Opening day - Hall of Fame edition

We've covered individual hitting and pitching performances this week so for today I thought I'd check to see the career opening day numbers of Royals Hall of Fame members. Well their Royals career anyway. I also added three players who aren't in but I believe could and should enter some day - Mike Sweeney, David DeJesus, and Carlos Beltran.

Player	Games	PA	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
George Brett	18	80	17	3	0	4	9	11	8	.250	.363	.471	.833
Frank White	15	55	10	4	0	2	7	2	8	.189	.218	.377	.596
Hal McRae	13	57	15	4	0	2	7	3	10	.283	.316	.472	.787
Amos Otis	12	52	13	4	0	1	9	3	9	.271	.327	.417	.744
Willie Wilson	10	43	9	1	1	0	2	1	8	.214	.233	.286	.518
Mike Sweeney	9	36	8	3	0	0	2	3	5	.242	.306	.333	.639
Freddie Patek	8	33	11	4	0	1	6	3	8	.367	.424	.600	1.024
John Mayberry	6	27	4	0	0	2	5	5	6	.182	.333	.455	.788
David DeJesus	6	24	6	1	0	0	1	0	4	.250	.250	.292	.542
Cookie Rojas	5	21	4	0	0	0	4	2	1	.235	.300	.235	.535
Carlos Beltran	5	21	7	0	1	1	5	0	5	.350	.333	.600	.933

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Man, how about that Freddie Patek? One of the joys in doing this opening day series is getting to see his name regularly and I got to admit his OD numbers do fascinate me. I'm probably alone in this and that's fine. When I was a kid while my friends were pretending to be George Brett or Willie Wilson I was always Patek, without fail. I've only had a few opportunities to write about him since this blog's inception so I've thoroughly enjoyed this week's theme.

And now for the pitchers, some of whom we've already covered.

Player	Games	W	L	ERA	GS	SV	IP	BB	SO	WHIP
Kevin Appier	7	1	4	3.69	7	0	39.0	20	30	1.46
Jeff Montgomery	6	0	1	1.04	0	2	8.2	4	8	1.15
Dan Quisenberry	5	0	0	0.00	0	2	7.1	0	2	1.09
Paul Splittorff	4	1	1	5.01	3	0	23.1	12	8	1.67
Dennis Leonard	4	1	3	6.30	4	0	20.0	8	10	1.85
Larry Gura	4	1	1	2.13	2	0	12.2	7	5	1.18
Bret Saberhagen	3	1	1	3.00	3	0	21.0	2	17	1.10
Steve Busby	2	0	1	3.65	2	0	12.1	2	7	1.14
Mark Gubicza	1	0	1	5.14	1	0	7.0	1	4	1.43

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One more day (weather permitting).