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1966 Kansas City Athletics season

Field	Value
name	Kansas City Athletics
season	1966
image	Kansas City Athletics Cap Logo (1965 to 1967).svg
league	American League
ballpark	Municipal Stadium
city	Kansas City, Missouri
record
league_place	7th
owners	Charles O. Finley
general_managers	Ed Lopat
managers	Alvin Dark
television	KCMO
radio	KCMO (AM)
(Monte Moore, Lynn Faris)

(Monte Moore, Lynn Faris) |}} The 1966 Kansas City Athletics season was the 12th and penultimate season in Kansas City, and the 66th in overall franchise history. It involved the A's finishing seventh in the American League with a record of 74 wins and 86 losses (the team's best finish in Kansas City), 23 games behind the World Champion Baltimore Orioles. Paid attendance for the season was 773,929. The pitching staff had an earned run average of 3.56, which ranked sixth in the American League.

Offseason

October 15, 1965: Satchel Paige was released by the Athletics.
November 28, 1965: Hank Peters resigned from the club and became the minor league director for the Cleveland Indians.
November 29, 1965: Ron Stone was drafted by the Athletics from the Baltimore Orioles in the 1965 rule 5 draft.
December 1, 1965: Jim Landis and Jim Rittwage were traded by the Athletics to the Cleveland Indians for Joe Rudi and Phil Roof.
In early 1966, Jim Schaaf left the Athletics front office to work with the Kansas City Chiefs of the AFL.

Regular season

The club won their home opener (contested on April 19) and proceeded to lose 14 of their next 16 games. From June 19 to the final game of the season, the club won 50 games and lost 49, their best stretch since playing in Kansas City. The Athletics did not finish in last place for the first time in three years.

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Notable transactions

April 6, 1966: John O'Donoghue and cash were traded by the Athletics to the Cleveland Indians for Ralph Terry.
April 13, 1966: Diego Seguí was purchased from the Athletics by the Washington Senators.
May 27, 1966: Wayne Causey was traded by the Athletics to the Chicago White Sox for Danny Cater.
June 7, 1966: 1966 Major League Baseball draft (June Draft) notable picks:

July 1, 1966: Ron Stone was returned by the Athletics to the Baltimore Orioles.
July 30, 1966: Jim Duckworth was traded by the Athletics to the Washington Senators for Diego Seguí.
August 6, 1966: Ralph Terry was purchased from the Athletics by the New York Mets.
August 24, 1966: 1966 Major League Baseball draft (August Legion) notable picks:

Roster

1966 Kansas City Athletics
Roster
Pitchers

Player stats

	= Indicates team leader

	= Indicates league leader

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	Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI	SB
C		127	367	77	.209	7	44	2
1B	Ken Harrelson	63	210	47	.224	5	22	9
2B	Dick Green	140	507	127	.250	9	62	6
SS	Bert Campaneris	142	573	153	.267	5	42	52
3B	Ed Charles	118	385	110	.286	9	42	12
LF	Larry Stahl	119	312	78	.250	5	34	5
CF	Joe Nossek	87	230	60	.261	1	27	4
RF	Mike Hershberger	146	538	136	.253	2	57	13

Other batters

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

Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
	116	425	124	.292	7	52
Roger Repoz	101	319	69	.216	11	34
Jim Gosger	88	272	61	.224	5	27
Ossie Chavarria	86	191	46	.241	2	10
	37	127	30	.236	0	4
	28	79	18	.228	0	5
	32	76	10	.132	0	7
Ken Suarez	35	69	10	.145	0	2
Tim Talton	37	53	18	.340	2	6
Rick Monday	17	41	4	.098	0	2
	13	35	4	.114	0	1
Ernie Fazio	27	34	7	.206	0	2
	15	30	4	.133	0	1
Sal Bando	11	24	7	.292	0	1
	26	22	6	.273	0	0
Don Blasingame	12	19	3	.158	0	1
Randy Schwartz	10	11	1	.091	0	1
Rene Lachemann	5	5	1	.200	0	0

Pitching

Starting pitchers

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

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
Catfish Hunter	30	176.2	9	11	4.02	102
Jim Nash	18	127.0	12	1	2.06	98
Blue Moon Odom	14	90.1	5	5	2.49	47
	14	83.2	4	6	4.09	61
Rollie Sheldon	14	69.0	4	7	3.13	26
	11	67.2	4	4	4.79	37

Other pitchers

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

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
	36	177.2	14	9	2.99	87
Paul Lindblad	38	121.0	5	10	4.17	69
	15	64.0	1	5	3.80	33
Bill Stafford	9	39.2	0	4	4.99	31
	11	38.1	2	4	4.70	21
	6	8.1	0	1	3.24	3

Relief pitchers

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

Player	G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
	66	8	4	32	1.99	68
Ken Sanders	38	3	4	1	3.72	41
Wes Stock	35	2	2	3	2.66	31
	24	1	0	1	5.35	20
Joe Grzenda	21	0	2	0	3.27	14
	19	0	3	2	5.32	25
Vern Handrahan	16	0	1	1	4.26	18
	16	0	1	1	6.89	8
	8	0	2	1	9.00	10
Aurelio Monteagudo	6	0	0	0	2.84	3
Jesse Hickman	1	0	0	0	0.00	0

Awards and honors

All-Star Game

Catfish Hunter, Pitcher, Reserve

Farm system

LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: Mobile, Modesto, Leesburg

References

''Charlie Finley: The Outrageous Story of Baseball's Super Showman'', p.98, G. Michael Green and Roger D. Launius. Walker Publishing Company, New York, 2010, {{ISBN. 978-0-8027-1745-0
''Charlie Finley: The Outrageous Story of Baseball's Super Showman'', pp.97–98, G. Michael Green and Roger D. Launius. Walker Publishing Company, New York, 2010, {{ISBN. 978-0-8027-1745-0
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/p/paigesa01.shtml Satchel Paige] at ''Baseball Reference''
''Charlie Finley: The Outrageous Story of Baseball's Super Showman'', p.95, G. Michael Green and Roger D. Launius. Walker Publishing Company, New York, 2010, {{ISBN. 978-0-8027-1745-0
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/stonero02.shtml Ron Stone] at ''Baseball Reference''
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/r/rudijo01.shtml Joe Rudi] at ''Baseball Reference''
''Charlie Finley: The Outrageous Story of Baseball's Super Showman'', p.96, G. Michael Green and Roger D. Launius. Walker Publishing Company, New York, 2010, {{ISBN. 978-0-8027-1745-0
''Charlie Finley: The Outrageous Story of Baseball's Super Showman'', p.97, G. Michael Green and Roger D. Launius. Walker Publishing Company, New York, 2010, {{ISBN. 978-0-8027-1745-0
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/t/terryra01.shtml Ralph Terry] at ''Baseball Reference''
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/s/seguidi01.shtml Diego Seguí] at ''Baseball Reference''
[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2199&dat=19660528&id=LMBTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nDgNAAAAIBAJ&pg=7152,3080331&hl=en Causey plays for A's after being traded]
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/?query_type=franch_year&team_ID=OAK&year_ID=1966&draft_type=& 1966 Kansas City Athletics Picks in the MLB June Amateur Draft]
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/j/jacksre01.shtml Reggie Jackson] at ''Baseball Reference''
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/v/varnepe01.shtml Kansas City Athletics Picks in the MLB August Legion Draft]

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