1987 Kansas City Royals season

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1987 Kansas City Royals
Major league affiliations
Location
1987 Information
Owner(s) Ewing Kauffman
Manager(s) Billy Gardner and John Wathan
Local television WDAF-TV
(Denny Matthews, Denny Trease, Fred White)
Local radio WIBW (AM)
(Denny Matthews, Fred White)

The 1987 Kansas City Royals season involved the Royals finishing 2nd in the American League West with a record of 83 wins and 79 losses.

Contents

[edit] Offseason

  • December 22, 1986: Steve Balboni was released by the Kansas City Royals. [1]
  • February 25, 1987: Steve Balboni was signed as a Free Agent with the Kansas City Royals. [2]
  • March 27, 1987: David Cone was traded by the Kansas City Royals with Chris Jelic to the New York Mets for Ed Hearn, Rick Anderson, and Mauro Gozzo. [3]

[edit] Regular season

[edit] Season standings

AL West Final Standings
Team W L Pct. GB Home Away
Minnesota Twins 85 77 .525 -- 56-25 29-52
Kansas City Royals 83 79 .512 2 46-35 37-44
Oakland Athletics 81 81 .500 4 42-39 39-42
Seattle Mariners 78 84 .481 7 40-41 38-43
Chicago White Sox 77 85 .475 8 38-43 39-42
Texas Rangers 75 87 .463 10 43-38 32-49
California Angels 75 87 .463 10 38-43 37-44

[edit] Transactions

  • June 2, 1987: Bret Barberie was drafted by the Kansas City Royals in the 65th round of the 1987 amateur draft, but did not sign. [4]

[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

[edit] Other batters

Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI

[edit] Starting pitchers

Player G IP W L ERA SO
Danny Jackson 36 224 9 18 4.02 152

[edit] Other pitchers

Player G IP W L ERA

[edit] Relief pitchers
Player G W L SV ERA SO

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/balbost01.shtml
  2. ^ http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/balbost01.shtml
  3. ^ David Cone Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com
  4. ^ http://www.baseball-reference.com/b/barbebr01.shtml
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1987 MLB season by team
AL East
AL West
California • Chicago • Kansas City • Minnesota • Oakland • Seattle • Texas
NL East
NL West
1987 All-Star Game • 1987 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