1973 Taiyo Whales Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 60-64
Finished 5th in the JPCL
Manager: Noboru Aota (60-64)
Location: Kawasaki, Japan
Ballpark: Kawasaki Stadium

1973 Taiyo Whales Roster

The Taiyo Whales of the Japan Central League ended the 1973 season with a record of 60 wins and 64 losses, finishing fifth in the JPCL.

The Whales scored 423 runs and allowed 480 runs, most in the circuit. John Sipin walloped 33 home runs for Taiyo, while Makoto Matsubara, Akira Ejiri and Shinichi Eto each swatted 15 or more also. Makoto Matsubara accounted for 78 RBI. John Sipin led all qualifying hitters on the roster with a .295 average. Masaji Hiramatsu topped the team with 17 wins, and Shigeyuki Takahashi earned a 2.71 ERA, best among hurlers with significant time on the mound.

John Sipin and Clete Boyer both played in Major League Baseball during their careers.

Noboru Aota 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	17	11	.607	3.03	49	19	23	9	1		207.7	180	78	70	15	56	8	110	4	0	0	842
Ritsuo Yamashita	13	10	.565	3.37	42	23	12	8	2		192.3	184	80	72	20	56	10	91	7	0	0	782
Shigeyuki Takahashi	9	11	.450	2.70	44	25	8	10	4		206.3	173	71	62	18	43	6	129	6	3	1	826
Hiroaki Takeuchi	9	13	.409	3.58	38	21	5	6	2		166.0	152	72	66	11	72	5	69	2	0	6	693
Katsuji Sakai	7	9	.438	3.23	30	25	4	1	0		147.7	122	56	53	17	45	3	62	8	1	2	600
Masaaki Koyama	4	4	.500	2.54	15	11	2	2	2		74.3	64	24	21	6	15	0	40	4	0	0	298
Ichiro Hiraoka	1	2	.333	4.78	24	2	5	0	0		26.3	30	16	14	3	16	1	13	1	0	1	118
Hideo Matsushima	0	0		2.00	4	0	2	0	0		9.0	4	2	2	2	3	0	4	0	0	0	33
Hiroshi Kurahashi	0	0		3.00	1	0	0	0	0		3.0	2	3	1	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	12
Shigekuni Mashiba	0	0		4.50	2	0	2	0	0		2.0	4	3	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	11
Yoshihiro Takagaki	0	0		4.93	23	0	6	0	0		38.3	43	22	21	5	16	0	16	3	0	0	170
Gentaro Shimada	0	0		5.14	9	1	3	0	0		14.0	22	15	8	0	13	0	8	7	0	0	83
Kazuyoshi Takemura	0	0		5.91	9	0	3	0	0		10.7	12	7	7	2	1	0	11	1	0	0	45
Hideyuki Okue	0	0		18.00	1	0	0	0	0		1.0	3	2	2	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	5
Tatsuo Uzawa	0	1	.000	15.00	2	0	1	0	0		3.0	4	5	5	1	5	2	0	0	0	0	18
Tadakatsu Kotani	0	3	.000	3.23	37	3	18	0	0		64.0	53	24	23	6	30	2	43	2	0	0	270
Totals	60	64	.484	3.30	330	130	94	36	11	0	1165.7	1052	480	428	109	374	37	599	45	4	10	4806

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
John Sipin	123	521	478	70	141	22	0	33	75	4	1	38	65	.295	.347	.548	.896	262	24	2	0	3	5
Makoto Matsubara	130	538	507	55	141	24	0	24	78	3	0	19	54	.278	.305	.467	.772	237	20	4	0	8	1
Akira Ejiri	122	474	433	54	126	18	1	15	44	8	3	27	41	.291	.340	.441	.781	191	8	8	1	5	0
Shinichi Eto	111	405	365	30	103	7	0	15	44	2	3	38	33	.282	.351	.425	.775	155	20	1	0	1	5
Isao Ito	130	451	394	31	93	14	0	11	35	2	3	45	72	.236	.321	.355	.676	140	11	5	5	2	6
Masayuki Nakatsuka	95	325	284	38	83	11	2	1	9	2	4	36	33	.292	.375	.356	.730	101	3	2	2	1	0
Keisaburo Yoneda	113	383	363	20	77	11	2	3	21	5	5	14	57	.212	.245	.278	.523	101	6	2	3	1	0
Clete Boyer	86	333	306	22	69	13	0	14	39	0	2	24	43	.225	.280	.405	.685	124	13	0	1	2	1
Keiji Nagasaki	75	220	203	28	45	8	0	2	7	4	1	12	43	.222	.274	.291	.565	59	4	3	1	1	1
Shozo Shigematsu	88	197	179	16	39	1	0	4	17	0	0	9	20	.218	.260	.291	.551	52	2	2	5	2	0
Fujio Yamaguchi	62	171	152	11	23	3	2	1	3	3	1	8	16	.151	.194	.217	.411	33	1	0	11	0	0
Masakatsu Kusaka	43	74	67	8	16	4	0	0	1	0	0	7	7	.239	.311	.299	.609	20	1	0	0	0	0
Kosuke Matsuoka	63	120	108	5	15	0	1	0	4	1	1	7	15	.139	.205	.157	.363	17	4	2	3	0	0
Masaji Hiramatsu	49	68	62	4	11	0	0	0	6	0	0	1	18	.177	.215	.177	.393	11	0	2	3	0	0
Yukio Osada	45	47	42	1	10	2	0	1	7	0	0	5	8	.238	.319	.357	.676	15	0	0	0	0	0
Akihito Kondo	32	54	45	4	9	0	0	0	2	1	0	3	4	.200	.250	.200	.450	9	1	0	6	0	0
Hiroaki Takeuchi	38	52	47	3	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	14	.191	.191	.191	.383	9	0	0	5	0	0
Shigeyuki Takahashi	44	66	59	0	9	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	23	.153	.164	.169	.333	10	3	0	5	1	0
Ritsuo Yamashita	42	63	54	4	8	0	1	1	2	0	0	2	17	.148	.179	.241	.419	13	0	0	7	0	0
Tadashi Furuta	55	28	23	3	7	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	2	.304	.385	.304	.689	7	0	0	2	0	0
Hisaaki Fukushima	31	27	27	0	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	7	.148	.148	.148	.296	4	0	0	0	0	0
Hideaki Miyahara	32	31	30	0	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.133	.161	.167	.328	5	1	0	0	0	0
Katsuji Sakai	30	46	40	2	4	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	18	.100	.119	.100	.219	4	1	0	4	1	0
Yoshio Noguchi	37	7	6	10	1	0	0	0	0	9	3	1	1	.167	.286	.167	.452	1	1	0	0	0	0
Hiroyoshi Shimizu	24	9	9	4	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	.111	.111	.111	.222	1	0	0	0	0	0
Masaaki Koyama	15	19	16	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	.062	.118	.062	.180	1	1	0	2	0	0
Yoshihiro Takagaki	23	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Toshikazu Yano	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Koji Kobayashi	8	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tsuneyoshi Yamamoto	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tadakatsu Kotani	37	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tatsuo Uzawa	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gentaro Shimada	9	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kazuyoshi Takemura	9	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hideo Matsushima	5	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ichiro Hiraoka	24	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Totals	1836	4749	4318	423	1049	140	9	125	399	45	29	303	630	.243	.296	.366	.662	1582	125	33	67	28	19

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Makoto Matsubara	1B	130					.000
Clete Boyer	1B	86					.000
Masayuki Nakatsuka	1B	4					.000
John Sipin	2B	122					.000
Fujio Yamaguchi	2B	5					.000
Kosuke Matsuoka	2B	5					.000
Yoshio Noguchi	2B	2					.000
Akihito Kondo	2B	2					.000
Kosuke Matsuoka	3B	39					.000
Keisaburo Yoneda	3B	27					.000
Hiroyoshi Shimizu	3B	3					.000
Fujio Yamaguchi	3B	1					.000
Kiyoshi Tanioka	3B	1					.000
John Sipin	3B	1					.000
Makoto Matsubara	3B	1					.000
Akihito Kondo	3B	1					.000
Isao Ito	C	130					.000
Hisaaki Fukushima	C	17					.000
Tsuneyoshi Yamamoto	C	3					.000
Akira Ejiri	OF	117					.000
Shinichi Eto	OF	105					.000
Masayuki Nakatsuka	OF	81					.000
Shozo Shigematsu	OF	74					.000
Keiji Nagasaki	OF	50					.000
Tadashi Furuta	OF	48					.000
Masakatsu Kusaka	OF	27					.000
Akihito Kondo	OF	8					.000
Koji Kobayashi	OF	8					.000
Yoshio Noguchi	OF	6					.000
Yukio Osada	OF	3					.000
Hideo Matsushima	OF	1					.000
Masaji Hiramatsu	P	49					.000
Shigeyuki Takahashi	P	44					.000
Ritsuo Yamashita	P	42					.000
Hiroaki Takeuchi	P	38					.000
Tadakatsu Kotani	P	37					.000
Katsuji Sakai	P	30					.000
Ichiro Hiraoka	P	24					.000
Yoshihiro Takagaki	P	23					.000
Masaaki Koyama	P	15					.000
Kazuyoshi Takemura	P	9					.000
Gentaro Shimada	P	9					.000
Hideo Matsushima	P	4					.000
Tatsuo Uzawa	P	2					.000
Shigekuni Mashiba	P	2					.000
Hideyuki Okue	P	1					.000
Hiroshi Kurahashi	P	1					.000
Keisaburo Yoneda	SS	98					.000
Fujio Yamaguchi	SS	55					.000
Hiroyoshi Shimizu	SS	9					.000
Kosuke Matsuoka	SS	7					.000
Totals		1607	0	0	0	0	.000

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