1987 Nankai Hawks Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 57-63
Finished 4th in the JPPL
Manager: Tadashi Sugiura (57-63)
Location: Osaka, Japan
Ballpark: Osaka Stadium

1987 Nankai Hawks Roster

The Nankai Hawks of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1987 season with a record of 57 wins and 63 losses, finishing fourth in the JPPL.

The Hawks scored 502 runs, worst in the league, and yielded 556 runs. Hiromitsu Kadota walloped 31 home runs for Nankai, while Dave Hostetler swatted 15 or more also. Hiromitsu Kadota accounted for 69 RBI and topped batters with significant playing time with a .317 average. Shuji Fujimoto led the team with 15 wins and a team-best 3.15 earned run average, best among qualifying pitchers.

Steve Hammond and Dave Hostetler both played in Major League Baseball during their careers.

Tadashi Sugiura 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
Shuji Fujimoto	15	8	.652	3.15	31	29	2	16	4	2	217.0	203	87	76	17	60	6	126	5	0	3	908
Kazuhiro Yamauchi	10	11	.476	3.22	31	29	1	13	2	0	207.0	178	83	74	20	71	4	146	4	0	9	855
Takanori Yamauchi	10	14	.417	4.19	30	28	2	10	2	0	195.7	240	99	91	20	33	5	75	0	4	0	836
Yoshiaki Nishikawa	7	10	.412	5.59	23	20	0	4	0	0	122.3	151	84	76	19	55	8	60	3	0	1	564
Yuji Inoue	6	2	.750	3.24	46	0	38	0	0	14	72.3	66	30	26	9	39	8	59	1	0	2	313
Shinichi Kato	4	5	.444	3.23	14	12	2	2	1	0	78.0	87	33	28	0	22	0	31	2	0	1	332
Yoshinobu Nakajo	2	0	1.000	3.99	48	0	5	0	0	1	49.7	56	25	22	5	16	2	14	4	0	1	212
Minoru Yano	0	0		3.43	32	0	8	0	0	0	44.7	54	17	17	4	10	1	23	2	0	4	189
Hiromichi Nakamura	0	0		9.39	10	0	4	0	0	0	7.7	14	9	8	2	4	0	1	1	0	0	42
Kiyotaka Nishi	0	0		19.29	2	0	1	0	0	0	2.3	4	5	5	1	3	0	1	0	0	1	14
Shuichi Yamakawa	0	1	.000	20.25	2	1	1	0	0	0	2.7	6	6	6	2	3	0	1	0	0	0	16
Hisato Aoyama	0	2	.000	3.55	19	0	4	0	0	0	25.3	21	13	10	2	16	3	12	4	0	1	113
Keiji Hashimoto	0	3	.000	4.05	16	3	4	0	0	0	33.3	28	18	15	3	12	2	11	0	0	1	134
Totals	57	63	.475	3.87	334	130	83	47	9	17	1143.7	1191	556	492	118	382	42	637	27	4	26	4903

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
Makoto Sasaki	125	499	451	67	130	22	2	11	33	15	9	37	72	.288	.343	.419	.763	189	3	2	7	2	3
Hiromitsu Kadota	126	458	379	63	120	16	0	31	69	1	1	74	66	.317	.428	.604	1.032	229	5	2	0	3	24
Dave Hostetler	124	446	391	42	98	12	1	17	68	1	4	44	91	.251	.332	.417	.749	163	17	6	0	5	7
Kazunori Yamamoto	104	414	357	44	90	16	0	7	38	7	2	35	53	.252	.334	.356	.690	127	10	10	10	2	2
Steve Hammond	115	352	318	25	87	8	1	9	29	1	1	25	41	.274	.333	.390	.723	124	14	5	1	3	1
Takayuki Kono	108	340	276	36	86	6	1	5	27	4	4	45	34	.312	.409	.395	.804	109	8	2	15	2	0
Hiroyuki Yoshida	98	291	259	24	71	7	0	9	24	0	1	21	42	.274	.331	.405	.736	105	8	2	7	2	1
Hiroshi Yugamidani	99	340	291	30	69	6	3	5	25	14	5	19	53	.237	.286	.330	.616	96	5	1	29	0	0
Hideji Kato	110	293	262	24	68	8	0	9	42	1	0	27	37	.260	.331	.393	.724	103	8	2	0	2	2
Yoshinori Yamamura	100	276	244	22	62	6	0	5	26	1	3	21	35	.254	.317	.340	.658	83	5	3	5	3	0
Nobuyuki Kagawa	88	229	204	24	51	4	0	11	32	0	0	15	43	.250	.302	.431	.733	88	8	1	7	2	2
Tsutomu Yamada	87	188	162	23	45	5	0	2	11	0	6	18	24	.278	.352	.346	.697	56	1	1	6	1	0
Hideki Takayanagi	81	180	156	18	36	7	0	7	31	0	0	16	33	.231	.298	.410	.708	64	6	1	2	5	2
Hiroshi Moriwaki	91	198	172	22	35	1	0	3	11	3	2	12	36	.203	.262	.262	.524	45	4	2	11	1	0
Hiroshi Ogawa	73	172	141	14	28	2	0	0	7	6	4	17	20	.199	.281	.213	.494	30	4	0	12	2	0
Hiroshi Fujimoto	26	48	41	2	10	6	0	0	3	0	0	6	8	.244	.340	.390	.731	16	0	0	1	0	0
Chisen Sakaguchi	46	56	48	8	9	2	0	0	4	0	1	4	14	.188	.291	.229	.520	11	0	3	1	0	0
Chiaki Sadaoka	35	41	34	1	5	0	0	0	3	0	0	4	13	.147	.237	.147	.384	5	0	0	3	0	0
Akio Nakao	45	17	16	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.125	.176	.125	.301	2	0	0	0	0	0
Katsuya Kishigawa	7	4	3	1	1	0	0	1	1	1	0	1	2	.333	.500	1.333	1.833	4	0	0	0	0	0
Masahiko Migita	37	17	15	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	6	.067	.176	.067	.243	1	0	0	0	0	0
Hiroyuki Mori	3	8	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	1	0	0
Kunimitsu Tonda	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Satoshi Iwaki	20	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yuji Yamaguchi	20	1	0	7	0	0	0	0	0	3	4	1	0		1.000			0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1771	4872	4231	502	1104	134	8	132	484	58	49	445	728	.261	.335	.390	.725	1650	107	43	118	35	44

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Dave Hostetler	1B	113					.000
Hideji Kato	1B	32					.000
Hiroshi Fujimoto	1B	11					.000
Chiaki Sadaoka	1B	2					.000
Yoshinori Yamamura	1B	1					.000
Hiroshi Moriwaki	1B	1					.000
Hiroshi Yugamidani	2B	81					.000
Takayuki Kono	2B	56					.000
Chiaki Sadaoka	2B	17					.000
Hiroshi Moriwaki	2B	13					.000
Chisen Sakaguchi	2B	12					.000
Hiroshi Ogawa	2B	2					.000
Steve Hammond	3B	94					.000
Akio Nakao	3B	40					.000
Takayuki Kono	3B	38					.000
Chiaki Sadaoka	3B	14					.000
Hiroshi Fujimoto	3B	13					.000
Hiroshi Moriwaki	3B	12					.000
Chisen Sakaguchi	3B	6					.000
Yoshinori Yamamura	3B	3					.000
Hiroyuki Yoshida	C	93					.000
Nobuyuki Kagawa	C	64					.000
Hiroyuki Mori	C	3					.000
Satoshi Iwaki	C	2					.000
Makoto Sasaki	OF	119					.000
Kazunori Yamamoto	OF	103					.000
Yoshinori Yamamura	OF	82					.000
Tsutomu Yamada	OF	80					.000
Hideki Takayanagi	OF	41					.000
Masahiko Migita	OF	32					.000
Hiromitsu Kadota	OF	30					.000
Yuji Yamaguchi	OF	5					.000
Chiaki Sadaoka	OF	4					.000
Takayuki Kono	OF	3					.000
Hideji Kato	OF	3					.000
Steve Hammond	OF	3					.000
Hiroshi Moriwaki	OF	1					.000
Katsuya Kishigawa	OF	1					.000
Yoshinobu Nakajo	P	48					.000
Yuji Inoue	P	46					.000
Minoru Yano	P	32					.000
Kazuhiro Yamauchi	P	31					.000
Shuji Fujimoto	P	31					.000
Takanori Yamauchi	P	30					.000
Yoshiaki Nishikawa	P	23					.000
Hisato Aoyama	P	19					.000
Keiji Hashimoto	P	16					.000
Shinichi Kato	P	14					.000
Hiromichi Nakamura	P	10					.000
Shuichi Yamakawa	P	2					.000
Kiyotaka Nishi	P	2					.000
Hiroshi Moriwaki	SS	72					.000
Hiroshi Ogawa	SS	68					.000
Hiroshi Yugamidani	SS	22					.000
Chisen Sakaguchi	SS	21					.000
Akio Nakao	SS	2					.000
Totals		1749	0	0	0	0	.000

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