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The Kansas City Royals are a Major League Baseball (MLB) team based in Kansas City, Missouri. They have competed in the American League (AL) since the team began play in 1969, and in the AL Central division since 1994. The team's list of records includes batting and pitching records set in single games, single seasons and careers, by both the ...
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (September 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this message) This is a list of single-season records in Major League Baseball. Batting records Overview (1876–present) Records Player # Season Refs Games Maury ...
In 1968, MLB ruled that walks in 1887 would not be counted as hits, so Lyons' streak was no longer recognized, though it still appears on some lists. In 2000, Major League Baseball reversed its 1968 decision, ruling that the statistics which were recognized in each year's official records should stand, even in cases where they were later proven ...
For 28 consecutive seasons, between the 1985 World Series championship and 2014, the Royals did not qualify to play in the Major League Baseball postseason, one of the longest postseason droughts during baseball's expanded wild-card era. The worst years during this era were from 2002 to 2006, when the Royals had four 100-loss seasons out of five.
August 10, 2011, for the Kansas City Royals: MLB statistics (through 2024 season) Batting average.267: Hits: 1,571: Home runs: 273: Runs batted in: 916: Stats at Baseball Reference Teams; Kansas City Royals (2011–2018, 2020–present) Career highlights and awards; 9× All-Star (2013–2018, 2021, 2023, 2024) World Series champion ; World ...
Nap Lajoie's .426 batting average in 1901 remains the highest in American League history. Shoeless Joe Jackson batted .408 in 1911, the highest mark ever set by a rookie in the American League. Josh Gibson is the most recent player to hit .400 in a season, batting a record .466 in 1943.
Eaton did not play for a team in 2020 due to the Minor League Baseball season being cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. He played 2021 with the Arizona Complex League Royals and Quad Cities River Bandits , and for three minor league teams that season batted .243/.350/.368 in 272 at bats with 23 stolen bases in 26 attempts. [ 4 ]
[4] [5] Barry Bonds led the National League (NL) in ten seasons, a NL record. [5] [6] Williams also posted the then-highest single-season on-base percentage of .5528 in 1941, a record that stood for 61 years until Bonds broke it with a .5817 OBP in 2002. [7] Bonds broke his own record in 2004, setting the current single-season mark of .6094. [7]