1954 Kokutetsu Swallows Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 55-73
Finished 5th in the JPCL
Manager: Soichi Fujita (55-73)
Ballpark: Meiji Jingu Stadium

1954 Kokutetsu Swallows Roster

The Kokutetsu Swallows of the Japan Central League ended the 1954 season with a record of 55 wins and 73 losses, finishing fifth in the JPCL.

The Swallows scored 434 runs and conceded 518 runs. Yukihiko Machida led Kokutetsu with 20 home runs and accounted for 66 RBI. Jun Hakota paced all regular batters by connecting at a .323 clip. Masaichi Kaneda earned 23 wins on the mound for the squad and a team-best 2.63 earned run average, tops among regularly-used pitchers. Soichi Fujita 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
Masaichi Kaneda	23	23	.500	2.63	53	39	14	28	2		345.7	290	128	101	19	114		269	6	1	2	1435
Akira Takahashi	7	11	.389	3.27	28	18	7	7	0		151.3	126	60	55	13	62		90	0	0	9	638
Teruo Owaki	6	8	.429	3.47	28	15	7	4	0		122.0	123	61	47	6	39		72	2	0	3	524
Toshio Kitabatake	6	11	.353	4.38	33	12	14	2	1		121.3	125	64	59	14	40		42	3	2	1	521
Hiroshi Kuroiwa	4	4	.500	3.79	26	10	7	2	0		97.3	111	51	41	10	26		31	2	0	1	426
Zenjiro Tadokoro	4	8	.333	3.71	18	10	6	4	0		87.3	89	44	36	10	26		38	1	0	1	372
Yoshiaki Inoue	3	4	.429	3.75	19	9	8	1	0		81.7	84	38	34	5	35		24	1	0	0	355
Yoshitomo Miyaji	2	3	.400	3.66	11	10	1	2	0		51.7	50	24	21	2	30		23	0	0	2	228
Norio Furuya	0	0		2.37	18	4	5	0	0		57.0	46	18	15	4	8		20	1	0	0	222
Terukatsu Tashiro	0	0		5.40	4	0	4	0	0		8.3	12	8	5	1	5		5	0	0	0	40
Seiji Mitsubayashi	0	1	.000	4.20	11	3	7	0	0		30.0	33	22	14	1	19		16	2	0	1	143
Totals	55	73	.430	3.34	249	130	80	50	3	0	1153.7	1089	518	428	85	404	0	630	18	3	20	4904

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
Jun Hakota	121	483	464	56	150	24	7	9	51	6	2	12	33	.323	.340	.463	.803	215	20	1	3	3
Mitsuo Uno	125	515	474	51	138	18	1	7	56	19	3	29	36	.291	.337	.378	.715	179	14	6	2	4
Tamaichi Yasui	117	468	446	50	115	20	5	5	46	9	6	20	18	.258	.288	.359	.647	160	18	0	0	2
Yukihiko Machida	124	458	412	52	103	10	1	20	66	17	11	32	65	.250	.302	.425	.727	175	9	2	5	7
Kazuo Satake	80	284	258	22	75	8	2	1	21	1	1	17	21	.291	.333	.349	.682	90	5	1	5	3
Sakae Nakamura	82	286	247	27	69	11	2	0	16	3	6	22	20	.279	.336	.340	.676	84	4	0	15	2
Mitsuo Watanabe	84	255	241	16	66	4	2	0	16	4	4	8	17	.274	.296	.307	.603	74	4	0	5	1
Katsumi Ukai	85	263	251	21	62	9	0	4	23	6	5	7	37	.247	.265	.331	.596	83	10	0	3	2
Takao Sato	62	237	204	34	50	13	2	5	20	20	8	28	34	.245	.335	.402	.737	82	3	0	4	1
Hiroshi Aoyama	67	212	199	16	48	3	1	3	14	5	3	8	28	.241	.278	.312	.589	62	2	2	3	0
Hiroshi Tsujii	70	216	200	12	44	2	2	1	16	4	0	11	13	.220	.261	.265	.526	53	2	0	5	0
Reijiro Watanabe	52	169	153	23	42	12	1	2	9	2	3	11	16	.275	.319	.405	.725	62	5	0	3	2
Masaichi Kaneda	57	136	124	9	28	3	1	3	4	0	1	4	43	.226	.260	.339	.598	42	4	2	5	1
Eiji Hatsuoka	37	79	76	1	17	0	0	0	3	1	0	1	5	.224	.234	.224	.457	17	1	0	2	0
Yoshiki Matsuhashi	32	90	83	6	15	2	0	0	4	0	0	1	19	.181	.190	.205	.395	17	1	0	6	0
Akira Takahashi	31	62	56	3	12	3	0	0	4	0	0	4	10	.214	.267	.268	.535	15	2	0	2	0
Masao Chihara	34	60	58	2	12	2	0	0	5	0	1	1	9	.207	.220	.241	.462	14	2	0	1	0
Teruo Owaki	28	44	37	4	9	0	0	0	5	0	1	2	8	.243	.282	.243	.525	9	1	0	5	0
Hideo Okubo	37	63	56	9	9	1	1	0	6	2	0	3	12	.161	.197	.214	.411	12	2	0	2	2
Zenjiro Tadokoro	18	32	30	1	8	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	5	.267	.290	.300	.590	9	3	0	1	0
Masataka Tsuchiya	53	85	76	3	8	2	0	0	4	4	3	7	14	.105	.179	.132	.310	10	3	0	1	1
Toshiharu Ai	9	25	22	1	7	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	1	.318	.400	.318	.718	7	1	1	0	0
Yoshiaki Inoue	19	28	27	0	7	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.259	.259	.296	.556	8	1	0	1	0
Hiroshi Kuroiwa	26	32	31	4	7	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	6	.226	.226	.258	.484	8	1	0	1	0
Toshio Kitabatake	33	38	35	4	6	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	12	.171	.171	.200	.371	7	0	0	3	0
Masahiro Kinoshita	21	43	38	3	6	2	0	1	2	0	0	5	11	.158	.256	.289	.545	11	0	0	0	0
Norio Furuya	20	19	18	2	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	.167	.167	.167	.333	3	0	0	1	0
Yoshitomo Miyaji	11	21	19	1	3	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	6	.158	.158	.158	.316	3	0	0	2	0
Masaaki Ishida	5	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	.500	1.000	1.500	1	0	0	0	1
Terukatsu Tashiro	4	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0
Seiji Mitsubayashi	11	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0
Ichiro Ohashi	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		1.000			0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1557	4715	4344	434	1121	153	28	61	401	105	58	237	505	.258	.297	.348	.645	1513	118	15	87	32	0

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Katsumi Ukai	1B	59					.000
Hiroshi Tsujii	1B	43					.000
Mitsuo Watanabe	1B	38					.000
Tamaichi Yasui	1B	5					.000
Masaaki Ishida	1B	4					.000
Masataka Tsuchiya	1B	3					.000
Jun Hakota	2B	119					.000
Katsumi Ukai	2B	18					.000
Masao Chihara	2B	7					.000
Mitsuo Uno	3B	125					.000
Masao Chihara	3B	8					.000
Katsumi Ukai	3B	1					.000
Hideo Okubo	3B	1					.000
Ichiro Ohashi	3B	1					.000
Kazuo Satake	C	80					.000
Yoshiki Matsuhashi	C	31					.000
Masahiro Kinoshita	C	20					.000
Hiroshi Tsujii	C	10					.000
Toshiharu Ai	C	9					.000
Hiroshi Aoyama	C	2					.000
Yukihiko Machida	OF	124					.000
Tamaichi Yasui	OF	112					.000
Takao Sato	OF	58					.000
Hiroshi Aoyama	OF	57					.000
Mitsuo Watanabe	OF	44					.000
Eiji Hatsuoka	OF	30					.000
Masataka Tsuchiya	OF	10					.000
Masao Chihara	OF	1					.000
Masaichi Kaneda	P	53					.000
Toshio Kitabatake	P	33					.000
Akira Takahashi	P	28					.000
Teruo Owaki	P	28					.000
Hiroshi Kuroiwa	P	26					.000
Yoshiaki Inoue	P	19					.000
Zenjiro Tadokoro	P	18					.000
Norio Furuya	P	18					.000
Yoshitomo Miyaji	P	11					.000
Seiji Mitsubayashi	P	11					.000
Terukatsu Tashiro	P	4					.000
Sakae Nakamura	SS	81					.000
Reijiro Watanabe	SS	52					.000
Hideo Okubo	SS	34					.000
Jun Hakota	SS	1					.000
Totals		1437	0	0	0	0	.000

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