1995 Kansas City Royals season explained

Kansas City Royals
Season:	1995
League:	American League
Division:	Central
Ballpark:	Kauffman Stadium
City:	Kansas City, Missouri
Owners:	David Glass
General Managers:	Herk Robinson
Managers:	Bob Boone
Television:	KSMO-TV (Paul Splittorff, Dave Armstrong)
Radio:	WIBW (AM) (Denny Matthews, Fred White)

The 1995 Kansas City Royals season was a season in American baseball. During this season, the Royals finished second in the American League Central, with a record of 70 wins and 74 losses. This was the first of 17 losing seasons the Royals would suffer through 2012.

Although the 1995 Royals had a losing record and finished 30 games behind the Cleveland Indians, the second-place division finish in 1995 was the highest finish for the franchise in the American League Central from 1994, when the Royals joined that division, until the 2014 team also finished second and the 2015 team won the franchise's first Central Division championship.

Regular season

Notable transactions

April 5, 1995: Brian McRae was traded by the Kansas City Royals to the Chicago Cubs for Derek Wallace and Geno Morones (minors).^[1]
April 6, 1995: David Cone was traded by the Kansas City Royals to the Toronto Blue Jays for Chris Stynes, David Sinnes (minors), and Tony Medrano (minors).^[2]
April 19, 1995: Félix José was signed as a free agent with the Kansas City Royals.^[3]
April 25, 1995: Doug Linton was signed as a free agent with the Kansas City Royals.^[4]
April 26, 1995: Vince Coleman signed as a free agent with the Kansas City Royals.^[5]
May 14, 1995: Félix José was released by the Kansas City Royals.^[3]
June 29, 1995: Kevin Elster was signed as a free agent with the Kansas City Royals.^[6]
July 3, 1995: Kevin Elster was released by the Kansas City Royals.^[6]
August 15, 1995: Vince Coleman was traded by the Kansas City Royals to the Seattle Mariners for a player to be named later. The Seattle Mariners sent Jim Converse (August 18, 1995) to the Kansas City Royals to complete the trade.
September 8, 1995: Juan Samuel was traded by the Detroit Tigers to the Kansas City Royals for a player to be named later. The Kansas City Royals sent Phil Hiatt (September 14, 1995) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.^[7]

Roster

1995 Kansas City Royals
Roster
Pitchers		CatchersInfielders		Outfielders		ManagerCoaches (third base) (pitching) (first base) (hitting) (bullpen) (bench)

Player stats

Batting

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	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	110	307	77	.251	1	27
1B	131	465	144	.310	12	83
2B	94	274	88	.321	6	33
SS	120	430	110	.256	6	49
3B	137	514	134	.261	35	96
LF	75	293	84	.287	4	20
CF	133	480	138	.288	4	28
RF	119	303	74	.244	14	42
DH	72	208	35	.168	7	25

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
95	255	62	.243	0	19
47	188	53	.282	3	23
62	177	46	.260	4	17
52	143	33	.231	4	13
53	130	33	.254	7	21
55	117	28	.239	1	17
52	113	23	.204	4	12
29	97	26	.268	0	6
34	70	12	.171	1	5
26	58	18	.310	2	7
23	43	11	.256	0	9
24	40	9	.225	0	4
15	36	10	.278	1	6
22	35	6	.171	0	2
22	35	5	.143	0	5
15	34	6	.176	2	5
9	30	4	.133	0	1
9	15	5	.333	1	3
3	5	0	.000	0	0
4	4	1	.250	0	0
2	2	0	.000	0	0

Pitching

Starting pitchers

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

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
33	213.1	12	14	3.75	81
31	201.1	15	10	3.89	185
31	189.0	12	12	4.43	119
15	84.0	4	6	5.36	39
16	81.1	3	4	3.65	31
2	10.0	0	2	8.10	3
1	3.1	0	0	13.50	0

Other pitchers

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

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
13	40.0	1	3	5.63	19
9	32.0	0	1	3.66	14
6	25.1	1	0	5.33	6
7	22.1	0	1	7.25	13
5	10.0	0	1	9.00	6

Relief pitchers

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

G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
54	2	3	31	3.43	49
49	4	3	2	4.98	30
48	2	4	0	5.56	31
44	8	4	1	4.36	43
28	1	1	0	4.23	28
24	1	2	0	6.09	28
20	3	3	3	3.26	21
9	1	0	0	5.84	5
7	0	0	0	7.45	12

Farm system

References

1995 Kansas City Royals at Baseball Reference
1995 Kansas City Royals at Baseball Almanac

Notes and References

https://www.baseball-reference.com/m/mcraebr01.shtml Brian McRae Statistics
https://www.baseball-reference.com/c/coneda01.shtml David Cone Statistics
Web site: Felix Jose Stats.
Web site: Doug Linton Stats.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/c/colemvi01.shtml Vince Coleman Statistics
Web site: Kevin Elster Stats.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/s/samueju01.shtml Juan Samuel Statistics
Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 2nd edition. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 1997