1996 Kansas City Royals season

The 1996 Kansas City Royals season was a season in American baseball. It involved the Royals finishing 5th in the American League Central with a record of 75 wins and 86 losses.

1996 Kansas City Royals
Major League affiliations
Location
Other information
OwnersDavid Glass
General managersHerk Robinson
ManagersBob Boone
Local televisionKSMO-TV
(Paul Splittorff, Steve Busby)
Local radioWIBW (AM)
(Denny Matthews, Fred White, John Wathan, Paul Splittorff)
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Offseason

Regular season

Season standings
AL Central W L Pct. GB Home Road
Cleveland Indians 9962 0.615 — 51–29 48–33
Chicago White Sox 8577 0.525 14½ 44–37 41–40
Milwaukee Brewers 8082 0.494 19½ 38–43 42–39
Minnesota Twins 7884 0.481 21½ 39–43 39–41
Kansas City Royals 7586 0.466 24 37–43 38–43

Record vs. opponents
1996 American League record

Sources:
Team BAL BOS CAL CWS CLE DET KC MIL MIN NYY OAK SEA TEX TOR
Baltimore —7–66–64–85–711–29–39–37–53–109–47–53–10–18–5
Boston 6–7—8–46–61–1112–13–97–56–67–68–57–66–68–5
California 6–64–8—6–64–96–64–87–54–87–66–75–84–97–5
Chicago 8–46–66–6—5–810–37–66–76–76–75–75–78–47–5
Cleveland 7–511–19–48–5—12–07–67–610–33–96–68–44–87–5
Detroit 2–111–126–63–100–12—6–64–86–65–84–86–64–96–7
Kansas City 3–99–38–46–76–76–6—4–96–74–85–77–56–65–8
Milwaukee 3–95–75–77–66–78–49–4—9–46–67–54–96–75–7
Minnesota 5–76–68–47–63–106–67–64–9—5–76–76–67–58–5
New York 10–36–76–77–69–38–58–46–67–5—9–33–95–78–5
Oakland 4–95–87–67–56–68–47–55–77–63–9—8–57–64–8
Seattle 5–76–78–57–54–86–65–79–46–69–35–8—10–35–7
Texas 10–3–16–69–44–88–49–46–67–65–77–56–73–10—10–2
Toronto 5–85–85–75–75–77–68–57–55–85–88–47–52–10—

Game log
1996 Game Log: 75–86 (Home: 37–43; Away: 38–43)
April: 9–18 (Home: 4–10; Away: 5–8)
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecord
1April 2@ Orioles2–4MussinaAppier (0–1)Myers46,8180–1
2April 3@ Orioles1–7WellsGubicza (0–1)—40,0680–2
3April 4@ Orioles3–5RhodesPichardo (0–1)Myers38,7530–3
4April 5Red Sox5–4 (12)Clark (1–0)Pennington—39,5261–3
5April 6Red Sox7–3Pichardo (1–1)Belinda—17,3392–3
6April 7Red Sox1–3MoyerGubicza (0–2)Slocumb13,1832–4
7April 9@ Yankees3–7PettitteHaney (0–1)—56,3292–5
8April 11@ Yankees3–5KeyBelcher (0–1)Howe17,5192–6
9April 12@ Brewers4–1Appier (1–1)BonesMontgomery (1)7,1133–6
10April 13@ Brewers3–2Gubicza (1–2)SparksMontgomery (2)9,2244–6
11April 14@ Brewers2–5McDonaldHaney (0–2)Miranda19,1314–7
12April 15White Sox10–11KarchnerPichardo (1–2)Hernandez12,6534–8
13April 16White Sox6–5Belcher (1–1)BereMontgomery (3)12,3995–8
14April 17White Sox1–3FernandezAppier (1–2)Hernandez13,3505–9
15April 18Brewers2–8SparksGubicza (1–3)—13,1535–10
16April 19Brewers2–8McDonaldHaney (0–3)—15,3215–11
17April 20Brewers4–12MirandaJacome (0–1)—17,2205–12
18April 21Brewers4–5WickanderPichardo (1–3)Fetters14,6665–13
19April 22Yankees2–6ConeAppier (1–3)—14,7635–14
20April 23Yankees5–2Gubicza (2–3)KeyMontgomery (4)12,5366–14
21April 24Orioles8–11MerckerHaney (0–4)—13,9626–15
22April 25Orioles2–3RhodesValera (0–1)Myers16,0906–16
23April 26@ Red Sox4–3Belcher (2–1)ClemensMontgomery (5)22,3857–16
24April 27@ Red Sox10–0Appier (2–3)Sele—29,4598–16
25April 28@ Red Sox9–7Robinson (1–0)SlocumbMontgomery (6)32,4919–16
26April 29@ Twins6–11HansellClark (1–1)Bennett10,2379–17
27April 30@ Twins7–16NaultyMagnante (0–1)—10,5039–18
May: 15–12 (Home: 7–6; Away: 8–6)
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecord
28May 1@ Twins5–6 (10)StevensMontgomery (0–1)—11,9759–19
29May 3Athletics3–1Appier (3–3)ReyesMontgomery (7)14,45210–19
30May 4Athletics2–5WojciechowskiGubicza (2–4)Groom15,98710–20
31May 5Athletics2–0Haney (1–4)Prieto—16,58911–20
32May 6@ Angels9–4Belcher (3–1)LeftwichPichardo (1)14,44712–20
33May 7@ Angels5–3Valera (1–1)AbbottMontgomery (8)14,65713–20
34May 8@ Angels3–1 (14)Pichardo (2–3)Eichhorn—16,21014–20
35May 9@ Angels8–2Gubicza (3–4)Grimsley—15,30215–20
36May 10@ Mariners14–10Valera (2–1)Davis—24,23116–20
37May 11@ Mariners1–11WolcottBelcher (3–2)Carmona43,29716–21
38May 12@ Mariners5–8JohnsonLinton (0–1)Charlton27,47016–22
39May 13@ Rangers6–7CookMontgomery (0–2)Henneman22,98116–23
40May 14@ Rangers0–10HillGubicza (3–5)—28,99916–24
41May 15@ Rangers3–1Haney (2–4)PavlikMontgomery (9)26,88117–24
42May 17Blue Jays4–2Belcher (4–2)GuzmanMontgomery (10)20,07918–24
43May 18Blue Jays2–6ViolaAppier (3–4)—18,11618–25
44May 19Blue Jays2–3HansonGubicza (3–6)Timlin15,03918–26
45May 20Blue Jays5–4Haney (3–4)HentgenMontgomery (11)14,30319–26
46May 21@ Tigers7–1Linton (1–1)WilliamsValera (1)24,37220–26
47May 22@ Tigers6–4Belcher (5–2)FarrellMontgomery (12)12,89021–26
48May 23Rangers4–2Appier (4–4)OliverMontgomery (13)15,61222–26
49May 24Rangers8–0Gubicza (4–6)Witt—13,69623–26
50May 25Rangers1–2HellingHaney (3–5)Henneman23,66823–27
51May 26Rangers4–6HillLinton (1–2)Henneman22,66523–28
52May 27Tigers5–4 (13)Montgomery (1–2)Veres—19,77624–28
53May 29Tigers4–5GohrAppier (4–5)Walker13,71224–29
54May 31@ Blue Jays2–4HentgenGubicza (4–7)Timlin33,19424–30
June: 10–17 (Home: 6–10; Away: 4–7)
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecord
55June 1@ Blue Jays3–5 (10)CrabtreeMontgomery (1–3)—31,10724–31
56June 2@ Blue Jays7–5Belcher (6–2)JanzenMontgomery (14)32,25325–31
57June 3@ Athletics1–2WasdinAppier (4–6)Taylor6,46525–32
58June 4@ Athletics3–8WengertGubicza (4–8)—11,52425–33
59June 5@ Athletics5–2Haney (4–5)JohnsMontgomery (15)8,11326–33
60June 7Mariners9–5Valera (3–1)Wolcott—20,89127–33
61June 8Mariners12–8Appier (5–6)MilackiMontgomery (16)30,02228–33
62June 9Mariners2–3HitchcockGubicza (4–9)Charlton20,48928–34
63June 10Angels5–7 (10)McElroyPugh (0–1)Percival15,69128–35
64June 11Angels9–11McElroyValera (3–2)Percival16,68728–36
65June 12Angels3–4 (10)McElroyMontgomery (1–4)Percival15,42828–37
66June 13Orioles10–2Linton (2–2)Mercker—20,10829–37
67June 14Orioles1–6MussinaGubicza (4–10)—28,50229–38
68June 15Orioles7–6 (16)Magnante (1–1)Krivda—24,78430–38
69June 16Orioles5–13CoppingerJacome (0–2)Mills19,43730–39
70June 17@ Brewers4–9BurrowsAppier (5–7)—9,31530–40
71June 18@ Brewers1–9KarlLinton (2–3)Potts9,11630–41
72June 19@ Brewers8–4 (10)Pichardo (3–3)Mercedes—13,43131–41
73June 21@ Orioles3–9RhodesHaney (4–6)—47,64431–42
74June 22@ Orioles3–5EricksonMontgomery (1–5)—47,53431–43
75June 23@ Orioles4–0Appier (6–7)Krivda—47,60832–43
76June 25Brewers3–5BonesGubicza (4–11)Fetters14,44832–44
77June 26Brewers7–3Haney (5–6)Givens—14,56033–44
78June 27Brewers2–6McDonaldBelcher (6–3)—17,67033–45
79June 28Twins6–2Appier (7–7)Radke—21,51534–45
80June 29Twins7–12TrombleyLinton (2–4)—23,23234–46
81June 30Twins2–5RodriguezGubicza (4–12)Stevens28,24634–47
July: 14–13 (Home: 4–5; Away: 10–8)
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecord
82July 1@ Indians4–2Haney (6–6)Nagy—40,81435–47
83July 2@ Indians2–3PooleBelcher (6–4)—42,28335–48
84July 3@ Indians4–6TavarezMagnante (1–2)Shuey42,47035–49
85July 4@ Twins5–3Linton (3–4)RobertsonMontgomery (17)37,29536–49
86July 5@ Twins8–9GuardadoMontgomery (1–6)—18,46536–50
87July 6@ Twins8–5Haney (7–6)AguileraMontgomery (18)18,69937–50
88July 7@ Twins8–2Belcher (7–4)Aldred—14,25138–50
89July 11White Sox3–2Haney (8–6)Alvarez—22,92839–50
90July 12White Sox6–7TapaniBelcher (7–5)Hernandez18,45839–51
91July 13White Sox1–3FernandezRosado (0–1)—25,36339–52
92July 14White Sox2–3BaldwinLinton (3–5)Hernandez17,02439–53
93July 15Indians6–3Magnante (2–2)TavarezMontgomery (19)22,29440–53
94July 16Indians4–10McDowellHaney (8–7)—16,87140–54
95July 17Indians3–2Belcher (8–5)HershiserMontgomery (20)19,53241–54
96July 18@ White Sox7–1Appier (8–7)FernandezPichardo (2)17,65742–54
97July 19@ White Sox7–4 (10)Montgomery (2–6)Hernandez—19,60443–54
98July 20@ White Sox7–5Linton (4–5)KeyserMontgomery (21)32,28244–54
99July 21@ White Sox3–6AlvarezHaney (8–8)Hernandez21,25344–55
100July 22@ Red Sox5–2Belcher (9–5)Gordon—28,10945–55
101July 23@ Red Sox7–5Appier (9–7)Sele—23,71146–55
102July 24@ Red Sox2–12MoyerLinton (4–6)—33,38146–56
103July 25@ Yankees7–0Rosado (1–1)Hutton—23,47547–56
104July 26@ Yankees1–15KeyHaney (8–9)—23,78247–57
105July 27@ Yankees4–5RogersBelcher (9–6)Wetteland42,04447–58
106July 28@ Yankees2–3WettelandJacome (0–3)—35,65847–59
107July 30Red Sox7–0Rosado (2–1)Eshelman—17,16648–59
108July 31Red Sox3–5WakefieldHaney (8–10)Slocumb17,52748–60
August: 14–15 (Home: 8–9; Away: 6–6)
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecord
109August 1Red Sox9–4Belcher (10–6)Clemens—18,93449–60
110August 2Yankees4–3 (10)Montgomery (3–6)Rivera—28,61850–60
111August 3Yankees11–4Linton (5–6)Weathers—29,35551–60
112August 4Yankees3–5PettitteRosado (2–2)—24,62451–61
113August 5Yankees2–5KeyPichardo (3–4)Wetteland22,86551–62
114August 6Athletics9–2Belcher (11–6)Wasdin—14,02852–62
115August 7Athletics7–0Appier (10–7)Prieto—15,51753–62
116August 8Athletics1–2WengertLinton (5–7)Taylor19,19753–63
117August 9@ Angels5–3Rosado (3–2)LangstonMontgomery (22)35,97754–63
118August 10@ Angels18–3Haney (9–10)Abbott—21,65755–63
119August 11@ Angels5–6SpringerBelcher (11–7)—18,59155–64
120August 12@ Mariners10–4Appier (11–7)MoyerHuisman (1)43,47656–64
121August 13@ Mariners5–9MulhollandLinton (5–8)Johnson21,96156–65
122August 14@ Mariners3–1Rosado (4–2)WolcottMontgomery (23)23,70957–65
123August 16@ Rangers3–5BurkettHaney (9–11)Henneman32,05357–66
124August 17@ Rangers4–1Belcher (12–7)Hill—41,85558–66
125August 18@ Rangers3–10GrossAppier (11–8)—30,48058–67
126August 19Blue Jays1–2SpoljaricRosado (4–3)Timlin16,86258–68
127August 20Blue Jays5–6 (14)TimlinHuisman (0–1)—14,56858–69
128August 21Blue Jays2–6GuzmanHaney (9–12)—12,23858–70
129August 22Tigers3–10ThompsonBelcher (12–8)—14,69958–71
130August 23Tigers2–3SagerAppier (11–9)Olson15,60358–72
131August 24Tigers9–2Rosado (5–3)Olivares—28,01159–72
132August 25Tigers4–7Van PoppelLinton (5–9)Myers15,12359–73
133August 27Rangers4–3 (10)Montgomery (4–6)Russell—12,90760–73
134August 28Rangers4–3 (12)Huisman (1–1)Gross—12,69561–73
135August 29@ Tigers1–4EischenAppier (11–10)Lima7,88261–74
136August 30@ Tigers0–4Van PoppelRosado (5–4)—16,49861–75
137August 31@ Tigers3–1Linton (6–9)LiraMontgomery (24)16,27062–75
September: 13–11 (Home: 8–3; Away: 5–8)
#DateOpponentScoreWinLossSaveAttendanceRecord
138September 1@ Tigers3–2 (13)Huisman (2–1)MyersJacome (1)17,64763–75
139September 2@ Blue Jays2–0Belcher (13–8)Hanson—28,17764–75
140September 3@ Blue Jays5–2Appier (12–10)Hentgen—25,72965–75
141September 4@ Blue Jays0–6WilliamsRosado (5–5)—25,82765–76
142September 6@ Athletics1–7AdamsHaney (9–13)—14,40465–77
143September 7@ Athletics6–13PrietoBelcher (13–9)—13,17565–78
144September 8@ Athletics7–8 (10)CorsiPichardo (3–5)—17,20865–79
145September 10Mariners4–2Rosado (6–5)TorresBluma (1)12,49966–79
146September 11Mariners4–2Linton (7–9)MoyerBluma (2)13,07867–79
147September 12Mariners5–8MulhollandHaney (9–14)Charlton15,04567–80
148September 13Angels8–2Belcher (14–9)Abbott—13,08368–80
149September 14Angels8–5Appier (13–10)Dickson—17,17469–80
150September 16Twins6–5Rosado (7–5)RadkeBluma (3)16,84370–80
151September 17Twins4–2Haney (10–14)AldredBluma (4)11,80971–80
152September 18Twins4–7MillerBelcher (14–10)—11,58871–81
153September 19@ Indians1–9OgeaAppier (13–11)—42,29771–82
154September 20@ Indians6–4Bevil (1–0)NagyBluma (5)42,35872–82
155September 21@ Indians4–13HershiserRosado (7–6)—42,33972–83
156September 22@ Indians5–6McDowellJacome (0–4)Mesa42,29172–84
157September 24@ White Sox2–3CastilloBelcher (14–11)—14,34872–85
158September 25@ White Sox8–2Appier (14–11)Tapani—15,91173–85
159September 27Indians11–6Rosado (8–6)Hershiser—15,93974–85
160September 28Indians4–5MerckerScanlan (0–1)Mesa19,82074–86
161September 29Indians4–1Belcher (15–11)OgeaPichardo (3)14,55675–86
Legend:        = Win        = Loss
Bold = Royals team member

Detailed records

Roster
1996 Kansas City Royals
Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

 Outfielders Manager

Coaches

Player stats

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
CMike MacFarlane112379104.2741954
1BJosé Offerman151561170.303547
2BKeith Lockhart138433118.273755
SSDavid Howard14342092.219448
3BJoe Randa110337102.303647
LFTom Goodwin143524148.282135
CFJohnny Damon145517140.271650
RFMichael Tucker10833988.2601253
DHJoe Vitiello8525762.241840

Other batters

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
Craig Paquette118429111.2592267
Bip Roberts9033996.283052
Bob Hamelin8923961.255940
Mike Sweeney5016546.279424
Sal Fasano5114329.203619
Kevin Young5513232.242823
Chris Stynes369227.24306
Jon Nunnally359019.211517
Rod Myers226318.286111
Les Norman54496.12200
Patrick Lennon14307.23301
Henry Mercedes441.25000

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G IP W L ERA SO
Tim Belcher35238.215113.92113
Chris Haney35228.010144.70115
Kevin Appier32211.114113.62207
Mark Gubicza19119.14125.1355
José Rosado16106.2863.2164
Doug Linton21104.0795.0287

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G IP W L ERA SO
Brian Bevil311.0105.737

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G W L SV ERA SO
Jeff Montgomery4846244.2645
Hipólito Pichardo573535.4343
Jason Jacome490414.7232
Mike Magnante382205.6732
Julio Valera313216.4631
Rick Huisman222114.6023
Tim Pugh190105.4527
Jaime Bluma170053.6014
Jeff Granger150006.6111
Terry Clark121107.7912
Bob Scanlan90103.183
Kenny Robinson51006.005

Farm system
See also: Minor League Baseball
Level Team League Manager
AAA Omaha Royals American Association Mike Jirschele
AA Wichita Wranglers Texas League Ron Johnson
A Wilmington Blue Rocks Carolina League John Mizerock
A Lansing Lugnuts Midwest League Brian Poldberg
A-Short Season Spokane Indians Northwest League Bob Herold
Rookie GCL Royals Gulf Coast League Al Pedrique

LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: Wilmington[5]

References
  1. Doug Linton page at Baseball Reference\
  2. Brent Mayne at Baseball Reference
  3. Wally Joyner at Baseball Reference
  4. Tim Belcher at Baseball Reference
  5. Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 2nd edition. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 1997
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