1981 Seibu Lions Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 61-61
Finished 4th in the JPPL
Manager: Rikuo Nemoto (61-61)
Location: Tokorozawa, Japan
Ballpark: MetLife Dome

1981 Seibu Lions Roster

The Seibu Lions of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1981 season with a record of 61 wins and 61 losses, finishing fourth in the JPPL.

The Lions surrendered 513 runs, least in the league. Seibu tallied 599 runs. Takuji Ota paced the squad with 24 home runs, while Terry Whitfield, Koichi Tabuchi, Hiromichi Ishige and Hiroyuki Yamazaki each walloped 15 or more, too. Terry Whitfield accounted for 100 RBI and topped batters with significant playing time with a .316 average. Shigekazu Mori led the team with 14 wins, and Masayuki Matsunuma and Tadashi Sugimoto earned a 3.47 ERA, leading qualifying pitchers.

Terry Whitfield and Steve Ontiveros both played in Major League Baseball during their careers.

Rikuo Nemoto 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
Shigekazu Mori	14	11	.560	3.77	31	30	1	10	3	0	200.3	188	94	84	26	51	1	83	4	0	1	834
Masayuki Matsunuma	12	8	.600	3.46	30	25	3	11	4	3	189.7	166	77	73	22	60	1	83	8	0	2	785
Osamu Higashio	8	11	.421	3.83	27	27	0	11	1	0	181.0	192	83	77	24	51	6	55	7	1	1	768
Tadashi Sugimoto	7	8	.467	3.47	36	21	6	7	1	2	145.3	138	66	56	16	57	1	61	2	1	2	621
Tamotsu Nagai	6	3	.667	3.13	61	0	16	0	0	4	86.3	76	36	30	7	18	3	70	1	0	0	354
Hirohisa Matsunuma	5	13	.278	4.41	23	20	0	7	0	0	120.3	127	66	59	19	36	0	69	8	0	0	523
Yasumitsu Shibata	4	1	.800	3.27	38	2	18	0	0	1	93.7	79	37	34	10	46	0	72	3	0	1	400
Ritsuo Yamashita	2	1	.667	3.58	19	0	6	0	0	0	32.7	38	13	13	3	5	0	14	0	0	0	132
Takashi Nemoto	1	0	1.000	2.70	9	0	3	0	0	0	16.7	14	5	5	2	8	0	8	0	0	0	69
Kazuyuki Ono	1	0	1.000	3.60	1	1	0	0	0	0	5.0	4	3	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	21
Kenji Furusawa	1	4	.200	2.03	32	0	25	0	0	6	44.3	34	14	10	0	19	1	42	1	1	2	182
Hiroshi Kimura	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	2.0	3	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	8
Kazuhito Nishimoto	0	0		2.25	1	0	1	0	0	1	4.0	2	1	1	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	14
Seiji Kobayashi	0	0		4.00	7	0	4	0	0	0	9.0	14	4	4	0	3	0	3	2	0	0	43
Kazuhiko Natori	0	1	.000	7.31	5	4	0	0	0	0	16.0	21	14	13	6	7	0	4	0	0	0	75
Totals	61	61	.500	3.62	321	130	84	46	9	17	1146.3	1096	513	461	137	362	13	569	36	3	9	4829

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
Terry Whitfield	123	512	469	69	148	23	3	22	100	5	6	38	40	.316	.363	.518	.881	243	12	0	0	5	6
Hiromichi Ishige	121	492	409	82	127	21	3	21	55	25	9	44	96	.311	.380	.531	.910	217	5	4	31	4	2
Hiroyuki Yamazaki	125	553	457	97	124	27	4	22	68	5	5	88	83	.271	.390	.492	.883	225	7	3	2	3	0
Yoshiie Tachibana	124	484	431	42	117	12	3	6	51	5	7	31	62	.271	.323	.355	.678	153	6	5	10	7	2
Steve Ontiveros	116	436	380	44	103	16	1	7	47	0	2	36	44	.271	.356	.374	.729	142	16	16	0	4	2
Takuji Ota	100	366	332	53	92	15	0	24	64	3	1	26	25	.277	.331	.539	.870	179	12	3	0	5	1
Koichi Tabuchi	86	330	283	31	70	3	1	15	49	0	0	40	39	.247	.345	.424	.769	120	11	4	0	3	2
Hisataka Yukizawa	97	251	226	32	58	13	3	4	22	3	4	4	26	.257	.292	.394	.685	89	7	8	11	2	0
Yoshinori Yamamura	84	182	166	21	50	12	1	4	26	2	1	7	18	.301	.343	.458	.801	76	4	4	4	1	0
Tomoyoshi Oishi	80	246	219	19	50	4	0	5	25	6	3	14	33	.228	.278	.315	.594	69	5	2	9	2	0
Koju Hirohashi	91	180	162	23	44	8	2	2	12	8	3	8	23	.272	.310	.383	.693	62	4	1	9	0	0
Akihiko Horai	74	147	130	24	32	8	2	1	7	1	3	11	10	.246	.315	.362	.676	47	1	2	4	0	0
Hiroshi Yoshimoto	74	146	135	14	31	4	1	5	11	1	1	8	23	.230	.276	.385	.661	52	2	1	1	1	0
Masahiro Doi	61	145	130	9	26	3	0	1	8	1	1	12	9	.200	.283	.246	.529	32	8	3	0	0	0
Haruhiko Suzuki	67	119	108	7	24	6	1	1	15	1	0	9	9	.222	.286	.324	.610	35	2	1	0	1	0
Kazuo Hasegawa	45	71	63	2	18	2	0	0	4	0	1	4	5	.286	.357	.317	.675	20	3	3	1	0	0
Takanori Okamura	55	97	86	13	15	2	1	2	6	4	3	7	12	.174	.245	.291	.535	25	0	1	3	0	0
Takeshi Yamakawa	20	54	52	5	11	1	2	1	3	0	0	1	9	.212	.226	.365	.592	19	0	0	1	0	0
Shigenobu Yamanaka	24	19	19	4	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	.211	.211	.211	.421	4	0	0	0	0	0
Osamu Hirose	21	27	23	1	4	3	0	0	1	0	0	2	1	.174	.240	.304	.544	7	0	0	2	0	0
Hideaki Keimoto	14	5	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.250	.400	.250	.650	1	0	0	0	0	0
Koji Akiyama	3	6	5	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	2	.200	.333	.600	.933	3	0	0	0	0	0
Junki Kono	3	6	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	3	.200	.333	.200	.533	1	0	0	0	0	0
Tetsuya Ohara	11	5	5	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yukiichi Komazaki	6	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yasumitsu Shibata	39	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1664	4886	4306	598	1151	183	29	143	574	72	51	393	579	.267	.335	.423	.757	1821	105	61	88	38	15

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Steve Ontiveros	1B	69					.000
Haruhiko Suzuki	1B	45					.000
Masahiro Doi	1B	33					.000
Yoshinori Yamamura	1B	28					.000
Kazuo Hasegawa	1B	4					.000
Hiroyuki Yamazaki	2B	125					.000
Hisataka Yukizawa	2B	7					.000
Koju Hirohashi	2B	4					.000
Tetsuya Ohara	2B	3					.000
Junki Kono	2B	3					.000
Hisataka Yukizawa	3B	67					.000
Koju Hirohashi	3B	59					.000
Steve Ontiveros	3B	36					.000
Osamu Hirose	3B	13					.000
Koji Akiyama	3B	3					.000
Yoshinori Yamamura	3B	1					.000
Tetsuya Ohara	3B	1					.000
Tomoyoshi Oishi	C	77					.000
Hiroshi Yoshimoto	C	68					.000
Takeshi Yamakawa	C	20					.000
Yoshiie Tachibana	OF	122					.000
Terry Whitfield	OF	121					.000
Akihiko Horai	OF	70					.000
Takanori Okamura	OF	50					.000
Takuji Ota	OF	47					.000
Yoshinori Yamamura	OF	44					.000
Hideaki Keimoto	OF	13					.000
Yukiichi Komazaki	OF	6					.000
Kazuo Hasegawa	OF	5					.000
Koju Hirohashi	OF	3					.000
Steve Ontiveros	OF	2					.000
Tamotsu Nagai	P	61					.000
Yasumitsu Shibata	P	38					.000
Tadashi Sugimoto	P	36					.000
Kenji Furusawa	P	32					.000
Shigekazu Mori	P	31					.000
Masayuki Matsunuma	P	30					.000
Osamu Higashio	P	27					.000
Hirohisa Matsunuma	P	23					.000
Ritsuo Yamashita	P	19					.000
Takashi Nemoto	P	9					.000
Seiji Kobayashi	P	7					.000
Kazuhiko Natori	P	5					.000
Kazuyuki Ono	P	1					.000
Kazuhito Nishimoto	P	1					.000
Hiroshi Kimura	P	1					.000
Hiromichi Ishige	SS	115					.000
Hisataka Yukizawa	SS	23					.000
Osamu Hirose	SS	6					.000
Tetsuya Ohara	SS	2					.000
Totals		1616	0	0	0	0	.000

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