Royals 2006 Lineups

by FlintHillsRoyal on Feb 28, 2007 11:10 AM EST

Baseball Reference Rules:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/KCR/2006_lu.shtml

Did you know the Royals most common lineup only appeared in 5 games?? They never even had the same group around for 6 games... Incredible.

Here's another, in 162 games, Buddisimo used 142 batting orders.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/KCR/2006_bo.shtml

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That's part of the problem...

Sure, most of the issue is that last year the Royals players were just bad. But the fact that nobody knew where they were going to be playing or in what slot they would be hitting from day-to-day really can have an effect on a player. Some of it is due to injury but for the most part it is impatience by BB that cause this problem.

by EricConley on Feb 28, 2007 11:20 AM EST reply actions

its really incredible to scroll through those

so many random names have passed through KC in the last few years

by Freneau on Feb 28, 2007 11:22 AM EST reply actions

I love that new feature

Bob Boone in 1995 had 152 different lineups. The most common lineup appeared just three times:

LF Johnny Damon
CF Tom Goodwin
1B Wally Joyner
3B Gary Gaetti
2B Keith Lockhart
DH Michael Tucker
SS Greg Gagne
RF Jon Nunnally
C Brent Mayne

In contrast, the '76 Royals used just 84 different lineups, this one appeared 17 times:

LF Tom Poquette
CF Amos Otis
3B George Brett
1B John Mayberry
DH Hal McRae
RF Al Cowens
C Bob Stinson
SS Fred Patek
2B Frank White

Its just interesting - for all our lineup construction posts and predictions, that lineup will likely only bat together a handful of times.

Relive Royals History at royalsretro.blogspot.com

by RoyalsRetro on Feb 28, 2007 12:59 PM EST reply actions

we may go for the ultimate in 2007

162 lineups

150+ batting orders is also hiughly likely

by LeoBloom on Feb 28, 2007 2:25 PM EST up reply actions

Fascinating, a Bob Stinson sighting

Had to look him up. Had a 335 SLG 677 OPS that year, about 209 ABs, just 2 HR and 25 RBI. So you're wondering, where were Martinez and Quirk. Their OPS respectively: 622 and 577.

Buck's 396/702 last year doesn't look so bad.

by chukar on Feb 28, 2007 5:41 PM EST up reply actions

Retro:

Alas, somebody beat me to the obligatory Bob Boone post when this subject was broached!

Touche!

by loyal2s dad on Feb 28, 2007 1:33 PM EST reply actions

The KC Star should introduce

a graphic to their sports page called the "Bell-O-Meter" and adjust it everytime Bell uses a new lineup. It can have a wacky dial on it that's all crooked and such.

I'm surprised nobody's ever thought of this idea before, in any incarnation.

by marbotty on Mar 1, 2007 12:52 PM EST up reply actions