American League Central · 2020
Kansas City Royals
- Team WAR
- 7.8 3.7 bat / 4.0 pitch
- Win %
- .433 pyth .458
- Run diff
- -24 4.13 / 4.53 per g
- wRC+
- 90
- ERA
- 4.19 FIP 4.41
- Home runs
- 70
The Kansas City Royals went 26-34 in 2020, a .433 winning percentage — 23rd of 30 record in baseball. They scored 248 runs and allowed 272, a run differential of -24. The offence ranked 25th of 30 in MLB for runs scored, while their 4.19 staff ERA was 11th of 30. Their 90 team wRC+ was 10% below league average — 23rd of 30 in MLB. Salvador Perez led the position players at 1.9 WAR, and Brad Keller the rotation at a 2.47 ERA.
Where the offence comes from
Roster contribution by share of the team total.
494 team hits
Batting
21 players, ranked by dbWAR.
| Salvador Perez | C | 37 | 156 | 50 | 11 | 32 | 1 | .333 | .353 | .633 | .410 | 159 | 1.9 |
| Whit Merrifield | RF | 60 | 265 | 70 | 9 | 30 | 12 | .282 | .325 | .440 | .330 | 105 | 1.0 |
| Maikel Franco | 3B | 60 | 243 | 62 | 8 | 38 | 1 | .278 | .321 | .457 | .330 | 105 | 0.9 |
| Adalberto Mondesi | SS | 59 | 233 | 56 | 6 | 22 | 24 | .256 | .294 | .416 | .306 | 89 | 0.8 |
| Hunter Dozier | 1B | 44 | 186 | 36 | 6 | 12 | 4 | .228 | .344 | .392 | .330 | 105 | 0.5 |
| Cam Gallagher | C | 21 | 60 | 15 | 1 | 3 | 0 | .283 | .356 | .434 | .347 | 116 | 0.4 |
| Jorge Soler | DH | 43 | 174 | 34 | 8 | 24 | 0 | .228 | .326 | .443 | .334 | 108 | 0.3 |
| Brett Phillips | RF | 27 | 59 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 6 | .196 | .305 | .392 | .308 | 90 | 0.2 |
| Ryan McBroom | 1B | 36 | 85 | 20 | 6 | 10 | 0 | .247 | .282 | .506 | .330 | 105 | 0.1 |
| Franchy Cordero | CF | 16 | 42 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 1 | .211 | .286 | .447 | .314 | 94 | 0.1 |
| Óscar Hernández | C | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | .443 | 181 | 0.1 |
| Meibrys Viloria | C | 12 | 24 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .190 | .292 | .238 | .254 | 53 | -0.0 |
| Kelvin Gutiérrez | 3B | 3 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .111 | .333 | .111 | .254 | 53 | -0.0 |
| Nick Heath | CF | 10 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | .154 | .313 | .231 | .270 | 64 | -0.1 |
| Edward Olivares | RF | 28 | 101 | 23 | 3 | 10 | 0 | .240 | .267 | .375 | .276 | 68 | -0.2 |
| Erick Mejia | 3B | 7 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .071 | .071 | .143 | .089 | -59 | -0.2 |
| Matt Reynolds | 3B | 3 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -119 | -0.3 |
| Alex Gordon | LF | 50 | 184 | 34 | 4 | 11 | 0 | .209 | .299 | .307 | .277 | 69 | -0.3 |
| Bubba Starling | CF | 27 | 64 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 0 | .169 | .219 | .237 | .206 | 21 | -0.4 |
| Ryan O'Hearn | 1B | 42 | 132 | 22 | 2 | 18 | 0 | .195 | .303 | .301 | .271 | 65 | -0.4 |
| Nicky Lopez | 2B | 55 | 192 | 34 | 1 | 13 | 0 | .201 | .286 | .266 | .256 | 55 | -0.6 |
Pitching
26 pitchers, ranked by dbWAR.
| Brad Keller | 9 | 9 | 54.2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 35 | 2.47 | 3.43 | 1.02 | 5.8 | 1.1 |
| Brady Singer | 12 | 12 | 64.1 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 61 | 4.06 | 4.08 | 1.17 | 8.5 | 0.9 |
| Greg Holland | 28 | 0 | 28.1 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 31 | 1.91 | 2.52 | 0.95 | 9.8 | 0.7 |
| Trevor Rosenthal | 23 | 0 | 23.2 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 38 | 1.90 | 2.22 | 0.85 | 14.5 | 0.7 |
| Kyle Zimmer | 16 | 1 | 23.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 1.57 | 2.37 | 1.04 | 10.2 | 0.6 |
| Scott Barlow | 32 | 0 | 30.0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 39 | 4.20 | 3.42 | 1.20 | 11.7 | 0.5 |
| Jesse Hahn | 18 | 0 | 17.1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 19 | 0.52 | 2.56 | 0.69 | 9.9 | 0.4 |
| Josh Staumont | 26 | 0 | 25.2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 37 | 2.45 | 3.54 | 1.40 | 13.0 | 0.4 |
| Danny Duffy | 12 | 11 | 56.1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 57 | 4.95 | 4.75 | 1.33 | 9.1 | 0.3 |
| Kris Bubic | 10 | 10 | 50.0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 49 | 4.32 | 4.75 | 1.48 | 8.8 | 0.3 |
| Chance Adams | 6 | 0 | 8.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 9.35 | 3.31 | 1.73 | 6.2 | 0.1 |
| Scott Blewett | 2 | 0 | 3.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6.00 | 1.52 | 2.33 | 12.0 | 0.1 |
| Glenn Sparkman | 4 | 0 | 5.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5.40 | 2.99 | 2.00 | 3.6 | 0.1 |
| Foster Griffin | 1 | 0 | 1.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | 1.99 | 0.00 | 5.4 | 0.1 |
| Jake Newberry | 20 | 0 | 22.0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 24 | 4.09 | 4.69 | 1.45 | 9.8 | 0.1 |
| Mike Montgomery | 3 | 1 | 5.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5.06 | 4.69 | 1.31 | 6.8 | 0.0 |
| Gabe Speier | 8 | 0 | 5.2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 7.94 | 5.49 | 2.29 | 9.5 | -0.0 |
| Kevin McCarthy | 5 | 0 | 6.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4.50 | 6.19 | 2.00 | 3.0 | -0.1 |
| Randy Rosario | 4 | 0 | 3.1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 8.10 | 8.29 | 3.00 | 10.8 | -0.1 |
| Richard Lovelady | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9.00 | 19.19 | 2.00 | 0.0 | -0.2 |
| Tyler Zuber | 23 | 0 | 22.0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 30 | 4.09 | 5.69 | 1.59 | 12.3 | -0.2 |
| Carlos Hernández | 5 | 3 | 14.2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 4.91 | 6.40 | 1.70 | 8.0 | -0.2 |
| Jakob Junis | 8 | 6 | 25.1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 6.39 | 6.23 | 1.62 | 6.8 | -0.3 |
| Ronald Bolaños | 2 | 2 | 3.2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 12.27 | 12.46 | 3.00 | 4.9 | -0.3 |
| Matt Harvey | 7 | 4 | 11.2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 11.57 | 9.45 | 2.74 | 7.7 | -0.5 |
| Ian Kennedy | 15 | 1 | 14.0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 9.00 | 8.83 | 1.79 | 9.6 | -0.6 |
Record versus run differential
Kansas City Royals are 26-34, a .433 win rate, while their -24 run differential implies .458. That is about 1 wins behind it, which tends to regress upward.