1981 Hankyu Braves Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 68-58
Finished 2nd in the JPPL
Manager: Toshiharu Ueda (68-58)
Location: Nishinomiya, Japan
Ballpark: Hankyu Nishinomiya Stadium

1981 Hankyu Braves Roster

The Hankyu Braves of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1981 season with a record of 68 wins and 58 losses, finishing second in the JPPL.

The Braves tallied 579 runs and conceded 597 runs. Wayne Cage walloped 31 home runs for Hankyu, while Kinji Shimatani and Hideji Kato swatted 15 or more, too. Hideji Kato drove in 79 runs and topped all regular batters with a .314 average. Yutaro Imai paced the team with 19 wins, and Mitsuo Inaba recorded a 2.93 ERA, leading pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.

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

Toshiharu Ueda 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
Yutaro Imai	19	15	.559	3.73	36	31	3	15	3	0	231.3	240	125	96	30	77	4	70	9	0	1	991
Hisashi Yamada	13	12	.520	2.94	34	22	12	17	1	5	208.0	172	78	68	24	45	1	114	9	0	1	832
Mitsuo Inaba	11	5	.688	2.93	23	21	0	9	1	0	135.3	150	56	44	14	47	0	36	9	0	2	580
Shizuo Shiraishi	6	2	.750	2.88	13	13	0	2	1	0	65.7	58	32	21	11	36	0	19	4	1	0	294
Tomoyuki Sekiguchi	6	4	.600	4.47	41	0	32	0	0	12	108.7	133	61	54	9	37	1	52	4	1	2	473
Masanobu Kojima	6	5	.545	4.16	27	17	5	3	0	0	106.0	97	57	49	11	53	1	34	4	0	0	453
Yukitsura Matsumoto	3	4	.429	6.57	12	12	0	1	0	0	50.7	73	40	37	13	14	0	14	1	0	0	236
Tomohiro Tanimura	2	3	.400	5.33	18	3	1	0	0	0	49.0	68	33	29	5	18	2	10	4	1	0	229
Shiro Miyamoto	2	5	.286	4.33	19	8	4	1	0	0	72.7	78	36	35	12	32	1	35	1	0	0	320
Norikazu Miyata	0	0		4.76	6	1	3	0	0	0	11.3	9	6	6	1	6	0	5	3	0	0	51
Shoji Matsumoto	0	0		5.71	10	0	6	0	0	0	17.3	19	12	11	2	14	0	6	0	0	1	83
Tomohiro Kinoshita	0	0		5.82	7	0	4	0	0	0	17.0	23	11	11	4	5	0	7	1	0	0	77
Takashi Yamaguchi	0	0		11.00	3	0	2	0	0	0	9.0	13	11	11	2	3	0	4	2	0	1	42
Seikichi Kanamoto	0	1	.000	4.40	15	1	5	0	0	0	43.0	41	22	21	9	10	0	17	4	0	1	178
Hiroaki Nagamoto	0	2	.000	7.29	8	1	5	0	0	0	21.0	22	17	17	5	11	0	15	1	0	0	91
Totals	68	58	.540	4.01	272	130	82	48	6	17	1146.0	1196	597	510	152	408	10	438	56	3	9	4930

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
Hideji Kato	127	534	468	63	147	25	2	17	79	4	3	54	67	.314	.384	.485	.869	227	5	4	0	8	3
Yutaka Fukumoto	130	584	495	90	142	22	7	14	48	54	15	80	65	.287	.386	.444	.830	220	3	1	6	2	2
Koji Minoda	116	494	432	66	123	20	0	10	40	26	6	33	41	.285	.339	.400	.739	173	8	4	22	3	1
Robert Marcano	126	489	447	51	119	19	2	13	67	12	8	31	30	.266	.316	.405	.721	181	14	3	5	3	2
Kinji Shimatani	114	429	383	57	108	14	1	23	64	3	2	37	49	.282	.345	.504	.849	193	11	1	6	2	3
Shinya Kobayashi	121	412	380	46	107	23	2	3	37	6	5	27	22	.282	.327	.376	.703	143	7	0	2	3	1
Wayne Cage	124	470	424	52	101	19	0	31	74	2	2	43	122	.238	.311	.502	.813	213	13	2	0	1	3
Keijiro Yumioka	130	419	377	42	80	11	4	4	30	15	7	16	23	.212	.246	.294	.541	111	11	2	21	3	0
Shinji Nakazawa	86	181	163	13	38	9	1	6	22	0	1	9	39	.233	.280	.411	.691	67	7	2	6	1	0
Shinji Sasamoto	74	144	127	19	35	4	1	2	15	5	2	12	15	.276	.343	.370	.713	47	1	1	4	0	2
Hiromi Matsunaga	73	105	92	15	30	1	1	2	15	4	3	8	10	.326	.404	.424	.828	39	4	4	1	0	0
Shinnosuke Kataoka	49	102	96	7	29	7	0	0	8	0	1	4	11	.302	.330	.375	.705	36	4	0	2	0	0
Yasuhiro Takai	85	138	115	14	27	1	0	9	24	0	1	22	32	.235	.355	.478	.833	55	1	0	0	1	1
Kenichiro Kawamura	42	73	68	5	15	3	0	1	7	0	0	5	14	.221	.274	.309	.583	21	2	0	0	0	0
Masafumi Yamamori	101	62	53	15	11	0	2	0	4	2	0	6	9	.208	.288	.283	.571	15	0	0	3	0	0
Kazuhiko Ishimine	36	46	42	3	9	1	1	2	5	0	0	4	15	.214	.283	.429	.711	18	0	0	0	0	0
Shigetaka Sato	35	49	45	4	9	0	0	1	2	2	2	2	10	.200	.265	.267	.532	12	1	2	0	0	0
Masaharu Fujimoto	68	29	24	7	8	1	0	2	6	2	1	0	5	.333	.346	.625	.971	15	0	1	3	1	0
Shigeru Yagi	36	30	29	4	6	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	8	.207	.207	.241	.448	7	0	0	1	0	0
Toshiyuki Yoshizawa	38	40	36	4	4	0	0	0	0	2	1	3	4	.111	.200	.111	.311	4	1	1	0	0	0
Yutaka Ohashi	10	9	9	1	2	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	4	.222	.222	.222	.444	2	0	0	0	0	0
Hiroyoshi Kudo	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Yasuo Hosokawa	3	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hisashi Yamada	34	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Masato Osumi	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Osamu Yonemura	15	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.200	.000	.200	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1777	4852	4317	579	1151	181	24	140	551	140	61	397	598	.267	.330	.417	.747	1800	93	28	82	28	18

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Hideji Kato	1B	114					.000
Wayne Cage	1B	22					.000
Osamu Yonemura	1B	11					.000
Yasuhiro Takai	1B	3					.000
Masato Osumi	1B	3					.000
Robert Marcano	2B	123					.000
Masaharu Fujimoto	2B	38					.000
Shigeru Yagi	2B	10					.000
Toshiyuki Yoshizawa	2B	1					.000
Kinji Shimatani	3B	107					.000
Hiromi Matsunaga	3B	53					.000
Shigeru Yagi	3B	22					.000
Toshiyuki Yoshizawa	3B	9					.000
Masaharu Fujimoto	3B	3					.000
Koji Minoda	3B	1					.000
Jiro Hirabayashi	3B	1					.000
Shinji Nakazawa	C	85					.000
Shinji Sasamoto	C	57					.000
Shinnosuke Kataoka	C	49					.000
Kazuhiko Ishimine	C	15					.000
Kenichiro Kawamura	C	5					.000
Yutaka Fukumoto	OF	130					.000
Shinya Kobayashi	OF	117					.000
Koji Minoda	OF	115					.000
Masafumi Yamamori	OF	95					.000
Shigetaka Sato	OF	26					.000
Wayne Cage	OF	15					.000
Toshiyuki Yoshizawa	OF	11					.000
Hiromi Matsunaga	OF	3					.000
Yasuo Hosokawa	OF	3					.000
Shinji Sasamoto	OF	1					.000
Tadayoshi Okuma	OF	1					.000
Tomoyuki Sekiguchi	P	41					.000
Yutaro Imai	P	36					.000
Hisashi Yamada	P	34					.000
Masanobu Kojima	P	27					.000
Mitsuo Inaba	P	23					.000
Shiro Miyamoto	P	19					.000
Tomohiro Tanimura	P	18					.000
Seikichi Kanamoto	P	15					.000
Shizuo Shiraishi	P	13					.000
Yukitsura Matsumoto	P	12					.000
Shoji Matsumoto	P	10					.000
Hiroaki Nagamoto	P	8					.000
Tomohiro Kinoshita	P	7					.000
Norikazu Miyata	P	6					.000
Takashi Yamaguchi	P	3					.000
Keijiro Yumioka	SS	130					.000
Masaharu Fujimoto	SS	17					.000
Yutaka Ohashi	SS	7					.000
Toshiyuki Yoshizawa	SS	6					.000
Shigeru Yagi	SS	1					.000
Hiromi Matsunaga	SS	1					.000
Jiro Hirabayashi	SS	1					.000
Totals		1684	0	0	0	0	.000

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