Royal Doubles

Billy Butler has slowed down in his pursuit of the Royals single-season home run record, but Alex Gordon has a good shot to capture a less glamorous team record: doubles in a season. Hal McRae has held the team mark with 54 since 1977. Gordon is up to 44 and is on pace for 56. Here is a graph of McRae's and Gordon's doubles totals by game:

And while we're talking about Royals doubles, here are the top doubles hitters in team history:

Rk	Player	2B
1	George Brett	665
2	Hal McRae	449
3	Frank White	407
4	Amos Otis	365
5	Mike Sweeney	297
6	Willie Wilson	241
7	Joe Randa	223
8	Billy Butler	204
9	David DeJesus	187
10	Freddie Patek	182
11	Alex Gordon	176
12	Mike Macfarlane	174
13	Carlos Beltran	156
14	Johnny Damon	156
15	Mark Teahen	146

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Generated 8/29/2012

Mark Teahen looms disturbingly large in team hitting history. Billy and Alex are already looking good from the counting perspective (they might be 8-9 in team history by the end of the year), and their rates look even better. Out of the 76 humanoids with 1000+ plate appearances for the Royals, here are the hitters with the most doubles per 550 PA:

Player	PA	2B	2B/550
Mark Quinn	1166	72	34.0
Mark Grudzielanek	1432	88	33.8
Hal McRae	7362	449	33.5
Billy Butler	3392	204	33.1
Alex Gordon	2906	174	32.9
Jeff Francoeur	1141	66	31.8
George Brett	11625	665	31.5
Mike Sweeney	5278	297	30.9
Clint Hurdle	1240	69	30.6
Wally Joyner	2173	120	30.4

Jeff Francoeur ya'all!