1978 Nankai Hawks Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 42-77
Finished 6th in the JPPL
Manager: Yoshinori Hirose (42-77)
Location: Osaka, Japan
Ballpark: Osaka Stadium

1978 Nankai Hawks Roster

The Nankai Hawks of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1978 season with a record of 42 wins and 77 losses, finishing sixth in the JPPL.

The Hawks plated 408 runs, worst in the circuit, and conceded 568 runs. Shinsaku Katahira and Hiromitsu Kadota paced Nankai with 15 home runs apiece. Carlos May drove in 80 runs and topped all qualifying hitters on the roster with a .312 average. Manabu Fujita led the team with 16 wins and a team-best 2.88 ERA, leading hurlers with significant time on the mound.

Carlos May and Bobby Tolan both played in Major League Baseball during their careers.

Yoshinori Hirose 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
Manabu Fujita	16	11	.593	2.87	33	29	3	20	6	0	231.7	206	82	74	21	42	2	100	6	0	0	918
Masumitsu Moriguchi	9	10	.474	3.30	31	26	5	12	4	0	185.7	157	75	68	20	73	2	103	7	0	3	773
Yukihiro Murakami	5	8	.385	3.61	40	11	22	4	1	3	132.0	126	58	53	9	53	2	69	5	0	1	561
Michiro Sato	3	8	.273	6.16	25	15	4	1	1	0	83.3	111	59	57	12	19	1	40	6	0	0	377
Hisao Sugita	3	9	.250	3.87	29	17	7	1	0	0	109.3	117	56	47	11	31	2	29	4	0	0	465
Shinichi Yamauchi	3	16	.158	4.91	25	25	0	7	1	0	154.0	190	94	84	18	34	4	46	6	0	1	664
Hidetaka Hoshino	1	2	.333	6.19	25	1	1	0	0	0	36.3	37	29	25	2	21	1	5	2	0	0	167
Takayoshi Hirasawa	1	4	.200	5.57	23	5	9	1	1	0	64.7	75	44	40	11	19	0	20	2	0	0	278
Koichiro Sasaki	1	5	.167	3.09	41	1	14	0	0	2	96.0	103	40	33	6	10	1	32	7	1	1	393
Etsuo Murakami	0	0		0.00	2	0	1	0	0	0	1.3	3	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	8
Takuzo Ueda	0	0		5.19	9	0	3	0	0	0	8.7	7	5	5	1	1	0	4	1	0	0	33
Toru Ikenoue	0	0		17.18	5	0	3	0	0	0	3.7	13	10	7	1	2	0	4	1	0	0	27
Motoyasu Kaneshiro	0	4	.000	4.15	19	0	12	0	0	3	30.3	29	16	14	4	6	3	29	2	0	1	126
Totals	42	77	.353	4.01	307	130	84	46	14	8	1137.0	1174	568	507	116	312	18	482	49	1	7	4790

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
Carlos May	123	487	414	51	129	17	2	12	80	8	3	54	57	.312	.398	.449	.847	186	14	10	2	7	2
Mitsuru Fujiwara	99	414	396	44	100	8	0	2	15	13	8	15	18	.253	.282	.288	.569	114	14	1	2	0	1
Takayuki Kono	107	452	398	47	98	18	5	3	23	16	5	27	38	.246	.298	.339	.638	135	10	3	23	1	2
Bobby Tolan	98	393	360	31	96	10	1	6	36	6	5	18	38	.267	.320	.350	.670	126	6	11	2	2	0
Hiromitsu Kadota	106	406	360	37	90	13	0	15	44	3	2	37	59	.250	.323	.411	.735	148	4	4	1	4	3
Hiromasa Arai	116	387	344	31	87	8	4	1	17	6	5	24	25	.253	.304	.308	.612	106	5	2	15	2	1
Chiaki Sadaoka	111	388	352	30	80	12	1	3	33	3	4	19	75	.227	.273	.293	.566	103	6	6	4	7	1
Shinsaku Katahira	101	314	290	25	71	6	0	15	37	0	2	15	29	.245	.293	.421	.714	122	3	6	0	3	0
Yoshihito Oda	102	328	298	19	70	9	0	5	25	3	2	12	28	.235	.283	.315	.598	94	11	9	6	3	3
Yuji Kubodera	104	329	299	22	61	8	3	6	20	7	6	18	37	.204	.248	.311	.559	93	1	0	10	2	0
Masahiro Kuroda	117	333	283	22	52	8	0	4	14	1	2	23	46	.184	.283	.254	.537	72	6	17	8	2	0
Teruhide Sakurai	53	150	134	10	21	2	0	1	7	1	0	12	17	.157	.231	.194	.425	26	4	1	3	0	0
Nobuo Yonetani	51	121	103	7	19	1	0	1	9	1	2	14	13	.184	.283	.223	.507	23	7	1	1	2	0
Takashi Sakata	46	70	64	7	13	1	0	0	6	0	0	2	9	.203	.235	.219	.454	14	1	1	2	1	0
Yoshiyuki Matsumoto	24	35	35	3	7	1	0	1	4	0	0	0	9	.200	.200	.314	.514	11	0	0	0	0	0
Toru Wada	27	35	34	4	6	0	0	2	4	0	0	1	6	.176	.200	.353	.553	12	0	0	0	0	0
Kenji Nakade	23	21	19	2	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	6	.263	.300	.263	.563	5	0	0	1	0	0
Masao Yamamoto	16	22	22	3	3	1	0	1	2	3	0	0	8	.136	.136	.318	.455	7	0	0	0	0	0
Mitsuo Tateishi	12	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	0	0	0
Kazuto Horii	51	9	9	13	1	0	0	0	0	8	3	0	1	.111	.111	.111	.222	1	0	0	0	0	0
Yoshiaki Toyama	16	15	13	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	.077	.133	.077	.210	1	0	0	0	1	0
Shigeki Tsurusaki	9	7	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	.000	.333	.000	.333	0	0	0	1	0	0
Totals	1512	4722	4237	408	1011	123	16	78	379	79	49	295	525	.239	.297	.330	.627	1400	92	72	81	37	13

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Yoshihito Oda	1B	93					.000
Shinsaku Katahira	1B	57					.000
Carlos May	1B	3					.000
Mitsuru Fujiwara	1B	2					.000
Toshihiro Hayashi	1B	1					.000
Takayuki Kono	2B	74					.000
Teruhide Sakurai	2B	45					.000
Yuji Kubodera	2B	24					.000
Shigeki Tsurusaki	2B	7					.000
Mitsuru Fujiwara	3B	95					.000
Takayuki Kono	3B	38					.000
Mitsuo Tateishi	3B	5					.000
Yuji Kubodera	3B	4					.000
Masahiro Kuroda	C	116					.000
Toru Wada	C	25					.000
Kenji Nakade	C	23					.000
Yoshiyuki Matsumoto	C	23					.000
Chiaki Sadaoka	OF	111					.000
Carlos May	OF	110					.000
Hiromasa Arai	OF	97					.000
Bobby Tolan	OF	79					.000
Yuji Kubodera	OF	46					.000
Hiromitsu Kadota	OF	46					.000
Takashi Sakata	OF	37					.000
Kazuto Horii	OF	22					.000
Nobuo Yonetani	OF	14					.000
Shinsaku Katahira	OF	9					.000
Masao Yamamoto	OF	7					.000
Koichiro Sasaki	P	41					.000
Yukihiro Murakami	P	40					.000
Manabu Fujita	P	33					.000
Masumitsu Moriguchi	P	31					.000
Hisao Sugita	P	29					.000
Shinichi Yamauchi	P	25					.000
Michiro Sato	P	25					.000
Hidetaka Hoshino	P	25					.000
Takayoshi Hirasawa	P	23					.000
Motoyasu Kaneshiro	P	19					.000
Takuzo Ueda	P	9					.000
Toru Ikenoue	P	5					.000
Etsuo Murakami	P	2					.000
Yuji Kubodera	SS	28					.000
Shigeki Tsurusaki	SS	2					.000
Takayuki Kono	SS	1					.000
Totals		1551	0	0	0	0	.000

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