1970 Taiyo Whales Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 69-57
Finished 3rd in the JPCL
Manager: Kaoru Betto (69-57)
Location: Kawasaki, Japan
Ballpark: Kawasaki Stadium

1970 Taiyo Whales Roster

The Taiyo Whales of the Japan Central League ended the 1970 season with a record of 69 wins and 57 losses, finishing third in the JPCL.

The Whales plated 436 runs and gave up 399 runs. Makoto Matsubara walloped 30 home runs for Taiyo and accounted for 85 RBI, while leading batters with significant playing time with a .281 average. Masaji Hiramatsu earned 25 wins on the mound for the team and a team-best 1.95 earned run average, tops among regular hurlers. Kaoru Betto 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
Masaji Hiramatsu	25	19	.568	1.95	51	38	10	23	6		332.7	226	80	72	18	68	6	182	13	2	1	1279
Ritsuo Yamashita	13	9	.591	2.89	37	23	9	4	0		168.0	156	60	54	19	43	2	104	4	0	2	698
Hiroshi Kito	13	12	.520	2.40	49	24	6	5	4		194.7	151	56	52	16	28	2	151	7	0	3	755
Katsuji Sakai	10	6	.625	3.47	26	20	3	2	0		109.0	99	46	42	14	22	2	62	10	0	0	447
Tadakatsu Kotani	4	4	.500	2.11	53	6	23	0	0		115.0	78	32	27	6	36	4	85	4	0	2	455
NObushi Oikawa	2	2	.500	4.02	11	5	5	0	0		31.3	32	14	14	4	9	1	17	3	0	1	131
Shigeki Ikeda	1	1	.500	2.59	24	3	8	1	1		48.7	40	20	14	7	13	1	33	3	0	2	198
Osamu Nomura	1	2	.333	5.37	28	4	12	1	0		62.0	64	45	37	12	21	1	34	6	0	2	272
Nobuhiro Ishihata	0	0		0.00	2	0	0	0	0		0.3	1	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	4
Chikara Morinaka	0	0		5.56	6	2	3	0	0		11.3	14	7	7	2	1	0	6	0	0	0	47
Yoshihiro Takagaki	0	0		6.75	1	0	1	0	0		1.3	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	7
Gentaro Shimada	0	0		13.50	3	0	1	0	0		4.7	8	7	7	1	4	0	2	1	0	0	24
Shigeyuki Takahashi	0	1	.000	2.27	21	2	8	0	0		47.7	35	13	12	6	12	1	35	3	0	0	185
Shigekuni Mashiba	0	1	.000	4.71	22	3	5	0	0		28.7	23	18	15	3	19	1	24	2	0	1	126
Totals	69	57	.548	2.76	334	130	94	36	11	0	1155.3	929	399	354	108	278	21	736	57	2	14	4628

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
Makoto Matsubara	128	515	455	73	128	14	0	30	85	4	6	50	71	.281	.358	.510	.868	232	14	6	1	3	2
Masayuki Nakatsuka	128	530	484	60	126	28	3	8	42	13	11	30	43	.260	.310	.380	.690	184	8	5	10	1	0
Akira Ejiri	128	497	458	53	124	23	3	11	51	13	6	24	40	.271	.309	.406	.715	186	8	2	12	1	2
Shozo Shigematsu	127	473	436	53	116	15	1	11	34	10	9	19	42	.266	.302	.381	.683	166	8	5	10	3	2
Akihito Kondo	124	404	360	25	93	16	2	4	36	2	7	21	48	.258	.298	.347	.645	125	5	0	21	2	2
Kazuhiko Kondo	97	338	299	29	76	8	0	7	28	4	1	33	36	.254	.329	.351	.681	105	5	1	4	1	4
Isao Ito	102	284	254	16	53	7	1	7	28	1	1	18	47	.209	.277	.327	.604	83	7	6	6	0	3
Isao Ohashi	93	262	244	21	52	9	0	3	21	0	0	11	42	.213	.250	.287	.537	70	4	1	6	0	0
Yukio Osada	86	170	156	12	44	6	0	4	15	2	0	14	28	.282	.341	.397	.739	62	2	0	0	0	0
Keisaburo Yoneda	98	176	160	14	33	6	0	7	12	0	1	9	50	.206	.260	.375	.635	60	0	3	3	1	2
Kosuke Matsuoka	80	122	109	15	26	5	2	0	5	0	0	5	6	.239	.270	.321	.591	35	2	0	7	1	0
Hisaaki Fukushima	66	105	99	4	20	2	0	2	11	0	0	4	23	.202	.238	.283	.521	28	5	1	0	1	0
Tomoo Sekine	87	126	111	6	16	2	2	2	3	1	1	10	22	.144	.221	.252	.474	28	4	1	4	0	1
Masakatsu Kusaka	30	40	37	3	15	1	0	0	2	0	2	2	5	.405	.436	.432	.868	16	0	0	1	0	0
John Self	43	67	64	3	15	5	0	2	8	0	0	1	23	.234	.254	.406	.660	26	0	1	0	1	0
Masaji Hiramatsu	51	113	100	8	14	0	0	4	8	0	0	3	49	.140	.162	.260	.422	26	0	0	8	2	0
Hiroshi Kito	49	65	55	3	13	2	0	0	2	0	0	5	25	.236	.311	.273	.584	15	0	1	4	0	0
Tadashi Furuta	76	59	49	18	11	1	1	1	5	3	2	5	9	.224	.291	.347	.638	17	0	0	4	1	0
Kenzo Hayashi	49	66	62	6	11	1	1	1	2	0	0	4	22	.177	.227	.274	.501	17	1	0	0	0	0
Issei Sato	44	32	30	5	6	1	0	0	2	1	0	1	7	.200	.219	.233	.452	7	1	0	0	1	0
Ritsuo Yamashita	38	54	48	3	6	0	1	1	4	0	0	2	19	.125	.160	.229	.389	11	0	0	4	0	0
Katsuji Sakai	28	40	32	4	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	15	.156	.250	.156	.406	5	0	1	4	0	0
Yasukazu Yasuda	27	39	34	1	4	1	0	1	3	0	0	3	12	.118	.205	.235	.440	8	2	1	0	1	0
Shigeki Ikeda	24	8	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.250	.400	.250	.650	1	0	0	3	0	0
NObushi Oikawa	14	8	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	2	0	0
Shigeyuki Takahashi	21	7	6	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.167	.167	.333	.500	2	0	0	1	0	0
Tadakatsu Kotani	53	28	28	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	15	.036	.036	.071	.107	2	0	0	0	0	0
Osamu Nomura	28	12	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	.000	.091	.000	.091	0	0	0	1	0	0
Chikara Morinaka	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shigekuni Mashiba	22	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Masanori Arai	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1949	4645	4195	436	1011	155	17	106	408	54	47	279	711	.241	.293	.362	.654	1518	76	35	116	20	18

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Kazuhiko Kondo	1B	85					.000
Masayuki Nakatsuka	1B	53					.000
John Self	1B	18					.000
Isao Ito	1B	9					.000
Hisaaki Fukushima	1B	9					.000
Katsuji Sakai	1B	1					.000
NObushi Oikawa	1B	1					.000
Makoto Matsubara	1B	1					.000
Akihito Kondo	2B	124					.000
Tomoo Sekine	2B	26					.000
Kosuke Matsuoka	2B	7					.000
Tadashi Furuta	2B	7					.000
Makoto Matsubara	2B	2					.000
Kenzo Hayashi	2B	2					.000
Makoto Matsubara	3B	124					.000
Hisaaki Fukushima	3B	12					.000
Keisaburo Yoneda	3B	4					.000
Tomoo Sekine	3B	2					.000
Masanori Arai	3B	2					.000
Isao Ito	C	80					.000
Isao Ohashi	C	76					.000
Hisaaki Fukushima	C	5					.000
Akira Ejiri	OF	126					.000
Shozo Shigematsu	OF	121					.000
Masayuki Nakatsuka	OF	101					.000
Yukio Osada	OF	55					.000
Tadashi Furuta	OF	46					.000
Masakatsu Kusaka	OF	20					.000
Kenzo Hayashi	OF	18					.000
Issei Sato	OF	13					.000
Yasukazu Yasuda	OF	7					.000
Kazuhiko Kondo	OF	6					.000
NObushi Oikawa	OF	2					.000
Katsuji Sakai	OF	1					.000
Hiroshi Kito	OF	1					.000
Tadakatsu Kotani	P	53					.000
Masaji Hiramatsu	P	51					.000
Hiroshi Kito	P	49					.000
Ritsuo Yamashita	P	37					.000
Osamu Nomura	P	28					.000
Katsuji Sakai	P	26					.000
Shigeki Ikeda	P	24					.000
Shigekuni Mashiba	P	22					.000
Shigeyuki Takahashi	P	21					.000
NObushi Oikawa	P	11					.000
Chikara Morinaka	P	6					.000
Gentaro Shimada	P	3					.000
Nobuhiro Ishihata	P	2					.000
Yoshihiro Takagaki	P	1					.000
Keisaburo Yoneda	SS	95					.000
Kosuke Matsuoka	SS	72					.000
Tomoo Sekine	SS	63					.000
Makoto Matsubara	SS	7					.000
Tadashi Furuta	SS	1					.000
Totals		1739	0	0	0	0	.000

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