Poquette appeared in 21 games for Kansas City, hitting .214 while collecting six hits over 28 at-bats, driving in three while scoring four runs himself.
He would end up playing both the 1974 and 1975 seasons in the Minors, but would make it back in 1976 and have a really good rookie year, hitting .302 over 104 games, with 104 hits in 344 at-bats.
He was getting some decent attention as an “up-and-comer” for the Royals, giving them a very nice core of young players along with a guy named George Brett, among others.
In 1977 he followed up with yet another nice season, hitting .292 with 100 hits in 342 at-bats, collecting 23 doubles and six triples over 106 games, avoiding the “sophomore jinx”.
Sadly for him however, the bottom seemed to drop out from under him in 1978 when he fell to a .216 batting average in 80 games, collecting just 44 hits in 204 at-bats for the Western Division champs, and while he did bounce-back in 1979 with a .311 average, it was only after he was traded to the Boston Red Sox for “Boomer” George Scott that he got it going, and that was in only 63 games through the end of the year.
He’d spend all of 1980 in the Minors before coming back in 1981, but for only 33 games split between the Red Sox and Texas Rangers, before playing out his career with two dozen games in 1982 back where it all started, Kansas City, hitting .145 before calling it a career after parts of seven seasons.
He’d finish with a .268 average, with 329 hits over 1226 at-bats in 452 games, scoring 127 runs while driving in 136, but never maintaining that early promise shown in 1976 and 1977.
