1976 Kansas City Royals Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 90-72
Finished 1st in the AL's West Division
Attendance: 1,679,160, Avg. 21,528
Ballpark: Royals Stadium
Won Division
American League Championship Series - Lost to New York Yankees 3-2
Manager: Whitey Herzog (90-72)
Location: Kansas City, Kansas

1976 Kansas City Royals Roster
1976 Kansas City Royals Results

The Kansas City Royals of the American League ended the 1976 season with a record of 90 wins and 72 losses, finishing first in the AL's West Division.

The Royals scored 713 runs and allowed 611 runs. Amos Otis led Kansas City with 18 home runs John Mayberry drove in 95 runs. George Brett paced all regular hitters by connecting at a .333 clip. Dennis Leonard topped the team with 17 wins, while Al Fitzmorris, too added 15 or more wins, too Marty Pattin recorded a 2.49 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Whitey Herzog coached the team. The 1976 Kansas City Royals qualified for the playoffs as a division winner.

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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
Dennis Leonard	17	10	.630	3.51	35	34	0	16	2	0	259.0	247	113	101	16	70	5	150	11	1	7	1072
Al Fitzmorris	15	11	.577	3.06	35	33	0	8	2	0	220.3	227	89	75	6	56	6	80	2	1	3	907
Doug Bird	12	10	.545	3.37	39	27	6	2	1	2	197.7	191	90	74	17	31	3	107	3	1	0	808
Paul Splittorff	11	8	.579	3.97	26	23	1	5	1	0	158.7	169	79	70	11	59	0	59	3	1	4	686
Mark Littell	8	4	.667	2.08	60	1	37	0	0	16	104.0	68	26	24	1	60	4	92	0	0	1	428
Marty Pattin	8	14	.364	2.49	44	15	19	4	1	5	141.0	114	51	39	9	38	9	65	3	0	2	575
Steve Mingori	5	5	.500	2.32	55	0	27	0	0	10	85.3	73	23	22	3	25	8	38	3	0	3	341
Andy Hassler	5	6	.455	2.89	19	14	0	4	1	0	99.7	89	37	32	2	39	0	45	0	0	3	414
Larry Gura	4	0	1.000	2.30	20	2	7	1	1	1	62.7	47	20	16	4	20	3	22	1	0	2	249
Steve Busby	3	3	.500	4.40	13	13	0	1	0	0	71.7	58	42	35	7	49	1	29	3	0	1	323
Tom Bruno	1	0	1.000	6.75	12	0	4	0	0	0	17.3	20	13	13	3	9	1	11	0	1	0	80
Tom Hall	1	1	.500	4.45	31	0	16	0	0	1	30.3	28	19	15	4	18	1	25	0	0	1	134
Ken Sanders	0	0		0.00	3	0	1	0	0	0	3.0	3	0	0	0	3	0	2	0	0	0	14
Ray Sadecki	0	0		0.00	3	0	1	0	0	0	4.7	7	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	22
Roger Nelson	0	0		2.08	3	0	0	0	0	0	8.7	4	2	2	0	4	1	4	2	0	1	36
Jerry Cram	0	0		6.23	4	0	2	0	0	0	4.3	8	3	3	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	21
Bob McClure	0	0		9.00	8	0	0	0	0	0	4.0	3	4	4	0	8	0	3	0	0	0	22
Totals	90	72	.556	3.21	410	162	121	41	9	35	1472.3	1356	611	525	83	493	42	735	31	5	29	6132

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
George Brett	159	705	645	94	215	34	14	7	67	21	11	49	36	.333	.377	.462	.839	298	8	1	2	8	4
Hal McRae	149	609	527	75	175	34	5	8	73	22	12	64	43	.332	.407	.461	.868	243	13	8	2	8	7
Amos Otis	153	665	592	93	165	40	2	18	86	26	7	55	100	.279	.341	.444	.785	263	13	5	5	8	7
Al Cowens	152	616	581	71	154	23	6	3	59	23	16	26	50	.265	.298	.341	.639	198	9	3	2	4	0
John Mayberry	161	690	594	76	138	22	2	13	95	3	2	82	73	.232	.322	.342	.663	203	12	2	0	12	7
Tom Poquette	104	381	344	43	104	18	10	2	34	6	5	29	31	.302	.361	.430	.792	148	9	4	2	2	3
Freddie Patek	144	503	432	58	104	19	3	1	43	51	15	50	63	.241	.318	.306	.624	132	6	2	13	6	5
Frank White	152	489	446	39	102	17	6	2	46	20	11	19	42	.229	.263	.307	.570	137	4	3	18	3	0
Jim Wohlford	107	334	293	47	73	10	2	1	24	22	16	29	24	.249	.314	.307	.621	90	8	1	6	5	0
Buck Martinez	95	295	267	24	61	13	3	5	34	0	0	16	45	.228	.269	.356	.625	95	2	0	9	3	1
Bob Stinson	79	243	209	26	55	7	1	2	25	3	1	25	29	.263	.342	.335	.677	70	5	1	6	2	2
Dave Nelson	78	171	153	24	36	4	2	1	17	15	5	14	26	.235	.298	.307	.605	47	1	0	3	1	0
Cookie Rojas	63	145	132	11	32	6	0	0	16	2	0	8	15	.242	.280	.288	.568	38	5	0	2	3	0
Jamie Quirk	64	119	114	11	28	6	0	1	15	0	0	2	22	.246	.252	.325	.577	37	5	0	0	3	0
Tony Solaita	31	77	68	4	16	4	0	0	9	0	0	6	17	.235	.286	.294	.580	20	0	0	0	3	0
John Wathan	27	46	42	5	12	1	0	0	5	0	2	2	5	.286	.333	.310	.643	13	1	1	1	0	0
Ruppert Jones	28	54	51	9	11	1	1	1	7	0	2	3	16	.216	.259	.333	.593	17	0	0	0	0	0
Tommy Davis	8	20	19	1	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.263	.300	.263	.563	5	1	0	0	0	0
Fran Healy	8	28	24	2	3	0	0	0	1	2	0	4	10	.125	.250	.125	.375	3	1	0	0	0	0
Willie Wilson	12	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	2	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	0	0	0
Mark Littell	60	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ken Sanders	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Paul Splittorff	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Ray Sadecki	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Bruno	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Hall	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Busby	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Andy Hassler	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dennis Leonard	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Larry Gura	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Bob McClure	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Al Fitzmorris	37	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Mingori	55	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Roger Nelson	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jerry Cram	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Marty Pattin	44	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Doug Bird	39	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2189	6197	5540	713	1490	259	57	65	656	218	106	484	650	.269	.327	.371	.699	2058	103	31	71	71	36

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
John Mayberry	1B	160	159	1416.0	1484	105	7	132	.996	1.100	9.931	0	0	0
Tony Solaita	1B	5	2	30.0	34	3	1	1	.974	11.100	7.400	0	0	0
John Wathan	1B	3	1	11.0	6	0	0	0	1.000	4.909	2.000	0	0	0
Dave Nelson	1B	3	0	8.0	9	2	0	3	1.000	12.375	3.667	0	0	0
Jamie Quirk	1B	2	0	6.0	3	0	0	1	1.000	4.500	1.500	0	0	0
Cookie Rojas	1B	1	0	1.3	1	1	0	0	1.000	13.500	2.000	0	0	0
Frank White	2B	130	122	1025.0	256	391	18	76	.973	5.681	4.977	0	0	0
Dave Nelson	2B	46	26	267.7	70	88	4	14	.975	5.313	3.435	0	0	0
Cookie Rojas	2B	40	14	176.7	48	45	0	11	1.000	4.738	2.325	0	0	0
Jim Wohlford	2B	1	0	3.0	1	2	0	1	1.000	9.000	3.000	0	0	0
George Brett	3B	157	157	1398.7	140	335	26	22	.948	3.056	3.025	0	0	0
Cookie Rojas	3B	6	3	38.0	4	6	1	2	.909	2.368	1.667	0	0	0
Jamie Quirk	3B	11	2	35.7	4	10	2	0	.875	3.533	1.273	0	0	0
Buck Martinez	C	94	86	739.3	420	40	4	4	.991	5.600	4.894	5	76	38	33.3
Bob Stinson	C	79	62	577.7	304	30	7	4	.979	5.204	4.228	3	54	22	28.9
John Wathan	C	23	8	101.0	57	4	1	1	.984	5.436	2.652	0	9	3	25.0
Fran Healy	C	6	6	54.3	30	5	0	0	1.000	5.798	5.833	1	7	3	30.0
Amos Otis	OF	152	151	1326.0	373	5	3	1	.992	2.566	2.487	0	0	0
Al Cowens	OF	148	145	1311.0	329	13	5	3	.986	2.348	2.311	0	0	0
Tom Poquette	OF	98	88	769.7	188	1	4	0	.979	2.210	1.929	0	0	0
Jim Wohlford	OF	93	66	657.3	189	6	5	0	.975	2.670	2.097	0	0	0
Hal McRae	OF	31	28	248.3	63	2	2	0	.970	2.356	2.097	0	0	0
Ruppert Jones	OF	17	7	86.7	21	0	0	0	1.000	2.181	1.235	0	0	0
Willie Wilson	OF	6	1	18.0	6	1	1	0	.875	3.500	1.167	0	0	0
Dennis Leonard	P	35	34	259.0	11	23	6	2	.850	1.181	.971	0	0	0
Al Fitzmorris	P	35	33	220.3	19	49	3	4	.958	2.778	1.943	0	0	0
Doug Bird	P	39	27	197.7	14	21	2	1	.946	1.594	.897	0	0	0
Paul Splittorff	P	26	23	158.7	9	30	0	5	1.000	2.212	1.500	0	0	0
Marty Pattin	P	44	15	141.0	9	20	1	1	.967	1.851	.659	0	0	0
Mark Littell	P	60	1	104.0	3	9	0	1	1.000	1.038	.200	0	0	0
Andy Hassler	P	19	14	99.7	3	20	1	1	.958	2.077	1.211	0	0	0
Steve Mingori	P	55	0	85.3	9	24	0	1	1.000	3.480	.600	0	0	0
Steve Busby	P	13	13	71.7	10	9	3	0	.864	2.386	1.462	0	0	0
Larry Gura	P	20	2	62.7	4	12	0	2	1.000	2.298	.800	0	0	0
Tom Hall	P	31	0	30.3	1	7	1	0	.889	2.374	.258	0	0	0
Tom Bruno	P	12	0	17.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	.519	.083	0	0	0
Roger Nelson	P	3	0	8.7	1	1	0	0	1.000	2.077	.667	0	0	0
Ray Sadecki	P	3	0	4.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Jerry Cram	P	4	0	4.3	2	0	0	0	1.000	4.154	.500	0	0	0
Bob McClure	P	8	0	4.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Ken Sanders	P	3	0	3.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Freddie Patek	SS	143	140	1210.7	233	426	26	87	.962	4.899	4.608	0	0	0
Frank White	SS	37	20	213.0	41	92	5	14	.964	5.620	3.595	0	0	0
George Brett	SS	4	2	28.7	6	15	0	1	1.000	6.593	5.250	0	0	0
Jamie Quirk	SS	12	0	20.0	2	4	0	1	1.000	2.700	.500	0	0	0
Totals		1918	1458	13251.0	4417	1858	139	397	.978	4.262	3.272	9	146	66	31.1

Postseason - Pitching:

Player	Rnd	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	BF
Doug Bird	ALCS	1	0	1.000	1.93	1	0	0	0	4.7	4	1	1	0	0	0	1	16
Paul Splittorff	ALCS	1	0	1.000	1.93	2	0	0	0	9.3	7	2	2	0	5	0	2	40
Tom Hall	ALCS	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0.3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Steve Mingori	ALCS	0	0		2.70	3	0	2	1	3.3	4	1	1	1	0	0	1	14
Dennis Leonard	ALCS	0	0		19.29	2	2	0	0	2.3	9	5	5	0	2	0	0	16
Marty Pattin	ALCS	0	0		27.00	2	0	0	0	0.3	0	1	1	0	1	1	0	2
Mark Littell	ALCS	0	1	.000	1.93	3	0	3	0	4.7	4	1	1	1	1	0	3	19
Larry Gura	ALCS	0	1	.000	4.22	2	2	0	0	10.7	18	6	5	1	1	0	4	50
Andy Hassler	ALCS	0	1	.000	6.14	2	1	0	0	7.3	8	6	5	1	6	0	4	34
Totals		2	3	.400	4.40	18	5	5	1	43.0	55	23	21	4	16	1	15	193

Postseason - Batting:

Player	Rnd	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SF
George Brett	ALCS	5	21	18	4	8	1	1	1	5	0	1	2	1	.444	.476	.778	1.254	14	1	0	1
Freddie Patek	ALCS	5	18	18	2	7	2	0	0	4	0	3	0	1	.389	.389	.500	.889	9	0	0	0
Buck Martinez	ALCS	5	16	15	0	5	0	0	0	4	0	0	1	3	.333	.375	.333	.708	5	0	0	0
John Mayberry	ALCS	5	19	18	4	4	0	0	1	3	0	0	1	0	.222	.263	.389	.652	7	1	0	0
Al Cowens	ALCS	5	22	21	3	4	0	1	0	0	2	0	1	1	.190	.227	.286	.513	6	1	0	0
Cookie Rojas	ALCS	4	10	9	2	3	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	.333	.300	.333	.633	3	0	0	1
Tom Poquette	ALCS	5	18	16	1	3	2	0	0	4	0	0	2	3	.188	.278	.313	.590	5	0	0	0
Jim Wohlford	ALCS	5	15	12	3	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	3	1	.167	.333	.167	.500	2	0	0	0
Hal McRae	ALCS	5	19	16	2	2	1	1	0	1	0	1	1	4	.125	.211	.313	.523	5	0	1	1
Jamie Quirk	ALCS	4	8	7	1	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	2	.143	.125	.429	.554	3	0	0	1
Frank White	ALCS	4	8	8	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.125	.125	.125	.250	1	0	0	0
Dave Nelson	ALCS	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Amos Otis	ALCS	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Bob Stinson	ALCS	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Doug Bird	ALCS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Larry Gura	ALCS	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Tom Hall	ALCS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Andy Hassler	ALCS	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Dennis Leonard	ALCS	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Mark Littell	ALCS	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Steve Mingori	ALCS	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Marty Pattin	ALCS	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Paul Splittorff	ALCS	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
John Wathan	ALCS	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0
Totals		76	178	162	24	40	6	4	2	24	5	5	11	18	.247	.292	.370	.663	60	3	1	4

Postseason - Fielding:

Player	Rnd	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G
John Mayberry	ALCS	1B	5	5	43.0	48	1	0	4	1.000	1.256	9.800
Frank White	ALCS	2B	4	3	25.0	6	11	0	3	1.000	6.120	4.250
Cookie Rojas	ALCS	2B	4	2	18.0	5	6	0	1	1.000	5.500	2.750
George Brett	ALCS	3B	5	5	43.0	3	7	3	1	.769	2.093	2.000
Buck Martinez	ALCS	C	5	5	41.0	15	4	0	1	1.000	4.171	3.800
John Wathan	ALCS	C	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Bob Stinson	ALCS	C	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Al Cowens	ALCS	CF	5	4	42.0	15	0	0	0	1.000	3.214	3.000
Amos Otis	ALCS	CF	1	1	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Jim Wohlford	ALCS	LF	5	2	28.0	7	0	0	0	1.000	2.250	1.400
Tom Poquette	ALCS	LF	3	3	15.0	5	0	0	0	1.000	3.000	1.667
Larry Gura	ALCS	P	2	2	10.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Paul Splittorff	ALCS	P	2	0	9.3	0	1	0	0	1.000	.964	.500
Andy Hassler	ALCS	P	2	1	7.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Mark Littell	ALCS	P	3	0	4.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.929	.333
Doug Bird	ALCS	P	1	0	4.7	0	1	1	0	.500	1.929	1.000
Steve Mingori	ALCS	P	3	0	3.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Dennis Leonard	ALCS	P	2	2	2.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Marty Pattin	ALCS	P	2	0	0.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Tom Hall	ALCS	P	1	0	0.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Tom Poquette	ALCS	RF	4	2	27.0	8	0	0	0	1.000	2.667	2.000
Hal McRae	ALCS	RF	2	2	15.0	5	1	0	0	1.000	3.600	3.000
Al Cowens	ALCS	RF	1	1	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000
Freddie Patek	ALCS	SS	5	5	43.0	12	19	0	3	1.000	6.488	6.200
Totals			69	45	387.0	129	52	4	13	.978	4.209	2.623

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