1988 Seibu Lions Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 73-51
Finished 1st in the JPPL
Manager: Masahiko Mori (73-51)
Location: Tokorozawa, Japan
Ballpark: MetLife Dome

1988 Seibu Lions Roster

Japan Series - Seibu Lions 4 games, Chunichi Dragons 1

The Seibu Lions of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1988 season with a record of 73 wins and 51 losses, finishing first in the JPPL.

The Lions paced the league with 645 runs, sparked by 176 home runs. Seibu allowed 531 runs. Ty Van Burkleo and Koji Akiyama each. walloped 38 home runs for the team, while Hiromichi Ishige and Kazuhiro Kiyohara added 15 or more as well. Koji Akiyama drove in 103 runs. Ken Hirano led all regular batters with a .303 average. Hisanobu Watanabe topped the team with 15 wins, and Taigen Kaku recorded a 2.41 ERA, tops among pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.

Ty Van Burkleo played in Major League Baseball during his career, the only member of the Seibu Lions to do so.

Masahiko Mori 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	WP	BF
Hisanobu Watanabe	15	7	.682	3.60	28	25	1	14	3	0	185.0	163	79	74	29	59	2	123	3	4	754
Taigen Kaku	13	3	.812	2.41	19	18	1	15	1	1	149.3	113	50	40	10	23	3	76	2	0	583
Ryoji Moriyama	10	9	.526	3.46	28	24	3	10	2	0	169.0	166	72	65	12	41	4	77	4	3	706
Kimiyasu Kudo	10	10	.500	3.79	24	20	1	11	2	1	159.0	164	77	67	18	70	6	94	1	4	694
Hirohisa Matsunuma	6	6	.500	4.28	23	19	1	4	2	0	113.7	107	61	54	16	34	9	48	8	2	481
Osamu Higashio	6	9	.400	4.85	19	15	3	5	1	0	105.7	121	63	57	21	30	2	30	3	2	463
Kazuo Yamane	5	0	1.000	1.28	32	0	20	0	0	2	49.3	36	8	7	4	17	5	39	0	0	199
Ikuo Takayama	3	2	.600	4.66	11	5	1	1	0	0	36.7	42	24	19	4	10	0	13	0	2	159
Yuji Kurohara	2	0	1.000	3.42	33	0	3	0	0	1	47.3	50	21	18	5	12	4	17	0	2	192
Koji Maeda	1	0	1.000	2.08	6	0	0	0	0	0	8.7	10	3	2	2	1	0	5	0	0	36
Shinya Oda	1	1	.500	3.48	41	0	6	0	0	5	33.7	28	14	13	2	11	3	16	1	0	132
Tetsuya Haraguchi	1	2	.333	3.75	18	1	2	0	0	0	36.0	32	17	15	5	11	0	12	0	0	146
Kazuhito Nishimoto	0	0		2.89	5	2	1	0	0	0	9.3	10	5	3	2	3	1	2	1	1	42
Shintaro Hirose	0	0		3.52	5	0	1	0	0	0	7.7	10	5	3	0	5	0	1	1	1	37
Munenao Ogawa	0	0		3.68	8	1	2	0	0	0	7.3	9	3	3	1	7	1	5	0	0	37
Norio Ichimura	0	0		5.68	11	0	2	0	0	0	6.3	9	4	4	1	0	0	3	0	0	25
Masayuki Matsunuma	0	0		10.80	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.7	4	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	9
Taketo Kanei	0	0		11.57	2	0	1	0	0	0	2.3	4	3	3	0	5	0	1	0	1	16
Shigekazu Mori	0	1	.000	3.81	21	0	13	0	0	2	26.0	25	13	11	4	7	2	9	1	0	109
Hirokazu Okada	0	1	.000	7.88	8	0	8	0	0	0	8.0	12	7	7	0	4	0	6	0	0	39
Totals	73	51	.589	3.62	343	130	70	60	11	12	1162.0	1115	531	467	136	350	42	578	25	22	4859

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
Ken Hirano	130	589	508	75	154	24	2	7	46	18	8	37	59	.303	.349	.400	.748	203	9	0	41	3	0
Koji Akiyama	130	577	517	93	151	23	2	38	103	20	12	50	132	.292	.362	.565	.927	292	11	8	0	2	5
Hiromichi Ishige	130	594	508	84	144	15	1	21	63	22	4	66	79	.283	.364	.441	.805	224	10	2	12	6	7
Kazuhiro Kiyohara	130	551	451	97	129	21	0	31	77	5	4	82	102	.286	.410	.539	.949	243	10	15	0	3	7
Hatsuhiko Tsuji	130	460	419	45	110	19	1	3	39	13	12	28	51	.263	.313	.334	.647	140	5	3	9	1	0
Tsutomu Ito	129	506	429	51	108	16	5	11	56	2	4	50	68	.252	.330	.389	.719	167	11	1	24	2	5
Ty Van Burkleo	118	453	366	67	98	10	2	38	90	3	4	82	120	.268	.406	.617	1.024	226	4	4	0	1	3
Osamu Abe	107	361	319	39	84	17	3	8	49	1	3	31	57	.263	.329	.411	.739	131	7	1	8	2	3
Norio Tanabe	74	214	198	25	51	8	2	7	23	1	0	6	27	.258	.279	.424	.704	84	6	0	10	0	0
Masakazu Seike	94	205	181	13	35	12	1	1	19	0	2	13	25	.193	.254	.287	.541	52	6	2	8	1	1
Yoshihiro Nishioka	56	93	87	12	31	4	0	4	11	1	2	4	8	.356	.380	.540	.921	47	2	0	1	1	1
Seiji Tomashino	56	83	71	17	20	3	1	2	10	3	2	5	9	.282	.329	.437	.766	31	2	0	7	0	0
Koju Hirohashi	50	80	74	12	18	0	0	3	12	4	1	3	10	.243	.273	.365	.638	27	2	0	3	0	0
Yoshiie Tachibana	67	72	65	1	16	3	0	1	7	1	0	6	7	.246	.319	.338	.658	22	1	1	0	0	0
Yukiichi Komazaki	50	56	55	1	13	2	0	0	3	0	0	1	9	.236	.250	.273	.523	15	1	0	0	0	0
Seigo Fujino	28	32	28	5	4	1	0	1	2	0	0	2	6	.143	.200	.286	.486	8	1	0	2	0	0
Terufumi Kitamura	29	15	12	2	3	0	0	0	1	1	1	2	1	.250	.357	.250	.607	3	1	0	1	0	0
Haruki Yoshitake	12	19	18	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.167	.211	.167	.377	3	1	0	0	0	0
Hisataka Yukizawa	24	7	7	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.143	.143	.143	.286	1	0	0	0	0	0
Hiromoto Okubo	13	13	10	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	5	.100	.250	.100	.350	1	0	0	1	0	0
Eiji Kanamori	4	13	11	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.091	.091	.091	.182	1	0	0	2	0	0
Takahiro Shirahata	12	20	19	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	3	.053	.050	.053	.103	1	1	0	0	1	0
Hideshi Nakada	20	8	8	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1593	5021	4361	645	1176	178	20	176	613	95	60	471	786	.270	.344	.441	.785	1922	91	37	129	23	32

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Kazuhiro Kiyohara	1B	125					.000
Osamu Abe	1B	5					.000
Seiji Tomashino	1B	2					.000
Koju Hirohashi	1B	1					.000
Hatsuhiko Tsuji	2B	130					.000
Seiji Tomashino	2B	14					.000
Hisataka Yukizawa	2B	2					.000
Norio Tanabe	2B	2					.000
Masakazu Seike	2B	1					.000
Seigo Fujino	2B	1					.000
Hiromichi Ishige	3B	130					.000
Hisataka Yukizawa	3B	19					.000
Seiji Tomashino	3B	5					.000
Masakazu Seike	3B	3					.000
Seigo Fujino	3B	1					.000
Tsutomu Ito	C	129					.000
Hideshi Nakada	C	19					.000
Hiromoto Okubo	C	3					.000
Koji Akiyama	OF	130					.000
Ken Hirano	OF	127					.000
Osamu Abe	OF	66					.000
Yoshihiro Nishioka	OF	55					.000
Ty Van Burkleo	OF	32					.000
Terufumi Kitamura	OF	25					.000
Seiji Tomashino	OF	22					.000
Yukiichi Komazaki	OF	9					.000
Haruki Yoshitake	OF	8					.000
Yoshiie Tachibana	OF	5					.000
Eiji Kanamori	OF	3					.000
Takanori Okamura	OF	1					.000
Shinya Oda	P	41					.000
Yuji Kurohara	P	33					.000
Kazuo Yamane	P	32					.000
Hisanobu Watanabe	P	28					.000
Ryoji Moriyama	P	28					.000
Kimiyasu Kudo	P	24					.000
Hirohisa Matsunuma	P	23					.000
Shigekazu Mori	P	21					.000
Taigen Kaku	P	19					.000
Osamu Higashio	P	19					.000
Tetsuya Haraguchi	P	18					.000
Ikuo Takayama	P	11					.000
Norio Ichimura	P	11					.000
Hirokazu Okada	P	8					.000
Munenao Ogawa	P	8					.000
Koji Maeda	P	6					.000
Kazuhito Nishimoto	P	5					.000
Shintaro Hirose	P	5					.000
Taketo Kanei	P	2					.000
Masayuki Matsunuma	P	1					.000
Masakazu Seike	SS	92					.000
Norio Tanabe	SS	72					.000
Seigo Fujino	SS	25					.000
Hiromichi Ishige	SS	14					.000
Hisataka Yukizawa	SS	1					.000
Seiji Tomashino	SS	1					.000
Totals		1623	0	0	0	0	.000

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