1983 Seibu Lions Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 86-40
Finished 1st in the JPPL
Manager: Tatsuro Hiroka (86-40)
Location: Tokorozawa, Japan
Ballpark: MetLife Dome

1983 Seibu Lions Roster

Japan Series - Seibu Lions 4 games, Yomiuri Giants 3

The Seibu Lions of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1983 season with a record of 86 wins and 40 losses, finishing first in the JPPL.

The Lions led the league with 700 runs, fueled by 182 home runs. Seibu allowed 440 runs, least in the league. Terry Whitfield walloped 38 home runs for the squad, while Hiroyuki Yamazaki, Koichi Tabuchi, Hiromichi Ishige, Steve Ontiveros, Takuji Ota and Shinsaku Katahira each added 15 or more, too. Terry Whitfield accounted for 109 RBI. Steve Ontiveros paced all regular batters with a .321 average. Osamu Higashio topped the team with 18 wins, and Masayuki Matsunuma as well contributed 15 or more victories as well Osamu Higashio registered a 2.92 earned run average, best among pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.

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

Tatsuro Hiroka 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
Osamu Higashio	18	9	.667	2.92	32	29	2	11	3	2	213.0	198	76	69	14	51	4	72	6	1	0	873
Masayuki Matsunuma	15	8	.652	3.25	28	28	0	15	3	0	216.0	165	82	78	24	62	2	112	4	0	1	864
Naoki Takahashi	13	3	.812	3.03	25	24	0	4	0	0	142.7	137	54	48	15	23	4	37	4	1	0	583
Tadashi Sugimoto	12	6	.667	3.43	26	22	1	4	2	0	136.3	133	56	52	16	39	2	44	0	0	0	571
Hirohisa Matsunuma	12	6	.667	3.82	23	22	0	3	0	0	132.0	111	59	56	23	47	1	87	6	0	3	551
Shigekazu Mori	5	5	.500	1.48	59	0	29	0	0	34	85.0	53	17	14	6	22	1	46	3	0	1	322
Seiji Kobayashi	3	1	.750	3.77	23	1	5	0	0	1	45.3	43	19	19	6	16	2	26	1	0	0	190
Kimiyasu Kudo	2	0	1.000	3.24	23	2	2	0	0	0	33.3	30	13	12	6	13	0	24	0	0	0	138
Hiroshi Kimura	2	0	1.000	4.85	26	0	3	0	0	1	42.7	39	23	23	5	18	2	27	2	0	1	180
Tamotsu Nagai	2	1	.667	2.41	42	1	3	0	0	0	41.0	40	12	11	3	7	0	43	2	0	0	162
Kazuhito Nishimoto	1	0	1.000	5.79	9	0	3	0	0	0	14.0	12	11	9	1	9	0	4	0	0	0	62
Yasumitsu Shibata	1	1	.500	3.38	12	0	7	0	0	0	21.3	17	8	8	2	9	0	22	2	0	0	89
Takashi Nemoto	0	0		0.00	2	0	1	0	0	0	4.7	4	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	21
Takeshi Ishii	0	0		0.00	2	0	2	0	0	0	4.0	0	0	0	0	3	0	3	0	0	0	15
Yuji Kurohara	0	0		2.70	5	0	2	0	0	0	6.7	8	2	2	1	4	0	6	0	0	0	30
Hiroyuki Noguchi	0	0		5.14	2	1	0	0	0	0	7.0	11	4	4	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	32
Kazuyuki Ono	0	0		5.68	4	0	3	0	0	0	6.3	7	4	4	2	3	0	5	0	0	0	30
Totals	86	40	.683	3.20	343	130	63	37	8	38	1151.3	1008	440	409	124	331	18	560	30	2	6	4713

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
Steve Ontiveros	129	565	476	70	153	29	4	17	85	0	3	75	65	.321	.419	.506	.926	241	9	9	0	5	3
Hiroyuki Yamazaki	128	600	515	96	148	30	3	18	82	4	3	67	52	.287	.367	.462	.829	238	12	2	9	7	3
Terry Whitfield	129	531	485	76	135	22	3	38	109	2	2	38	59	.278	.331	.571	.903	277	19	3	0	5	2
Hiromichi Ishige	128	525	439	86	133	26	7	16	64	29	5	59	63	.303	.393	.503	.896	221	10	6	21	0	0
Takuji Ota	105	417	397	55	118	18	2	20	67	1	1	14	29	.297	.326	.504	.830	200	12	4	0	2	4
Shinsaku Katahira	118	416	370	50	103	12	1	19	55	1	2	39	13	.278	.353	.470	.824	174	7	5	0	2	1
Yoshiie Tachibana	114	359	317	44	98	12	2	8	42	3	3	19	25	.309	.358	.435	.793	138	6	5	18	0	1
Koichi Tabuchi	82	349	300	56	88	11	0	30	71	1	0	43	31	.293	.390	.630	1.020	189	5	5	0	1	2
Eiji Kanamori	74	210	174	26	51	7	1	3	22	3	1	22	17	.293	.384	.397	.781	69	5	5	7	2	0
Yoshihiro Nishioka	102	203	170	23	37	6	1	6	27	2	0	17	31	.218	.294	.371	.664	63	2	3	9	4	0
Tomoyoshi Oishi	76	176	143	21	30	5	0	4	19	0	0	17	20	.210	.296	.329	.625	47	4	1	14	1	0
Koju Hirohashi	83	112	93	23	22	6	0	0	4	3	3	10	14	.237	.324	.301	.625	28	1	2	7	0	0
Tsutomu Ito	56	137	108	22	21	3	0	0	6	3	2	17	19	.194	.328	.222	.550	24	3	5	6	1	0
Masahiro Kuroda	64	149	130	15	20	1	0	1	5	1	1	13	22	.154	.234	.185	.419	24	1	1	4	1	0
Hisataka Yukizawa	82	64	58	7	14	5	0	0	4	0	0	2	10	.241	.262	.328	.590	19	1	0	3	1	0
Haruhiko Suzuki	46	60	51	5	13	5	0	0	9	0	0	7	6	.255	.350	.353	.703	18	1	1	0	1	0
Takanori Okamura	55	66	58	14	13	1	2	1	9	4	2	3	7	.224	.274	.362	.636	21	1	1	4	0	0
Akihiko Horai	29	33	27	4	6	2	0	1	4	1	0	1	2	.222	.241	.407	.649	11	1	0	4	1	0
Hiroyoshi Shimizu	15	11	9	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	3	.111	.273	.111	.384	1	0	0	0	0	0
Seiji Tomashino	5	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Masakazu Seike	3	4	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Junki Kono	16	10	9	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.100	.000	.100	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1639	4998	4333	700	1204	201	26	182	685	58	28	466	492	.278	.353	.462	.816	2003	100	58	107	34	16

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Shinsaku Katahira	1B	112					.000
Koju Hirohashi	1B	36					.000
Haruhiko Suzuki	1B	13					.000
Steve Ontiveros	1B	13					.000
Koichi Tabuchi	1B	7					.000
Hiroyoshi Shimizu	1B	1					.000
Hiroyuki Yamazaki	2B	128					.000
Hisataka Yukizawa	2B	3					.000
Koju Hirohashi	2B	3					.000
Junki Kono	2B	2					.000
Hiroyoshi Shimizu	2B	1					.000
Steve Ontiveros	3B	122					.000
Hisataka Yukizawa	3B	75					.000
Seiji Tomashino	3B	4					.000
Junki Kono	3B	4					.000
Koju Hirohashi	3B	2					.000
Masakazu Seike	3B	1					.000
Tomoyoshi Oishi	C	76					.000
Masahiro Kuroda	C	64					.000
Tsutomu Ito	C	53					.000
Eiji Kanamori	C	1					.000
Terry Whitfield	OF	129					.000
Yoshiie Tachibana	OF	106					.000
Yoshihiro Nishioka	OF	97					.000
Eiji Kanamori	OF	60					.000
Takuji Ota	OF	54					.000
Takanori Okamura	OF	49					.000
Akihiko Horai	OF	23					.000
Koju Hirohashi	OF	8					.000
Haruhiko Suzuki	OF	4					.000
Junki Kono	OF	3					.000
Makoto Ozawa	OF	1					.000
Shigekazu Mori	P	59					.000
Tamotsu Nagai	P	42					.000
Osamu Higashio	P	32					.000
Masayuki Matsunuma	P	28					.000
Tadashi Sugimoto	P	26					.000
Hiroshi Kimura	P	26					.000
Naoki Takahashi	P	25					.000
Hirohisa Matsunuma	P	23					.000
Kimiyasu Kudo	P	23					.000
Seiji Kobayashi	P	23					.000
Yasumitsu Shibata	P	12					.000
Kazuhito Nishimoto	P	9					.000
Yuji Kurohara	P	5					.000
Kazuyuki Ono	P	4					.000
Hiroyuki Noguchi	P	2					.000
Takashi Nemoto	P	2					.000
Takeshi Ishii	P	2					.000
Hiromichi Ishige	SS	128					.000
Hisataka Yukizawa	SS	2					.000
Junki Kono	SS	2					.000
Masakazu Seike	SS	1					.000
Totals		1731	0	0	0	0	.000

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