1955 Taiyo Whales Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 31-99
Finished 6th in the JPCL
Manager: Isamu Fujii (31-99)
Location: Kawasaki, Japan
Ballpark: Kawasaki Stadium

1955 Taiyo Whales Roster

The Taiyo Whales of the Japan Central League ended the 1955 season with a record of 31 wins and 99 losses, finishing sixth in the JPCL.

The Whales scored 290 runs, worst in the league, and conceded 578 runs, most in the circuit. Noboru Aota led Taiyo with 17 home runs and drove in 54 runs, while leading all qualifying hitters on the roster with a .268 average. Takashi Eda topped the squad with 10 wins and a team-best 2.99 ERA, best among regular hurlers. Isamu Fujii 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
Takashi Eda	10	14	.417	2.98	31	27	4	14	1		220.3	220	89	73	15	53	2	47	4	0	4	912
Masahiko Oishi	8	16	.333	3.52	38	25	7	4	0		204.3	224	100	80	16	47	3	99	5	1	2	869
Shigetsugu Hattori	5	15	.250	3.32	38	19	16	5	2		171.0	166	79	63	13	65	3	86	5	1	4	724
Masatoshi Gondo	3	21	.125	3.73	40	18	20	9	1		198.0	169	101	82	14	103	4	161	7	1	9	850
Masao Kanda	2	4	.333	2.83	18	6	8	2	2		63.7	55	20	20	6	12	0	30	1	0	0	253
Tsuneo Kobayashi	2	14	.125	4.10	27	16	8	3	0		125.0	153	73	57	13	36	4	38	1	0	1	553
Shigeru Suzuki	1	4	.200	3.79	11	4	6	1	0		40.3	46	26	17	6	8	0	21	1	0	0	172
Keiichi Nakamura	0	0		0.00	3	0	3	0	0		4.0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	14
Saburo Nakayama	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0		1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Masami Sekiguchi	0	0		5.68	6	1	5	0	0		12.7	16	11	8	1	6	0	3	2	0	0	60
Akio Yatsunami	0	0		6.61	5	0	3	0	0		16.3	23	12	12	4	10	0	4	0	0	1	80
Mitsuo Tagashira	0	0		9.00	2	0	1	0	0		2.0	0	2	2	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	8
Ryutaro Sugiura	0	0		13.50	2	0	2	0	0		4.0	6	6	6	3	1	0	3	0	0	0	19
Hiroyoshi Takano	0	3	.000	4.91	5	4	1	0	0		25.7	20	17	14	5	10	0	11	1	0	1	112
Kikuo Sugikawa	0	8	.000	5.69	19	10	7	0	0		55.3	56	41	35	3	35	0	15	2	0	1	250
Totals	31	99	.238	3.69	246	130	92	38	6	0	1143.7	1155	578	469	99	388	16	521	29	3	24	4879

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
Nobuyuki Hikiji	130	551	516	55	125	19	3	8	33	10	9	13	30	.242	.266	.337	.603	174	8	4	17	1	0
Noboru Aota	103	414	381	40	102	23	1	17	54	3	1	29	45	.268	.321	.467	.788	178	10	2	0	2	9
Masaru Sugimoto	121	421	400	21	98	18	2	3	25	9	6	15	74	.245	.274	.322	.597	129	12	2	2	2	0
Meiji Tezuka	123	429	388	21	86	14	2	2	26	5	2	30	47	.222	.279	.284	.562	110	15	1	9	1	1
Akiyoshi Kobayashi	117	364	336	13	74	4	0	4	21	3	2	22	28	.220	.271	.268	.539	90	5	2	2	2	0
Tatsuo Arai	116	370	352	31	69	8	5	0	17	2	2	14	54	.196	.227	.247	.474	87	3	0	4	0	0
Haruo Medoki	105	334	314	16	62	6	0	6	25	3	2	18	51	.197	.246	.274	.519	86	6	2	0	0	0
Mikihiro Yamamura	93	251	242	14	52	8	0	0	7	2	1	8	28	.215	.240	.248	.488	60	8	0	1	0	0
Onpei Minami	110	256	232	18	40	1	0	1	8	7	3	15	44	.172	.226	.190	.415	44	6	1	8	0	1
Isamu Fujii	62	140	127	10	36	5	1	4	18	0	0	12	20	.283	.350	.433	.783	55	3	1	0	0	4
Yasuo Kusunoki	50	140	126	4	24	3	0	0	5	2	2	14	21	.190	.271	.214	.486	27	7	0	0	0	0
Kenji Tomokawa	72	176	161	10	22	6	0	3	7	0	2	9	43	.137	.197	.230	.426	37	1	3	3	0	0
Masaki Takahashi	92	98	90	7	18	2	0	0	2	2	1	5	32	.200	.242	.222	.464	20	1	0	3	0	0
Takeo Yoshinari	62	91	85	5	17	0	0	0	3	0	0	4	17	.200	.233	.200	.433	17	2	0	1	1	0
Kazuo Hamada	34	79	75	3	15	2	0	0	1	0	1	3	11	.200	.231	.227	.457	17	2	0	1	0	0
Masatoshi Gondo	40	72	70	4	12	1	0	0	4	0	0	0	18	.171	.183	.186	.369	13	0	1	1	0	0
Takashi Eda	33	80	70	4	9	0	0	2	3	0	0	5	22	.129	.187	.214	.401	15	2	0	5	0	0
Toshiyuki Nakamura	28	38	36	1	5	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	9	.139	.184	.194	.379	7	2	1	0	0	0
Shigetsugu Hattori	38	58	48	1	5	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	13	.104	.140	.104	.244	5	1	1	8	0	0
Tsuneo Kobayashi	27	39	37	1	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	.081	.081	.108	.189	4	0	0	2	0	0
Takeshi Miyazaki	10	3	3	1	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	.667	.667	.667	1.333	2	0	0	0	0	0
Shigemasa Masu	7	7	7	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.286	.286	.286	.571	2	0	0	0	0	0
Hiroyoshi Takano	6	9	9	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.222	.222	.222	.444	2	1	0	0	0	0
Masahiko Oishi	45	69	60	4	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	31	.033	.094	.033	.127	2	1	0	5	0	0
Haruo Tanaka	2	2	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	1.000	1.500	2	0	0	0	0	0
Shigeru Suzuki	11	12	12	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.083	.083	.083	.167	1	0	0	0	0	0
Tadanao Ichiyanagi	14	12	12	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	.083	.083	.083	.167	1	0	0	0	0	0
Kikuo Sugikawa	19	17	14	1	1	0	0	1	2	0	0	2	6	.071	.188	.286	.473	4	0	0	1	0	0
Masami Sekiguchi	6	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kaoru Ogura	19	16	14	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	5	.000	.125	.000	.125	0	1	0	0	0	0
Keiichi Nakamura	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Masao Kanda	30	17	14	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	5	.000	.067	.000	.067	0	0	0	2	0	0
Akio Yatsunami	5	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tatsuo Nakajima	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1735	4577	4245	290	886	124	14	51	265	51	34	227	676	.209	.252	.281	.532	1191	97	21	75	9	15

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Akiyoshi Kobayashi	1B	101					.000
Isamu Fujii	1B	36					.000
Meiji Tezuka	1B	22					.000
Kenji Tomokawa	1B	2					.000
Takeshi Miyazaki	1B	2					.000
Haruo Medoki	1B	2					.000
Yasuo Kusunoki	1B	1					.000
Onpei Minami	2B	101					.000
Mikihiro Yamamura	2B	33					.000
Kazuo Hamada	2B	29					.000
Toshiyuki Nakamura	2B	9					.000
Shigemasa Masu	2B	5					.000
Meiji Tezuka	2B	2					.000
Meiji Tezuka	3B	98					.000
Mikihiro Yamamura	3B	40					.000
Toshiyuki Nakamura	3B	7					.000
Haruo Medoki	C	85					.000
Yasuo Kusunoki	C	38					.000
Takeo Yoshinari	C	17					.000
Tadanao Ichiyanagi	C	12					.000
Masaru Sugimoto	OF	120					.000
Tatsuo Arai	OF	105					.000
Noboru Aota	OF	99					.000
Masaki Takahashi	OF	88					.000
Kenji Tomokawa	OF	59					.000
Kaoru Ogura	OF	14					.000
Onpei Minami	OF	3					.000
Tatsuo Nakajima	OF	1					.000
Isamu Fujii	OF	1					.000
Masatoshi Gondo	P	40					.000
Masahiko Oishi	P	38					.000
Shigetsugu Hattori	P	38					.000
Takashi Eda	P	31					.000
Tsuneo Kobayashi	P	27					.000
Kikuo Sugikawa	P	19					.000
Masao Kanda	P	18					.000
Shigeru Suzuki	P	11					.000
Masami Sekiguchi	P	6					.000
Akio Yatsunami	P	5					.000
Hiroyoshi Takano	P	5					.000
Keiichi Nakamura	P	3					.000
Mitsuo Tagashira	P	2					.000
Ryutaro Sugiura	P	2					.000
Saburo Nakayama	P	1					.000
Nobuyuki Hikiji	SS	130					.000
Totals		1508	0	0	0	0	.000

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