1974 Nippon Ham Fighters Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 49-75
Finished 6th in the JPPL
Manager: Futoshi Nakanishi (49-75)
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Ballpark: Korakuen Stadium

1974 Nippon Ham Fighters Roster

The Nippon Ham Fighters of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1974 season with a record of 49 wins and 75 losses, finishing sixth in the JPPL.

The Ham Fighters scored 472 runs and gave up 569 runs, most in the circuit. Katsuo Osugi led Nippon with 22 home runs, while In-cheon Paek walloped 15 or more, too. Katsuo Osugi drove in 90 runs. Isao Harimoto paced all qualifying hitters on the roster by connecting at a .340 clip. Satoshi Niimi topped the squad with 12 wins, and Naoki Takahashi registered a 3.22 earned run average, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Terry Ley and Mike Kekich both played in Major League Baseball during their careers.

Futoshi Nakanishi 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
Satoshi Niimi	12	14	.462	3.83	41	30	4	10	3	2	209.3	194	99	89	25	62	5	74	3	0	1	864
Naoki Takahashi	9	11	.450	3.21	35	22	8	6	0	3	187.7	165	76	67	18	34	6	119	7	1	1	750
Mike Kekich	5	11	.312	4.12	18	17	0	9	0	0	122.3	104	60	56	10	88	1	90	3	5	5	541
Yasuo Minagawa	4	3	.571	3.51	31	0	14	0	0	1	51.3	48	21	20	2	19	5	28	0	0	0	208
Hidetake Watanabe	4	6	.400	3.93	42	17	8	4	1	1	130.7	138	61	57	15	28	2	66	9	3	1	551
Masaki Miura	4	8	.333	5.54	35	7	13	0	0	0	76.3	87	50	47	10	26	0	30	4	0	0	342
Osamu Nomura	4	9	.308	3.66	39	18	10	2	0	1	147.7	137	66	60	13	41	5	69	3	0	3	608
Terry Ley	3	2	.600	3.32	13	6	2	2	0	0	43.3	23	17	16	3	32	1	28	2	3	2	180
Makoto Fujiwara	2	4	.333	3.88	31	4	14	0	0	3	53.3	51	26	23	6	26	3	25	0	0	3	232
Takeaki Yamasaki	1	0	1.000	9.64	11	0	2	0	0	0	9.3	11	10	10	3	7	0	4	1	0	0	46
Shoji Miyazaki	1	1	.500	3.34	17	0	4	0	0	0	32.3	31	15	12	4	12	2	15	2	2	1	139
Toshoku Uda	0	0		0.00	2	0	1	0	0	0	2.0	2	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	7
Hiroshi Takahashi	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Koichi Eda	0	0		4.24	16	0	6	0	0	1	17.0	19	9	8	2	1	0	11	1	0	0	69
Isamu Nakahara	0	0		4.76	20	0	1	0	0	0	11.3	14	6	6	1	3	0	8	0	0	0	49
Hisao Sugita	0	0		6.00	3	0	1	0	0	0	3.0	3	2	2	0	4	1	0	0	0	0	15
Eiji Hosaka	0	0		6.75	3	0	0	0	0	0	1.3	2	1	1	1	2	0	2	0	0	0	7
Toshihiko Kosaka	0	0		23.14	4	0	2	0	0	0	2.3	5	6	6	3	1	0	3	0	0	0	13
Katsuo Ukai	0	2	.000	10.43	11	3	5	0	0	0	14.7	22	18	17	4	12	1	8	1	0	0	75
Chikara Morinaka	0	4	.000	8.31	15	6	2	0	0	0	26.0	37	25	24	3	8	0	18	0	0	0	121
Totals	49	75	.395	4.11	388	130	97	33	4	12	1141.7	1093	569	521	123	406	32	600	36	14	17	4818

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
Isao Harimoto	120	491	406	64	138	20	3	14	62	14	6	82	28	.340	.450	.507	.957	206	3	1	0	2	13
Toshizo Sakamoto	109	433	393	38	110	20	2	10	47	16	6	26	41	.280	.327	.417	.744	164	8	3	8	3	0
In-cheon Paek	114	457	418	63	109	20	1	15	42	24	5	22	19	.261	.310	.421	.731	176	18	9	5	3	1
Tsuyoshi Oshita	120	514	442	72	109	13	5	5	31	34	7	43	21	.247	.325	.333	.658	147	6	10	16	3	0
Katsuo Osugi	130	521	461	54	108	14	0	22	90	4	2	48	73	.234	.307	.408	.715	188	12	4	0	8	7
Mikio Sendo	113	405	356	31	91	9	3	6	39	3	6	30	22	.256	.322	.348	.671	124	7	7	8	4	0
Yoshiyuki Suenaga	105	359	306	37	81	11	3	7	27	11	6	33	31	.265	.339	.389	.728	119	6	2	17	1	2
Hiroshi Takahashi	76	158	145	15	41	4	1	7	22	2	2	10	12	.283	.331	.469	.800	68	1	1	1	1	0
Kazuhiko Okaji	80	183	175	13	41	11	0	1	10	3	1	5	37	.234	.260	.314	.574	55	0	1	2	0	0
Hideshi Murai	69	197	174	18	37	5	1	5	21	3	1	14	37	.213	.279	.339	.618	59	8	2	7	0	3
Katsutoshi Nakahara	81	181	166	10	34	4	0	0	9	3	5	11	22	.205	.258	.229	.487	38	3	1	3	0	0
Toshio Kato	60	169	137	11	26	2	0	1	13	3	1	23	22	.190	.313	.226	.540	31	1	3	3	3	3
Mike Kekich	24	56	54	1	19	5	0	1	8	0	0	0	12	.352	.352	.500	.852	27	2	0	2	0	0
Hiroshige Saruwatari	30	51	49	4	14	2	0	0	1	2	1	2	9	.286	.314	.327	.640	16	0	0	0	0	0
Keiichi Shimazu	18	47	38	5	10	1	0	0	0	4	6	8	6	.263	.404	.289	.694	11	2	1	0	0	0
Katsumi Omuro	86	74	66	16	10	3	0	0	6	6	4	5	4	.152	.208	.197	.405	13	1	0	2	1	0
Kazunori Aimoto	11	26	25	2	7	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.280	.280	.280	.560	7	0	0	1	0	0
Naoki Takahashi	35	63	55	0	7	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	19	.127	.143	.127	.270	7	0	0	7	0	0
Hidetake Watanabe	44	37	35	3	6	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	14	.171	.194	.200	.394	7	0	0	1	0	0
Terry Ley	14	15	14	2	5	2	0	0	1	0	0	1	5	.357	.400	.500	.900	7	0	0	0	0	0
Koji Okamura	21	32	30	0	5	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	.167	.219	.233	.452	7	0	2	0	0	0
Makoto Yoshida	55	35	32	2	5	1	0	0	1	2	1	1	6	.156	.182	.188	.369	6	0	0	2	0	0
Satoshi Niimi	41	69	54	1	5	0	0	0	2	0	0	5	12	.093	.169	.093	.262	5	1	0	10	0	0
Tsutomu Osawa	10	17	14	1	4	1	0	0	1	0	1	1	5	.286	.333	.357	.690	5	0	0	2	0	0
Kesaharu Misawa	36	36	29	2	4	0	0	0	2	0	0	7	4	.138	.306	.138	.443	4	4	0	0	0	0
Osamu Nomura	39	41	36	2	4	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	13	.111	.111	.222	.333	8	0	0	5	0	0
Kenichi Yaezawa	43	61	51	3	4	0	0	1	2	0	1	6	14	.078	.175	.137	.313	7	2	0	4	0	0
Kenichi Oyamada	12	16	16	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.188	.188	.188	.375	3	2	0	0	0	0
Isamu Nakahara	20	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Masaki Miura	35	14	11	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.091	.091	.091	.182	1	0	0	3	0	0
Chikara Morinaka	19	5	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Takeaki Yamasaki	11	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Koichi Eda	16	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Katsuo Ukai	11	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Makoto Fujiwara	32	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Masao Funada	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shoji Miyazaki	17	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yasuo Minagawa	31	10	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Totals	1889	4789	4218	472	1039	152	19	96	445	134	62	385	513	.246	.314	.360	.674	1517	87	47	110	29	29

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Katsuo Osugi	1B	129					.000
Kenichi Oyamada	1B	4					.000
Yoshiyuki Suenaga	1B	2					.000
Hiroshi Takahashi	1B	1					.000
Tsuyoshi Oshita	2B	100					.000
Yoshiyuki Suenaga	2B	28					.000
Katsutoshi Nakahara	2B	13					.000
Kenichi Yaezawa	2B	4					.000
Hiroshige Saruwatari	2B	4					.000
Akira Shinya	2B	3					.000
Hiroshi Takahashi	2B	2					.000
Hidetake Watanabe	2B	1					.000
Chikara Morinaka	2B	1					.000
Makoto Fujiwara	2B	1					.000
Kazunori Aimoto	2B	1					.000
Toshizo Sakamoto	3B	109					.000
Kenichi Yaezawa	3B	30					.000
Tsuyoshi Oshita	3B	25					.000
Katsutoshi Nakahara	3B	12					.000
Hiroshige Saruwatari	3B	11					.000
Hiroshi Takahashi	3B	2					.000
Naoki Takahashi	3B	2					.000
Kazunori Aimoto	3B	1					.000
Hideshi Murai	C	62					.000
Toshio Kato	C	57					.000
Hiroshi Takahashi	C	35					.000
Koji Okamura	C	17					.000
Tsutomu Osawa	C	10					.000
Isao Harimoto	OF	120					.000
In-cheon Paek	OF	112					.000
Mikio Sendo	OF	105					.000
Katsumi Omuro	OF	72					.000
Kazuhiko Okaji	OF	53					.000
Makoto Yoshida	OF	46					.000
Keiichi Shimazu	OF	14					.000
Hiroshi Takahashi	OF	4					.000
Toshizo Sakamoto	OF	2					.000
Kesaharu Misawa	OF	2					.000
Chikara Morinaka	OF	1					.000
Mike Kekich	OF	1					.000
Hidetake Watanabe	P	42					.000
Satoshi Niimi	P	41					.000
Osamu Nomura	P	39					.000
Naoki Takahashi	P	35					.000
Masaki Miura	P	35					.000
Yasuo Minagawa	P	31					.000
Makoto Fujiwara	P	31					.000
Isamu Nakahara	P	20					.000
Mike Kekich	P	18					.000
Shoji Miyazaki	P	17					.000
Koichi Eda	P	16					.000
Chikara Morinaka	P	15					.000
Terry Ley	P	13					.000
Takeaki Yamasaki	P	11					.000
Katsuo Ukai	P	11					.000
Toshihiko Kosaka	P	4					.000
Hisao Sugita	P	3					.000
Eiji Hosaka	P	3					.000
Toshoku Uda	P	2					.000
Hiroshi Takahashi	P	1					.000
Yoshiyuki Suenaga	SS	75					.000
Katsutoshi Nakahara	SS	59					.000
Kazunori Aimoto	SS	11					.000
Kenichi Yaezawa	SS	9					.000
Hiroshi Takahashi	SS	4					.000
Chikara Morinaka	SS	2					.000
Hidetake Watanabe	SS	1					.000
Akira Shinya	SS	1					.000
Toshizo Sakamoto	SS	1					.000
Toshihiko Kosaka	SS	1					.000
Totals		1751	0	0	0	0	.000

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