1952 Taiyo Whales Statistics
Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 58-62
Finished 4th in the JPCL
Manager: Tokuro Konishi (58-62)
Location: Shimonoseki, Japan
Ballpark: Shimonoseki Municipal Stadium
1952 Taiyo Whales RosterTeam Record: 58-62
Finished 4th in the JPCL
Manager: Tokuro Konishi (58-62)
Location: Shimonoseki, Japan
Ballpark: Shimonoseki Municipal Stadium
The Taiyo Whales of the Japan Central League ended the 1952 season with a record of 58 wins and 62 losses, finishing fourth in the JPCL.
The Whales tallied 519 runs and conceded 548 runs. Yoshiyuki Iwamoto paced Taiyo with 16 home runs and recorded 81 runs batted in. Tamaichi Yasui topped all regular batters with a .291 average. Hiroyoshi Takano led the team with 17 wins, while Naoaki Hayashi registered a 2.54 earned run average, leading regularly-used pitchers. Tokuro Konishi 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hiroyoshi Takano | 17 | 21 | .447 | 3.22 | 47 | 33 | 11 | 23 | 4 | 296.0 | 299 | 140 | 106 | 23 | 84 | 99 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1267 | ||
| Naoaki Hayashi | 11 | 10 | .524 | 2.53 | 34 | 17 | 17 | 6 | 1 | 170.7 | 159 | 68 | 48 | 9 | 37 | 33 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 699 | ||
| Takashi Eda | 10 | 11 | .476 | 4.15 | 31 | 21 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 186.7 | 217 | 105 | 86 | 10 | 44 | 31 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 797 | ||
| Ienari Arimura | 9 | 9 | .500 | 3.35 | 27 | 21 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 147.7 | 141 | 67 | 55 | 11 | 75 | 39 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 637 | ||
| Hideo Shimizu | 7 | 10 | .412 | 4.86 | 28 | 20 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 150.0 | 166 | 89 | 81 | 12 | 61 | 40 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 659 | ||
| Masao Kanda | 2 | 0 | 1.000 | 4.17 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 36.7 | 31 | 17 | 17 | 4 | 17 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 154 | ||
| Rentaro Imanishi | 2 | 1 | .667 | 5.02 | 16 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 52.0 | 54 | 34 | 29 | 6 | 29 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 237 | ||
| Akikazu Fujimichi | 0 | 0 | 3.00 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 9.0 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 42 | |||
| Hisaji Kitagawa | 0 | 0 | 4.58 | 10 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 19.7 | 25 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 83 | |||
| Kaoru Ogura | 0 | 0 | 4.66 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 19.3 | 19 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 88 | |||
| Totals | 58 | 62 | .483 | 3.68 | 218 | 120 | 66 | 54 | 10 | 0 | 1087.7 | 1119 | 548 | 445 | 76 | 371 | 0 | 277 | 23 | 5 | 12 | 4663 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yoshiyuki Iwamoto | 120 | 522 | 454 | 82 | 130 | 24 | 3 | 16 | 81 | 16 | 6 | 44 | 41 | .286 | .379 | .458 | .837 | 208 | 19 | 24 | 0 | ||
| Takeshi Miyazaki | 114 | 518 | 480 | 71 | 127 | 23 | 4 | 5 | 24 | 23 | 4 | 22 | 38 | .265 | .302 | .360 | .663 | 173 | 9 | 4 | 12 | ||
| Isamu Fujii | 107 | 475 | 440 | 75 | 126 | 24 | 7 | 14 | 69 | 10 | 2 | 32 | 42 | .286 | .338 | .468 | .806 | 206 | 5 | 2 | 1 | ||
| Tamaichi Yasui | 112 | 458 | 430 | 48 | 125 | 28 | 5 | 9 | 74 | 22 | 8 | 25 | 24 | .291 | .333 | .442 | .774 | 190 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||
| Tsutomu Kimura | 100 | 444 | 397 | 43 | 98 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 31 | 14 | 5 | 45 | 19 | .247 | .324 | .292 | .616 | 116 | 9 | 0 | 2 | ||
| Shoji Arakawa | 109 | 437 | 370 | 45 | 89 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 36 | 32 | 7 | 60 | 25 | .241 | .350 | .303 | .652 | 112 | 15 | 2 | 5 | ||
| Nobuyuki Hikiji | 103 | 337 | 322 | 29 | 74 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 35 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 13 | .230 | .257 | .276 | .534 | 89 | 15 | 0 | 3 | ||
| Naofumi Yasui | 102 | 350 | 292 | 41 | 58 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 15 | 20 | 7 | 50 | 26 | .199 | .318 | .271 | .588 | 79 | 2 | 1 | 7 | ||
| Kikuji Hirayama | 77 | 217 | 191 | 18 | 48 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 6 | 1 | 22 | 17 | .251 | .338 | .325 | .663 | 62 | 5 | 3 | 1 | ||
| Yasuhisa Kimura | 75 | 185 | 176 | 17 | 40 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 26 | .227 | .265 | .318 | .583 | 56 | 3 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Ienari Arimura | 37 | 71 | 65 | 9 | 21 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | .323 | .371 | .508 | .879 | 33 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Shigeru Araki | 54 | 106 | 87 | 11 | 19 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 17 | .218 | .340 | .276 | .616 | 24 | 0 | 1 | 3 | ||
| Hiroyoshi Takano | 47 | 110 | 100 | 5 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 29 | .140 | .204 | .180 | .384 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 2 | ||
| Shozo Nakatsu | 48 | 59 | 53 | 3 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 8 | .245 | .322 | .358 | .681 | 19 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Takeo Yoshinari | 15 | 44 | 39 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | .282 | .349 | .308 | .657 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 1 | ||
| Hideo Shimizu | 29 | 57 | 53 | 6 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | .208 | .236 | .302 | .538 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
| Naoaki Hayashi | 34 | 62 | 54 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14 | .148 | .193 | .204 | .397 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||
| Takashi Eda | 31 | 71 | 64 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17 | .125 | .152 | .172 | .323 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 5 | ||
| Masao Kanda | 11 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | .182 | .308 | .182 | .490 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Rentaro Imanishi | 17 | 17 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .125 | .176 | .125 | .301 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Masanori Mori | 19 | 19 | 17 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | .118 | .211 | .176 | .387 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Toshikazu Kanki | 11 | 16 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .067 | .125 | .267 | .392 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Akikazu Fujimichi | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Kaoru Ogura | 9 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Hisaji Kitagawa | 10 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | .250 | .000 | .250 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Shojiro Muramatsu | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Totals | 1397 | 4599 | 4134 | 519 | 1027 | 178 | 35 | 57 | 462 | 160 | 53 | 368 | 379 | .248 | .317 | .350 | .666 | 1446 | 92 | 45 | 52 | 0 | 0 |
Fielding:
| Player | Pos | GP | PO | A | E | DP | Fld% | RF/G |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isamu Fujii | 1B | 100 | .000 | |||||
| Tamaichi Yasui | 1B | 21 | .000 | |||||
| Masanori Mori | 1B | 2 | .000 | |||||
| Takeshi Miyazaki | 2B | 113 | .000 | |||||
| Naofumi Yasui | 2B | 8 | .000 | |||||
| Naofumi Yasui | 3B | 85 | .000 | |||||
| Yasuhisa Kimura | 3B | 60 | .000 | |||||
| Shigeru Araki | 3B | 1 | .000 | |||||
| Shoji Arakawa | C | 107 | .000 | |||||
| Takeo Yoshinari | C | 15 | .000 | |||||
| Toshikazu Kanki | C | 10 | .000 | |||||
| Yoshiyuki Iwamoto | OF | 120 | .000 | |||||
| Tsutomu Kimura | OF | 99 | .000 | |||||
| Tamaichi Yasui | OF | 86 | .000 | |||||
| Kikuji Hirayama | OF | 60 | .000 | |||||
| Shozo Nakatsu | OF | 9 | .000 | |||||
| Isamu Fujii | OF | 8 | .000 | |||||
| Hiroyoshi Takano | P | 47 | .000 | |||||
| Naoaki Hayashi | P | 34 | .000 | |||||
| Takashi Eda | P | 31 | .000 | |||||
| Hideo Shimizu | P | 28 | .000 | |||||
| Ienari Arimura | P | 27 | .000 | |||||
| Rentaro Imanishi | P | 16 | .000 | |||||
| Masao Kanda | P | 11 | .000 | |||||
| Hisaji Kitagawa | P | 10 | .000 | |||||
| Kaoru Ogura | P | 9 | .000 | |||||
| Akikazu Fujimichi | P | 5 | .000 | |||||
| Nobuyuki Hikiji | SS | 102 | .000 | |||||
| Shigeru Araki | SS | 48 | .000 | |||||
| Yasuhisa Kimura | SS | 1 | .000 | |||||
| Totals | 1273 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
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