The Kansas City Royals went 69-93 in 2007, a .426 winning percentage — 27th of 30 record in baseball. They scored 706 runs and allowed 778, a run differential of -72. The offence ranked 27th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 4.36 staff ERA was 14th of 30. Their 86 team wRC+ was 14% below league average — the worst in MLB. David DeJesus led the position players at 1.8 WAR, and Gil Meche the rotation at a 3.67 ERA.
The 2007 season
Month by month, the streaks, and the record in the games that are argued about.
They finished 5th in the AL Central, 27 games back. They spent 2 of 183 days in first place and were as far as 27 games back on September 28. Their best month was June at 15-12, their worst March/April at 8-18. The longest runs were a 5-game winning streak from June 24 to June 29 and a 7-game losing streak from May 24 to May 30. They were 35-46 at home and 34-47 on the road, 21-22 in one-run games and 34-50 against clubs that finished .500 or better. The most lopsided win was 17-3 against the Mariners on July 3; the heaviest defeat, 17-3 against the Athletics on May 10.
Record by month. March games count toward April, October’s toward September.
Month
W
L
Pct
RS
RA
Diff
March/April
8
18
.308
99
132
-33
May
11
17
.393
112
159
-47
June
15
12
.556
145
117
+28
July
13
12
.520
137
109
+28
August
13
15
.464
112
125
-13
Sept/Oct
9
19
.321
101
136
-35
Splits. Extra innings are blank for a season whose games predate the innings count.
Games
W-L
Pct
Home
35-46
.432
Road
34-47
.420
One-run games
21-22
.488
Extra innings
5-8
.385
Within the division
29-43
.403
Against .500+ clubs
34-50
.405
Decided by 5+ runs
22-30
.423
Last 10
3-7
.300
American League Central standings, 2007
Final standings. The division page has the rest of its season.
American League Central, 2007. Games back of the best record in the division.
The players whose season belongs to this club, by position and then by dbWAR. A player traded mid-season is listed with the club he played most of his games for, so a deadline arrival may appear on his other club’s page instead.
Each rectangle is a player, sized by his share of the team's hits; darker means a larger share. Top 30 contributors. Select a different statistic above, or click a player for his page.
Day and night divide the home schedule, and so do weekend and weekday. The road line is a different question.
Split
Games
Avg
Med
Low
High
All home
81
19,961
19,104
9,697
41,257
Night
59
20,610
20,525
9,697
38,212
Day
22
18,221
16,063
10,102
41,257
Weekend
39
21,698
21,138
13,109
35,518
Weekday
42
18,349
14,664
9,697
41,257
On the road
81
29,058
26,454
9,435
54,525
Through the season
Average home crowd by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
12
19,361
May
18
16,387
Jun
11
23,641
Jul
14
24,649
Aug
13
18,327
Sep
13
18,938
By season
Announced gate — tickets distributed, which is the figure every reference publishes and is not the same as people through the turnstile. A game the feed reports no gate for is left out rather than counted as empty. Seasons before attendance was carried into the lake are absent from the trend rather than shown as zero.
Game time
First pitch to final out across 162 completed games, 2007.
Regulation
2:53
149 games
All games
2:57
Extra innings
3:36
13 of them
Longest
4:01
2007-07-24, 9 inn
Shortest
1:55
2007-09-20
By situation
Regulation and extra innings divide the season, and so do home and road. Day and night overlap both.
Split
Games
Avg
Med
Fastest
Longest
All
162
2:57
2:57
1:55
5:21
Regulation
149
2:53
2:54
1:55
4:01
Extra innings
13
3:36
3:21
2:41
5:21
Home
81
2:55
2:55
1:55
4:01
Road
81
2:58
2:59
2:10
5:21
Day
44
2:57
2:52
1:55
4:34
Night
118
2:57
2:59
2:10
5:21
Through the season
Average completed game by month.
Month
Games
Average
Apr
12
2:56
May
18
2:49
Jun
11
2:53
Jul
14
3:06
Aug
13
2:57
Sep
13
2:50
By season
Regulation games only, in minutes. 173 minutes this season.
Elapsed time from first pitch to final out. The feed does not itemise delays, so a rain delay is inside these numbers with no way to subtract it. Games called early are excluded — five innings in ninety-three minutes is not a short game — but they still count in attendance, because the crowd turned up.
Record versus run differential
Kansas City Royals are 69-93, a .426 win rate, while their -72 run differential implies .456. That is about 5 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.
