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1970: Recap | Opening Day Roster/Transactions | Debuts

1969 | 1970 | 1971

1970 Royals Yearbook

1970 KANSAS CITY ROYALS

Record: 65-97 4th Place (33 games back)

Managers: Charlie Metro (19-33) & Bob Lemon (46-64)

Coaches: Dan Carnevale, Harry Dunlop, Bob Lemon, Joe Schultz, George Strickland

Month	Player of the Month	Pitcher of the Month
April	Amos Otis/Bob Oliver	Bill Butler
May	Joe Keough	Al Fitzmorris
June	Amos Otis	Dick Drago
July	Bob Oliver	Ted Abernathy
August	Paul Schaal	Bob Johnson
September	Lou Piniella	Bob Johnson

1970 Topps #567 Bob Oliver

Batting Statistics

Player Name	Age	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA
Amos Otis	23	159	620	91	176	36	9	11	58	33	2	68	67	.284
Bob Oliver	27	160	612	83	159	24	6	27	99	3	3	42	126	.260
Lou Piniella	27	144	542	54	163	24	5	11	88	3	6	35	42	.301
Pat Kelly	26	136	452	56	106	16	1	6	38	34	16	76	105	.235
Ed Kirkpatrick	25	134	424	59	97	17	2	18	62	4	4	55	65	.229
Cookie Rojas	31	98	384	36	100	13	3	2	28	3	7	20	29	.260
Paul Schaal	27	124	380	50	102	12	3	5	35	7	4	43	39	.268
Rich Severson	25	77	240	22	60	11	1	1	22	0	0	16	33	.250
Jackie Hernandez	29	83	238	14	55	4	1	2	10	1	3	15	50	.231
Ellie Rodriguez	24	80	231	25	52	8	2	1	15	2	1	27	35	.225
Joe Keough	24	57	183	28	59	6	2	4	21	1	1	23	18	.322
Tom Matchick	26	55	158	11	31	3	2	0	11	0	0	5	23	.196
Bill Sorrell	29	57	135	12	36	2	0	4	14	1	0	10	13	.267
George Spriggs	29	51	130	12	27	2	3	1	7	4	3	14	32	.208
Luis Alcaraz	29	35	120	10	20	5	1	1	14	0	0	4	13	.167
Dick Drago	25	35	76	2	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	44	.053
Mike Fiore	25	25	72	6	13	2	0	0	4	1	1	13	24	.181
Jim Rooker	27	41	70	12	14	4	0	1	13	0	0	2	35	.200
Bob Johnson	27	40	57	2	6	1	0	0	3	0	0	6	34	.105
Hawk Taylor	31	57	55	3	9	3	0	0	6	0	0	6	16	.164
Jim Campanis	26	31	54	6	7	0	0	2	2	0	0	4	14	.130
Bill Butler	23	25	44	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	4	31	.045
Bobby Floyd	26	14	43	5	14	4	0	0	9	0	1	4	9	.326
Dave Morehead	27	28	36	1	6	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	15	.167
Wally Bunker	25	24	31	3	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	7	13	.065
Al Fitzmorris	24	45	31	5	9	4	0	0	5	0	0	3	9	.290
Jerry Adair	33	7	27	0	4	0	0	0	1	0	1	5	3	.148
Ted Abernathy	37	36	14	1	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	5	.214
Tom Burgmeier	27	42	14	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	.143
Buck Martinez	21	6	9	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	.111
Moe Drabowsky	35	24	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.250
Mike Hedlund	24	9	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000
Ken Wright	23	47	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000
Don O'Riley	25	9	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Aurelio Monteagudo	26	21	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000
Paul Splittorff	23	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500
Jim York	23	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000
Roger Nelson	26	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	---

Pitching Statistics

Player Name	Age	W	L	ERA	G	GS	CG	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO
Dick Drago	25	9	15	3.75	35	34	7	0	240.0	239	110	100	20	72	127
Bob Johnson	27	8	13	3.07	40	26	10	4	214.0	178	82	73	18	82	206
Jim Rooker	27	10	15	3.54	38	29	6	1	203.2	190	99	80	11	102	117
Bill Butler	23	4	12	3.77	25	25	2	0	140.2	117	66	59	17	87	75
Wally Bunker	25	2	11	4.22	24	15	2	0	121.2	109	63	57	16	50	59
Dave Morehead	27	3	5	3.62	28	17	1	1	121.2	121	64	49	9	62	69
Al Fitzmorris	24	8	5	4.44	43	11	2	1	117.2	112	60	58	14	52	47
Tom Burgmeier	27	6	6	3.16	41	0	0	1	68.1	59	31	24	6	23	43
Ted Abernathy	37	9	3	2.59	36	0	0	12	55.2	41	23	16	3	38	49
Ken Wright	23	1	2	5.23	47	0	0	3	53.1	49	33	31	2	29	30
Moe Drabowsky	35	1	2	3.28	24	0	0	2	35.2	28	13	13	3	12	38
Aurelio Monteagudo	26	1	1	2.96	21	0	0	0	27.1	20	11	9	2	9	18
Don O'Riley	25	0	0	5.40	9	2	0	0	23.1	26	15	14	5	9	13
Mike Hedlund	24	2	3	7.20	9	0	0	0	15.0	18	13	12	6	7	5
Roger Nelson	26	0	2	10.00	4	2	0	0	9.0	18	10	10	3	0	3
Paul Splittorff	23	0	1	7.27	2	1	0	0	8.2	16	9	7	1	5	10
Jim York	23	1	1	3.38	4	0	0	0	8.0	5	3	3	2	2	6