1988 Omaha Royals Statistics

American Association (AA) - Class: AAA
Team Record: 81-61
Finished 1st in the AA's West Division
Manager: Glenn Ezell (81-61)
Affiliation: Kansas City Royals
Location: Omaha, Nebraska
Ballpark: Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium
Attendance: 308,080, Avg. 4,339

1988 Omaha Royals Roster

Playoffs - Indianapolis Indians 3 games, Omaha Royals 1

The Omaha Royals of the American Association ended the 1988 season with a record of 81 wins and 61 losses, finishing first in the league's West Division.

The Royals scored 631 runs and surrendered 524 runs. José Castro led Omaha with 10 home runs Luis de los Santos recorded 87 runs batted in and topped all qualifying hitters on the roster with a .307 average. Steve Fireovid paced the squad with 11 wins, while Luis Aquino recorded a 2.86 ERA, best among qualifying pitchers.

Steve Fireovid, Don Welchel, Alan Hargesheimer, Dave Owen, Israel Sánchez, Bob Buchanan, Nick Capra, Luis Aquino, Tom Gordon, Dann Bilardello, Tom Dodd, Rick Anderson, Rich Thompson, Jim Eisenreich, Luis de los Santos, Larry Owen, Jeff Schulz, Bill Swaggerty, Jerry Don Gleaton, Buddy Biancalana, Jeff Montgomery, Scotti Madison, Rick Luecken, José de Jesús, Rondin Johnson, Gary Thurman and Mike Macfarlane were all players from the 1988 Omaha Royals who played in the Majors during their careers.

Glenn Ezell served as manager.

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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
Steve Fireovid	11	6	.647	4.27	25	24	0	2	0	0	139.0	169	72	66	9	30	1	59	2	6	4
Bill Swaggerty	10	5	.667	3.43	20	16	2	2	0	1	120.7	123	57	46	9	27	0	30	0	2	2
Luis Aquino	8	3	.727	2.85	25	16	3	1	1	0	129.3	106	43	41	3	50	3	93	5	2	1
Rick Anderson	7	4	.636	2.62	14	14	0	4	2	0	99.7	92	37	29	5	23	1	54	3	6	0
Israel Sánchez	7	4	.636	2.91	15	15	0	3	2	0	102.0	102	36	33	3	36	4	85	1	4	1
Rich Thompson	6	7	.462	2.90	17	12	4	4	1	2	96.3	94	36	31	2	15	0	46	3	0	1
Alan Hargesheimer	6	9	.400	4.02	24	23	0	1	0	0	134.3	150	68	60	11	44	3	78	12	2	2
Rick Luecken	5	0	1.000	2.02	26	0	22	0	0	9	40.0	45	10	9	1	15	3	27	1	0	2
Bob Buchanan	5	1	.833	2.37	47	0	25	0	0	6	76.0	70	21	20	3	29	1	44	1	0	3
Jerry Don Gleaton	4	2	.667	1.45	15	0	11	0	0	0	37.3	30	7	6	0	14	0	40	0	0	1
Don Welchel	4	11	.267	3.90	37	8	20	0	0	3	97.0	97	49	42	7	32	1	71	0	7	8
Tom Gordon	3	0	1.000	1.33	3	3	0	0	0	0	20.3	11	3	3	0	15	0	29	0	0	0
Tom Mullen	2	2	.500	3.88	32	2	13	0	0	1	67.3	71	34	29	7	23	4	39	0	3	4
José de Jesús	2	3	.400	3.44	7	7	0	3	0	0	49.7	44	22	19	1	14	0	57	2	1	3
Jeff Montgomery	1	2	.333	1.91	20	0	18	0	0	13	28.3	15	6	6	1	11	0	36	0	0	0
José Castro	0	0		6.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	3.0	4	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
Aguedo Vasquez	0	0		9.00	2	0	1	0	0	0	4.0	9	4	4	0	2	1	1	0	0	0
Mike Jirschele	0	1	.000	6.75	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.3	3	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	2
Larry Acker	0	1	.000	10.38	6	2	1	0	0	0	13.0	22	15	15	4	2	0	10	0	0	0
Totals	81	61	.570	3.30	337	142	122	20	6	35	1258.7	1257	524	462	66	383	22	800	30	33	35	0

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
Luis de los Santos	136	584	535	62	164	25	4	6	87	2	2	40	79	.307	.353	.402	.755	215		2	0	7	3
Rondin Johnson	121	503	465	48	122	13	3	1	41	13	13	25	55	.262	.298	.310	.608	144		1	7	5	0
Gary Thurman	106	475	422	77	106	12	6	3	40	35	12	38	80	.251	.317	.329	.646	139		4	8	3	2
José Castro	112	439	385	62	104	17	3	10	44	0	2	49	49	.270	.352	.408	.759	157		1	1	3	2
Mike Loggins	130	494	425	44	104	17	8	2	42	22	2	54	76	.245	.332	.336	.668	143		3	9	3	0
Jeff Schulz	101	379	359	37	103	20	3	5	41	1	3	17	47	.287	.317	.401	.718	144		0	0	3	7
Nick Capra	93	403	346	53	100	11	6	1	43	28	9	50	49	.289	.378	.364	.743	126		1	4	2	0
Dave Owen	115	424	352	44	94	11	4	3	34	14	8	59	67	.267	.370	.347	.717	122		2	5	6	3
Tom Dodd	82	296	273	38	74	22	1	7	35	1	0	21	47	.271	.321	.436	.757	119		0	0	2	1
Buddy Biancalana	91	340	294	36	73	16	4	1	37	17	4	35	66	.248	.335	.340	.675	100		4	6	1	1
Dann Bilardello	71	255	235	27	57	14	0	8	45	0	0	7	35	.243	.259	.404	.663	95		1	4	8	0
Larry Owen	62	234	196	35	42	10	0	9	30	1	3	31	51	.214	.326	.403	.729	79		2	4	1	0
Jim Eisenreich	36	156	142	28	41	8	3	4	14	9	1	9	20	.289	.327	.472	.799	67		1	0	4	0
Scotti Madison	36	125	104	14	25	4	3	2	12	1	0	17	20	.240	.352	.394	.746	41		2	0	2	1
Joe Citari	41	134	111	16	21	5	0	3	14	1	1	17	25	.189	.303	.315	.618	35		2	2	2	1
Mike Macfarlane	21	83	76	8	18	7	2	2	8	0	1	4	15	.237	.293	.461	.753	35		2	1	0	0
Mike Jirschele	7	23	18	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	.167	.286	.167	.452	3		0	2	0	0
Angel Morris	3	10	8	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	.125	.200	.125	.325	1		0	0	1	0
Totals	1364	5357	4746	631	1252	212	50	67	568	145	61	477	785	.264	.331	.372	.703	1765	0	28	53	53	21

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS
Luis de los Santos	1B	102	971	68	11	100	.990	1.186
Joe Citari	1B	39	300	26	1	29	.997	8.359
Scotti Madison	1B	7	69	8	1	6	.987	11.000
Tom Dodd	1B	1	5	0	0	0	1.000	5.000
Rondin Johnson	2B	121	225	360	13	76	.978	4.835
Buddy Biancalana	2B	24	67	82	3	28	.980	6.208
Mike Jirschele	2B	1	2	3	1	1	.833	5.000
José Castro	3B	101	61	201	19	18	.932	2.594
Dave Owen	3B	34	21	83	1	2	.990	3.059
Tom Dodd	3B	6	1	14	0	0	1.000	2.500
Mike Jirschele	3B	4	5	8	1	1	.929	3.250
Scotti Madison	3B	2	0	5	0	1	1.000	2.500
Buddy Biancalana	3B	2	2	1	0	0	1.000	1.500
Dann Bilardello	C	67	395	31	5	3	.988	6.358	3
Larry Owen	C	62	349	48	6	7	.985	6.403	2
Mike Macfarlane	C	15	85	5	1	4	.989	6.000	2
Angel Morris	C	3	20	1	0	0	1.000	7.000	0
Scotti Madison	C	2	12	0	0	0	1.000	6.000	0
Mike Loggins	OF	129	288	10	6	2	.980	2.310
Gary Thurman	OF	92	195	16	6	1	.972	2.293
Nick Capra	OF	91	169	10	4	0	.978	1.967
Jeff Schulz	OF	62	105	7	7	3	.941	1.806
Jim Eisenreich	OF	34	73	1	1	1	.987	2.176
Scotti Madison	OF	18	26	2	0	2	1.000	1.556
Tom Dodd	OF	13	21	0	0	0	1.000	1.615
Joe Citari	OF	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000
Bob Buchanan	P	47	3	11	1	3	.933	.298
Don Welchel	P	37	4	17	0	0	1.000	.568
Tom Mullen	P	32	5	10	1	0	.938	.469
Rick Luecken	P	26	1	9	0	1	1.000	.385
Steve Fireovid	P	25	10	31	0	5	1.000	1.640
Luis Aquino	P	25	11	17	2	1	.933	1.120
Alan Hargesheimer	P	24	8	21	2	2	.935	1.208
Bill Swaggerty	P	20	18	22	3	4	.930	2.000
Jeff Montgomery	P	20	1	5	0	1	1.000	.300
Rich Thompson	P	17	8	15	3	2	.885	1.353
Israel Sánchez	P	15	5	24	1	1	.967	1.933
Jerry Don Gleaton	P	15	4	10	0	0	1.000	.933
Rick Anderson	P	14	8	18	0	2	1.000	1.857
José de Jesús	P	7	2	3	0	0	1.000	.714
Larry Acker	P	6	1	2	0	0	1.000	.500
Tom Gordon	P	3	1	2	1	0	.750	1.000
Aguedo Vasquez	P	2	0	1	0	0	1.000	.500
Mike Jirschele	P	1	0	0	0	0		.000
José Castro	P	1	1	2	0	0	1.000	3.000
Dave Owen	SS	79	115	264	15	59	.962	4.797
Buddy Biancalana	SS	62	89	166	13	35	.951	4.113
José Castro	SS	5	12	13	2	3	.926	5.000
Mike Jirschele	SS	1	1	1	0	0	1.000	2.000
Totals		1517	3776	1654	131	404	.976	3.579	7	0	0

Average attendance is based upon the number of actual home dates where known (most leagues from 1992 and later). Where the number of home dates is not known, the average is calculated using half the team's total games.

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