1980 Nippon Ham Fighters Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 66-53
Finished 3rd in the JPPL
Manager: Keiji Ozawa (66-53)
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Ballpark: Korakuen Stadium

1980 Nippon Ham Fighters Roster

The Nippon Ham Fighters of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1980 season with a record of 66 wins and 53 losses, finishing third in the JPPL.

The Ham Fighters topped the league with just 513 runs allowed. Nippon scored 593 runs, worst in the league,. Tony Solaita walloped 45 home runs for the team, while Tommy Cruz and Junichi Kashiwabara added 15 or more also. Junichi Kashiwabara recorded 96 runs batted in. Tommy Cruz led all regular batters by connecting at a .309 clip. Isamu Kida paced the squad with 22 wins and a team-best 2.28 ERA, best among qualifying pitchers.

Members of the 1980 Nippon Ham Fighters who played in Major League Baseball during their careers were Tony Solaita, Tommy Cruz 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
Isamu Kida	22	8	.733	2.28	40	26	10	19	2	4	253.0	195	77	64	26	89	4	225	7	1	4	1030
Shigekuni Mashiba	10	7	.588	3.82	38	23	7	5	0	0	188.3	188	88	80	23	56	5	76	5	0	1	797
Naoki Takahashi	10	9	.526	4.07	30	23	6	9	2	1	152.7	164	75	69	21	24	5	86	5	0	1	643
Kazumi Takahashi	9	7	.562	3.55	33	21	11	6	2	4	177.3	170	78	70	26	49	0	112	5	0	2	733
Tomotaka Sugiyama	4	1	.800	4.18	18	6	4	1	0	0	47.3	46	24	22	9	24	1	36	2	0	2	209
Toshoku Uda	3	6	.333	3.54	22	12	5	2	1	0	84.0	89	35	33	11	14	2	37	1	0	0	348
Masanori Murakami	2	3	.400	4.70	37	0	20	0	0	2	67.0	70	39	35	12	28	3	31	4	0	0	294
Fumio Narita	2	4	.333	2.47	27	1	14	0	0	3	58.3	43	18	16	6	11	1	31	3	0	2	230
Kazushi Saeki	2	4	.333	5.36	13	11	0	1	0	0	50.3	55	32	30	8	13	0	16	0	0	0	216
Noriaki Okabe	2	4	.333	5.55	25	5	7	1	0	0	61.7	66	40	38	15	17	0	46	2	0	0	268
Shoji Kawahara	0	0		3.09	5	2	2	0	0	0	11.7	9	4	4	2	6	0	10	0	0	0	49
Masami Takahashi	0	0		27.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.7	4	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	6
Totals	66	53	.555	3.62	289	130	86	44	7	14	1152.3	1099	513	463	160	331	21	706	34	1	12	4823

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
Tommy Cruz	127	513	488	62	151	27	3	26	84	4	4	20	44	.309	.338	.537	.875	262	14	2	1	2	0
Makoto Shimada	129	570	487	79	149	24	7	5	42	38	16	55	29	.306	.381	.415	.795	202	4	5	21	2	2
Junichi Kashiwabara	130	578	503	82	133	17	3	34	96	8	3	68	61	.264	.353	.513	.866	258	10	3	0	4	6
Tony Solaita	125	524	447	62	107	9	0	45	95	0	1	68	121	.239	.345	.562	.907	251	7	6	0	3	3
Nobuhiro Takashiro	119	438	383	55	103	14	0	5	35	11	6	33	39	.269	.332	.345	.676	132	8	5	13	4	0
Toshio Kato	122	434	358	42	94	3	1	8	32	4	7	47	46	.263	.372	.344	.716	123	6	16	12	1	1
Masaru Tomita	90	343	300	39	72	13	3	7	29	12	3	37	44	.240	.325	.373	.698	112	10	2	1	3	0
Hideo Furuya	84	308	287	38	69	10	0	9	30	12	3	12	30	.240	.282	.369	.651	106	8	5	3	1	0
Mitsuo Sugano	121	362	302	41	69	8	0	12	52	11	10	27	52	.228	.301	.374	.675	113	5	5	26	2	0
Toshikazu Hattori	98	128	112	12	34	6	1	2	18	4	3	6	10	.304	.352	.429	.781	48	5	3	6	1	0
Tatsuo Omiya	71	160	135	19	34	5	1	1	11	5	3	19	21	.252	.353	.326	.678	44	5	2	4	0	1
Mikio Sendo	54	119	110	12	32	5	0	3	13	0	1	8	13	.291	.345	.418	.763	46	5	1	0	0	0
Kazuhiko Okaji	79	151	133	11	29	4	1	5	16	0	0	14	25	.218	.295	.376	.671	50	1	1	2	1	0
Koji Kagitani	67	129	109	10	25	1	1	0	8	1	1	7	15	.229	.271	.257	.528	28	0	0	11	2	0
Hideshi Murai	38	89	74	11	19	4	1	2	8	1	1	11	7	.257	.364	.419	.783	31	4	2	1	1	0
Toru Shibuya	26	50	44	6	13	1	0	3	6	0	0	6	12	.295	.380	.523	.903	23	0	0	0	0	0
Katsutoshi Nakahara	4	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0	0	0	0
Kunizo Umeda	17	8	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	2	0	0
Satoru Yoshioka	14	13	11	3	1	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	2	.091	.077	.091	.168	1	1	0	0	2	0
Shinichi Igarashi	17	13	12	4	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	.083	.083	.083	.167	1	1	0	1	0	0
Yukio Kakizaki	28	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1560	4934	4305	593	1137	151	22	167	578	115	63	438	575	.264	.338	.426	.764	1833	94	58	104	29	13

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Junichi Kashiwabara	1B	79					.000
Tony Solaita	1B	62					.000
Toru Shibuya	1B	4					.000
Mitsuo Sugano	2B	113					.000
Koji Kagitani	2B	27					.000
Junichi Kashiwabara	2B	12					.000
Shinichi Igarashi	2B	10					.000
Kunizo Umeda	2B	8					.000
Satoru Yoshioka	2B	7					.000
Masaru Tomita	2B	1					.000
Hideo Furuya	3B	77					.000
Junichi Kashiwabara	3B	48					.000
Koji Kagitani	3B	12					.000
Kunizo Umeda	3B	6					.000
Mitsuo Sugano	3B	4					.000
Katsutoshi Nakahara	3B	4					.000
Satoru Yoshioka	3B	1					.000
Toshio Kato	C	117					.000
Tatsuo Omiya	C	40					.000
Hideshi Murai	C	1					.000
Makoto Shimada	OF	129					.000
Toshikazu Hattori	OF	97					.000
Tommy Cruz	OF	93					.000
Masaru Tomita	OF	76					.000
Kazuhiko Okaji	OF	68					.000
Hideshi Murai	OF	25					.000
Mikio Sendo	OF	16					.000
Yukio Kakizaki	OF	14					.000
Tony Solaita	OF	9					.000
Tatsuo Omiya	OF	6					.000
Junichi Kashiwabara	OF	4					.000
Isamu Kida	P	40					.000
Shigekuni Mashiba	P	38					.000
Masanori Murakami	P	37					.000
Kazumi Takahashi	P	33					.000
Naoki Takahashi	P	30					.000
Fumio Narita	P	27					.000
Noriaki Okabe	P	25					.000
Toshoku Uda	P	22					.000
Tomotaka Sugiyama	P	18					.000
Kazushi Saeki	P	13					.000
Shoji Kawahara	P	5					.000
Masami Takahashi	P	1					.000
Nobuhiro Takashiro	SS	116					.000
Koji Kagitani	SS	29					.000
Mitsuo Sugano	SS	4					.000
Kunizo Umeda	SS	3					.000
Totals		1611	0	0	0	0	.000

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