1972 Hankyu Braves Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 80-48
Finished 1st in the JPPL
Manager: Yukio Nishimoto (80-48)
Location: Nishinomiya, Japan
Ballpark: Hankyu Nishinomiya Stadium

1972 Hankyu Braves Roster

The Hankyu Braves of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1972 season with a record of 80 wins and 48 losses, finishing first in the JPPL.

The Braves scored 594 runs and allowed 480 runs. Atsushi Nagaike walloped 41 home runs for Hankyu, while Yutaka Ohashi, Billy Sorrell, Kiyoshi Morimoto and Yasuhiro Takai each swatted 15 or more also. Atsushi Nagaike accounted for 95 RBI. Yutaka Fukumoto paced all regular batters with a .301 average. Hisashi Yamada topped the squad with 20 wins, and Mitsuhiro Adachi also added 15 or more victories also Mitsuhiro Adachi registered a 2.63 earned run average, tops among qualifying pitchers.

Daryl Spencer and Billy Sorrell both played in Major League Baseball during their careers.

Yukio Nishimoto served as manager.

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Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Hisashi Yamada	20	8	.714	3.08	43	27	12	15	3		231.0	186	85	79	29	52	5	142	8	1	3	928
Mitsuhiro Adachi	16	6	.727	2.63	34	23	9	12	1		195.3	174	69	57	25	31	5	71	4	0	0	785
Yoshihiro Kodama	10	4	.714	2.66	39	0	13	0	0		94.7	88	32	28	7	16	2	27	1	0	0	373
Tetsuya Yoneda	10	7	.588	3.24	29	21	5	5	0		155.7	139	66	56	15	56	3	81	11	2	2	664
Yoshinori Toda	8	4	.667	3.31	34	6	16	3	0		103.3	89	40	38	17	24	0	72	2	0	2	414
Shigeo Ishii	5	4	.556	4.11	23	18	0	3	0		100.7	115	59	46	16	24	0	39	3	0	0	435
Kenjiro Maki	3	3	.500	3.25	20	7	11	2	0		63.7	70	24	23	3	11	0	19	4	0	0	265
Katsutoshi Miwata	2	0	1.000	1.50	5	0	2	0	0		6.0	7	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	24
Takao Kajimoto	2	5	.286	3.65	17	12	1	2	1		69.0	66	34	28	11	28	3	35	3	0	0	298
Yutaro Imai	1	0	1.000	3.00	11	1	4	0	0		18.0	18	9	6	2	2	0	14	0	0	0	73
Toshiharu Nagare	1	1	.500	2.91	5	3	0	1	0		21.7	20	7	7	2	5	1	9	0	0	1	88
Takashi Mizutani	1	2	.333	2.42	12	1	5	0	0		22.3	24	8	6	3	4	0	9	0	0	1	92
Yukinobu Miyamoto	1	2	.333	4.30	22	8	3	1	1		52.3	56	31	25	10	17	0	33	1	0	0	227
Hiroki Watanabe	0	0		4.05	5	0	1	0	0		6.7	3	3	3	1	4	0	5	0	0	0	26
Yoshio Arai	0	2	.000	3.65	8	3	4	0	0		24.7	23	12	10	2	7	0	15	0	0	0	100
Totals	80	48	.625	3.19	307	130	86	44	6	0	1165.0	1078	480	413	143	282	19	571	37	3	9	4792

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
Yutaka Fukumoto	122	542	472	99	142	25	6	14	40	106	25	62	69	.301	.384	.468	.852	221	2	3	3	2	3
Billy Sorrell	119	456	424	52	123	22	6	16	63	5	4	23	30	.290	.330	.483	.813	205	11	4	1	4	0
Atsushi Nagaike	111	452	386	72	112	11	1	41	95	6	4	56	36	.290	.378	.642	1.021	248	17	3	0	7	4
Hideji Kato	118	428	362	59	105	25	2	13	54	11	4	55	43	.290	.384	.478	.862	173	3	4	1	6	6
Masayuki Tanemo	112	405	373	29	101	17	2	5	38	2	2	16	31	.271	.311	.367	.678	137	10	7	6	3	1
Kiyoshi Morimoto	99	396	330	46	92	10	2	17	61	11	6	55	31	.279	.382	.476	.858	157	11	4	1	6	9
Yutaka Ohashi	112	405	352	40	76	10	2	15	42	6	5	37	77	.216	.298	.384	.682	135	8	5	9	2	1
Tadayoshi Okuma	116	392	325	34	75	10	3	11	32	4	3	46	37	.231	.337	.382	.718	124	6	7	12	2	2
Yasuhiro Takai	86	246	207	31	56	9	0	15	44	1	0	34	25	.271	.376	.531	.907	110	9	2	1	2	0
Osamu Inoue	105	211	186	30	53	12	1	3	26	17	6	17	29	.285	.351	.409	.760	76	5	3	3	2	1
Taira Sumitomo	76	153	138	25	46	9	1	4	18	6	4	11	18	.333	.380	.500	.880	69	2	0	3	1	0
Daryl Spencer	51	91	77	9	20	1	0	4	13	0	0	12	20	.260	.374	.429	.802	33	3	2	0	0	1
Fujio Yamaguchi	90	97	84	7	19	2	0	0	7	7	4	7	5	.226	.280	.250	.530	21	1	0	4	2	0
Hironori Shogaki	79	125	102	13	17	1	0	2	2	2	1	16	12	.167	.298	.235	.533	24	1	3	4	0	1
Yukiyoshi Okada	34	58	51	5	13	4	0	2	6	0	0	7	7	.255	.345	.451	.796	23	0	0	0	0	1
Hisashi Yamada	43	87	75	10	13	3	0	1	7	1	0	4	30	.173	.220	.253	.473	19	0	1	5	2	0
Mitsuhiro Adachi	34	68	62	1	9	0	1	0	5	0	1	0	10	.145	.159	.177	.336	11	0	1	5	0	0
Jiro Hirabayashi	41	16	16	13	6	0	0	1	1	8	2	0	2	.375	.375	.562	.938	9	1	0	0	0	0
Kenji Komatsu	32	25	22	2	6	1	0	0	1	3	0	3	3	.273	.360	.318	.678	7	2	0	0	0	0
Kenichiro Kawamura	7	17	14	1	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	3	.357	.375	.357	.732	5	0	0	1	1	0
Tetsuya Yoneda	29	51	43	2	5	0	0	1	2	2	0	3	11	.116	.174	.186	.360	8	2	0	5	0	0
Shigeo Ishii	24	30	24	3	4	1	0	2	3	1	1	3	8	.167	.259	.458	.718	11	0	0	3	0	0
Shinji Nakazawa	27	28	23	2	3	1	0	0	0	1	0	4	5	.130	.259	.174	.433	4	0	0	1	0	0
Kenjiro Maki	22	16	15	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	.133	.133	.133	.267	2	0	0	1	0	0
Yoshihiro Kodama	39	17	15	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	.133	.188	.133	.321	2	0	0	1	0	0
Yoshinori Toda	35	23	19	1	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	9	.105	.150	.105	.255	2	1	0	3	0	0
Toshiharu Nagare	5	6	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.200	.200	.200	.400	1	0	0	1	0	0
Yoshio Arai	10	7	7	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.143	.143	.143	.286	1	0	0	0	0	0
Tsutomu Watanabe	20	13	10	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	.100	.231	.100	.331	1	0	2	0	1	0
Yukinobu Miyamoto	22	10	10	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.100	.100	.100	.200	1	0	0	0	0	0
Takao Kajimoto	18	19	17	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	.059	.111	.059	.170	1	1	0	1	0	0
Hidetaka Togin	75	23	21	4	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	2	.048	.130	.048	.178	1	1	0	0	0	0
Teruyuki Uno	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Minoru Hatano	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Takeshi Kiritoshi	7	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.200	.000	.200	0	0	0	0	0	0
Takashi Mizutani	12	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yutaro Imai	11	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	1	0	0
Totals	1946	4923	4275	594	1113	174	27	167	563	202	72	478	591	.260	.339	.431	.770	1842	97	51	76	43	30

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Hideji Kato	1B	96					.000
Yasuhiro Takai	1B	63					.000
Daryl Spencer	1B	11					.000
Billy Sorrell	1B	5					.000
Tsutomu Watanabe	1B	1					.000
Yukiyoshi Okada	1B	1					.000
Takeshi Kiritoshi	1B	1					.000
Takao Kajimoto	1B	1					.000
Jiro Hirabayashi	1B	1					.000
Fujio Yamaguchi	2B	82					.000
Billy Sorrell	2B	70					.000
Osamu Inoue	2B	35					.000
Taira Sumitomo	2B	32					.000
Jiro Hirabayashi	2B	7					.000
Kiyoshi Morimoto	2B	1					.000
Kenjiro Maki	2B	1					.000
Kiyoshi Morimoto	3B	94					.000
Osamu Inoue	3B	42					.000
Billy Sorrell	3B	30					.000
Jiro Hirabayashi	3B	10					.000
Daryl Spencer	3B	7					.000
Tsutomu Watanabe	3B	5					.000
Yoshio Arai	3B	2					.000
Fujio Yamaguchi	3B	1					.000
Masayuki Tanemo	C	110					.000
Yukiyoshi Okada	C	27					.000
Shinji Nakazawa	C	25					.000
Kenichiro Kawamura	C	7					.000
Teruyuki Uno	C	2					.000
Yutaka Fukumoto	OF	122					.000
Tadayoshi Okuma	OF	111					.000
Atsushi Nagaike	OF	106					.000
Hidetaka Togin	OF	67					.000
Hironori Shogaki	OF	54					.000
Hideji Kato	OF	34					.000
Kenji Komatsu	OF	26					.000
Billy Sorrell	OF	19					.000
Takeshi Kiritoshi	OF	3					.000
Fujio Yamaguchi	OF	1					.000
Yoshinori Toda	OF	1					.000
Yasuhiro Takai	OF	1					.000
Taira Sumitomo	OF	1					.000
Kiyoshi Morimoto	OF	1					.000
Kenjiro Maki	OF	1					.000
Shigeo Ishii	OF	1					.000
Jiro Hirabayashi	OF	1					.000
Hisashi Yamada	P	43					.000
Yoshihiro Kodama	P	39					.000
Yoshinori Toda	P	34					.000
Mitsuhiro Adachi	P	34					.000
Tetsuya Yoneda	P	29					.000
Shigeo Ishii	P	23					.000
Yukinobu Miyamoto	P	22					.000
Kenjiro Maki	P	20					.000
Takao Kajimoto	P	17					.000
Takashi Mizutani	P	12					.000
Yutaro Imai	P	11					.000
Yoshio Arai	P	8					.000
Hiroki Watanabe	P	5					.000
Toshiharu Nagare	P	5					.000
Katsutoshi Miwata	P	5					.000
Yutaka Ohashi	SS	112					.000
Osamu Inoue	SS	37					.000
Fujio Yamaguchi	SS	2					.000
Totals		1778	0	0	0	0	.000

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