1975 Nippon Ham Fighters Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 55-63
Finished 6th in the JPPL
Manager: Futoshi Nakanishi (55-63)
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Ballpark: Korakuen Stadium

1975 Nippon Ham Fighters Roster

The Nippon Ham Fighters of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1975 season with a record of 55 wins and 63 losses, finishing sixth in the JPPL.

The Ham Fighters plated 458 runs, worst in the circuit, and yielded 576 runs, most in the league. Yoshihito Oda paced Nippon with 16 home runs, and Isao Harimoto walloped 15 or more, too. Yoshihito Oda drove in 53 runs and topped all regular batters by connecting at a .319 clip. Naoki Takahashi led the team with 17 wins and a team-best 2.95 earned run average, leading pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.

Members of the 1975 Nippon Ham Fighters who played in Major League Baseball during their careers were Garry Jestadt, George Culver and Terry Ley.

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
Naoki Takahashi	17	13	.567	2.95	35	30	4	17	2	0	256.0	229	94	84	21	65	7	120	8	1	1	1041
Osamu Nomura	11	3	.786	3.34	37	25	5	6	1	0	191.3	184	82	71	21	45	2	59	8	0	1	795
Yasuo Minagawa	8	6	.571	2.21	49	0	44	0	0	10	85.7	68	27	21	9	35	8	39	5	0	0	356
Hidetake Watanabe	5	8	.385	4.41	31	11	6	0	0	0	100.0	118	57	49	9	25	2	27	17	0	3	452
Satoshi Niimi	4	9	.308	5.42	37	18	5	2	1	1	144.3	148	95	87	17	61	2	73	5	0	3	639
Toshoku Uda	2	2	.500	3.88	18	2	6	1	0	0	51.0	61	29	22	5	9	0	13	6	0	0	223
Terry Ley	2	3	.400	4.72	11	11	0	0	0	0	55.3	46	30	29	9	48	0	30	2	2	1	252
Makoto Fujiwara	2	7	.222	3.62	19	12	3	1	1	0	72.0	84	37	29	5	25	2	25	2	1	0	322
Katsuo Ukai	1	2	.333	4.53	25	6	10	1	1	0	49.7	41	26	25	5	25	0	26	2	0	1	211
Masaki Miura	1	2	.333	4.91	17	1	8	0	0	1	29.3	37	18	16	2	18	1	18	4	0	2	140
Haruhisa Yokoyama	1	4	.200	4.90	22	8	7	0	0	0	60.7	63	40	33	12	39	2	34	0	0	5	272
George Culver	1	4	.200	6.50	9	5	1	0	0	0	36.0	47	31	26	5	23	3	15	3	0	1	180
Hisao Sugita	0	0		1.64	4	0	2	0	0	0	11.0	6	3	2	1	2	0	5	1	0	0	43
Toshihiko Kosaka	0	0		4.50	26	1	1	0	0	2	12.0	12	7	6	1	6	0	8	0	0	1	52
Totals	55	63	.466	3.90	340	130	102	28	6	14	1154.3	1144	576	500	122	426	29	492	63	4	19	4978

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
Yoshihito Oda	122	432	411	48	131	12	0	16	53	4	2	13	37	.319	.339	.465	.803	191	17	2	1	5	0
Isao Harimoto	119	472	410	45	113	12	2	15	46	6	6	58	26	.276	.364	.424	.789	174	13	1	0	3	9
Garry Jestadt	130	476	451	34	109	18	1	9	45	2	2	14	45	.242	.268	.346	.613	156	12	3	5	3	1
Mikio Sendo	117	412	384	42	108	17	1	5	36	7	7	20	28	.281	.316	.370	.686	142	7	1	4	3	2
Hiroshi Takahashi	123	425	391	40	105	11	0	12	40	10	5	19	37	.269	.305	.389	.694	152	8	2	12	1	1
Toshizo Sakamoto	96	403	353	47	92	16	1	6	27	10	4	38	27	.261	.332	.363	.694	128	4	0	11	1	2
Junzo Uchida	108	367	324	31	84	6	4	3	23	12	7	30	41	.259	.322	.330	.652	107	6	1	10	2	0
Masayoshi Higashida	84	294	259	35	65	12	1	8	29	3	1	28	36	.251	.330	.398	.728	103	8	4	0	3	2
Makoto Kamigochi	93	293	257	23	62	8	0	6	28	6	6	17	36	.241	.288	.342	.630	88	3	1	15	3	0
Kazuhiko Okaji	88	246	224	31	61	11	1	7	25	1	1	17	39	.272	.324	.424	.748	95	5	1	2	2	0
Katsutoshi Nakahara	84	207	184	17	42	3	0	0	16	4	2	9	13	.228	.262	.245	.506	45	4	0	12	2	0
Yoshiyuki Suenaga	85	214	189	12	33	2	0	0	8	2	1	6	23	.175	.213	.185	.398	35	6	4	12	3	1
Toshio Kato	74	137	124	12	31	4	1	6	22	0	0	5	6	.250	.291	.444	.735	55	7	3	3	2	0
Hiroshige Saruwatari	56	99	91	9	24	6	0	0	5	2	0	4	15	.264	.302	.330	.632	30	2	1	3	0	0
Hideshi Murai	50	91	86	7	18	0	0	4	10	1	1	4	11	.209	.244	.349	.593	30	1	0	1	0	0
Toru Shibuya	41	74	66	4	16	1	0	1	3	1	1	4	16	.242	.296	.303	.599	20	1	1	3	0	0
Mitsuo Sugano	75	90	80	3	13	0	0	0	4	3	3	3	14	.162	.193	.162	.355	13	0	0	7	0	0
Katsumi Omuro	79	31	28	13	7	0	2	1	4	3	1	1	2	.250	.276	.500	.776	14	1	0	2	0	0
Masahiko Hidaka	5	7	5	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	.400	.571	.400	.971	2	1	0	0	0	0
Keiichi Shimazu	16	11	11	2	2	0	0	0	1	4	1	0	7	.182	.182	.182	.364	2	0	0	0	0	0
Kenichi Yaezawa	18	16	15	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	5	.067	.067	.267	.333	4	0	0	1	0	0
Totals	1663	4797	4343	458	1119	139	14	100	426	81	51	292	465	.258	.306	.365	.671	1586	106	25	104	33	18

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Yoshihito Oda	1B	121					.000
Toru Shibuya	1B	24					.000
Toshio Kato	1B	19					.000
Toshoku Uda	1B	1					.000
Hiroshi Takahashi	1B	1					.000
Makoto Fujiwara	1B	1					.000
Toshizo Sakamoto	2B	94					.000
Yoshiyuki Suenaga	2B	33					.000
Hiroshige Saruwatari	2B	25					.000
Katsutoshi Nakahara	2B	9					.000
Kenichi Yaezawa	2B	3					.000
Osamu Nomura	2B	2					.000
Haruhisa Yokoyama	2B	1					.000
Mitsuo Sugano	2B	1					.000
Katsumi Omuro	2B	1					.000
Satoshi Niimi	2B	1					.000
Garry Jestadt	2B	1					.000
Masahiko Hidaka	2B	1					.000
Garry Jestadt	3B	129					.000
Hiroshige Saruwatari	3B	12					.000
Katsutoshi Nakahara	3B	10					.000
Masahiko Hidaka	3B	3					.000
Makoto Kamigochi	3B	2					.000
Yoshiyuki Suenaga	3B	1					.000
Hiroshi Takahashi	C	121					.000
Hideshi Murai	C	36					.000
Toshio Kato	C	6					.000
Mikio Sendo	OF	109					.000
Junzo Uchida	OF	100					.000
Makoto Kamigochi	OF	92					.000
Kazuhiko Okaji	OF	77					.000
Katsumi Omuro	OF	68					.000
Masayoshi Higashida	OF	47					.000
Isao Harimoto	OF	15					.000
Toru Shibuya	OF	14					.000
Keiichi Shimazu	OF	10					.000
Makoto Fujiwara	OF	9					.000
Osamu Nomura	OF	5					.000
Toshio Kato	OF	5					.000
Hidetake Watanabe	OF	4					.000
Haruhisa Yokoyama	OF	3					.000
Toshoku Uda	OF	1					.000
Naoki Takahashi	OF	1					.000
Toshihiko Kosaka	OF	1					.000
Yasuo Minagawa	P	49					.000
Osamu Nomura	P	37					.000
Satoshi Niimi	P	37					.000
Naoki Takahashi	P	35					.000
Hidetake Watanabe	P	31					.000
Toshihiko Kosaka	P	26					.000
Katsuo Ukai	P	25					.000
Haruhisa Yokoyama	P	22					.000
Makoto Fujiwara	P	19					.000
Toshoku Uda	P	18					.000
Masaki Miura	P	17					.000
Terry Ley	P	11					.000
George Culver	P	9					.000
Hisao Sugita	P	4					.000
Katsutoshi Nakahara	SS	72					.000
Mitsuo Sugano	SS	66					.000
Yoshiyuki Suenaga	SS	54					.000
Kenichi Yaezawa	SS	15					.000
Garry Jestadt	SS	12					.000
Hiroshige Saruwatari	SS	6					.000
Makoto Fujiwara	SS	1					.000
Totals		1786	0	0	0	0	.000

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