1980 Hankyu Braves Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 58-67
Finished 5th in the JPPL
Manager: Takao Kajimoto (58-67)
Location: Nishinomiya, Japan
Ballpark: Hankyu Nishinomiya Stadium

1980 Hankyu Braves Roster

The Hankyu Braves of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1980 season with a record of 58 wins and 67 losses, finishing fifth in the JPPL.

The Braves plated 647 runs and allowed 731 runs. Koji Minoda walloped 31 home runs for Hankyu, while Kinji Shimatani, Bernie Williams, Hideji Kato, Yutaka Fukumoto and Robert Marcano each swatted 15 or more, too. Hideji Kato drove in 97 runs. Yutaka Fukumoto paced all regular hitters with a .321 average. Hisashi Yamada topped the squad with 13 wins and a team-best 2.97 earned run average, leading regular hurlers.

Bernie Williams played in Major League Baseball during his career, the only member of the Hankyu Braves to do so.

Takao Kajimoto 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	13	10	.565	2.96	30	22	8	18	1	1	200.7	172	84	66	28	59	6	112	5	0	0	823
Yukitsura Matsumoto	10	5	.667	3.87	24	14	7	8	2	1	137.3	164	70	59	22	18	3	28	1	0	2	574
Yutaro Imai	8	5	.615	5.93	26	17	6	3	0	3	121.3	154	84	80	19	57	6	57	9	0	2	566
Tomohiro Tanimura	7	7	.500	4.75	31	13	11	4	0	2	140.3	166	80	74	27	39	3	35	11	0	0	606
Mitsuo Inaba	5	8	.385	6.36	22	18	2	6	0	1	109.0	136	85	77	20	58	1	35	6	0	4	513
Yoshinori Sato	4	13	.235	5.84	30	18	9	4	0	0	135.7	135	98	88	30	81	0	93	4	1	2	615
Hiroyuki Miura	3	3	.500	4.25	9	6	3	4	0	0	48.7	47	27	23	8	23	1	21	3	0	1	212
Shizuo Shiraishi	3	3	.500	7.02	12	11	0	1	1	0	57.7	77	52	45	11	35	1	19	2	1	0	285
Tomoyuki Sekiguchi	3	6	.333	5.03	21	7	10	2	0	1	96.7	110	65	54	17	34	2	37	3	0	0	429
Shoji Matsumoto	1	1	.500	7.63	9	1	5	0	0	0	30.7	39	30	26	8	26	0	20	2	0	1	158
Takashi Yamaguchi	1	3	.250	5.14	17	1	12	0	0	3	28.0	27	16	16	5	31	1	12	0	0	1	136
Makoto Ishida	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Masuo Yata	0	0		9.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	3.0	7	3	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	15
Koji Yamashita	0	0		30.86	2	0	0	0	0	0	2.3	10	8	8	1	4	0	1	0	0	0	18
Tomohiro Kinoshita	0	1	.000	14.73	1	1	0	0	0	0	3.7	10	7	6	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	24
Totals	58	67	.464	5.08	245	130	80	50	4	13	1146.0	1289	731	647	205	475	25	490	48	2	13	5111

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	128	603	517	112	166	29	6	21	58	54	20	78	64	.321	.409	.522	.931	270	3	1	4	3	5
Hideji Kato	130	561	484	72	154	26	3	28	97	5	4	59	84	.318	.394	.558	.952	270	3	8	0	10	7
Koji Minoda	130	591	494	83	132	14	6	31	79	39	8	45	58	.267	.346	.508	.855	251	7	17	31	4	2
Robert Marcano	116	479	445	63	131	23	2	24	85	6	4	23	60	.294	.328	.517	.845	230	13	3	1	7	0
Kinji Shimatani	112	462	395	62	105	16	2	16	66	5	3	52	46	.266	.350	.438	.788	173	12	4	2	9	0
Bernie Williams	120	375	345	58	87	12	4	21	50	8	6	23	75	.252	.299	.493	.792	170	8	1	4	2	1
Kenichiro Kawamura	102	334	296	28	77	12	0	12	42	0	3	34	61	.260	.335	.422	.758	125	7	1	0	3	1
Shinji Nakazawa	118	328	275	20	59	8	0	8	24	2	2	33	63	.215	.299	.331	.630	91	8	1	17	2	0
Yutaka Ohashi	85	213	187	30	41	9	0	9	22	6	1	16	46	.219	.285	.412	.697	77	5	2	6	2	0
Shinji Sasamoto	79	150	129	18	34	8	0	7	25	6	0	18	17	.264	.353	.488	.842	63	1	1	0	2	0
Yasuhiro Takai	76	197	170	13	32	6	0	7	25	1	0	21	35	.188	.281	.347	.628	59	2	2	1	3	0
Toshiyuki Yoshizawa	59	148	136	22	30	6	1	8	15	7	4	7	26	.221	.264	.456	.720	62	2	1	4	0	0
Shigeru Yagi	92	156	138	12	30	6	0	2	12	4	1	10	20	.217	.278	.304	.582	42	1	2	5	1	0
Masahiro Yanagida	64	121	104	12	23	10	0	2	5	2	1	17	13	.221	.331	.375	.706	39	0	0	0	0	0
Shinya Kobayashi	26	80	72	8	18	3	0	4	10	3	2	7	11	.250	.325	.458	.783	33	0	1	0	0	0
Tadayoshi Okuma	28	42	37	2	7	2	0	1	2	0	0	4	7	.189	.262	.324	.586	12	1	0	0	1	0
Osamu Inoue	32	25	20	9	4	1	0	0	0	1	0	4	6	.200	.333	.250	.583	5	0	0	1	0	0
Kazumitsu Okamoto	38	27	26	3	4	1	0	2	4	0	0	1	7	.154	.185	.423	.608	11	0	0	0	0	0
Yuji Kasama	26	31	31	0	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	9	.097	.097	.097	.194	3	0	0	0	0	0
Teruyuki Uno	7	10	10	3	2	0	0	1	2	1	0	0	1	.200	.200	.500	.700	5	0	0	0	0	0
Masato Osumi	14	12	12	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.167	.167	.167	.333	2	0	0	0	0	0
Akira Tanaka	1	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0	0	0	0
Shigetaka Sato	4	9	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.125	.222	.125	.347	1	1	0	0	0	0
Mitsuru Matsui	7	10	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	.125	.300	.125	.425	1	2	0	0	0	0
Kiyoshi Tanioka	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yasuo Hosokawa	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jiro Hirabayashi	71	9	8	17	0	0	0	0	0	7	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Masafumi Yamamori	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Toru Maeda	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Osamu Yonemura	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1672	4986	4360	647	1144	192	24	204	625	157	59	455	719	.262	.335	.458	.793	1996	76	45	77	49	16

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Hideji Kato	1B	117					.000
Kazumitsu Okamoto	1B	15					.000
Masato Osumi	1B	13					.000
Yasuhiro Takai	1B	11					.000
Toshiyuki Yoshizawa	1B	1					.000
Tadayoshi Okuma	1B	1					.000
Kenichiro Kawamura	1B	1					.000
Robert Marcano	2B	116					.000
Shigeru Yagi	2B	22					.000
Jiro Hirabayashi	2B	13					.000
Osamu Inoue	2B	3					.000
Akira Tanaka	2B	1					.000
Yutaka Ohashi	2B	1					.000
Kinji Shimatani	3B	110					.000
Shigeru Yagi	3B	50					.000
Koji Minoda	3B	8					.000
Toshiyuki Yoshizawa	3B	5					.000
Mitsuru Matsui	3B	4					.000
Osamu Inoue	3B	3					.000
Jiro Hirabayashi	3B	3					.000
Osamu Yonemura	3B	1					.000
Kiyoshi Tanioka	3B	1					.000
Shinji Nakazawa	C	114					.000
Shinji Sasamoto	C	50					.000
Yuji Kasama	C	21					.000
Teruyuki Uno	C	6					.000
Kenichiro Kawamura	C	2					.000
Hiroaki Nakanishi	C	1					.000
Yutaka Fukumoto	OF	128					.000
Koji Minoda	OF	123					.000
Bernie Williams	OF	116					.000
Masahiro Yanagida	OF	29					.000
Shinya Kobayashi	OF	24					.000
Tadayoshi Okuma	OF	14					.000
Kazumitsu Okamoto	OF	5					.000
Shigetaka Sato	OF	2					.000
Masafumi Yamamori	OF	1					.000
Hiroyoshi Kudo	OF	1					.000
Yasuo Hosokawa	OF	1					.000
Tomohiro Tanimura	P	31					.000
Hisashi Yamada	P	30					.000
Yoshinori Sato	P	30					.000
Yutaro Imai	P	26					.000
Yukitsura Matsumoto	P	24					.000
Mitsuo Inaba	P	22					.000
Tomoyuki Sekiguchi	P	21					.000
Takashi Yamaguchi	P	17					.000
Shizuo Shiraishi	P	12					.000
Hiroyuki Miura	P	9					.000
Shoji Matsumoto	P	9					.000
Koji Yamashita	P	2					.000
Masuo Yata	P	1					.000
Tomohiro Kinoshita	P	1					.000
Makoto Ishida	P	1					.000
Yutaka Ohashi	SS	82					.000
Toshiyuki Yoshizawa	SS	54					.000
Shigeru Yagi	SS	31					.000
Jiro Hirabayashi	SS	30					.000
Osamu Inoue	SS	12					.000
Kiyoshi Tanioka	SS	2					.000
Masaharu Fujimoto	SS	1					.000
Totals		1595	0	0	0	0	.000

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