1956 Osaka Tigers Statistics
Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 79-50
Finished 2nd in the JPCL
Manager: Fumio Fujimura (79-50)
Location: Osaka, Japan
Ballpark: Hanshin Koshien Stadium
1956 Osaka Tigers RosterTeam Record: 79-50
Finished 2nd in the JPCL
Manager: Fumio Fujimura (79-50)
Location: Osaka, Japan
Ballpark: Hanshin Koshien Stadium
The Osaka Tigers of the Japan Central League ended the 1956 season with a record of 79 wins and 50 losses, finishing second in the JPCL.
The Tigers surrendered 283 runs, least in the league. Osaka plated 386 runs. Kenjiro Tamiya paced the team with 11 home runs Hiroyuki Watanabe recorded 47 runs batted in. Kenjiro Tamiya topped batters with significant playing time with a .300 average. Mitsuo Osaki recorded 25 wins on the mound for the squad, while Shozo Watanabe and Masaaki Koyama, too added 15 or more wins, too Kazunori Nishimura earned a 1.38 ERA, tops among qualifying pitchers. Fumio Fujimura 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mitsuo Osaki | 25 | 14 | .641 | 1.66 | 63 | 37 | 18 | 12 | 3 | 342.3 | 243 | 70 | 63 | 16 | 41 | 3 | 159 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1284 | |
| Shozo Watanabe | 22 | 8 | .733 | 1.45 | 52 | 30 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 260.3 | 207 | 54 | 42 | 4 | 30 | 6 | 84 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1001 | |
| Masaaki Koyama | 17 | 13 | .567 | 1.67 | 59 | 14 | 39 | 8 | 4 | 232.3 | 134 | 55 | 43 | 8 | 40 | 7 | 220 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 858 | |
| Kazunori Nishimura | 7 | 3 | .700 | 1.38 | 23 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 104.3 | 64 | 21 | 16 | 6 | 26 | 1 | 89 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 394 | |
| Shigetaka Nishio | 3 | 3 | .500 | 2.81 | 29 | 19 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 89.7 | 73 | 33 | 28 | 4 | 30 | 1 | 47 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 366 | |
| Takao Fujimura | 3 | 7 | .300 | 1.93 | 26 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 84.0 | 56 | 19 | 18 | 5 | 22 | 2 | 33 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 329 | |
| Keiji Komada | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 0.45 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 20.0 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 78 | |
| Isoroku Nishi | 1 | 1 | .500 | 5.19 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8.7 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 38 | |
| Masayuki Umemoto | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | ||
| Hajime Nishigaki | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | ||
| Itsuhito Miyazaki | 0 | 0 | 4.50 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 18.0 | 20 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 77 | ||
| Takanori Sato | 0 | 0 | 54.00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.7 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | ||
| Kinya Maeoka | 0 | 1 | .000 | 2.37 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 19.0 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 77 | |
| Totals | 79 | 50 | .612 | 1.77 | 280 | 130 | 99 | 31 | 14 | 0 | 1187.7 | 844 | 283 | 234 | 50 | 217 | 21 | 665 | 17 | 1 | 9 | 4539 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yoshio Yoshida | 127 | 545 | 487 | 65 | 141 | 20 | 7 | 8 | 34 | 50 | 22 | 46 | 19 | .290 | .352 | .409 | .761 | 199 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 4 |
| Kenjiro Tamiya | 126 | 500 | 454 | 58 | 136 | 33 | 12 | 11 | 42 | 25 | 14 | 40 | 70 | .300 | .364 | .498 | .862 | 226 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Hiroyuki Watanabe | 125 | 513 | 454 | 48 | 103 | 20 | 2 | 4 | 47 | 10 | 8 | 47 | 34 | .227 | .300 | .306 | .606 | 139 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
| Atsushi Otsu | 99 | 366 | 344 | 28 | 85 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 44 | 19 | 11 | 16 | 13 | .247 | .278 | .340 | .618 | 117 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| Hideshi Miyake | 128 | 373 | 345 | 31 | 76 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 16 | 18 | 4 | 19 | 58 | .220 | .266 | .330 | .597 | 114 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| Choei Shirasaka | 109 | 375 | 337 | 18 | 71 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 32 | 6 | 6 | 27 | 28 | .211 | .268 | .258 | .527 | 87 | 8 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 0 |
| Kazuo Ishigaki | 103 | 258 | 248 | 22 | 51 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 25 | .206 | .236 | .319 | .555 | 79 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mitsutsugu Yokoyama | 86 | 217 | 201 | 18 | 40 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 10 | 4 | 10 | 34 | .199 | .238 | .264 | .502 | 53 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| Kazuyoshi Nishiyama | 67 | 142 | 134 | 19 | 33 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 14 | .246 | .277 | .358 | .635 | 48 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Masayasu Kaneda | 67 | 203 | 179 | 18 | 31 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 19 | 31 | .173 | .262 | .212 | .475 | 38 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Tsuguo Goto | 87 | 160 | 147 | 1 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 19 | .184 | .228 | .190 | .418 | 28 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Juzo Sanada | 77 | 128 | 116 | 8 | 24 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 30 | .207 | .266 | .284 | .550 | 33 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Fumio Fujimura | 51 | 118 | 105 | 10 | 23 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 19 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 9 | .219 | .293 | .371 | .665 | 39 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Kenichi Kawazu | 69 | 115 | 103 | 11 | 20 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 17 | .194 | .245 | .320 | .566 | 33 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Masaaki Koyama | 59 | 69 | 66 | 4 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 19 | .227 | .250 | .318 | .568 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Tetsuya Yamamoto | 57 | 91 | 86 | 7 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 16 | .174 | .184 | .233 | .416 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Shigeru Tokuami | 45 | 86 | 83 | 2 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | .169 | .188 | .217 | .405 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Mitsuo Osaki | 63 | 106 | 101 | 2 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15 | .119 | .127 | .139 | .266 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Masahiro Naiji | 59 | 59 | 55 | 6 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 22 | .200 | .254 | .291 | .545 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Shozo Watanabe | 52 | 83 | 77 | 4 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17 | .143 | .165 | .182 | .346 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Akira Kusaka | 23 | 42 | 36 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 2 | .194 | .310 | .222 | .532 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kazunori Nishimura | 23 | 29 | 26 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | .077 | .111 | .077 | .188 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Katsumi Fujimoto | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .500 | .500 | 1.000 | 1.500 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Shigetaka Nishio | 29 | 21 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | .056 | .150 | .056 | .206 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Takao Fujimura | 26 | 22 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | .000 | .100 | .000 | .100 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Koshiro Ito | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tadamichi Kawachi | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Keiji Komada | 5 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kinya Maeoka | 6 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Itsuhito Miyazaki | 9 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Hajime Nishigaki | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Isoroku Nishi | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 1789 | 4641 | 4240 | 386 | 950 | 149 | 44 | 54 | 341 | 165 | 88 | 292 | 520 | .224 | .277 | .318 | .595 | 1349 | 83 | 25 | 65 | 19 | 15 |
Fielding:
| Player | Pos | GP | PO | A | E | DP | Fld% | RF/G |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hiroyuki Watanabe | 1B | 104 | .000 | |||||
| Tsuguo Goto | 1B | 40 | .000 | |||||
| Fumio Fujimura | 1B | 22 | .000 | |||||
| Juzo Sanada | 1B | 3 | .000 | |||||
| Choei Shirasaka | 2B | 108 | .000 | |||||
| Kenichi Kawazu | 2B | 34 | .000 | |||||
| Hideshi Miyake | 2B | 18 | .000 | |||||
| Hideshi Miyake | 3B | 117 | .000 | |||||
| Juzo Sanada | 3B | 35 | .000 | |||||
| Kenichi Kawazu | 3B | 21 | .000 | |||||
| Fumio Fujimura | 3B | 15 | .000 | |||||
| Tadamichi Kawachi | 3B | 1 | .000 | |||||
| Kazuo Ishigaki | C | 98 | .000 | |||||
| Tetsuya Yamamoto | C | 54 | .000 | |||||
| Shigeru Tokuami | C | 44 | .000 | |||||
| Masayuki Umemoto | C | 2 | .000 | |||||
| Yoshio Ranjo | C | 1 | .000 | |||||
| Kenjiro Tamiya | OF | 125 | .000 | |||||
| Atsushi Otsu | OF | 92 | .000 | |||||
| Mitsutsugu Yokoyama | OF | 72 | .000 | |||||
| Masayasu Kaneda | OF | 57 | .000 | |||||
| Hiroyuki Watanabe | OF | 45 | .000 | |||||
| Kazuyoshi Nishiyama | OF | 45 | .000 | |||||
| Akira Kusaka | OF | 24 | .000 | |||||
| Masahiro Naiji | OF | 20 | .000 | |||||
| Koshiro Ito | OF | 2 | .000 | |||||
| Mitsuo Osaki | P | 63 | .000 | |||||
| Masaaki Koyama | P | 59 | .000 | |||||
| Shozo Watanabe | P | 52 | .000 | |||||
| Shigetaka Nishio | P | 29 | .000 | |||||
| Takao Fujimura | P | 26 | .000 | |||||
| Kazunori Nishimura | P | 23 | .000 | |||||
| Itsuhito Miyazaki | P | 9 | .000 | |||||
| Isoroku Nishi | P | 5 | .000 | |||||
| Keiji Komada | P | 5 | .000 | |||||
| Kinya Maeoka | P | 5 | .000 | |||||
| Masayuki Umemoto | P | 2 | .000 | |||||
| Takanori Sato | P | 1 | .000 | |||||
| Hajime Nishigaki | P | 1 | .000 | |||||
| Yoshio Yoshida | SS | 127 | .000 | |||||
| Hideshi Miyake | SS | 6 | .000 | |||||
| Kenichi Kawazu | SS | 2 | .000 | |||||
| Totals | 1614 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
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