1961 Taiyo Whales Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 50-75
Finished 6th in the JPCL
Manager: Osamu Mihara (50-75)
Location: Kawasaki, Japan
Ballpark: Kawasaki Stadium

1961 Taiyo Whales Roster

The Taiyo Whales of the Japan Central League ended the 1961 season with a record of 50 wins and 75 losses, finishing sixth in the JPCL.

The Whales plated 418 runs and yielded 485 runs, most in the league. Takeshi Kuwata paced Taiyo with 25 home runs and accounted for 94 RBI. Kazuhiko Kondo topped all regular batters with a .316 average. Noboru Akiyama led the squad with 20 wins and a team-best 2.63 earned run average, leading qualifying pitchers. Osamu Mihara 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
Noboru Akiyama	20	15	.571	2.63	69	17	38	6	1		280.7	239	97	82	16	70	4	179	7	1	2	1117
Gentaro Shimada	9	19	.321	3.02	51	32	5	6	1		217.7	193	96	73	14	85	5	151	10	1	6	927
Takashi Suzuki	8	13	.381	3.36	51	35	7	4	0		190.0	193	88	71	17	73	5	112	6	0	2	816
Masatoshi Gondo	5	6	.455	3.24	51	2	16	0	0		94.3	85	42	34	5	37	3	76	1	0	5	392
Takao Osaki	4	10	.286	2.99	52	24	13	3	2		156.3	128	60	52	7	86	3	93	7	1	7	672
Masaru Koda	1	2	.333	2.65	19	2	5	0	0		37.3	30	13	11	3	9	1	27	0	0	2	152
Masahiko Oishi	1	2	.333	5.30	22	1	9	0	0		37.3	49	23	22	7	14	1	16	0	0	1	170
Kuniyasu Mine	1	3	.250	3.36	30	8	9	0	0		67.0	55	27	25	4	23	0	15	3	0	0	267
Jiro Hayama	1	4	.200	2.17	20	3	5	2	0		58.0	50	20	14	4	15	1	28	1	0	1	234
Sohei Shinoda	0	0		1.93	5	2	0	0	0		9.3	5	3	2	0	2	0	6	0	0	0	35
Terumoto Wako	0	0		3.38	5	2	0	0	0		8.0	10	3	3	0	1	0	3	0	0	1	33
Shuji Maeda	0	0		9.00	1	0	1	0	0		1.0	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5
Kazuyoshi Miyamoto	0	0		10.38	2	1	0	0	0		4.3	6	5	5	1	2	0	3	0	0	0	21
Mototada Miyazaki	0	1	.000	9.95	5	1	1	0	0		6.3	11	7	7	0	4	0	4	0	0	0	32
Totals	50	75	.400	3.10	383	130	109	21	4	0	1167.7	1056	485	402	78	421	23	713	35	3	28	4873

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
Kazuhiko Kondo	130	555	475	72	150	21	3	11	48	35	10	74	50	.316	.409	.442	.851	210	6	1	5	0	3
Takeshi Kuwata	130	532	471	70	132	25	3	25	94	20	5	53	108	.280	.352	.505	.858	238	10	1	4	3	7
Hidenori Kanemitsu	121	381	362	36	102	22	3	5	41	4	5	18	40	.282	.315	.401	.716	145	4	0	0	1	7
Akihito Kondo	125	484	436	44	98	12	3	6	19	15	14	36	96	.225	.285	.307	.593	134	5	1	11	0	2
Takeshi Suzuki	127	371	345	28	82	8	1	1	24	12	7	16	42	.238	.271	.275	.547	95	8	0	10	0	0
Yukio Shimada	119	335	308	43	74	8	2	8	25	3	3	17	49	.240	.280	.357	.637	110	7	1	6	3	0
Motoyasu Kuroki	124	370	335	23	72	13	2	9	36	12	6	23	72	.215	.272	.346	.618	116	11	4	6	2	1
Jun Hakota	103	210	192	19	45	6	2	4	25	4	2	17	18	.234	.295	.349	.644	67	4	0	0	1	2
Takashi Iwamoto	85	184	166	14	42	4	0	2	16	3	7	11	21	.253	.302	.313	.615	52	4	1	5	1	0
Kiyoshi Doi	115	227	204	6	40	6	0	0	12	3	3	11	26	.196	.243	.225	.469	46	2	2	9	1	1
Masanobu Shimano	95	202	183	14	39	4	2	1	13	1	3	12	48	.213	.269	.273	.542	50	4	2	5	0	0
Stanley Hashimoto	80	166	143	14	38	5	0	0	7	2	3	11	21	.266	.331	.301	.632	43	1	3	9	0	0
Yukio Osada	69	134	123	9	28	6	1	2	9	0	2	11	20	.228	.291	.341	.633	42	4	0	0	0	0
Saneo Aso	71	83	79	3	16	4	0	1	9	1	0	2	18	.203	.217	.291	.508	23	4	0	0	2	1
Noboru Akiyama	71	95	83	2	13	4	0	0	9	0	0	1	24	.157	.163	.205	.368	17	0	0	9	2	0
Gentaro Shimada	51	64	58	0	8	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	21	.138	.167	.155	.322	9	0	0	4	0	0
Takashi Suzuki	52	60	56	0	7	1	0	0	4	0	0	0	23	.125	.136	.143	.278	8	1	1	1	2	0
Yasuhiro Iwaoka	27	25	22	2	5	1	0	1	2	1	0	3	2	.227	.320	.409	.729	9	0	0	0	0	0
Jiro Hayama	25	18	17	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	.235	.235	.235	.471	4	1	0	1	0	0
Kiyoshi Watanabe	53	36	29	2	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	11	.138	.219	.207	.426	6	1	1	4	0	0
Masatoshi Gondo	51	27	27	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	7	.111	.111	.111	.222	3	0	0	0	0	0
Tadao Shibano	35	37	32	6	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	12	.094	.194	.094	.288	3	0	1	1	0	0
Yoshikazu Hamanaka	74	48	44	8	3	0	0	0	0	2	2	1	5	.068	.089	.068	.157	3	0	0	3	0	0
Hideki Tsukazaki	20	20	18	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	.111	.200	.111	.311	2	0	1	0	0	0
Hisami Haijima	16	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	0	0	0
Masaru Koda	23	8	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.143	.143	.143	.286	1	0	0	1	0	0
Takao Osaki	54	47	39	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	18	.000	.133	.000	.133	0	0	0	2	0	0
Masahiko Oishi	23	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kazuyoshi Miyamoto	9	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sohei Shinoda	8	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kuniyasu Mine	36	12	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Toshio Fuda	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Takeshi Honda	17	13	13	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Masaru Ota	4	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2149	4760	4295	418	1012	151	23	76	395	119	72	331	783	.236	.292	.335	.627	1437	77	20	96	18	24

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Yukio Shimada	1B	105					.000
Stanley Hashimoto	1B	51					.000
Kazuhiko Kondo	1B	37					.000
Jun Hakota	1B	31					.000
Jiro Hayama	1B	4					.000
Kuniyasu Mine	1B	3					.000
Yasuhiro Iwaoka	1B	3					.000
Toshio Fuda	1B	3					.000
Hiroshi Ueno	1B	2					.000
Masaru Ota	1B	2					.000
Kazuo Narasaki	1B	2					.000
Takeo Matsui	1B	2					.000
Takeshi Kuwata	1B	2					.000
Noboru Akiyama	1B	2					.000
Terumoto Wako	1B	1					.000
Sohei Shinoda	1B	1					.000
Takao Osaki	1B	1					.000
Kazuyoshi Miyamoto	1B	1					.000
Heitaro Kobayashi	1B	1					.000
Takeshi Honda	1B	1					.000
Akihito Kondo	2B	123					.000
Jun Hakota	2B	23					.000
Takeshi Suzuki	2B	12					.000
Takeshi Honda	2B	6					.000
Tadao Shibano	2B	2					.000
Saneo Aso	2B	2					.000
Takeshi Kuwata	3B	124					.000
Jun Hakota	3B	19					.000
Saneo Aso	3B	10					.000
Yasuhiro Iwaoka	3B	5					.000
Takeshi Suzuki	3B	1					.000
Kiyoshi Doi	C	115					.000
Masanobu Shimano	C	93					.000
Hisami Haijima	C	15					.000
Isao Ito	C	4					.000
Kazuhiko Kondo	OF	129					.000
Motoyasu Kuroki	OF	116					.000
Hidenori Kanemitsu	OF	115					.000
Takashi Iwamoto	OF	68					.000
Yukio Osada	OF	54					.000
Kiyoshi Watanabe	OF	46					.000
Hideki Tsukazaki	OF	14					.000
Tadao Shibano	OF	11					.000
Yukio Shimada	OF	7					.000
Takayoshi Tomita	OF	5					.000
Kazuyoshi Miyamoto	OF	5					.000
Kuniyasu Mine	OF	3					.000
Takeo Matsui	OF	3					.000
Takeshi Honda	OF	3					.000
Sohei Shinoda	OF	2					.000
Masaru Koda	OF	2					.000
Toshio Fuda	OF	2					.000
Nobutsugu Takamatsu	OF	1					.000
Takashi Suzuki	OF	1					.000
Takao Osaki	OF	1					.000
Heitaro Kobayashi	OF	1					.000
Yasuhiro Iwaoka	OF	1					.000
Jiro Hayama	OF	1					.000
Stanley Hashimoto	OF	1					.000
Saneo Aso	OF	1					.000
Katsumi Aoyama	OF	1					.000
Noboru Akiyama	P	69					.000
Takao Osaki	P	52					.000
Takashi Suzuki	P	51					.000
Gentaro Shimada	P	51					.000
Masatoshi Gondo	P	51					.000
Kuniyasu Mine	P	30					.000
Masahiko Oishi	P	22					.000
Jiro Hayama	P	20					.000
Masaru Koda	P	19					.000
Terumoto Wako	P	5					.000
Sohei Shinoda	P	5					.000
Mototada Miyazaki	P	5					.000
Kazuyoshi Miyamoto	P	2					.000
Shuji Maeda	P	1					.000
Takeshi Suzuki	SS	124					.000
Yoshikazu Hamanaka	SS	56					.000
Takeshi Kuwata	SS	26					.000
Yasuhiro Iwaoka	SS	9					.000
Tadao Shibano	SS	7					.000
Jun Hakota	SS	2					.000
Saneo Aso	SS	2					.000
Totals		2012	0	0	0	0	.000

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