1979 Nippon Ham Fighters Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 63-60
Finished 3rd in the JPPL
Manager: Keiji Ozawa (63-60)
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Ballpark: Korakuen Stadium

1979 Nippon Ham Fighters Roster

The Nippon Ham Fighters of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1979 season with a record of 63 wins and 60 losses, finishing third in the JPPL.

The Ham Fighters scored 592 runs and gave up 569 runs. Junichi Kashiwabara and Bobby Mitchell led Nippon with 22 home runs apiece., while Hideo Furuya and Sam Ewing walloped 15 or more also. Junichi Kashiwabara recorded 90 runs batted in. Hideo Furuya paced hitters with significant playing time by connecting at a .313 clip. Naoki Takahashi topped the squad with 20 wins and a team-best 2.76 earned run average, best among hurlers with significant time on the mound.

Members of the 1979 Nippon Ham Fighters who played in Major League Baseball during their careers were Bobby Mitchell, Sam Ewing and Masanori Murakami.

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	20	11	.645	2.76	37	28	9	21	2	4	254.7	257	89	78	21	23	2	118	4	0	1	1017
Kazushi Saeki	11	11	.500	4.16	28	28	0	12	2	0	192.7	197	93	89	27	40	0	88	5	0	5	797
Tomotaka Sugiyama	11	17	.393	4.73	31	30	0	10	1	0	186.7	188	104	98	32	78	2	120	7	0	4	814
Toshoku Uda	9	3	.750	3.47	39	7	10	2	0	0	135.0	151	61	52	15	20	3	34	7	0	0	555
Masanori Murakami	5	3	.625	4.20	45	0	30	0	0	11	98.7	101	50	46	16	30	5	42	6	0	1	419
Shigekuni Mashiba	3	4	.429	4.27	35	20	3	2	1	0	116.0	138	59	55	12	28	2	43	1	0	0	504
Kazumi Takahashi	3	4	.429	5.15	18	8	2	0	0	0	43.7	49	27	25	9	11	0	26	3	1	1	196
Yoshinobu Miyamoto	1	4	.200	4.95	15	6	7	1	0	0	43.7	48	25	24	4	19	1	17	2	0	0	188
Shoji Kawahara	0	0		4.08	10	1	9	0	0	0	17.7	18	9	8	2	5	0	15	0	0	0	76
Noriaki Okabe	0	0		5.14	4	0	2	0	0	0	7.0	11	4	4	1	6	0	6	0	0	0	37
Yukinobu Miyamoto	0	0		10.89	17	1	6	0	0	2	20.7	30	25	25	8	15	3	7	2	0	1	103
Mikio Kudo	0	1	.000	7.36	3	1	0	0	0	0	7.3	11	9	6	1	1	0	5	2	0	0	34
Koichi Eda	0	2	.000	4.43	10	0	4	0	0	0	20.3	24	14	10	3	4	0	4	2	0	1	90
Totals	63	60	.512	4.09	292	130	82	48	6	17	1144.0	1223	569	520	151	280	18	525	41	1	14	4830

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
Junichi Kashiwabara	123	545	487	77	139	18	3	22	90	18	2	54	47	.285	.356	.470	.826	229	10	1	0	3	4
Masaru Tomita	128	557	485	76	136	28	3	12	61	23	6	62	55	.280	.360	.425	.785	206	7	1	4	5	1
Makoto Shimada	129	527	456	74	126	30	6	8	47	55	14	43	50	.276	.350	.421	.771	192	4	11	13	4	0
Hideo Furuya	109	423	390	58	122	23	2	15	56	14	8	21	38	.313	.353	.497	.851	194	9	6	1	5	1
Sam Ewing	119	449	416	41	119	20	2	15	65	2	0	29	77	.286	.330	.452	.782	188	11	0	0	4	2
Nobuhiro Takashiro	123	432	397	48	99	19	1	7	47	14	5	16	39	.249	.278	.355	.633	141	8	2	11	6	0
Toshio Kato	124	408	355	52	92	19	1	14	38	14	9	39	46	.259	.347	.437	.784	155	10	9	5	0	2
Bobby Mitchell	111	409	365	53	85	11	0	22	60	2	2	42	122	.233	.311	.444	.754	162	5	0	0	2	2
Mitsuo Sugano	114	271	233	31	62	10	0	3	30	18	7	18	27	.266	.329	.348	.677	81	1	4	16	0	0
Tatsuo Omiya	75	179	168	21	46	6	0	5	14	12	3	9	21	.274	.315	.399	.713	67	1	1	1	0	1
Koji Kagitani	90	136	112	13	29	2	2	0	11	3	4	20	17	.259	.371	.312	.684	35	1	0	4	0	0
Kazuhiko Okaji	61	115	107	11	25	4	0	4	15	2	2	6	18	.234	.281	.383	.664	41	0	1	1	0	0
Satoru Yoshioka	40	103	101	11	23	5	0	1	4	3	1	2	10	.228	.243	.307	.550	31	1	0	0	0	0
Hideshi Murai	51	98	89	3	20	3	1	1	6	1	0	7	17	.225	.289	.315	.603	28	1	1	1	0	0
Mikio Sendo	60	87	79	7	16	2	0	2	10	0	0	4	3	.203	.253	.304	.557	24	3	2	0	2	1
Toshikazu Hattori	54	51	43	5	9	1	0	0	5	0	0	3	6	.209	.261	.233	.493	10	2	0	5	0	0
Toshimi Kubo	44	27	23	8	6	0	0	0	2	3	2	3	2	.261	.346	.261	.607	6	1	0	1	0	0
Katsutoshi Nakahara	29	27	24	3	4	2	0	0	0	1	0	3	2	.167	.259	.250	.509	6	0	0	0	0	0
Yozo Nagabuchi	26	26	21	0	3	1	0	0	3	0	0	3	6	.143	.308	.190	.498	4	0	2	0	0	0
Kuniaki Nakamura	11	9	9	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.111	.111	.111	.222	1	0	0	0	0	0
Hisataka Yukizawa	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1627	4880	4361	592	1162	204	21	131	564	185	65	384	604	.266	.329	.413	.742	1801	75	41	63	31	14

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Junichi Kashiwabara	1B	123					.000
Toshimi Kubo	1B	7					.000
Sam Ewing	1B	7					.000
Mitsuo Sugano	2B	94					.000
Koji Kagitani	2B	70					.000
Satoru Yoshioka	2B	32					.000
Katsutoshi Nakahara	2B	14					.000
Toshimi Kubo	2B	11					.000
Kuniaki Nakamura	2B	8					.000
Hideo Furuya	3B	106					.000
Mitsuo Sugano	3B	25					.000
Katsutoshi Nakahara	3B	8					.000
Toshimi Kubo	3B	5					.000
Kuniaki Nakamura	3B	1					.000
Toshio Kato	C	118					.000
Tatsuo Omiya	C	46					.000
Hideshi Murai	C	2					.000
Makoto Shimada	OF	129					.000
Masaru Tomita	OF	125					.000
Bobby Mitchell	OF	89					.000
Toshikazu Hattori	OF	51					.000
Kazuhiko Okaji	OF	44					.000
Hideshi Murai	OF	22					.000
Mikio Sendo	OF	16					.000
Sam Ewing	OF	16					.000
Toshimi Kubo	OF	3					.000
Tatsuo Omiya	OF	1					.000
Masanori Murakami	P	45					.000
Toshoku Uda	P	39					.000
Naoki Takahashi	P	37					.000
Shigekuni Mashiba	P	35					.000
Tomotaka Sugiyama	P	31					.000
Kazushi Saeki	P	28					.000
Kazumi Takahashi	P	18					.000
Yukinobu Miyamoto	P	17					.000
Yoshinobu Miyamoto	P	15					.000
Shoji Kawahara	P	10					.000
Koichi Eda	P	10					.000
Noriaki Okabe	P	4					.000
Mikio Kudo	P	3					.000
Nobuhiro Takashiro	SS	123					.000
Koji Kagitani	SS	21					.000
Katsutoshi Nakahara	SS	6					.000
Hisataka Yukizawa	SS	5					.000
Mitsuo Sugano	SS	2					.000
Totals		1622	0	0	0	0	.000

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