1980 Nankai Hawks Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 48-77
Finished 6th in the JPPL
Manager: Yoshinori Hirose (48-77)
Location: Osaka, Japan
Ballpark: Osaka Stadium

1980 Nankai Hawks Roster

The Nankai Hawks of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1980 season with a record of 48 wins and 77 losses, finishing sixth in the JPPL.

The Hawks scored 623 runs and surrendered 784 runs, most in the circuit. Hiromitsu Kadota walloped 41 home runs for Nankai, while Carlos May and Shinsaku Katahira swatted 15 or more, too. Hiromitsu Kadota accounted for 84 RBI. Carlos May led all regular batters with a .326 average. Shinichi Yamauchi topped the team with 9 wins and a team-best 3.8 ERA, best among qualifying pitchers.

Carlos May and Frank Ortenzio 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	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	WP	BF
Shinichi Yamauchi	9	16	.360	3.79	28	28	0	14	0	206.7	236	106	87	30	49	7	57	4	0	888
Motoyasu Kaneshiro	6	4	.600	3.65	31	0	26	0	13	56.7	45	25	23	13	17	0	43	4	0	234
Jiro Ueda	6	6	.500	5.16	30	11	10	1	1	113.3	116	70	65	25	41	2	60	12	1	495
Kazuhiko Natori	5	12	.294	6.45	30	23	3	0	0	120.0	144	92	86	34	71	0	62	6	0	570
Yukihiro Murakami	4	11	.267	7.38	24	20	2	3	0	103.7	116	90	85	20	87	0	49	4	5	509
Eiketsu Ko	3	1	.750	4.39	6	3	2	1	0	26.7	25	15	13	8	5	0	10	1	0	108
Masaki Miura	3	2	.600	5.51	42	0	17	0	2	81.7	87	51	50	12	30	0	29	2	1	352
Manabu Fujita	3	4	.429	5.56	18	8	8	2	1	68.0	87	43	42	13	22	0	25	0	1	307
Koichiro Sasaki	3	4	.429	7.98	19	8	5	1	0	58.7	81	55	52	17	21	0	19	5	3	277
Masumitsu Moriguchi	3	14	.176	5.46	20	19	0	8	0	130.3	155	89	79	19	49	2	51	3	1	581
Akinori Takeguchi	1	0	1.000	5.40	14	1	5	0	0	23.3	27	16	14	5	21	0	14	3	0	116
Shigeo Mizutani	1	0	1.000	6.90	11	2	4	0	0	30.0	30	24	23	6	18	0	12	4	0	136
Takayoshi Hirasawa	1	0	1.000	7.29	18	1	4	0	0	33.3	44	27	27	9	12	0	20	0	0	152
Hiroji Kaizuka	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	5
Koji Takagi	0	0		0.00	2	0	0	0	0	1.3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5
Yataro Oishi	0	0		4.88	15	0	4	0	0	24.0	34	17	13	7	9	1	6	0	0	114
Hisao Sugita	0	1	.000	8.35	6	3	3	0	0	18.3	26	21	17	4	9	0	4	1	0	86
Masao Tamura	0	2	.000	8.16	17	3	7	0	1	43.0	56	43	39	12	22	0	15	2	0	201
Totals	48	77	.384	5.64	332	130	100	30	18	1140.0	1311	784	715	234	484	12	476	51	12	5136

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
Mitsuru Fujiwara	119	516	476	72	143	25	1	8	37	21	8	35	25	.300	.351	.408	.759	194	14	3	1	1	2
Carlos May	124	485	423	66	138	24	0	27	75	6	1	51	55	.326	.404	.574	.979	243	11	7	0	4	4
Hiromitsu Kadota	111	430	377	60	110	10	0	41	84	0	0	48	72	.292	.374	.645	1.019	243	7	3	0	2	9
Yuji Kubodera	118	406	373	48	109	29	5	4	32	11	3	20	53	.292	.327	.429	.756	160	4	1	9	3	0
Shinsaku Katahira	114	418	380	51	101	16	1	21	66	1	1	30	37	.266	.328	.479	.807	182	5	6	0	2	2
Takayuki Kono	125	456	399	54	92	18	1	10	49	8	6	37	42	.231	.296	.356	.652	142	13	2	14	4	0
Chiaki Sadaoka	114	414	373	46	90	14	1	13	42	5	4	28	83	.241	.295	.389	.684	145	8	1	11	1	1
Hiromasa Arai	112	374	324	38	85	15	1	6	43	7	6	29	26	.262	.320	.370	.691	120	6	0	18	3	0
Masao Yamamoto	71	188	176	23	52	13	2	9	22	4	3	10	28	.295	.335	.545	.881	96	4	1	0	1	0
Masahiro Kuroda	101	252	209	24	52	5	0	5	21	2	4	31	35	.249	.354	.344	.698	72	2	3	9	0	0
Yoshihito Oda	69	177	158	16	38	6	0	8	25	3	0	11	16	.241	.289	.430	.719	68	10	1	4	3	0
Nobuyuki Kagawa	50	143	131	14	37	4	0	8	25	0	0	11	12	.282	.338	.496	.834	65	4	0	1	0	0
Toshizo Sakamoto	65	150	130	20	35	4	0	2	12	1	3	12	10	.269	.347	.346	.693	45	3	4	3	1	0
Isao Ito	44	117	104	16	29	4	0	5	13	0	1	13	13	.279	.359	.462	.821	48	3	0	0	0	1
Keisuke Okamoto	55	114	107	11	27	3	0	7	24	0	1	6	23	.252	.289	.477	.766	51	3	0	0	1	0
Frank Ortenzio	36	111	101	15	26	8	0	7	14	0	1	10	22	.257	.324	.545	.869	55	0	0	0	0	1
Teruhide Sakurai	53	88	80	11	22	3	1	1	4	1	0	6	12	.275	.330	.375	.705	30	1	1	0	1	0
Yoshiaki Oka	49	97	80	13	20	0	0	0	5	7	3	5	10	.250	.291	.250	.541	20	1	0	11	1	0
Satoshi Iwaki	23	8	8	5	4	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	1.000	1.500	8	0	0	0	0	0
Kenji Nakade	5	4	4	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	2	0	0	0	0	0
Katsuji Ueno	35	1	1	4	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Mitsuo Tateishi	1	2	2	1	1	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	1.000	1.500	2	0	0	0	0	0
Yuji Kanei	1	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	1	0	0	0	0
Toru Ikenoue	1	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0	0	0
Hiroyuki Yoshida	1	3	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0	0	0
Hideki Takayanagi	29	15	13	8	1	1	0	0	2	0	2	2	4	.077	.200	.154	.354	2	1	0	0	0	0
Kazuto Horii	10	3	3	6	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Totals	1636	4977	4440	623	1218	204	13	183	600	80	49	395	579	.274	.336	.450	.786	1997	102	33	81	28	20

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Shinsaku Katahira	1B	109					.000
Yoshihito Oda	1B	42					.000
Masao Yamamoto	1B	2					.000
Keisuke Okamoto	1B	2					.000
Mitsuru Fujiwara	1B	2					.000
Toru Ikenoue	1B	1					.000
Takayuki Kono	2B	98					.000
Teruhide Sakurai	2B	33					.000
Toshizo Sakamoto	2B	33					.000
Yuji Kubodera	2B	10					.000
Yuji Kanei	2B	1					.000
Mitsuru Fujiwara	3B	110					.000
Takayuki Kono	3B	23					.000
Teruhide Sakurai	3B	9					.000
Toshizo Sakamoto	3B	2					.000
Mitsuo Tateishi	3B	1					.000
Masahiro Kuroda	C	101					.000
Nobuyuki Kagawa	C	46					.000
Isao Ito	C	22					.000
Satoshi Iwaki	C	16					.000
Kenji Nakade	C	5					.000
Hiroyuki Yoshida	C	1					.000
Chiaki Sadaoka	OF	113					.000
Carlos May	OF	113					.000
Hiromasa Arai	OF	110					.000
Yuji Kubodera	OF	98					.000
Masao Yamamoto	OF	59					.000
Yoshiaki Oka	OF	42					.000
Keisuke Okamoto	OF	32					.000
Katsuji Ueno	OF	27					.000
Frank Ortenzio	OF	20					.000
Hideki Takayanagi	OF	17					.000
Isao Ito	OF	2					.000
Kazuto Horii	OF	1					.000
Masaki Miura	P	42					.000
Motoyasu Kaneshiro	P	31					.000
Jiro Ueda	P	30					.000
Kazuhiko Natori	P	30					.000
Shinichi Yamauchi	P	28					.000
Yukihiro Murakami	P	24					.000
Masumitsu Moriguchi	P	20					.000
Koichiro Sasaki	P	19					.000
Takayoshi Hirasawa	P	18					.000
Manabu Fujita	P	18					.000
Masao Tamura	P	17					.000
Yataro Oishi	P	15					.000
Akinori Takeguchi	P	14					.000
Shigeo Mizutani	P	11					.000
Hisao Sugita	P	6					.000
Eiketsu Ko	P	6					.000
Koji Takagi	P	2					.000
Hiroji Kaizuka	P	1					.000
Yuji Kubodera	SS	16					.000
Takayuki Kono	SS	12					.000
Totals		1663	0	0	0	0	.000

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