1989 Kansas City Royals season

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1989 Kansas City Royals
Major league affiliations
Location
1989 Information
Owner(s) Ewing Kauffman
Manager(s) John Wathan
Local television WDAF-TV
(Paul Splittorff, Denny Trease)
Local radio WIBW (AM)
(Denny Matthews, Fred White)

The 1989 Kansas City Royals season involved the Royals finishing second in the American League West with a record of 92 wins and 70 losses.

Contents

[edit] Offseason

December 6, 1988: Bill Buckner signed as a Free Agent with the Kansas City Royals. [1]

[edit] Regular season

[edit] Season standings

AL West W L Pct. GB
Oakland Athletics 99 63 .611 --
Kansas City Royals 92 70 .568 7
California Angels 91 71 .562 8
Texas Rangers 83 79 .512 16
Minnesota Twins 80 82 .494 19
Seattle Mariners 73 89 .451 26
Chicago White Sox 69 92 .429 29½

[edit] Roster

1989 Kansas City Royals roster
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Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

 Outfielders

Designated Hitters

Manager

Coaches

[edit] Player stats

[edit] Batting

Note: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In

Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
Jim Eisenreich 134 475 139 .293 9 59
George Brett 124 457 129 .282 12 80
Kevin Seitzer 160 597 168 .281 4 48
Bob Boone 131 405 111 .274 1 43
Danny Tartabull 133 441 118 .268 18 62
Kurt Stillwell 130 463 121 .261 7 54
Bo Jackson 135 515 132 .256 32 105
Frank White 135 418 107 .256 2 36
Willie Wilson 112 383 97 .253 3 43

[edit] Other batters

Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
Pat Tabler 123 390 101 .259 2 42
Luis de los Santos 28 87 22 .253 0 6
Matt Winters 42 107 25 .234 2 9
Brad Wellman 103 178 41 .230 2 12
Mike Macfarlane 69 157 35 .223 2 19
Jeff Schulz 7 9 2 .222 0 1
Bill Buckner 79 176 38 .216 1 16
Bill Pecota 65 83 17 .205 3 5
Gary Thurman 72 87 17 .195 0 5
Rey Palacios 55 47 8 .170 1 8

[edit] Starting pitchers

Player G IP W L ERA SO
Bret Saberhagen 36 262⅓ 23 6 2.16 193
Mark Gubicza 36 255 15 11 3.04 173
Larry McWilliams 8 32⅔ 2 2 4.13 24
Floyd Bannister 14 75⅓ 4 1 4.66 35
Charlie Leibrandt 33 161 5 11 5.14 73
Kevin Appier 6 21⅔ 1 4 9.14 10

[edit] Other pitchers

Player G IP W L ERA
Rick Luecken 19 23⅔ 2 1 3.42
Luis Aquino 34 141⅓ 6 8 3.50
José DeJesus 3 8 0 0 4.50
Jerry Don Gleaton 15 14⅓ 0 0 5.65
Stan Clarke 2 7 0 2 15.43
Bob Buchanan 2 3⅓ 0 0 16.20

[edit] Relief pitchers
Player G W L SV ERA SO
Jeff Montgomery 63 7 3 18 1.37 94
Steve Crawford 25 3 1 0 2.83 33
Tom Gordon 49 17 9 1 3.64 153
Steve Farr 51 2 5 18 4.12 56
Terry Leach 30 5 6 0 4.15 34

[edit] References

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1989 MLB season by team
AL East
AL West
California • Chicago • Kansas City • Minnesota • Oakland • Seattle • Texas
NL East
NL West
1989 All-Star Game • 1989 World Series


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Kansas City Royals
Based in Kansas City, Missouri
The Franchise
Ballparks
Culture
Important Figures
Team Hall of Fame
Retired Numbers
5 • 10 • 20 • 42
Minors
Key Personnel
Owner: David Glass • General Manager: Dayton Moore • Manager: Trey Hillman
Team Managers
World Series
Championships (1)
American League
Pennants (2)
Division Titles
Western: 1976 • 1977 • 1978 • 1980 • 1981 (second half) • 1984 • 1985 • Central: none • Wild Card: none