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Record: 92-70 .568.... 1st in American League West
Stadium: Royals Stadium
Playoffs: Lost ALCS (Yankees)
Attendance: 2,255,493

Top Draft Pick: Buddy Biancalana (#25) MLB
Manager - Whitey Herzog

Affiliates - AAA Omaha Royals AAA Denver Bears AA Jacksonville Suns A+ Fort Myers Royals Rk Gulf Coast Royals

Team Leaders

HR: Otis [22]
RBI: Otis [96]
2B: Brett [45]
SB: Wilson [46]
W: Leonard [21]
SV: Hrabosky [20]
SO: Leonard [183]

Oldest Player: Marty Pattin [35]
Youngest Player: Clint Hurdle [20]
Longest Tenure: Amos Otis, Paul Splittorff [9]

Major League Debuts

Batters: Dave Cripe (Sep 10) Jim Gaudet (Sep 10) Luis Silverio (Sep 9)
Pitchers: Rich Gale (Apr 30) Bill Paschall (Sep 20)

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Championship Series Playoffs Batting Statistics

Pos	Player Name	Age	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	HBP	IBB	SH	SF	DP	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
3B	George Brett	25	4	18	7	7	1	1	3	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	.389	.389	1.056	1445
OF	Al Cowens	26	4	15	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	.133	.133	.133	266
OF	Hal McRae	32	4	14	0	3	0	0	0	2	1	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	.214	.313	.214	527
OF	Amos Otis	31	4	14	2	6	2	0	0	1	4	0	3	5	0	0	0	0	0	.429	.529	.571	1100
C	Darrell Porter	26	4	14	1	5	1	0	0	3	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.357	.438	.429	867
SS	Freddie Patek	33	4	13	2	1	0	0	1	2	0	0	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	.077	.143	.308	451
2B	Frank White	27	4	13	1	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.231	.231	.231	462
1B	Pete LaCock	26	4	11	1	4	2	1	0	1	1	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	.364	.500	.727	1227
OF-1B	Clint Hurdle	20	4	8	1	3	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	.375	.500	.625	1125
OF-3B	Steve Braun	30	2	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.167	.000	167
OF	Willie Wilson	22	3	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	500
1B-C	John Wathan	28	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0
OF	Tom Poquette	26	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0
	Doug Bird	28	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
	Larry Gura	30	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
	Al Hrabosky	28	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
	Dennis Leonard	27	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
	Steve Mingori	34	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
	Marty Pattin	35	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
	Paul Splittorff	31	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---	---
Batting Totals			162	133	17	35	6	3	4	16	6	0	14	21	0	0	0	0	0	.263	.333	.444	777

Championship Series Playoffs Pitching Statistics

	Player Name	Age	W	L	ERA	G	GS	CG	SH	GF	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	WP	BK	H9	HR9	BB9	K9	WHIP
	Dennis Leonard	27	0	2	3.75	2		1			0	12.0	13		5		2	11			9.8	---	1.5	8.3	1.25
	Paul Splittorff	31	0	0	4.91	1		0			0	7.1	9		4		0	2			11.1	---	0.0	2.5	1.23
	Larry Gura	30	1	0	2.84	1		0			0	6.1	8		2		2	2			11.4	---	2.8	2.8	1.58
	Steve Mingori	34	0	0	7.38	1		0			0	3.2	5		3		3	0			12.3	---	7.4	0.0	2.19
	Al Hrabosky	28	0	0	3.00	3		0			0	3.0	3		1		0	2			9.0	---	0.0	6.0	1.00
	Doug Bird	28	0	1	9.00	2		0			0	1.0	2		1		0	1			18.0	---	0.0	9.0	2.00
	Marty Pattin	35	0	0	27.27	1		0			0	0.2	2		2		0	0			27.3	---	0.0	0.0	3.03
Pitching Totals:			1	3	4.77	11		1			0	34.0	42		18		7	18			11.1	---	1.9	4.8	1.44