1974 Lotte Orions Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 69-50
Finished 1st in the JPPL
Manager: Masaichi Kaneda (69-50)
Location: Tokyo, Japan

1974 Lotte Orions Roster

Japan Series - Lotte Orions 4 games, Chunichi Dragons 2

The Lotte Orions of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1974 season with a record of 69 wins and 50 losses, finishing first in the JPPL.

The Orions tallied 539 runs and allowed 462 runs. Michiyo Arito paced Lotte with 25 home runs, and George Altman walloped 15 or more, too. George Altman drove in 67 runs. Takahiro Tokutsu topped all qualifying hitters on the roster with a .309 average. Tomehiro Kaneda led the team with 16 wins, while Choji Murata recorded a 2.7 ERA, leading hurlers with significant time on the mound.

George Altman and Jim Lefebvre both played in Major League Baseball during their careers.

Masaichi Kaneda 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
Tomehiro Kaneda	16	7	.696	2.90	36	29	4	13	1	0	201.7	167	66	65	18	51	2	138	3	1	1	800
Masaaki Kitaru	13	6	.684	3.09	36	26	8	11	1	2	201.0	182	79	69	17	52	5	85	9	1	3	820
Choji Murata	12	10	.545	2.69	32	28	2	8	1	1	180.7	151	75	54	10	87	1	108	11	1	11	765
Fumio Narita	9	10	.474	3.29	37	24	10	7	0	3	178.0	139	75	65	21	58	3	96	5	0	5	723
Soroku Yagisawa	8	7	.533	3.83	37	12	13	2	2	2	115.0	86	56	49	12	27	1	54	3	0	1	453
Masaharu Mitsui	6	5	.545	3.26	31	7	16	1	0	4	85.7	69	35	31	9	34	3	84	1	0	2	355
Norihiro Mizutani	2	1	.667	2.18	37	1	8	0	0	1	57.7	44	18	14	5	14	1	32	2	0	2	223
Shigeo Kondo	2	2	.500	4.14	37	0	12	0	0	2	58.7	48	28	27	12	26	2	28	2	1	1	248
Akira Kuramochi	1	0	1.000	3.77	5	1	2	1	0	0	14.3	11	6	6	2	10	0	14	0	0	1	60
Kunio Jonouchi	0	0		4.09	5	1	3	0	0	0	11.0	11	5	5	0	1	0	9	0	1	0	43
Hiroshi Tsuchiya	0	0		4.50	3	0	2	0	0	0	4.0	4	2	2	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	18
Mitsuyasu Matsuda	0	0		9.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	5
Shigeki Ikeda	0	0		18.00	2	0	1	0	0	0	3.0	7	6	6	3	0	0	1	0	1	0	16
Haruo Narishige	0	2	.000	2.73	14	1	5	0	0	0	29.7	18	10	9	2	13	1	13	1	1	0	114
Totals	69	50	.580	3.18	313	130	87	43	5	15	1141.3	938	462	403	111	376	19	663	37	7	27	4643

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
Sumio Hirota	123	477	434	56	128	18	4	9	60	26	8	27	27	.295	.340	.417	.758	181	12	4	10	2	1
Hiroyuki Yamazaki	124	507	454	62	126	32	3	11	58	6	5	39	70	.278	.331	.434	.765	197	12	0	9	5	2
Takahiro Tokutsu	118	386	362	37	112	18	5	5	37	5	4	20	14	.309	.348	.428	.776	155	6	2	1	1	0
Michiyo Arito	117	463	419	79	110	15	5	25	63	20	4	40	82	.263	.329	.501	.830	210	8	2	1	1	3
George Altman	85	327	271	48	95	15	2	21	67	1	6	48	17	.351	.442	.653	1.095	177	4	1	1	6	7
Jim Lefebvre	82	310	279	37	79	12	2	14	52	1	4	25	32	.283	.349	.491	.840	137	3	3	3	0	3
Yoshihiro Iizuka	115	319	277	46	75	7	4	2	15	23	4	29	27	.271	.345	.347	.692	96	1	3	9	1	1
Takenori Ikebe	99	272	249	28	70	10	1	5	27	8	3	13	28	.281	.323	.390	.713	97	2	3	6	1	0
Kimiyasu Murakami	94	266	236	22	58	14	1	9	34	2	2	20	27	.246	.314	.428	.742	101	2	4	5	1	5
Tadayoshi Iwasaki	85	172	150	15	41	6	2	0	6	3	3	14	11	.273	.337	.340	.677	51	5	1	6	1	0
Masanori Arai	91	179	157	26	38	5	2	1	6	6	4	10	27	.242	.294	.318	.613	50	3	2	9	1	0
Keisuke Senda	85	193	172	26	34	2	4	2	6	4	4	18	29	.198	.277	.291	.568	50	3	1	2	0	0
Masuho Maeda	77	102	89	8	25	5	0	0	12	2	0	9	7	.281	.354	.337	.691	30	6	1	3	0	0
Shinichi Sakaki	58	113	105	8	24	3	0	1	10	0	0	5	5	.229	.259	.286	.545	30	3	0	1	2	0
Kenji Doi	66	94	83	3	22	1	1	2	12	0	1	9	10	.265	.330	.373	.703	31	3	0	0	2	0
Tomehiro Kaneda	38	75	63	3	16	1	0	0	3	0	0	1	6	.254	.258	.270	.527	17	0	0	9	2	0
Kazuo Hasegawa	50	118	97	5	15	2	0	2	8	1	5	16	12	.155	.272	.237	.509	23	1	0	4	1	0
Takumi Ejima	88	51	46	9	13	2	0	1	6	1	1	0	9	.283	.312	.391	.704	18	0	2	3	0	0
Masaaki Kitaru	36	78	67	7	12	0	0	2	8	0	0	5	13	.179	.236	.269	.505	18	0	0	6	0	0
Takeo Daigo	33	47	43	3	8	2	0	0	5	2	0	3	6	.186	.239	.233	.472	10	1	0	1	0	0
Fumio Narita	37	59	52	2	7	0	1	0	2	0	0	4	14	.135	.193	.173	.366	9	1	0	2	1	0
Choji Murata	33	66	58	1	5	1	0	0	4	0	0	0	20	.086	.086	.103	.190	6	3	0	8	0	0
Masaharu Mitsui	31	28	26	0	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	.154	.154	.192	.346	5	0	0	2	0	0
Satoru Yoshioka	4	13	12	2	3	1	1	0	2	0	1	1	1	.250	.308	.500	.808	6	0	0	0	0	0
Norihiro Mizutani	37	13	13	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.231	.231	.231	.462	3	0	0	0	0	0
Shigeo Kondo	41	15	13	0	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	.231	.231	.308	.538	4	0	0	2	0	0
Shuzo Aono	18	18	16	2	3	0	0	2	5	0	0	2	4	.188	.278	.562	.840	9	1	0	0	0	0
Soroku Yagisawa	39	33	29	1	3	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	14	.103	.133	.138	.271	4	1	0	3	0	0
Yukihiro Ikeda	1	4	4	1	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.750	1.250	3	0	0	0	0	0
Yasuji Date	6	7	7	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.143	.143	.143	.286	1	0	0	0	0	0
Haruo Narishige	14	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kunio Jonouchi	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Akira Kuramochi	7	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	2	0	0
Nobuyuki Sasaki	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1940	4814	4290	539	1135	176	38	114	514	111	59	359	530	.265	.324	.403	.727	1729	81	29	108	28	22

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Jim Lefebvre	1B	76					.000
Masuho Maeda	1B	50					.000
Masanori Arai	1B	39					.000
Kazuo Hasegawa	1B	33					.000
George Altman	1B	2					.000
Choji Murata	1B	1					.000
Hiroyuki Yamazaki	2B	124					.000
Masuho Maeda	2B	4					.000
Satoru Yoshioka	2B	3					.000
Masanori Arai	2B	3					.000
Yoshihiro Iizuka	2B	2					.000
Keisuke Senda	2B	1					.000
Michiyo Arito	3B	111					.000
Masanori Arai	3B	20					.000
Masuho Maeda	3B	14					.000
Jim Lefebvre	3B	3					.000
Mitsuyasu Matsuda	3B	1					.000
Yukihiro Ikeda	3B	1					.000
Kimiyasu Murakami	C	94					.000
Shinichi Sakaki	C	55					.000
Takeo Daigo	C	33					.000
Kenji Doi	C	14					.000
Nobuyuki Sasaki	C	2					.000
Sumio Hirota	OF	122					.000
Takahiro Tokutsu	OF	109					.000
Takenori Ikebe	OF	86					.000
George Altman	OF	81					.000
Takumi Ejima	OF	73					.000
Tadayoshi Iwasaki	OF	62					.000
Shigeki Ikeda	OF	3					.000
Kenji Doi	OF	3					.000
Yasuji Date	OF	3					.000
Soroku Yagisawa	OF	2					.000
Kenichi Abe	OF	2					.000
Akira Kuramochi	OF	1					.000
Tomehiro Kaneda	OF	1					.000
Kunio Jonouchi	OF	1					.000
Kazuo Hasegawa	OF	1					.000
Michiyo Arito	OF	1					.000
Soroku Yagisawa	P	37					.000
Fumio Narita	P	37					.000
Norihiro Mizutani	P	37					.000
Shigeo Kondo	P	37					.000
Masaaki Kitaru	P	36					.000
Tomehiro Kaneda	P	36					.000
Choji Murata	P	32					.000
Masaharu Mitsui	P	31					.000
Haruo Narishige	P	14					.000
Akira Kuramochi	P	5					.000
Kunio Jonouchi	P	5					.000
Hiroshi Tsuchiya	P	3					.000
Shigeki Ikeda	P	2					.000
Mitsuyasu Matsuda	P	1					.000
Yoshihiro Iizuka	SS	108					.000
Keisuke Senda	SS	78					.000
Masuho Maeda	SS	7					.000
Shigeo Kondo	SS	4					.000
Michiyo Arito	SS	3					.000
Masanori Arai	SS	2					.000
Mitsuyasu Matsuda	SS	1					.000
Akira Kuramochi	SS	1					.000
Tomehiro Kaneda	SS	1					.000
Shigeki Ikeda	SS	1					.000
Sumio Hirota	SS	1					.000
Totals		1757	0	0	0	0	.000

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