1976 Nippon Ham Fighters Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 52-67
Finished 5th in the JPPL
Manager: Keiji Ozawa (52-67)
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Ballpark: Korakuen Stadium

1976 Nippon Ham Fighters Roster

The Nippon Ham Fighters of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1976 season with a record of 52 wins and 67 losses, finishing fifth in the JPPL.

The Ham Fighters scored 484 runs and surrendered 523 runs. Walt Williams and Bobby Mitchell led Nippon with 23 home runs apiece. Bobby Mitchell accounted for 66 RBI. Walt Williams paced all qualifying hitters on the roster by connecting at a .285 clip. Osamu Nomura and Naoki Takahashi topped the squad with 13 wins each, while Osamu Nomura recorded a 3.04 ERA, tops among pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.

Members of the 1976 Nippon Ham Fighters who played in Major League Baseball during their careers were Masanori Murakami, Walt Williams and Bobby Mitchell.

Keiji Ozawa 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	13	14	.481	3.25	32	32	0	19	2	0	230.0	214	91	83	20	44	6	127	10	1	0	922
Osamu Nomura	13	16	.448	3.04	44	26	15	12	2	2	231.0	218	87	78	27	30	1	99	8	1	5	918
Kazumi Takahashi	10	12	.455	3.39	38	25	11	8	2	3	188.7	169	81	71	20	70	3	140	18	0	1	786
Hisao Sugita	5	7	.417	3.75	22	19	0	3	2	0	93.7	88	44	39	12	42	1	49	3	0	2	400
Toshihiko Kosaka	2	0	1.000	5.28	22	0	7	0	0	0	30.7	33	18	18	4	14	0	15	0	0	1	130
Yasuo Minagawa	2	2	.500	4.60	21	1	15	0	0	1	45.0	47	23	23	5	16	1	23	3	0	1	190
Katsuji Sakai	2	6	.250	4.62	21	12	1	1	1	1	60.3	61	37	31	4	23	1	32	4	0	2	261
Satoshi Niimi	2	7	.222	4.77	30	3	12	0	0	2	83.0	92	44	44	11	23	0	42	1	0	0	351
Masaki Miura	1	0	1.000	3.69	20	0	11	0	0	0	53.7	44	22	22	10	21	1	32	4	0	1	223
Masanori Murakami	1	0	1.000	3.74	32	1	5	0	0	0	53.0	61	24	22	7	15	0	17	0	0	0	229
Yukiharu Shibuya	1	1	.500	4.67	19	5	7	0	0	0	52.0	64	29	27	5	12	0	16	9	0	0	229
Toshoku Uda	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	3.3	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	17
Yoshinobu Miyamoto	0	0		13.50	2	0	1	0	0	0	4.0	8	6	6	1	1	0	3	0	0	1	21
Makoto Fujiwara	0	2	.000	4.82	11	6	1	0	0	0	28.0	35	16	15	3	6	0	11	0	0	0	122
Totals	52	67	.437	3.73	315	130	87	43	9	9	1156.3	1138	523	479	129	318	14	606	60	2	14	4799

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
Walt Williams	122	520	494	62	141	18	1	23	57	12	7	21	17	.285	.316	.466	.782	230	4	2	1	2	1
Yoshihito Oda	127	506	463	43	130	17	6	10	55	9	7	28	45	.281	.329	.408	.737	189	15	6	7	2	3
Masaru Tomita	104	429	387	42	110	22	1	10	44	7	3	38	62	.284	.347	.424	.770	164	10	0	2	2	1
Bobby Mitchell	107	436	401	61	98	17	5	23	66	8	5	32	121	.244	.300	.484	.784	194	7	1	0	2	0
Toshio Kato	118	373	330	33	89	18	0	5	33	8	3	22	26	.270	.327	.370	.697	122	13	9	6	6	2
Makoto Kamigochi	115	382	347	37	87	8	0	10	32	7	4	19	45	.251	.296	.360	.656	125	19	4	10	2	0
Mikio Sendo	101	306	279	28	78	6	1	6	23	0	2	18	24	.280	.327	.373	.699	104	7	2	6	1	2
Yozo Nagabuchi	81	266	242	27	63	12	1	5	26	5	2	21	26	.260	.321	.380	.701	92	7	1	1	1	0
Junzo Uchida	101	293	258	34	62	13	4	4	21	4	4	26	16	.240	.316	.368	.684	95	4	4	2	3	2
Katsutoshi Nakahara	101	225	197	17	48	6	2	0	14	6	5	13	18	.244	.288	.294	.582	58	4	0	13	2	0
Hiroshi Takahashi	70	178	156	20	43	6	0	4	19	2	1	15	18	.276	.337	.391	.728	61	4	1	3	3	2
Toshikazu Hattori	90	188	170	20	36	4	2	3	18	4	4	10	18	.212	.261	.312	.573	53	1	2	4	2	0
Kazuhiko Okaji	67	152	140	16	35	4	0	3	15	3	1	10	19	.250	.309	.343	.652	48	4	2	0	0	0
Koji Kagitani	50	123	109	7	25	1	0	0	2	1	3	8	14	.229	.282	.239	.521	26	0	0	6	0	0
Mitsuo Sugano	59	110	98	15	24	5	1	0	10	2	4	7	17	.245	.308	.316	.625	31	2	2	3	0	0
Kazuaki Goto	46	88	77	3	17	2	0	0	2	0	0	6	11	.221	.286	.247	.532	19	1	1	4	0	0
Hisataka Yukizawa	69	95	87	6	14	0	0	0	10	0	0	3	16	.161	.185	.161	.346	14	1	0	3	2	0
Hideshi Murai	35	53	46	6	12	3	1	1	8	0	1	4	4	.261	.308	.435	.742	20	1	0	1	2	0
Masahiko Hidaka	2	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	0	0	0
Kazunori Aimoto	9	9	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.125	.125	.125	.250	1	0	0	1	0	0
Katsumi Omuro	38	19	18	7	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	6	.056	.056	.111	.167	2	0	0	1	0	0
Hiroshige Saruwatari	5	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tsutomu Osawa	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Toru Shibuya	2	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.333	.000	.333	0	0	0	0	0	0
Masanori Murakami	38	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1660	4769	4324	484	1115	163	25	107	455	80	56	302	529	.258	.310	.381	.691	1649	104	37	74	32	13

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Yoshihito Oda	1B	124					.000
Kazuaki Goto	1B	10					.000
Bobby Mitchell	1B	3					.000
Junzo Uchida	1B	2					.000
Masahiko Hidaka	1B	2					.000
Hiroshi Takahashi	1B	1					.000
Toru Shibuya	1B	1					.000
Koji Kagitani	2B	45					.000
Makoto Kamigochi	2B	41					.000
Toshikazu Hattori	2B	38					.000
Katsutoshi Nakahara	2B	30					.000
Masaru Tomita	2B	27					.000
Mitsuo Sugano	2B	14					.000
Masaru Tomita	3B	63					.000
Makoto Kamigochi	3B	50					.000
Kazuaki Goto	3B	27					.000
Mitsuo Sugano	3B	4					.000
Hiroshige Saruwatari	3B	4					.000
Katsutoshi Nakahara	3B	4					.000
Hisataka Yukizawa	3B	2					.000
Kazunori Aimoto	3B	2					.000
Toshio Kato	C	112					.000
Hiroshi Takahashi	C	35					.000
Hideshi Murai	C	19					.000
Tsutomu Osawa	C	3					.000
Kazunori Aimoto	C	1					.000
Walt Williams	OF	110					.000
Bobby Mitchell	OF	92					.000
Junzo Uchida	OF	68					.000
Mikio Sendo	OF	68					.000
Toshikazu Hattori	OF	55					.000
Kazuhiko Okaji	OF	40					.000
Makoto Kamigochi	OF	27					.000
Katsumi Omuro	OF	26					.000
Yukiharu Shibuya	OF	4					.000
Yozo Nagabuchi	OF	4					.000
Masanori Murakami	OF	4					.000
Hideshi Murai	OF	3					.000
Satoshi Niimi	OF	2					.000
Osamu Nomura	OF	1					.000
Masaki Miura	OF	1					.000
Yasuo Minagawa	OF	1					.000
Shoji Kawahara	OF	1					.000
Toshio Kato	OF	1					.000
Makoto Fujiwara	OF	1					.000
Osamu Nomura	P	44					.000
Kazumi Takahashi	P	38					.000
Naoki Takahashi	P	32					.000
Masanori Murakami	P	32					.000
Satoshi Niimi	P	30					.000
Hisao Sugita	P	22					.000
Toshihiko Kosaka	P	22					.000
Katsuji Sakai	P	21					.000
Yasuo Minagawa	P	21					.000
Masaki Miura	P	20					.000
Yukiharu Shibuya	P	19					.000
Makoto Fujiwara	P	11					.000
Yoshinobu Miyamoto	P	2					.000
Toshoku Uda	P	1					.000
Katsutoshi Nakahara	SS	71					.000
Hisataka Yukizawa	SS	64					.000
Mitsuo Sugano	SS	46					.000
Toshikazu Hattori	SS	26					.000
Kazunori Aimoto	SS	5					.000
Koji Kagitani	SS	1					.000
Totals		1701	0	0	0	0	.000

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