1971 Nishitetsu Lions Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 38-84
Finished 6th in the JPPL
Manager: Kazuhisa Inao (38-84)
Location: Fukuoka, Japan
Ballpark: Heiwadai Stadium

1971 Nishitetsu Lions Roster

The Nishitetsu Lions of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1971 season with a record of 38 wins and 84 losses, finishing sixth in the JPPL.

The Lions scored 425 runs, worst in the league, and surrendered 623 runs, most in the circuit. Masayoshi Higashida paced Nishitetsu with 23 home runs and recorded 58 runs batted in, while leading batters with significant playing time by hitting .284. Akira Takahashi topped the team with 14 wins, and Osamu Higashio registered a 3.74 earned run average, tops among hurlers with significant time on the mound.

Members of the 1971 Nishitetsu Lions who played in Major League Baseball during their careers were Aaron Pointer, Carl Boles and José Vidal.

Kazuhisa Inao 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
Akira Takahashi	14	13	.519	3.74	43	27	10	11	2		204.7	209	94	85	22	45	4	74	8	0	1	851
Osamu Higashio	8	16	.333	3.74	51	31	10	3	0		221.3	198	110	92	20	118	3	109	15	0	5	964
Akira Tanaka	4	9	.308	4.17	49	3	22	0	0		110.0	112	56	51	12	33	1	53	6	1	5	463
Satoru Miwa	4	10	.286	4.19	39	14	14	1	0		122.3	114	62	57	15	50	0	66	7	0	3	531
Akira Kawahara	4	16	.200	5.44	50	26	6	3	0		170.3	182	114	103	32	65	2	104	18	1	1	759
Yutaka Yanagida	3	8	.273	4.90	29	13	4	2	0		97.3	118	56	53	21	26	0	40	4	0	0	423
Etsuo Nakai	1	0	1.000	4.75	17	0	6	0	0		30.3	30	18	16	4	17	0	8	3	0	0	135
Toshiyoshi Norikae	0	0		0.00	3	0	0	0	0		1.3	2	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	7
Keizo Akiba	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0		2.0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8
Goji Hisano	0	0		4.50	1	0	1	0	0		2.0	4	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	10
Koji Toyokura	0	0		13.50	3	1	0	0	0		4.7	7	8	7	1	4	0	3	0	0	0	26
Terufumi Uchida	0	0		27.00	1	0	0	0	0		1.0	4	3	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	7
Tadaaki Sakaguchi	0	1	.000	3.04	28	2	11	0	0		50.3	44	25	17	6	20	1	19	4	0	5	211
Hideki Yamamoto	0	1	.000	4.91	11	2	4	0	0		18.3	21	11	10	4	16	1	8	0	0	0	89
Kunimitsu Sato	0	3	.000	3.14	25	3	4	0	0		28.7	29	12	10	5	5	1	15	0	0	1	115
Akira Izumisawa	0	3	.000	4.56	14	2	7	0	0		23.7	24	13	12	5	15	0	11	1	0	1	102
Kiyoshi Goto	0	4	.000	4.94	30	6	10	0	0		58.3	63	40	32	14	14	0	21	1	0	1	250
Totals	38	84	.311	4.31	395	130	110	20	2	0	1146.7	1164	623	549	161	431	13	534	67	2	23	4951

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
Mitsuo Motoi	128	540	467	59	129	19	1	14	43	21	5	55	69	.276	.353	.411	.764	192	3	3	10	5	0
Masayoshi Higashida	125	484	444	53	126	16	1	23	58	5	5	38	53	.284	.339	.480	.819	213	7	0	0	2	4
Fumio Takahashi	118	386	365	36	91	7	4	1	8	22	9	13	29	.249	.278	.299	.577	109	3	2	5	1	0
Takashi Takagi	109	324	293	28	82	15	0	1	25	1	0	27	27	.280	.339	.341	.680	100	5	0	2	2	5
Yoshio Abe	104	294	260	33	59	12	1	2	14	6	9	20	31	.227	.303	.304	.607	79	5	9	4	1	0
Kimiyasu Murakami	93	232	222	16	48	8	0	7	27	1	0	4	33	.216	.229	.347	.576	77	3	1	1	4	0
Masashi Takenouchi	54	210	182	22	45	5	0	10	24	2	4	11	31	.247	.335	.440	.774	80	5	14	1	2	1
Aaron Pointer	73	255	231	20	43	6	0	11	34	8	3	20	36	.186	.255	.355	.610	82	8	2	0	2	0
Kazuhide Funada	78	250	224	23	40	10	2	5	17	7	2	10	43	.179	.218	.308	.526	69	4	2	11	3	0
Katsutoshi Miyadera	77	169	155	8	36	9	0	4	16	6	2	12	36	.232	.286	.368	.653	57	1	0	1	1	3
Carl Boles	33	132	116	21	33	3	0	9	21	3	1	14	8	.284	.364	.543	.907	63	4	1	0	1	2
Haruki Ihara	39	123	115	13	31	6	0	2	8	3	0	3	24	.270	.298	.374	.671	43	2	2	2	1	0
José Vidal	39	135	122	6	27	6	0	2	9	6	0	10	31	.221	.289	.320	.609	39	6	2	0	1	0
Tetsuo Yoneyama	37	97	95	7	24	3	0	4	13	0	0	2	17	.253	.268	.411	.679	39	1	0	0	0	1
Takuji Ota	51	97	92	7	23	2	0	1	4	0	1	3	26	.250	.268	.304	.572	28	2	0	0	2	0
Hirofumi Ogawa	69	127	118	7	22	4	0	4	13	0	0	6	39	.186	.244	.322	.566	38	3	3	0	0	0
Kazuo Kai	26	99	87	9	21	3	2	1	5	6	4	5	13	.241	.298	.356	.654	31	1	2	5	0	0
Shojiro Kikukawa	80	126	115	10	18	2	1	3	5	1	1	7	14	.157	.205	.270	.474	31	4	0	4	0	1
Shinnosuke Kataoka	29	71	66	4	17	3	0	3	9	0	0	4	16	.258	.300	.439	.739	29	3	0	1	0	0
Kunizo Umeda	77	108	90	11	14	4	0	0	3	11	1	8	10	.156	.248	.200	.448	18	1	3	7	0	0
Hiromi Wada	40	40	39	7	11	3	0	1	10	1	0	1	5	.282	.300	.436	.736	17	2	0	0	0	0
Osamu Higashio	51	72	64	6	9	1	0	1	3	0	1	3	17	.141	.179	.203	.382	13	1	0	5	0	0
Akira Kawahara	50	57	54	4	7	0	0	2	3	0	0	2	19	.130	.161	.241	.401	13	0	0	1	0	0
Akira Takahashi	44	67	63	0	7	2	0	0	5	0	0	1	17	.111	.123	.143	.266	9	1	0	2	1	0
Tokio Komatsu	23	36	31	5	6	1	0	2	5	1	0	5	4	.194	.306	.419	.725	13	0	0	0	0	1
Shonan Hashino	47	46	43	1	6	0	0	0	7	0	0	2	8	.140	.174	.140	.313	6	3	0	0	1	0
Akira Tanaka	49	21	19	2	4	1	0	1	2	0	0	1	7	.211	.250	.421	.671	8	1	0	1	0	0
Shoichi Shimosusaki	31	35	34	3	4	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	3	.118	.114	.118	.232	4	2	0	0	1	0
Yasuhiro Aratake	30	19	19	2	3	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	.158	.158	.211	.368	4	0	0	0	0	0
Satoru Miwa	39	37	30	1	3	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	19	.100	.156	.100	.256	3	1	0	5	0	0
Yutaka Yanagida	30	25	23	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	.087	.087	.130	.217	3	2	0	2	0	0
Kunimitsu Sato	25	5	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	2	0	0
Hideki Yamamoto	13	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Akira Izumisawa	14	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Koji Toyokura	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kiyoshi Goto	30	7	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.200	.000	.200	0	0	0	2	0	0
Akira Takahashi	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tadaaki Sakaguchi	28	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Etsuo Nakai	17	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.500	.000	.500	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2004	4737	4295	425	992	153	12	114	394	113	48	291	705	.231	.285	.352	.637	1511	84	46	74	31	18

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Takashi Takagi	1B	94					.000
Carl Boles	1B	33					.000
Yasuhiro Aratake	1B	24					.000
Masashi Takenouchi	1B	15					.000
Aaron Pointer	1B	11					.000
José Vidal	1B	3					.000
Hideki Yamamoto	1B	2					.000
Yutaka Yanagida	1B	1					.000
Goji Hisano	1B	1					.000
Mitsuo Motoi	2B	128					.000
Tetsuo Yoneyama	2B	4					.000
Shojiro Kikukawa	2B	3					.000
Kazuhide Funada	2B	2					.000
Masashi Takenouchi	3B	50					.000
Haruki Ihara	3B	39					.000
Kazuhide Funada	3B	38					.000
Tetsuo Yoneyama	3B	28					.000
Shojiro Kikukawa	3B	20					.000
Aaron Pointer	3B	10					.000
Kazuo Kai	3B	2					.000
Mitsuo Motoi	3B	1					.000
Kimiyasu Murakami	C	84					.000
Katsutoshi Miyadera	C	72					.000
Shinnosuke Kataoka	C	29					.000
Masayoshi Higashida	OF	124					.000
Fumio Takahashi	OF	108					.000
Yoshio Abe	OF	85					.000
Aaron Pointer	OF	54					.000
José Vidal	OF	35					.000
Hirofumi Ogawa	OF	27					.000
Takuji Ota	OF	22					.000
Shoichi Shimosusaki	OF	15					.000
Tokio Komatsu	OF	7					.000
Akira Takahashi	OF	1					.000
Akira Takahashi	OF	1					.000
Osamu Higashio	P	51					.000
Akira Kawahara	P	50					.000
Akira Tanaka	P	49					.000
Akira Takahashi	P	43					.000
Satoru Miwa	P	39					.000
Kiyoshi Goto	P	30					.000
Yutaka Yanagida	P	29					.000
Tadaaki Sakaguchi	P	28					.000
Kunimitsu Sato	P	25					.000
Etsuo Nakai	P	17					.000
Akira Izumisawa	P	14					.000
Hideki Yamamoto	P	11					.000
Koji Toyokura	P	3					.000
Toshiyoshi Norikae	P	3					.000
Terufumi Uchida	P	1					.000
Goji Hisano	P	1					.000
Keizo Akiba	P	1					.000
Kunizo Umeda	SS	67					.000
Kazuhide Funada	SS	59					.000
Shojiro Kikukawa	SS	53					.000
Kazuo Kai	SS	25					.000
Aaron Pointer	SS	3					.000
Tetsuo Yoneyama	SS	1					.000
Mitsuo Motoi	SS	1					.000
Totals		1777	0	0	0	0	.000

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