88
Bob Shirley	0	0		14.73	3	0	1	0	0	0	7.3	10	12	12	5	6	0	1	0	0	1	37
Rick Anderson	0	2	.000	13.85	6	2	1	0	0	0	13.0	26	22	20	3	9	1	12	2	0	0	77
Totals	83	79	.512	3.87	387	162	118	44	11	26	1424.0	1424	691	612	128	548	27	923	36	6	54	6114

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
Kevin Seitzer	161	725	641	105	207	33	8	15	83	12	7	80	85	.323	.399	.470	.869	301	18	2	1	1	0
Danny Tartabull	158	667	582	95	180	27	3	34	101	9	4	79	136	.309	.390	.541	.931	315	14	1	0	5	2
Willie Wilson	146	653	610	97	170	18	15	4	30	59	11	32	88	.279	.320	.377	.698	230	9	6	4	1	2
Frank White	154	624	563	67	138	32	2	17	78	1	3	51	86	.245	.308	.400	.708	225	16	2	4	4	5
George Brett	115	508	427	71	124	18	2	22	78	6	3	72	47	.290	.388	.496	.884	212	10	1	0	8	14
Bo Jackson	116	434	396	46	93	17	2	22	53	10	4	30	158	.235	.296	.455	.750	180	3	5	1	2	0
Steve Balboni	121	425	386	44	80	11	1	24	60	0	0	34	97	.207	.273	.427	.700	165	11	2	0	3	1
Jamie Quirk	109	334	296	24	70	17	0	5	33	1	0	28	56	.236	.307	.345	.652	102	8	4	2	4	1
Angel Salazar	116	332	317	24	65	7	0	2	21	4	4	6	46	.205	.219	.246	.465	78	6	0	8	1	0
Bill Pecota	66	172	156	22	43	5	1	3	14	5	0	15	25	.276	.343	.378	.721	59	3	1	0	0	0
Lonnie Smith	48	197	167	26	42	7	1	3	8	9	4	24	31	.251	.355	.359	.715	60	1	4	0	2	0
Juan Beniquez	57	190	174	14	41	7	0	3	26	0	0	11	26	.236	.282	.328	.610	57	9	1	2	2	1
Thad Bosley	80	152	140	13	39	6	1	1	16	0	0	9	26	.279	.318	.357	.675	50	2	0	1	2	2
Larry Owen	76	188	164	17	31	6	0	5	14	0	0	16	51	.189	.260	.317	.577	52	5	0	7	1	0
Ross Jones	39	124	114	10	29	4	2	0	10	1	0	5	15	.254	.285	.325	.609	37	5	1	1	3	0
Jim Eisenreich	44	115	105	10	25	8	2	4	21	1	1	7	13	.238	.278	.467	.745	49	2	0	0	3	2
Gary Thurman	27	90	81	12	24	2	0	0	5	7	2	8	20	.296	.360	.321	.681	26	1	0	1	0	0
Hal McRae	18	37	32	5	10	3	0	1	9	0	0	5	1	.313	.405	.500	.905	16	1	0	0	0	1
Buddy Biancalana	37	49	47	4	10	1	0	1	7	0	0	1	10	.213	.229	.298	.527	14	1	0	1	0	0
Jorge Orta	21	53	50	3	9	4	0	2	4	0	0	3	8	.180	.226	.380	.606	19	0	0	0	0	1
Ed Hearn	6	21	17	2	5	2	0	0	3	0	0	4	2	.294	.429	.412	.840	7	1	0	0	0	0
Scotti Madison	7	17	15	4	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	.267	.313	.467	.779	7	0	0	1	0	0
Mike Macfarlane	8	21	19	0	4	1	0	0	3	0	0	2	2	.211	.286	.263	.549	5	1	0	0	0	0
Buddy Black	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
John Davis	27	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Farr	47	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Stoddard	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Gene Garber	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob Shirley	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jerry Don Gleaton	48	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mark Gubicza	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bret Saberhagen	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dan Quisenberry	47	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Gumpert	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Melido Perez	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Danny Jackson	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Charlie Leibrandt	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Rick Anderson	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2117	6128	5499	715	1443	239	40	168	677	125	43	523	1034	.262	.328	.412	.740	2266	127	30	34	42	32

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
George Brett	1B	83	83	720.3	798	50	6	69	.993	1.595	1.217	0	0	0
Steve Balboni	1B	55	54	468.0	521	41	6	39	.989	1.808	1.218	0	0	0
Kevin Seitzer	1B	25	19	171.7	183	23	2	19	.990	1.800	8.240	0	0	0
Juan Beniquez	1B	6	5	46.0	50	1	0	6	1.000	9.978	8.500	0	0	0
Scotti Madison	1B	4	1	18.0	20	2	0	4	1.000	11.000	5.500	0	0	0
Frank White	2B	152	150	1277.3	320	458	10	89	.987	5.482	5.118	0	0	0
Bill Pecota	2B	15	6	70.0	20	27	0	6	1.000	6.043	3.133	0	0	0
Buddy Biancalana	2B	12	5	61.7	9	18	0	6	1.000	3.941	2.250	0	0	0
Ross Jones	2B	3	1	15.0	4	2	0	2	1.000	3.600	2.000	0	0	0
Kevin Seitzer	3B	141	139	1205.3	105	292	22	32	.947	2.964	2.816	0	0	0
George Brett	3B	11	11	89.3	7	19	3	3	.897	2.619	2.364	0	0	0
Bill Pecota	3B	17	7	82.3	7	23	3	2	.909	3.279	1.765	0	0	0
Juan Beniquez	3B	6	5	47.0	0	4	1	0	.800	.766	.667	0	0	0
Jamie Quirk	C	108	88	791.0	532	40	8	3	.986	6.508	5.296	11	76	33	30.3
Larry Owen	C	75	59	510.7	370	38	7	4	.983	7.191	5.440	5	36	27	42.9
Mike Macfarlane	C	8	7	56.0	29	2	0	0	1.000	4.982	3.875	0	4	4	50.0
Ed Hearn	C	5	5	44.3	25	0	0	0	1.000	5.075	5.000	1	3	1	25.0
Scotti Madison	C	3	3	22.0	8	1	3	0	.750	3.682	3.000	0	5	1	16.7
Danny Tartabull	OF	149	149	1289.7	228	11	6	1	.976	1.668	1.604	0	0	0
Willie Wilson	OF	143	142	1221.3	342	3	1	1	.997	2.542	2.413	0	0	0
Bo Jackson	OF	113	107	939.3	180	9	9	1	.955	1.811	1.673	0	0	0
Lonnie Smith	OF	32	31	277.3	52	2	5	0	.915	1.752	1.688	0	0	0
Gary Thurman	OF	27	25	217.0	61	5	2	1	.971	2.737	2.444	0	0	0
Juan Beniquez	OF	22	18	178.7	33	0	0	0	1.000	1.662	1.500	0	0	0
Thad Bosley	OF	28	12	128.7	28	0	1	0	.966	1.959	1.000	0	0	0
Kevin Seitzer	OF	3	2	20.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	.900	.667	0	0	0
Bret Saberhagen	P	33	33	257.0	21	34	2	5	.965	1.926	1.667	0	0	0
Mark Gubicza	P	35	35	241.7	32	40	2	7	.973	2.681	2.057	0	0	0
Charlie Leibrandt	P	35	35	240.3	15	55	4	4	.946	2.621	2.000	0	0	0
Danny Jackson	P	36	34	224.0	13	23	2	2	.947	1.446	1.000	0	0	0
Buddy Black	P	29	18	122.3	4	19	0	0	1.000	1.692	.793	0	0	0
Steve Farr	P	47	0	91.0	3	6	2	0	.818	.890	.191	0	0	0
Jerry Don Gleaton	P	48	0	50.7	2	12	1	1	.933	2.487	.292	0	0	0
Dan Quisenberry	P	47	0	49.0	6	13	0	3	1.000	3.490	.404	0	0	0
John Davis	P	27	0	43.7	5	7	1	1	.923	2.473	.444	0	0	0
Bob Stoddard	P	17	2	40.0	4	10	0	1	1.000	3.150	.824	0	0	0
Dave Gumpert	P	8	0	19.3	1	4	0	1	1.000	2.328	.625	0	0	0
Gene Garber	P	13	0	14.3	2	3	0	0	1.000	3.140	.385	0	0	0
Rick Anderson	P	6	2	13.0	1	3	0	0	1.000	2.769	.667	0	0	0
Melido Perez	P	3	3	10.3	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0
Bob Shirley	P	3	0	7.3	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.227	.333	0	0	0
Angel Salazar	SS	116	94	829.3	134	332	9	56	.981	5.057	4.017	0	0	0
Ross Jones	SS	36	35	291.3	42	109	4	13	.974	4.665	4.194	0	0	0
Bill Pecota	SS	36	26	223.7	40	85	3	20	.977	5.030	3.472	0	0	0
Buddy Biancalana	SS	22	7	78.7	12	27	5	4	.886	4.462	1.773	0	0	0
Jamie Quirk	SS	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Totals		1844	1458	12816.0	4272	1853	131	406	.979	4.301	3.322	17	124	66	34.7

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