1984 Kansas City Royals season

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1984 Kansas City Royals
1984 AL West Champions
Major League affiliations
Location
  • Royals Stadium (since 1973)
  • Kansas City, Missouri (since 1969)
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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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.

Offseason[]

  • October 17, 1983: Eric Rasmussen was released by the Royals.[1]
  • December 8, 1983: Mike Armstrong and Duane Dewey (minors) were traded by the Royals to the New York Yankees for Steve Balboni and Roger Erickson.[2]
  • December 8, 1983: Joe Beckwith was traded by the Los Angeles Dodgers to the Kansas City Royals for Joe Szekeley (minors), John Serritella (minors) and José Torres (minors).[3]
  • January 17, 1984: Steve Carter was Drafted by the Kansas City Royals in the 2nd round of the 1984 amateur draft (January Secondary), but did not sign.[4]
  • March 31, 1984: Don Werner and Derek Botelho were traded by the Royals to the Chicago Cubs for Alan Hargesheimer.[5]

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[]

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AL West 		W L Pct. GB Home Road
Kansas City Royals 84 78 0.519 — 44–37 40–41
California Angels 81 81 0.500 3 37–44 44–37
Minnesota Twins 81 81 0.500 3 47–34 34–47
Oakland Athletics 77 85 0.475 7 44–37 33–48
Chicago White Sox 74 88 0.457 10 43–38 31–50
Seattle Mariners 74 88 0.457 10 42–39 32–49
Texas Rangers 69 92 0.429 14½ 34–46 35–46

Record vs. opponents[]

1984 American League Records
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Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

[10] [11] [12] [13] [14]

Team BAL BOS CAL CWS CLE DET KC MIL MIN NYY OAK SEA TEX TOR
Baltimore — 6–7 8–4 7–5 7–6 7–6 5–7 7–6 5–7 5–8 6–6 9–3 9–3 4–9
Boston 7–6 — 9–3 7–5 10–3 7–6 3–9 9–4 6–6 7–6 7–5 4–8 5–7 5–8
California 4–8 3–9 — 8–5 8–4 4–8 6–7 8–4 4–9 8–4 7–6 9–4 5–8 7–5
Chicago 5–7 5–7 5–8 — 8–4 4–8 5–8 7–5 8–5 7–5 6–7 5–8 5–8 4–8
Cleveland 6–7 3–10 4–8 4–8 — 4–9 6–6 9–4 7–5 2–11 7–5 8–4 9–3 6–7–1
Detroit 6–7 6–7 8–4 8–4 9–4 — 7–5 11–2 9–3 7–6 9–3 6–6 10–2 8–5
Kansas City 7–5 9–3 7–6 8–5 6–6 5–7 — 6–6 6–7 5–7 5–8 9–4 6–7 5–7
Milwaukee 6–7 4–9 4–8 5–7 4–9 2–11 6–6 — 5–7 6–7 4–8 6–6 5–6 10–3
Minnesota 7–5 6–6 9–4 5–8 5–7 3–9 7–6 7–5 — 8–4 8–5 7–6 8–5 1–11
New York 8–5 6–7 4–8 5–7 11–2 6–7 7–5 7–6 4–8 — 8–4 7–5 6–6 8–5
Oakland 6–6 5–7 6–7 7–6 5–7 3–9 8–5 8–4 5–8 4–8 — 8–5 8–5 4–8
Seattle 3–9 8–4 4–9 8–5 4–8 6–6 4–9 6–6 6–7 5–7 5–8 — 10–3 5–7
Texas 3–9 7–5 8–5 8–5 3–9 2–10 7–6 6–5 5–8 6–6 5–8 3–10 — 6–6
Toronto 9–4 8–5 5–7 8–4 7–6–1 5–8 7–5 3–10 11–1 5–8 8–4 7–5 6–6 —


Notable transactions[]

  • May 10, 1984: Dane Iorg was purchased by the Royals from the St. Louis Cardinals.[7]

Roster[]

1984 Kansas City Royals roster
Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

Outfielders

Other batters

Manager
  • 10 Dick Howser

Coaches

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
C Don Slaught 124 409 108 .264 4 42
1B Steve Balboni 126 438 107 .244 28 77
2B Frank White 129 479 130 .271 17 56
SS Onix Concepcion 90 287 81 .282 1 23
3B George Brett 104 377 107 .284 13 69
LF Darryl Motley 146 522 148 .284 15 70
CF Willie Wilson 128 541 163 .301 2 44
RF Pat Sheridan 138 481 136 .283 8 53
DH Hal McRae 106 317 96 .303 3 42

Other batters[]

Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
Jorge Orta 122 403 120 .298 9 50
Greg Pryor 123 270 71 .263 4 25
Dane Iorg 78 235 60 .255 5 30
John Wathan 97 171 31 .181 2 10
UL Washington 63 170 38 .224 1 10
Buddy Biancalana 66 134 26 .194 2 9
Butch Davis 41 116 17 .147 2 12
Lynn Jones 47 103 31 .301 1 10
Leon Roberts 28 45 10 .222 0 3
Tucker Ashford 9 13 2 .154 0 0
Orlando Sanchez 10 10 1 .100 0 2
Bucky Dent 11 9 3 .333 0 1
Dave Leeper 4 6 0 .000 0 0
Luis Pujols 4 5 1 .200 0 1
Jim Scranton 2 2 0 .000 0 0

Pitching[]

Starting pitchers[]

Player G IP W L ERA SO
Bud Black 35 257 17 12 3.12 140
Mark Gubicza 29 189 10 14 4.05 111
Larry Gura 31 168.2 12 9 5.18 68
Charlie Leibrandt 23 143.2 11 7 3.63 53

Other pitchers[]

Player G IP W L ERA SO
Bret Saberhagen 38 157.2 10 11 3.48 73
Mike Jones 23 81 2 3 4.89 43
Danny Jackson 15 76 2 6 4.26 40
Paul Splittorff 12 28 1 3 7.71 4
Frank Wills 10 37 2 3 5.11 21

Relief pitchers[]

Player G W L SV ERA SO
Dan Quisenberry 72 6 3 44 2.64 41
Joe Beckwith 49 8 4 2 3.40 75
Mark Huismann 13 2 1 0 5.58 20

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 2 0 0 1 1 0 1 2 1 8 14 0
Kansas City 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 5 1
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 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 8 1
Kansas City 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 3 10 3
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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3
Detroit 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 1 3 0
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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