1984 Kansas City Royals season

The 1984 Kansas City Royals season was their 16th in Major League Baseball. The Royals won the American League West with a record of 84-78, but lost to the eventual World Series champion Detroit Tigers 3-0 in the 1984 American League Championship Series. Dan Quisenberry's 44 saves paced the American League.

1984 Kansas City Royals
1984 AL West Champions
Major League affiliations
Location
Other information
Owner(s)Ewing Kauffman
General manager(s)John Schuerholz
Manager(s)Dick Howser
Local televisionWDAF-TV
(Denny Matthews, Denny Trease, Fred White)
Sports Time
(Phil Stone, Dwayne Mosley)
Local radioWIBW (AM)
(Denny Matthews, Fred White)
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Offseason

Regular season
  • September 17, 1984: Reggie Jackson of the California Angels hit the 500th Home Run of his career against the Royals.[6] It was the 17th anniversary of the day he hit his first home run. Jackson hit his 500th, at Anaheim Stadium off Bud Black of the Royals.

Season standings
AL West W L Pct. GB Home Road
Kansas City Royals 8478 0.519 — 44–37 40–41
California Angels 8181 0.500 3 37–44 44–37
Minnesota Twins 8181 0.500 3 47–34 34–47
Oakland Athletics 7785 0.475 7 44–37 33–48
Chicago White Sox 7488 0.457 10 43–38 31–50
Seattle Mariners 7488 0.457 10 42–39 32–49
Texas Rangers 6992 0.429 14½ 34–46 35–46

Record vs. opponents
1984 American League Records

Sources:

Team BAL BOS CAL CWS CLE DET KC MIL MIN NYY OAK SEA TEX TOR
Baltimore —6–78–47–57–67–65–77–65–75–86–69–39–34–9
Boston 7–6—9–37–510–37–63–99–46–67–67–54–85–75–8
California 4–83–9—8–58–44–86–78–44–98–47–69–45–87–5
Chicago 5–75–75–8—8–44–85–87–58–57–56–75–85–84–8
Cleveland 6–73–104–84–8—4–96–69–47–52–117–58–49–36–7–1
Detroit 6–76–78–48–49–4—7–511–29–37–69–36–610–28–5
Kansas City 7–59–37–68–56–65–7—6–66–75–75–89–46–75–7
Milwaukee 6–74–94–85–74–92–116–6—5–76–74–86–65–610–3
Minnesota 7–56–69–45–85–73–97–67–5—8–48–57–68–51–11
New York 8–56–74–85–711–26–77–57–64–8—8–47–56–68–5
Oakland 6–65–76–77–65–73–98–58–45–84–8—8–58–54–8
Seattle 3–98–44–98–54–86–64–96–66–75–75–8—10–35–7
Texas 3–97–58–58–53–92–107–66–55–86–65–83–10—6–6
Toronto 9–48–55–78–47–6–15–87–53–1011–15–88–47–56–6—

Notable transactions

Roster
1984 Kansas City Royals roster
Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

 Outfielders

Other batters

 Manager

Coaches

  • 42 José Martínez

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
CDon Slaught124409108.264442
1BSteve Balboni126438107.2442877
2BFrank White129479130.2711756
SSOnix Concepcion9028781.282123
3BGeorge Brett104377107.2841369
LFDarryl Motley146522148.2841570
CFWillie Wilson128541163.301244
RFPat Sheridan138481136.283853
DHHal McRae10631796.303342

Other batters
Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
Jorge Orta122403120.298950
Greg Pryor12327071.263425
Dane Iorg7823560.255530
John Wathan9717131.181210
UL Washington6317038.224110
Buddy Biancalana6613426.19429
Butch Davis4111617.147212
Lynn Jones4710331.301110
Leon Roberts284510.22203
Tucker Ashford9132.15400
Bucky Dent1193.33301
Orlando Sanchez10101.10002
Dave Leeper460.00000
Luis Pujols451.20001
Jim Scranton220.00000

Pitching

Starting pitchers
Player G IP W L ERA SO
Bud Black3525717123.12140
Mark Gubicza2918910144.05111
Larry Gura31168.21295.1868
Charlie Leibrandt23143.21173.6353

Other pitchers
Player G IP W L ERA SO
Bret Saberhagen38157.210113.4873
Mike Jones2381234.8943
Danny Jackson1576264.2640
Paul Splittorff1228137.714
Frank Wills1037235.1121

Relief pitchers
Player G W L SV ERA SO
Dan Quisenberry7263442.6441
Joe Beckwith498423.4075
Mark Huismann132105.5820

ALCS
Main article: 1984 American League Championship Series

Game 1

October 2, Royals Stadium

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Detroit 200 110 121 8140
Kansas City 000 000 100 151
W: Jack Morris (1-0)  L: Bud Black (0-1)  
HRs: DET – Larry Herndon (1)  Alan Trammell (1)  Lance Parrish (1)

Game 2

October 3, Royals Stadium

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 R H E
Detroit 201 000 000 02 581
Kansas City 000 100 110 00 3103
W: Aurelio López (1-0)  L: Dan Quisenberry (0-1)  
HRs: DET – Kirk Gibson (1)

Game 3

October 5, Tiger Stadium

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Kansas City 000 000 000 033
Detroit 010 000 00X 130
W: Milt Wilcox (1-0)  L: Charlie Leibrandt (0-1)  S:Willie Hernández (1)
HRs: None

Farm system
See also: Minor League Baseball
Level Team League Manager
AAA Omaha Royals American Association Gene Lamont
AA Memphis Chicks Southern League Rick Mathews
A Fort Myers Royals Florida State League Tommy Jones
A Charleston Royals South Atlantic League Duane Gustavson
A-Short Season Eugene Emeralds Northwest League Dave Roberts

References
  1. Eric Rasmussen at Baseball-Reference
  2. Steve Balboni at Baseball-Reference
  3. "Joe Beckwith Stats - Baseball-Reference.com". Baseball-Reference.com.
  4. http: Steve Carter was//www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/cartest01.shtml
  5. Alan Hargesheimer at Baseball-Reference
  6. "Baseball Almanac - Box Score of 500th Home Run by Reggie Jackson". www.baseball-almanac.com.
  7. Dane Iorg at Baseball-Reference

Bibliography
  • Johnson, Lloyd; Wolff, Miles, eds. (1997). The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball (2nd ed.). Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America. ISBN 978-0-9637189-8-3.
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