1971 Lotte Orions Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 80-46
Finished 2nd in the JPPL
Manager: Keiji Ozawa (0-0), Wataru Nonin (0-0)
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Ballpark: Tokyo Stadium

1971 Lotte Orions Roster

The Lotte Orions of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1971 season with a record of 80 wins and 46 losses, finishing second in the JPPL.

The Orions scored 654 runs and allowed 542 runs. George Altman walloped 39 home runs for Lotte, while Art López, Takenori Ikebe, Hiroyuki Yamazaki, Michiyo Arito and Shinichi Eto each added 15 or more also. George Altman drove in 103 runs. Shinichi Eto led hitters with significant playing time with a .337 average. Masaaki Kitaru earned 24 wins on the mound for the team, and Masaaki Koyama contributed 15 or more wins also Masaaki Koyama registered a 3.24 earned run average, tops among qualifying pitchers.

Art López and George Altman both played in Major League Baseball during their careers.

Keiji Ozawa and Wataru Nonin 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
Masaaki Kitaru	24	8	.750	3.45	47	33	12	19	4		266.0	245	107	102	32	45	8	168	13	1	0	1082
Masaaki Koyama	17	8	.680	3.24	35	28	6	16	1		211.0	213	92	76	22	42	5	111	5	0	2	877
Choji Murata	12	8	.600	3.33	43	27	9	8	1		194.3	183	82	72	25	61	1	122	7	0	9	813
Fumio Narita	11	9	.550	4.29	35	23	8	7	2		189.0	169	93	90	34	62	5	121	4	0	2	783
Kojiro Yokoyama	5	4	.556	3.50	36	4	13	0	0		79.7	68	32	31	10	25	6	41	6	0	0	327
Soroku Yagisawa	4	1	.800	4.66	23	0	8	0	0		36.7	40	25	19	3	11	3	19	0	0	1	161
Shigeki Ikeda	3	3	.500	3.65	31	6	11	1	1		93.7	90	45	38	15	24	3	32	3	0	0	386
Motohiko Sato	3	4	.429	5.87	24	7	6	1	0		61.3	67	43	40	14	16	2	33	3	0	0	267
Kosuke Maeda	1	1	.500	3.86	18	2	2	0	0		23.3	19	11	10	2	15	2	19	0	1	1	101
Shichiro Sakota	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0		0.3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Masao Yamada	0	0		7.36	4	0	1	0	0		3.7	4	3	3	1	2	0	2	0	0	0	15
Masao Sato	0	0		7.88	13	0	1	0	0		8.0	12	8	7	3	3	1	4	1	0	0	41
Toru Hamaura	0	0		9.00	1	0	1	0	0		1.0	2	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	6
Totals	80	46	.635	3.77	311	130	78	52	9	0	1168.0	1113	542	489	161	307	36	673	42	2	15	4861

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
Art López	128	547	508	82	153	21	4	24	77	2	3	24	28	.301	.339	.500	.839	254	10	8	2	5	1
Michiyo Arito	125	528	473	85	135	16	2	27	60	19	10	50	73	.285	.356	.499	.855	236	15	3	0	2	2
Shinichi Eto	114	446	389	57	131	8	1	25	91	3	1	49	41	.337	.408	.555	.963	216	15	2	0	6	5
George Altman	114	435	388	56	124	15	2	39	103	2	2	38	53	.320	.378	.670	1.048	260	5	2	1	6	15
Hiroyuki Yamazaki	123	508	439	84	123	22	3	21	50	17	10	59	78	.280	.368	.487	.855	214	10	4	2	4	2
Takeo Daigo	124	449	415	50	111	21	0	10	42	13	4	22	56	.267	.307	.390	.698	162	6	4	3	5	4
Takenori Ikebe	106	429	382	76	110	12	1	19	56	11	4	25	50	.288	.345	.474	.819	181	4	10	9	3	0
Osamu Hirose	114	348	321	40	79	14	2	5	37	10	9	20	42	.246	.297	.349	.645	112	3	3	4	0	1
Masuho Maeda	104	221	205	15	46	4	0	6	25	5	4	13	17	.224	.273	.332	.604	68	5	1	1	1	0
Takayuki Nishida	106	133	115	23	24	4	0	3	8	9	5	11	12	.209	.295	.322	.616	37	4	3	4	0	0
Kihachi Enomoto	45	102	90	10	22	3	1	4	18	1	1	10	15	.244	.314	.433	.747	39	3	0	0	2	1
Masaaki Kitaru	47	102	87	7	17	3	0	1	9	2	0	7	29	.195	.255	.264	.520	23	2	0	8	0	0
Fumio Narita	36	64	60	9	16	3	1	3	11	0	0	3	17	.267	.302	.500	.802	30	1	0	1	0	0
Kazuo Hasegawa	39	66	63	5	16	2	0	1	3	2	0	3	8	.254	.288	.333	.621	21	0	0	0	0	0
Takahiro Tokutsu	55	60	55	5	14	3	0	3	12	1	1	3	6	.255	.317	.473	.789	26	0	2	0	0	1
Reiji Iishi	59	71	62	1	13	1	1	0	4	1	0	6	9	.210	.296	.258	.554	16	0	2	0	1	1
Tadayoshi Iwasaki	67	35	34	6	9	3	0	0	5	1	1	0	5	.265	.265	.353	.618	12	0	0	1	0	0
Keisuke Senda	58	55	51	11	8	3	0	0	3	11	2	3	8	.157	.204	.216	.419	11	2	0	1	0	0
Masaaki Koyama	35	81	70	6	7	2	0	0	3	0	0	4	12	.100	.149	.129	.277	9	2	0	7	0	0
Kojiro Yokoyama	36	13	11	3	6	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	.545	.545	.545	1.091	6	0	0	2	0	0
Yasuo Otsuka	24	23	20	2	5	1	1	0	2	0	1	3	4	.250	.348	.400	.748	8	0	0	0	0	0
Motohiko Sato	27	15	14	1	4	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	4	.286	.286	.357	.643	5	0	0	1	0	0
Shigeki Ikeda	31	24	21	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	8	.190	.227	.190	.418	4	0	0	2	0	0
Choji Murata	45	68	62	4	4	0	0	1	2	1	0	2	23	.065	.094	.113	.207	7	1	0	4	0	0
Mitsuru Koganemaru	17	11	10	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.300	.300	.300	.600	3	0	0	1	0	0
Kenji Doi	9	7	7	1	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	.286	.286	.714	1.000	5	0	0	0	0	0
Satoru Yoshioka	10	11	10	4	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	2	.200	.273	.400	.673	4	0	0	0	0	0
Kazuhiro Ishiguro	17	18	14	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	7	.143	.333	.143	.476	2	0	0	0	0	0
Fukuo Toiya	17	17	16	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	6	.125	.176	.125	.301	2	0	0	0	0	0
Masaji Ishizuka	2	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	1	0	0	0	0
Soroku Yagisawa	23	8	8	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.125	.125	.250	.375	2	0	0	0	0	0
Nobuyuki Fujii	7	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Akira Furukawa	18	2	2	6	0	0	0	0	0	10	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kosuke Maeda	18	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Shinichi Sakaki	14	11	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.091	.000	.091	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yoshinori Sonoda	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Hideo Iijima	6	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Masao Sato	14	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		1.000			0	0	0	0	0	0
Akira Ichihara	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1937	4923	4425	654	1194	163	20	193	625	124	59	364	628	.270	.329	.447	.776	1976	89	44	55	35	33

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Shinichi Eto	1B	103					.000
Masuho Maeda	1B	46					.000
Kihachi Enomoto	1B	26					.000
Fukuo Toiya	1B	1					.000
Masao Sato	1B	1					.000
Motohiko Sato	1B	1					.000
Shinichi Sakaki	1B	1					.000
Fumio Narita	1B	1					.000
Tadayoshi Iwasaki	1B	1					.000
Kazuo Hasegawa	1B	1					.000
Kenji Doi	1B	1					.000
Hiroyuki Yamazaki	2B	122					.000
Masuho Maeda	2B	15					.000
Keisuke Senda	2B	9					.000
Satoru Yoshioka	2B	4					.000
Osamu Hirose	2B	2					.000
Michiyo Arito	3B	125					.000
Masuho Maeda	3B	7					.000
Keisuke Senda	3B	2					.000
Tadayoshi Iwasaki	3B	1					.000
Akira Furukawa	3B	1					.000
Takeo Daigo	C	124					.000
Mitsuru Koganemaru	C	16					.000
Shinichi Sakaki	C	9					.000
Masaji Ishizuka	C	2					.000
Kenji Doi	C	1					.000
Art López	OF	128					.000
George Altman	OF	108					.000
Takenori Ikebe	OF	106					.000
Takayuki Nishida	OF	94					.000
Tadayoshi Iwasaki	OF	57					.000
Kazuo Hasegawa	OF	24					.000
Takahiro Tokutsu	OF	15					.000
Reiji Iishi	OF	13					.000
Shinichi Eto	OF	12					.000
Nobuyuki Fujii	OF	5					.000
Shinichi Sakaki	OF	4					.000
Fukuo Toiya	OF	3					.000
Kazuhiro Ishiguro	OF	3					.000
Motohiko Sato	OF	2					.000
Choji Murata	OF	2					.000
Masao Yamada	OF	1					.000
Kenji Doi	OF	1					.000
Masaaki Kitaru	P	47					.000
Choji Murata	P	43					.000
Kojiro Yokoyama	P	36					.000
Fumio Narita	P	35					.000
Masaaki Koyama	P	35					.000
Shigeki Ikeda	P	31					.000
Motohiko Sato	P	24					.000
Soroku Yagisawa	P	23					.000
Kosuke Maeda	P	18					.000
Masao Sato	P	13					.000
Masao Yamada	P	4					.000
Shichiro Sakota	P	1					.000
Toru Hamaura	P	1					.000
Osamu Hirose	SS	112					.000
Keisuke Senda	SS	39					.000
Masuho Maeda	SS	31					.000
Totals		1694	0	0	0	0	.000

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