1977 Taiyo Whales Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 51-68
Finished 6th in the JPCL
Manager: Kaoru Betto (51-68)
Location: Kawasaki, Japan
Ballpark: Kawasaki Stadium

1977 Taiyo Whales Roster

The Taiyo Whales of the Japan Central League ended the 1977 season with a record of 51 wins and 68 losses, finishing sixth in the JPCL.

The Whales scored 643 runs and conceded 687 runs, most in the circuit. Tomio Tashiro walloped 35 home runs for Taiyo, while Yoshikazu Takagi, Makoto Matsubara, Daisuke Yamashita, Keiji Nagasaki and John Sipin each added 15 or more also. Makoto Matsubara accounted for 110 RBI. Yoshikazu Takagi paced all regular batters with a .323 average. Masaji Hiramatsu topped the squad with 10 wins and a team-best 3.96 earned run average, best among pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.

John Sipin and Bob Reynolds both played in Major League Baseball during their careers.

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	10	9	.526	3.96	32	21	6	10	2	1	166.0	182	75	73	25	50	3	105	6	0	2	723
Tomotaka Sugiyama	9	10	.474	4.78	49	22	11	2	0	4	173.3	166	101	92	29	85	4	125	2	0	2	762
Akio Saito	8	9	.471	4.39	38	20	6	3	1	0	141.3	156	87	69	17	61	5	87	3	0	0	624
Shigeyuki Takahashi	6	6	.500	4.14	56	12	15	1	1	4	152.3	158	78	70	22	55	5	90	2	2	1	655
Hideyuki Okue	6	9	.400	4.92	39	8	20	1	1	4	86.0	96	48	47	14	48	5	50	5	1	1	394
Masao Tamura	3	4	.429	5.81	42	10	11	2	0	1	93.0	109	69	60	20	42	1	62	10	0	3	431
Takashi Nemoto	2	2	.500	6.61	21	4	6	0	0	0	47.7	52	38	35	8	28	2	29	1	0	2	217
Shigekuni Mashiba	2	5	.286	4.96	35	14	5	0	0	0	85.3	85	53	47	20	41	2	58	4	1	3	369
Hidetake Watanabe	1	0	1.000	10.61	12	2	5	0	0	0	18.7	33	22	22	6	2	0	12	5	0	0	95
Tadakatsu Kotani	1	1	.500	5.16	18	0	9	0	0	2	22.7	20	15	13	4	16	2	14	1	0	1	101
Hiroshi Okawa	1	1	.500	5.66	24	0	1	0	0	0	20.7	28	16	13	4	11	0	8	1	1	0	101
Tatsuo Uzawa	1	2	.333	4.97	12	4	4	0	0	0	25.3	22	14	14	4	13	0	13	1	0	0	106
Michio Miura	1	4	.200	7.60	26	6	4	0	0	0	34.3	45	29	29	9	22	1	22	1	0	1	167
Hiroaki Takeuchi	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
Akira Tanaka	0	0		4.50	3	0	2	0	0	0	2.0	4	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	10
Tamio Shibata	0	0		4.50	3	0	0	0	0	0	4.0	8	2	2	1	1	0	2	1	0	0	20
Bob Reynolds	0	0		8.53	3	2	0	0	0	0	6.3	9	7	6	0	9	0	6	0	0	0	34
Mitsuhiro Sekimoto	0	1	.000	6.00	4	1	2	0	0	0	6.0	9	5	4	2	0	0	1	0	0	1	27
Shiro Miyamoto	0	5	.000	4.93	35	4	3	0	0	0	49.3	59	27	27	10	18	3	37	2	0	1	219
Totals	51	68	.429	4.95	453	130	111	19	5	16	1135.3	1242	687	624	196	502	33	722	45	5	18	5059

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	129	547	494	76	153	18	3	22	87	5	3	47	77	.310	.367	.492	.859	243	14	1	0	5	3
Tomio Tashiro	130	549	484	79	146	25	3	35	88	2	4	52	118	.302	.373	.583	.956	282	13	7	0	6	2
Makoto Matsubara	129	568	516	87	146	26	1	34	110	5	5	45	45	.283	.342	.535	.877	276	10	3	1	3	4
Yoshikazu Takagi	125	484	433	68	140	28	0	20	73	3	3	45	68	.323	.390	.527	.916	228	6	2	4	0	1
Keiji Nagasaki	126	519	433	79	115	18	3	19	57	19	4	58	101	.266	.369	.453	.822	196	3	15	10	3	1
Daisuke Yamashita	105	488	423	77	110	17	3	18	48	6	7	49	68	.260	.338	.442	.780	187	6	2	12	2	2
Masayuki Nakatsuka	121	414	356	44	95	12	0	3	29	14	6	48	52	.267	.352	.326	.678	116	9	0	8	2	1
Hisaaki Fukushima	105	357	317	34	83	12	0	13	50	0	2	31	55	.262	.333	.423	.756	134	9	4	3	2	6
Akira Ejiri	68	190	166	19	44	10	1	1	21	1	1	16	11	.265	.332	.355	.687	59	2	3	0	5	2
Isao Ito	80	120	105	10	31	0	0	5	20	1	0	11	20	.295	.367	.438	.805	46	3	2	0	2	1
Yasuhiko Tsuji	54	127	110	10	30	8	0	1	10	0	0	16	30	.273	.365	.373	.738	41	1	0	1	0	1
Tomotaka Sugiyama	50	61	54	7	12	3	0	0	5	0	0	2	22	.222	.250	.278	.528	15	1	0	5	0	0
Yoshio Noguchi	71	67	57	14	12	2	0	0	2	12	3	5	12	.211	.274	.246	.520	14	3	0	5	0	0
Hiroyoshi Shimizu	64	76	66	6	10	5	0	1	4	0	0	6	14	.152	.219	.273	.492	18	1	0	3	1	0
Hideyuki Okue	40	31	30	3	7	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	8	.233	.233	.267	.500	8	1	0	1	0	0
Kenichi Wakabayashi	66	37	28	9	6	1	1	1	3	2	0	7	9	.214	.371	.429	.800	12	0	0	2	0	1
Keisaburo Yoneda	42	36	31	5	6	1	0	1	5	1	0	2	8	.194	.265	.323	.587	10	0	1	2	0	0
Shigeyuki Takahashi	56	46	40	3	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	9	.150	.209	.175	.384	7	1	0	3	0	0
Masaji Hiramatsu	34	64	53	6	5	0	0	2	5	0	0	6	24	.094	.180	.208	.388	11	0	0	3	2	0
Akio Saito	38	49	45	0	4	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	16	.089	.109	.089	.198	4	1	0	3	0	0
Kosuke Matsuoka	7	7	7	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.429	.429	.429	.857	3	0	0	0	0	0
Kiyoshi Tanioka	34	42	39	2	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	8	.077	.100	.077	.177	3	3	0	2	0	0
Shiro Miyamoto	35	11	9	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	.222	.300	.333	.633	3	0	0	1	0	0
Shigekuni Mashiba	36	22	21	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	.095	.095	.095	.190	2	1	0	1	0	0
Masao Tamura	43	27	23	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	10	.087	.160	.087	.247	2	2	0	2	0	0
Hiroshi Okawa	24	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	1	0	0
Hidetake Watanabe	12	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0	0	0
Michio Miura	26	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	0	0	0
Toshikazu Yano	5	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Takashi Nemoto	21	9	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Takayuki Iwai	20	16	14	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	5	.000	.125	.000	.125	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tatsuo Uzawa	13	4	4	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tadakatsu Kotani	18	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Ko Saito	9	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mitsuhiro Sekimoto	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Masayuki Miura	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1941	4991	4388	643	1176	189	15	176	625	71	39	456	820	.268	.340	.438	.778	1923	90	40	74	33	25

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Makoto Matsubara	1B	129					.000
Masayuki Nakatsuka	1B	2					.000
Keisaburo Yoneda	1B	1					.000
Yoshikazu Takagi	1B	1					.000
Hiroyoshi Shimizu	1B	1					.000
John Sipin	2B	129					.000
Keisaburo Yoneda	2B	15					.000
Hiroyoshi Shimizu	2B	5					.000
Kiyoshi Tanioka	2B	4					.000
Yoshio Noguchi	2B	1					.000
Takayuki Iwai	2B	1					.000
Tomio Tashiro	3B	130					.000
Keisaburo Yoneda	3B	6					.000
Kiyoshi Tanioka	3B	4					.000
Hisaaki Fukushima	C	94					.000
Yasuhiko Tsuji	C	47					.000
Isao Ito	C	22					.000
Keiji Nagasaki	OF	124					.000
Yoshikazu Takagi	OF	116					.000
Masayuki Nakatsuka	OF	112					.000
Akira Ejiri	OF	55					.000
Kenichi Wakabayashi	OF	40					.000
Yoshio Noguchi	OF	33					.000
Hiroyoshi Shimizu	OF	11					.000
Isao Ito	OF	8					.000
Shigeyuki Takahashi	P	56					.000
Tomotaka Sugiyama	P	49					.000
Masao Tamura	P	42					.000
Hideyuki Okue	P	39					.000
Akio Saito	P	38					.000
Shiro Miyamoto	P	35					.000
Shigekuni Mashiba	P	35					.000
Masaji Hiramatsu	P	32					.000
Michio Miura	P	26					.000
Hiroshi Okawa	P	24					.000
Takashi Nemoto	P	21					.000
Tadakatsu Kotani	P	18					.000
Hidetake Watanabe	P	12					.000
Tatsuo Uzawa	P	12					.000
Mitsuhiro Sekimoto	P	4					.000
Akira Tanaka	P	3					.000
Tamio Shibata	P	3					.000
Bob Reynolds	P	3					.000
Hiroaki Takeuchi	P	1					.000
Daisuke Yamashita	SS	105					.000
Kiyoshi Tanioka	SS	20					.000
Keisaburo Yoneda	SS	16					.000
Takayuki Iwai	SS	9					.000
Ko Saito	SS	5					.000
Hiroyoshi Shimizu	SS	2					.000
Yoshio Noguchi	SS	1					.000
Totals		1702	0	0	0	0	.000

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