1987 Lotte Orions Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 51-65
Finished 5th in the JPPL
Manager: Michiyo Arito (51-65)
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Ballpark: Kawasaki Stadium

1987 Lotte Orions Roster

The Lotte Orions of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1987 season with a record of 51 wins and 65 losses, finishing fifth in the JPPL.

The Orions plated 518 runs and yielded 525 runs. Shinichi Furukawa paced Lotte with 12 home runs Masashi Yokota accounted for 51 RBI. Hideaki Takazawa topped batters with significant playing time with a .292 average. Katsuo So led the squad with 13 wins, while Tokunari Nishina registered a 3.21 earned run average, leading pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.

Leron Lee played in Major League Baseball during his career, the only member of the Lotte Orions to do so.

Michiyo Arito 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
Katsuo So	13	11	.542	3.32	28	28	0	20	0	0	230.7	215	95	85	20	75	4	121	2	0	9	952
Kazumi Sonokawa	8	9	.471	3.55	30	20	0	5	1	0	157.3	157	72	62	14	44	3	116	5	0	5	673
Tokunari Nishina	7	7	.500	3.20	18	18	0	4	1	0	109.7	112	43	39	11	23	2	52	5	1	0	459
Choji Murata	7	9	.438	4.34	21	21	0	3	2	0	130.7	151	68	63	15	42	1	74	4	1	12	573
Norihiro Mizutani	3	1	.750	4.38	14	10	1	1	0	0	49.3	62	28	24	7	12	0	36	2	0	1	217
Hiroshi Ogawa	3	5	.375	3.28	40	8	9	3	0	0	98.7	67	39	36	11	39	1	79	4	0	2	399
Kazuhiko Migita	2	3	.400	4.19	32	5	10	0	0	0	73.0	76	36	34	12	27	3	56	2	0	7	308
Kazuhiko Ushijima	2	4	.333	1.29	41	0	39	0	0	24	55.7	46	15	8	6	16	6	59	2	0	1	230
Yoshio Fukazawa	2	6	.250	6.22	12	10	1	2	0	0	46.3	53	37	32	11	22	0	34	4	0	1	216
Kiyokazu Seki	1	0	1.000	1.93	14	0	8	0	0	0	14.0	8	4	3	1	2	0	17	0	0	0	52
Sadaharu Hiranuma	1	0	1.000	3.21	35	1	14	0	0	0	70.0	70	25	25	8	28	1	45	2	0	6	302
Masaru Ito	1	4	.200	3.86	15	4	2	1	0	0	42.0	38	18	18	5	16	0	20	4	1	2	175
Masaru Ishikawa	1	4	.200	7.06	9	5	2	0	0	0	21.7	31	23	17	6	9	0	7	2	0	0	106
Shigeru Kuwata	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.7	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	6
Eiichi Kasahara	0	0		0.00	2	0	0	0	0	0	1.3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5
Masao Sato	0	0		2.87	29	0	0	0	0	0	15.7	13	6	5	0	6	2	6	1	0	0	64
Tetsuro Nagashima	0	0		4.15	5	0	0	0	0	0	4.3	6	2	2	1	2	0	7	0	0	0	22
Yasuji Ibe	0	2	.000	7.36	14	0	5	0	0	0	14.7	20	14	12	0	9	0	12	1	0	2	74
Totals	51	65	.440	3.68	360	130	91	39	4	24	1136.7	1127	525	465	128	373	23	741	40	3	48	4833

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
Hideaki Takazawa	128	514	455	64	133	20	2	11	50	27	11	33	54	.292	.351	.418	.769	190	10	10	13	3	4
Norifumi Nishimura	114	491	440	55	116	11	4	2	27	41	14	29	49	.264	.311	.320	.631	141	4	2	18	2	0
Masashi Yokota	125	441	399	52	112	19	5	7	51	26	4	25	49	.281	.321	.406	.727	162	4	0	14	3	2
Leron Lee	104	422	379	41	103	15	0	9	41	3	1	41	52	.272	.341	.383	.724	145	9	0	0	2	11
Yoshio Mizukami	119	404	361	34	95	18	0	9	42	14	12	19	66	.263	.301	.388	.688	140	6	2	18	4	0
Koji Yamamoto	95	274	251	29	80	12	0	6	42	2	0	18	34	.319	.371	.438	.810	110	5	3	2	0	0
Takeshi Aiko	105	316	292	39	76	20	2	8	31	2	5	18	44	.260	.304	.425	.728	124	8	1	3	2	1
Kenichi Sato	116	367	315	47	72	17	2	9	33	11	2	28	45	.229	.292	.381	.673	120	6	2	18	4	0
Seiji Kamikawa	96	283	262	28	67	12	0	6	29	6	6	13	15	.256	.287	.370	.657	97	5	0	4	4	0
Hidetoshi Hakamada	117	304	264	23	56	6	0	3	16	3	1	17	38	.212	.276	.269	.545	71	10	7	14	2	0
Toshio Tanokura	78	167	141	20	49	10	1	9	24	3	3	24	34	.348	.440	.624	1.064	88	3	0	1	1	2
Shinichi Furukawa	80	242	221	26	49	8	1	12	34	9	1	14	56	.222	.271	.430	.701	95	7	2	2	3	1
Ko Saito	82	154	141	15	39	2	4	3	15	0	0	10	23	.277	.322	.411	.734	58	4	0	2	1	0
Tomohisa Shoji	71	133	119	9	30	6	0	2	15	2	5	10	16	.252	.313	.353	.666	42	2	1	2	1	0
Akihito Okabe	43	104	95	10	23	1	0	4	13	0	0	8	13	.242	.298	.379	.677	36	4	0	0	1	0
Kazuhito Maruyama	50	80	72	12	21	5	0	3	13	1	0	5	13	.292	.354	.486	.841	35	3	2	1	0	0
Toshiaki Yoshioka	39	55	50	3	8	2	0	1	8	1	0	4	14	.160	.218	.260	.478	13	0	0	0	1	0
Yoshihiko Morita	51	25	20	11	3	0	0	0	2	1	1	4	4	.150	.292	.150	.442	3	0	0	1	0	0
Fumio Ito	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kazumasa Fujikura	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yukihiko Sato	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1619	4783	4284	518	1132	184	21	104	486	152	67	320	624	.264	.318	.390	.708	1670	90	32	113	34	21

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Koji Yamamoto	1B	73					.000
Takeshi Aiko	1B	65					.000
Toshio Tanokura	1B	42					.000
Ko Saito	1B	2					.000
Seiji Kamikawa	2B	75					.000
Kenichi Sato	2B	54					.000
Kazuhito Maruyama	2B	20					.000
Yoshihiko Morita	2B	15					.000
Toshio Tanokura	2B	13					.000
Norifumi Nishimura	2B	7					.000
Norifumi Nishimura	3B	97					.000
Kenichi Sato	3B	38					.000
Yoshihiko Morita	3B	3					.000
Toshio Tanokura	3B	2					.000
Hidetoshi Hakamada	C	117					.000
Ko Saito	C	73					.000
Hideaki Takazawa	OF	126					.000
Masashi Yokota	OF	122					.000
Shinichi Furukawa	OF	76					.000
Tomohisa Shoji	OF	57					.000
Takeshi Aiko	OF	49					.000
Akihito Okabe	OF	34					.000
Toshiaki Yoshioka	OF	13					.000
Norifumi Nishimura	OF	11					.000
Leron Lee	OF	2					.000
Kazuhiko Ushijima	P	41					.000
Hiroshi Ogawa	P	40					.000
Sadaharu Hiranuma	P	35					.000
Kazuhiko Migita	P	32					.000
Kazumi Sonokawa	P	30					.000
Masao Sato	P	29					.000
Katsuo So	P	28					.000
Choji Murata	P	21					.000
Tokunari Nishina	P	18					.000
Masaru Ito	P	15					.000
Kiyokazu Seki	P	14					.000
Norihiro Mizutani	P	14					.000
Yasuji Ibe	P	14					.000
Yoshio Fukazawa	P	12					.000
Masaru Ishikawa	P	9					.000
Tetsuro Nagashima	P	5					.000
Eiichi Kasahara	P	2					.000
Shigeru Kuwata	P	1					.000
Yoshio Mizukami	SS	119					.000
Kenichi Sato	SS	30					.000
Yoshihiko Morita	SS	11					.000
Totals		1706	0	0	0	0	.000

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