1962 Taiyo Whales Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 71-59
Finished 2nd in the JPCL
Manager: Osamu Mihara (71-59)
Location: Kawasaki, Japan
Ballpark: Kawasaki Stadium

1962 Taiyo Whales Roster

The Taiyo Whales of the Japan Central League ended the 1962 season with a record of 71 wins and 59 losses, finishing second in the JPCL.

The Whales plated 428 runs and conceded 438 runs. Toru Mori and Takeshi Kuwata paced Taiyo with 22 home runs apiece. Toru Mori recorded 67 runs batted in. Kazuhiko Kondo topped hitters with significant playing time with a .293 average. Noboru Akiyama recorded 26 wins on the mound for the team and a team-best 1.92 earned run average, leading qualifying pitchers.

Al Grunwald and Jim McManus both played in Major League Baseball during their careers.

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	26	12	.684	1.92	72	17	32	8	5		290.7	213	73	62	16	79	7	199	7	0	1	1139
Takashi Suzuki	14	8	.636	2.54	56	31	8	7	5		191.3	151	69	54	14	45	1	157	9	0	0	769
Makoto Inagawa	12	7	.632	1.98	55	26	13	4	2		191.0	126	49	42	13	77	0	150	5	0	4	762
Masatoshi Gondo	8	6	.571	2.58	68	18	17	2	0		195.7	166	66	56	5	72	1	180	7	1	9	814
Gentaro Shimada	6	13	.316	3.80	47	23	9	2	0		147.0	146	75	62	11	49	3	128	8	0	1	630
Al Grunwald	2	8	.200	4.54	26	11	8	2	0		83.3	69	50	42	7	50	1	43	0	1	5	349
Masahiko Oishi	1	0	1.000	1.46	11	1	4	0	0		12.3	10	3	2	0	6	1	6	1	0	0	50
Koichiro Sasaki	1	0	1.000	5.23	4	0	0	0	0		10.3	9	6	6	1	1	0	6	1	0	0	42
Sohei Shinoda	1	1	.500	3.83	26	2	12	0	0		42.3	41	20	18	6	10	0	20	1	0	0	175
Sakan Morita	0	0			1	0	0	0	0		0.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
Masaru Koda	0	0		0.00	2	0	1	0	0		1.0	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7
Yasuhide Iwamoto	0	0		4.50	1	0	1	0	0		2.0	2	1	1	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	8
Jiro Hayama	0	0		8.31	2	0	0	0	0		4.3	9	5	4	2	0	0	3	0	0	1	22
Takao Osaki	0	0		9.00	6	2	0	0	0		6.0	13	6	6	0	5	0	3	0	0	0	35
Terumoto Wako	0	0		10.38	5	0	1	0	0		4.3	7	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	20
Yoshiro Sasaki	0	4	.000	2.27	7	3	2	1	0		31.7	23	8	8	4	5	0	18	0	0	0	118
Totals	71	59	.546	2.73	389	134	108	26	12	0	1213.3	989	438	368	80	400	14	915	39	2	21	4941

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	542	471	71	138	11	0	8	38	15	11	48	36	.293	.357	.367	.724	173	3	2	15	6	3
Toru Mori	133	509	481	62	122	18	3	22	67	2	7	21	65	.254	.287	.441	.728	212	13	3	0	4	2
Takeshi Kuwata	112	466	431	50	112	18	0	22	48	2	1	34	83	.260	.313	.455	.768	196	11	0	0	1	2
Akihito Kondo	131	509	462	45	111	21	7	4	27	11	5	29	79	.240	.289	.342	.631	158	5	3	15	0	1
Jim McManus	115	418	376	41	98	12	1	12	52	4	3	32	70	.261	.321	.394	.715	148	6	4	1	5	3
Francis Agcaoili	103	316	300	29	88	15	2	6	29	3	3	11	51	.293	.322	.417	.738	125	6	2	2	1	1
Yukio Osada	123	341	318	26	80	19	2	5	29	5	9	15	72	.252	.289	.371	.660	118	6	2	5	1	2
Takeshi Suzuki	117	269	257	12	53	6	0	0	14	2	2	6	30	.206	.224	.230	.454	59	2	0	6	0	0
Masanobu Shimano	108	200	179	13	45	7	1	2	11	3	0	15	36	.251	.308	.335	.643	60	7	0	5	1	1
Motoyasu Kuroki	87	181	172	11	39	10	1	4	12	4	2	6	31	.227	.253	.366	.619	63	1	0	3	0	0
Yukio Shimada	103	167	154	10	38	5	0	4	13	2	0	5	17	.247	.273	.357	.630	55	1	1	6	1	1
Kiyoshi Doi	99	159	141	6	28	4	1	0	9	2	1	12	23	.199	.261	.241	.503	34	3	0	6	0	0
Al Grunwald	70	98	95	3	20	4	0	3	8	0	0	3	27	.211	.235	.347	.582	33	5	0	0	0	1
Jun Hakota	69	81	73	6	19	3	0	3	13	1	0	6	9	.260	.321	.425	.746	31	1	1	0	1	1
Hidenori Kanemitsu	58	80	77	5	16	4	0	1	7	1	0	2	11	.208	.238	.299	.536	23	0	1	0	0	0
Saneo Aso	87	89	85	5	16	6	0	3	12	0	0	4	17	.188	.225	.365	.589	31	7	0	0	0	2
Noboru Akiyama	72	96	85	6	12	3	0	0	6	0	0	0	34	.141	.141	.176	.318	15	4	0	11	0	0
Yoshikazu Hamanaka	75	50	43	9	9	3	0	0	0	3	2	2	5	.209	.244	.279	.524	12	0	0	5	0	0
Takashi Suzuki	57	54	49	3	7	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	13	.143	.160	.224	.384	11	0	0	4	0	0
Makoto Matsubara	34	35	31	4	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	12	.194	.286	.226	.512	7	1	0	0	0	0
Makoto Inagawa	55	55	48	2	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	14	.104	.122	.104	.227	5	1	0	6	0	0
Masatoshi Gondo	69	56	51	2	5	1	0	0	2	0	0	2	11	.098	.132	.118	.250	6	1	0	3	0	0
Gentaro Shimada	48	44	38	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	14	.105	.171	.105	.276	4	0	0	3	0	0
Yoshiro Sasaki	7	9	9	0	2	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	.222	.222	.333	.556	3	0	0	0	0	0
Shozo Shigematsu	25	23	21	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	.095	.174	.095	.269	2	0	0	0	0	0
Masahiko Oishi	14	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Sohei Shinoda	27	3	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0	0	0
Koichiro Sasaki	4	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0	0	0
Isao Ito	11	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	1	0	0	0	0
Kenzo Hayashi	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jiro Hayama	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yugo Matoba	9	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yasuhiro Iwaoka	12	2	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	.000	.500	.000	.500	0	0	0	0	0	0
Katsumi Aoyama	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	1	0	0
Totals	2176	4869	4466	428	1079	173	18	100	401	61	46	266	768	.242	.286	.356	.641	1588	85	19	97	21	20

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Jim McManus	1B	110					.000
Yukio Shimada	1B	45					.000
Kazuhiko Kondo	1B	11					.000
Al Grunwald	1B	7					.000
Shigeo Ueda	1B	2					.000
Yugo Matoba	1B	1					.000
Takeshi Kuwata	1B	1					.000
Jun Hakota	1B	1					.000
Hisami Haijima	1B	1					.000
Francis Agcaoili	1B	1					.000
Akihito Kondo	2B	130					.000
Takeshi Suzuki	2B	18					.000
Jun Hakota	2B	8					.000
Saneo Aso	2B	5					.000
Katsumi Aoyama	2B	4					.000
Francis Agcaoili	2B	3					.000
Yasuhiro Iwaoka	2B	2					.000
Yoshihiro Hirayama	2B	2					.000
Yoshikazu Hamanaka	2B	1					.000
Takeshi Kuwata	3B	95					.000
Francis Agcaoili	3B	93					.000
Takeshi Suzuki	3B	12					.000
Yasuhiro Iwaoka	3B	3					.000
Jun Hakota	3B	3					.000
Saneo Aso	3B	3					.000
Yugo Matoba	3B	1					.000
Hidenori Kanemitsu	3B	1					.000
Noboru Akiyama	3B	1					.000
Masanobu Shimano	C	108					.000
Kiyoshi Doi	C	99					.000
Makoto Matsubara	C	33					.000
Isao Ito	C	8					.000
Tadao Yamada	C	1					.000
Toru Mori	OF	133					.000
Kazuhiko Kondo	OF	130					.000
Yukio Osada	OF	120					.000
Motoyasu Kuroki	OF	80					.000
Shozo Shigematsu	OF	19					.000
Hidenori Kanemitsu	OF	19					.000
Yukio Shimada	OF	6					.000
Al Grunwald	OF	5					.000
Yugo Matoba	OF	4					.000
Kazuo Narasaki	OF	3					.000
Jiro Hayama	OF	3					.000
Saneo Aso	OF	3					.000
Tadao Yamada	OF	1					.000
Terumoto Wako	OF	1					.000
Takashi Suzuki	OF	1					.000
Gentaro Shimada	OF	1					.000
Kazuyoshi Miyamoto	OF	1					.000
Mitsuru Matsukubo	OF	1					.000
Jun Hakota	OF	1					.000
Katsumi Aoyama	OF	1					.000
Noboru Akiyama	OF	1					.000
Francis Agcaoili	OF	1					.000
Noboru Akiyama	P	72					.000
Masatoshi Gondo	P	68					.000
Takashi Suzuki	P	56					.000
Makoto Inagawa	P	55					.000
Gentaro Shimada	P	47					.000
Sohei Shinoda	P	26					.000
Al Grunwald	P	26					.000
Masahiko Oishi	P	11					.000
Yoshiro Sasaki	P	7					.000
Takao Osaki	P	6					.000
Terumoto Wako	P	5					.000
Koichiro Sasaki	P	4					.000
Masaru Koda	P	2					.000
Jiro Hayama	P	2					.000
Sakan Morita	P	1					.000
Yasuhide Iwamoto	P	1					.000
Takeshi Suzuki	SS	108					.000
Takeshi Kuwata	SS	69					.000
Yoshikazu Hamanaka	SS	67					.000
Francis Agcaoili	SS	4					.000
Akihito Kondo	SS	3					.000
Mitsuru Matsukubo	SS	2					.000
Yasuhiro Iwaoka	SS	2					.000
Hisami Haijima	SS	1					.000
Totals		1994	0	0	0	0	.000

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