2003 Kansas City Royals | ||
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League | American League | |
Division | Central | |
Ballpark | Kauffman Stadium | |
City | Kansas City, Missouri | |
Record | 83–79 (.512) | |
Divisional place | 3rd | |
Owners | David Glass | |
General managers | Allard Baird | |
Managers | Tony Peña | |
Television | KMCI Royals Sports Television Network (Paul Splittorff, Bob Davis) | |
Radio | KMBZ (Denny Matthews, Ryan Lefebvre, Fred White) | |
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The 2003 Kansas City Royals season was a season in American baseball. It involved the Royals finishing third in the American League Central, with a record of 83 wins and 79 losses. It was the only winning season for the franchise between 1994 and 2013.
2003 was a hopeful and promising winning season ("We Believe" was the slogan) for the Royals, as they begin the season winning their first 9 games, and the team spent 93 days in first place in the AL Central. But the team faded down the stretch, falling out of first place for the last time on August 31, and were eliminated from playoff contention on September 23.
Offseason
[edit]- October 15, 2002: AJ Hinch was released by the Kansas City Royals.[1]
- December 18, 2002: Buddy Carlyle was signed as a free agent with the Kansas City Royals.[2]
Regular season
[edit]Opening Day starters
[edit]- Michael Tucker – CF
- Joe Randa – 3B
- Mike Sweeney – 1B
- Raúl Ibañez – LF
- Brandon Berger – RF
- Ken Harvey – DH
- Ángel Berroa – SS
- Brent Mayne – C
- Carlos Febles – 2B [3]
Season standings
[edit]Team | W | L | Pct. | GB | Home | Road |
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Minnesota Twins | 90 | 72 | .556 | — | 48–33 | 42–39 |
Chicago White Sox | 86 | 76 | .531 | 4 | 51–30 | 35–46 |
Kansas City Royals | 83 | 79 | .512 | 7 | 40–40 | 43–39 |
Cleveland Indians | 68 | 94 | .420 | 22 | 38–43 | 30–51 |
Detroit Tigers | 43 | 119 | .265 | 47 | 23–58 | 20–61 |
Record vs. opponents
[edit]Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] | |||||||||||||||
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Team | ANA | BAL | BOS | CWS | CLE | DET | KC | MIN | NYY | OAK | SEA | TB | TEX | TOR | NL |
Anaheim | — | 1–8 | 3–6 | 3–4 | 6–3 | 6–1 | 6–3 | 5–4 | 3–6 | 8–12 | 8–11 | 6–3 | 9–10 | 2–7 | 11–7 |
Baltimore | 8–1 | — | 9–10 | 2–4 | 3–3 | 3–3 | 3–4 | 3–4 | 6–13–1 | 2–7 | 4–5 | 8–11 | 7–2 | 8–11 | 5–13 |
Boston | 6–3 | 10–9 | — | 5–4 | 4–2 | 8–1 | 5–1 | 2–4 | 9–10 | 3–4 | 5–2 | 12–7 | 5–4 | 10–9 | 11–7 |
Chicago | 4–3 | 4–2 | 4–5 | — | 11–8 | 11–8 | 11–8 | 9–10 | 4–2 | 4–5 | 2–7 | 3–3 | 3–4 | 6–3 | 10–8 |
Cleveland | 3–6 | 3–3 | 2–4 | 8–11 | — | 12–7 | 6–13 | 9–10 | 2–5 | 3–6 | 3–6 | 5–2 | 4–5 | 2–4 | 6–12 |
Detroit | 1–6 | 3–3 | 1–8 | 8–11 | 7–12 | — | 5–14 | 4–15 | 1–5 | 3–6 | 1–8 | 2–4 | 1–6 | 2–7 | 4–14 |
Kansas City | 3–6 | 4–3 | 1–5 | 8–11 | 13–6 | 14–5 | — | 11–8 | 2–4 | 2–7 | 4–5 | 4–3 | 7–2 | 1–5 | 9–9 |
Minnesota | 4–5 | 4–3 | 4–2 | 10–9 | 10–9 | 15–4 | 8–11 | — | 0–7 | 8–1 | 3–6 | 6–0 | 5–4 | 3–3 | 10–8 |
New York | 6–3 | 13–6–1 | 10–9 | 2–4 | 5–2 | 5–1 | 4–2 | 7–0 | — | 3–6 | 5–4 | 14–5 | 4–5 | 10–9 | 13–5 |
Oakland | 12–8 | 7–2 | 4–3 | 5–4 | 6–3 | 6–3 | 7–2 | 1–8 | 6–3 | — | 7–12 | 6–3 | 15–4 | 5–2 | 9–9 |
Seattle | 11–8 | 5–4 | 2–5 | 7–2 | 6–3 | 8–1 | 5–4 | 6–3 | 4–5 | 12–7 | — | 4–5 | 10–10 | 3–4 | 10–8 |
Tampa Bay | 3–6 | 11–8 | 7–12 | 3–3 | 2–5 | 4–2 | 3–4 | 0–6 | 5–14 | 3–6 | 5–4 | — | 3–6 | 11–8 | 3–15 |
Texas | 10–9 | 2–7 | 4–5 | 4–3 | 5–4 | 6–1 | 2–7 | 4–5 | 5–4 | 4–15 | 10–10 | 6–3 | — | 5–4 | 4–14 |
Toronto | 7–2 | 11–8 | 9–10 | 3–6 | 4–2 | 7–2 | 5–1 | 3–3 | 9–10 | 2–5 | 4–3 | 8–11 | 4–5 | — | 10–8 |
Roster
[edit]Player stats
[edit]Batting
[edit]Starters by position
[edit]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 | Brent Mayne | 113 | 372 | 91 | .245 | 6 | 36 |
1B | Ken Harvey | 135 | 485 | 129 | .266 | 13 | 64 |
2B | Desi Relaford | 141 | 500 | 127 | .254 | 8 | 59 |
SS | Ángel Berroa | 158 | 567 | 163 | .287 | 17 | 73 |
3B | Joe Randa | 131 | 502 | 146 | .291 | 16 | 72 |
LF | Raúl Ibañez | 157 | 608 | 179 | .294 | 18 | 90 |
CF | Carlos Beltrán | 141 | 521 | 160 | .307 | 26 | 100 |
RF | Aaron Guiel | 99 | 354 | 98 | .277 | 15 | 52 |
DH | Mike Sweeney | 108 | 392 | 115 | .293 | 16 | 83 |
Other batters
[edit]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 |
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Michael Tucker | 104 | 389 | 102 | .262 | 13 | 55 |
Carlos Febles | 74 | 196 | 46 | .235 | 0 | 11 |
Mike Difelice | 62 | 189 | 48 | .254 | 3 | 25 |
Dee Brown | 50 | 132 | 30 | .227 | 2 | 14 |
Mendy López | 52 | 94 | 26 | .277 | 3 | 11 |
Rondell White | 22 | 75 | 26 | .347 | 4 | 21 |
Julius Matos | 28 | 57 | 15 | .263 | 2 | 7 |
Brandon Berger | 13 | 32 | 7 | .219 | 0 | 3 |
Brent Abernathy | 10 | 27 | 2 | .074 | 0 | 0 |
Jarrod Patterson | 13 | 22 | 4 | .182 | 0 | 0 |
Morgan Burkhart | 6 | 15 | 3 | .200 | 0 | 1 |
Tom Prince | 8 | 8 | 2 | .250 | 0 | 1 |
David DeJesus | 12 | 7 | 2 | .286 | 0 | 0 |
Rontrez Johnson | 8 | 3 | 1 | .333 | 0 | 0 |
Travis Dawkins | 3 | 2 | 0 | .000 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
[edit]Starting pitchers
[edit]Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts
Player | G | IP | W | L | ERA | SO |
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Darrell May | 35 | 210.0 | 10 | 8 | 3.77 | 115 |
Chris George | 18 | 93.2 | 9 | 6 | 7.11 | 39 |
Runelvys Hernández | 16 | 91.2 | 7 | 5 | 4.61 | 48 |
Kyle Snyder | 15 | 85.1 | 1 | 6 | 5.17 | 39 |
José Lima | 14 | 73.1 | 8 | 3 | 4.91 | 32 |
Jimmy Gobble | 9 | 52.2 | 4 | 5 | 4.61 | 31 |
Brian Anderson | 7 | 49.2 | 5 | 1 | 3.99 | 15 |
Miguel Asencio | 8 | 48.1 | 2 | 1 | 5.21 | 27 |
Paul Abbott | 10 | 47.2 | 1 | 2 | 5.29 | 32 |
Jamey Wright | 4 | 25.1 | 1 | 2 | 4.26 | 19 |
Kevin Appier | 4 | 19.0 | 1 | 2 | 4.26 | 5 |
Other pitchers
[edit]Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts
Player | G | IP | W | L | ERA | SO |
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Jeremy Affeldt | 36 | 126.0 | 7 | 6 | 3.93 | 98 |
Kris Wilson | 29 | 72.2 | 6 | 3 | 5.33 | 42 |
Brad Voyles | 11 | 31.1 | 0 | 2 | 7.18 | 24 |
Relief pitchers
[edit]Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts
Player | G | W | L | SV | ERA | SO |
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Mike MacDougal | 68 | 3 | 5 | 27 | 4.08 | 57 |
Jason Grimsley | 76 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 5.16 | 58 |
D.J. Carrasco | 50 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 4.82 | 57 |
Sean Lowe | 28 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6.25 | 28 |
Curt Leskanic | 27 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1.73 | 22 |
Nate Field | 19 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4.15 | 19 |
Al Levine | 18 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2.53 | 5 |
Graeme Lloyd | 16 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 10.95 | 8 |
Albie Lopez | 15 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 12.71 | 15 |
Jason Gilfillan | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7.71 | 12 |
Ryan Bukvich | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9.58 | 8 |
Les Walrond | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 10.13 | 6 |
Rick DeHart | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 13.50 | 1 |
Scott Mullen | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16.62 | 3 |
Jeremy Hill | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 |
Farm system
[edit]LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: AZL Royals Blue[4]
Notes
[edit]- ^ "AJ Hinch Stats".
- ^ "Buddy Carlyle Stats".
- ^ "2003 Kansas City Royals Statistics".
- ^ Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 3rd edition. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 2007
References
[edit]- 2003 Kansas City Royals team page at Baseball Reference
- 2003 Kansas City Royals team page at www.baseball-almanac.com