1978 Hanshin Tigers Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 41-80
Finished 6th in the JPCL
Ballpark: Hanshin Koshien Stadium

1978 Hanshin Tigers Roster

The Hanshin Tigers of the Japan Central League ended the 1978 season with a record of 41 wins and 80 losses, finishing sixth in the JPCL.

The Tigers scored 532 runs and conceded 678 runs, most in the circuit. Koichi Tabuchi walloped 38 home runs for Hanshin, while Mike Reinbach and Masayuki Kakefu added 15 or more, too. Masayuki Kakefu accounted for 102 RBI and topped batters with significant playing time by hitting .318. Takenori Emoto led the squad with 11 wins and a team-best 3.12 earned run average, best among hurlers with significant time on the mound.

Hal Breeden and Mike Reinbach both played in Major League Baseball during their careers.

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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
Takenori Emoto	11	13	.458	3.11	56	10	43	2	0	11	150.7	124	63	52	16	70	5	103	9	2	9	644
Yutaka Ikeuchi	9	6	.600	3.66	42	14	8	1	0	0	137.7	129	62	56	17	33	4	78	7	0	2	563
Kazuyuki Yamamoto	5	10	.333	5.15	35	29	2	4	2	1	162.7	183	105	93	28	66	2	84	1	0	8	717
Kenji Furusawa	4	16	.200	4.99	34	22	6	5	1	2	158.7	170	102	88	33	46	2	90	3	1	2	687
Sohachi Aniya	3	2	.600	3.39	39	0	15	0	0	1	71.7	63	33	27	4	17	1	38	4	0	1	294
Jiro Ueda	3	10	.231	5.70	27	16	2	2	1	0	96.3	116	70	61	18	31	1	55	5	0	0	428
Tsutomu Hasegawa	2	7	.222	3.74	36	8	4	0	0	0	86.7	76	45	36	8	41	1	57	3	0	2	369
Norikazu Miyata	1	1	.500	3.73	14	2	5	0	0	0	31.3	32	13	13	6	7	1	27	0	0	1	129
Fumitaka Ito	1	1	.500	7.59	18	4	5	0	0	0	40.3	58	35	34	14	14	0	21	2	0	0	191
Tomohiro Tanimura	1	4	.200	7.16	28	9	6	0	0	0	71.7	95	62	57	14	21	4	27	2	1	0	330
Seikyoku Masuyama	1	10	.091	5.42	45	16	10	1	0	0	109.7	110	68	66	19	54	6	67	2	1	1	488
Yoshio Fukazawa	0	0		6.97	9	0	7	0	0	0	10.3	19	8	8	0	4	0	3	1	0	0	51
Yoshio Arai	0	0		15.75	3	0	2	0	0	0	4.0	10	7	7	2	2	0	3	0	0	0	22
Kazuhiko Kudo	0	0		67.50	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.7	5	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8
Totals	41	80	.339	4.79	387	130	115	15	4	15	1132.3	1190	678	603	179	406	27	653	39	5	26	4921

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
Taira Fujita	130	575	522	77	157	26	4	13	58	4	3	37	18	.301	.352	.441	.792	230	7	5	9	2	2
Masayuki Kakefu	129	532	465	73	148	17	2	32	102	7	5	63	86	.318	.400	.570	.970	265	5	2	0	2	7
Koichi Tabuchi	117	467	413	64	119	8	0	38	89	1	2	44	50	.288	.366	.584	.950	241	9	8	0	2	5
Yoshiyuki Sakakibara	105	423	358	50	103	20	0	3	28	8	8	36	47	.288	.367	.369	.736	132	7	10	17	2	1
Mike Reinbach	102	417	372	42	94	12	1	16	53	2	4	39	59	.253	.326	.419	.745	156	11	3	0	3	4
Katsuhiro Nakamura	103	384	320	53	80	13	0	11	30	15	6	54	48	.250	.359	.394	.753	126	3	2	5	3	1
Noriyoshi Sano	104	323	288	22	65	14	1	8	34	0	2	27	32	.226	.294	.365	.658	105	12	2	3	3	2
Takenori Ikebe	92	291	272	27	62	7	1	1	18	1	3	11	25	.228	.261	.272	.533	74	7	2	4	2	0
Seiichi Uematsu	104	259	227	28	45	9	3	2	14	4	2	23	47	.198	.272	.291	.563	66	1	0	9	0	4
Shinnosuke Kataoka	66	173	156	11	36	5	0	1	12	0	1	16	27	.231	.302	.282	.584	44	6	0	1	0	1
Ikuo Shimano	89	196	179	22	34	8	1	3	16	9	0	9	30	.190	.240	.296	.536	53	4	3	4	1	1
Kozo Kawato	42	66	55	6	18	2	0	2	8	0	2	7	8	.327	.406	.473	.879	26	1	1	2	1	0
Junshi Watanabe	58	96	84	13	18	4	0	0	5	0	1	10	24	.214	.298	.262	.560	22	1	0	2	0	0
Hal Breeden	17	71	61	4	17	3	0	2	12	0	0	8	9	.279	.352	.426	.778	26	2	0	0	2	0
Takeshi Kiritoshi	57	86	77	4	17	0	0	1	3	0	1	8	17	.221	.291	.260	.550	20	3	0	0	1	0
Tadakazu Oshima	46	62	57	7	13	0	1	2	10	0	0	5	15	.228	.290	.368	.659	21	0	0	0	0	0
Kazuyuki Yamamoto	35	55	48	4	11	1	0	0	5	0	0	0	8	.229	.229	.250	.479	12	0	0	7	0	0
Hakaru Kuwano	68	70	64	4	11	0	1	1	12	0	0	2	11	.172	.229	.250	.479	16	2	3	0	1	0
Takenori Emoto	56	43	35	0	7	1	0	0	4	0	0	1	15	.200	.243	.229	.472	8	0	1	6	0	0
Junichi Ikeda	23	44	44	1	7	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	12	.159	.159	.159	.318	7	0	0	0	0	0
Hirokazu Kato	31	29	27	7	6	1	0	0	1	3	3	1	4	.222	.276	.259	.535	7	0	1	0	0	0
Yutaka Ikeuchi	42	39	36	0	6	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	14	.167	.167	.167	.333	6	1	0	3	0	0
Seikyoku Masuyama	45	23	23	3	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	.217	.217	.217	.435	5	0	0	0	0	0
Kenji Furusawa	34	53	41	0	4	1	0	0	1	0	1	4	13	.098	.196	.122	.318	5	0	1	7	0	0
Jiro Ueda	27	27	23	2	3	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	8	.130	.167	.261	.428	6	0	0	3	0	0
Tatsumi Matsushita	12	5	5	4	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.400	.400	.600	1.000	3	0	0	0	0	0
Tomohiro Tanimura	28	16	13	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	8	.154	.154	.154	.308	2	1	0	3	0	0
Tatsuo Minemoto	17	18	18	2	2	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	8	.111	.111	.333	.444	6	0	0	0	0	0
Fumitaka Ito	19	6	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0	2	0	0
Tsutomu Hasegawa	36	17	9	2	1	0	0	1	2	0	1	4	5	.111	.385	.444	.829	4	0	0	4	0	0
Sohachi Aniya	39	11	10	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	5	.100	.100	.100	.200	1	1	0	1	0	0
Norikazu Miyata	14	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Totals	1887	4882	4310	532	1095	154	15	139	525	54	45	410	666	.254	.323	.394	.717	1696	84	44	93	25	28

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Taira Fujita	1B	77					.000
Koichi Tabuchi	1B	37					.000
Noriyoshi Sano	1B	17					.000
Hal Breeden	1B	17					.000
Tadakazu Oshima	1B	2					.000
Masayuki Kakefu	1B	1					.000
Katsuhiro Nakamura	2B	90					.000
Yoshiyuki Sakakibara	2B	64					.000
Hirokazu Kato	2B	3					.000
Junshi Watanabe	2B	2					.000
Masayuki Kakefu	3B	126					.000
Noriyoshi Sano	3B	5					.000
Junshi Watanabe	3B	1					.000
Yoshiyuki Sakakibara	3B	1					.000
Taira Fujita	3B	1					.000
Koichi Tabuchi	C	79					.000
Shinnosuke Kataoka	C	58					.000
Tadakazu Oshima	C	24					.000
Mike Reinbach	OF	102					.000
Seiichi Uematsu	OF	97					.000
Ikuo Shimano	OF	80					.000
Takenori Ikebe	OF	78					.000
Noriyoshi Sano	OF	74					.000
Kozo Kawato	OF	24					.000
Takeshi Kiritoshi	OF	22					.000
Junichi Ikeda	OF	10					.000
Hakaru Kuwano	OF	9					.000
Hirokazu Kato	OF	5					.000
Takenori Emoto	P	56					.000
Seikyoku Masuyama	P	45					.000
Yutaka Ikeuchi	P	42					.000
Sohachi Aniya	P	39					.000
Tsutomu Hasegawa	P	36					.000
Kazuyuki Yamamoto	P	35					.000
Kenji Furusawa	P	34					.000
Tomohiro Tanimura	P	28					.000
Jiro Ueda	P	27					.000
Fumitaka Ito	P	18					.000
Norikazu Miyata	P	14					.000
Yoshio Fukazawa	P	9					.000
Yoshio Arai	P	3					.000
Kazuhiko Kudo	P	1					.000
Taira Fujita	SS	63					.000
Yoshiyuki Sakakibara	SS	54					.000
Junshi Watanabe	SS	45					.000
Totals		1655	0	0	0	0	.000

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