1971 Yomiuri Giants Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 70-52
Finished 1st in the JPCL
Manager: Tetsuharu Kawakami (70-52)
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Ballpark: Korakuen Stadium

1971 Yomiuri Giants Roster

Japan Series - Yomiuri Giants 4 games, Hankyu Braves 1

The Yomiuri Giants of the Japan Central League ended the 1971 season with a record of 70 wins and 52 losses, finishing first in the JPCL.

The Giants paced the circuit with 538 runs, fueled by 123 home runs. Yomiuri surrendered 434 runs. Sadaharu Oh walloped 39 home runs for the squad, and Shigeo Nagashima added 15 or more also. Sadaharu Oh drove in 101 runs. Shigeo Nagashima topped all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .320. Kazumi Takahashi and Tsuneo Horiuchi led the team with 14 wins each, while Mitsuhiro Sekimoto earned a 2.15 ERA, leading regular hurlers. Tetsuharu Kawakami 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
Kazumi Takahashi	14	7	.667	2.94	41	27	9	13	1		226.7	164	80	74	28	72	4	151	6	1	4	904
Tsuneo Horiuchi	14	8	.636	3.11	40	33	4	14	3		226.0	183	83	78	18	82	5	155	6	0	7	924
Mitsuhiro Sekimoto	10	11	.476	2.15	35	19	8	3	1		146.7	118	49	35	6	39	3	68	3	0	1	587
Hidetake Watanabe	10	12	.455	3.26	38	27	5	9	2		207.0	178	87	75	21	30	6	120	13	0	1	830
Makoto Kurata	5	4	.556	2.51	44	2	22	0	0		89.7	75	27	25	7	36	3	77	1	0	1	368
Shinichi Yamauchi	5	5	.500	3.01	33	2	19	0	0		68.7	61	27	23	7	25	4	43	1	0	2	285
Katsuya Sugawara	4	0	1.000	2.52	25	7	4	2	1		78.7	66	30	22	4	35	1	57	6	1	4	334
Hisao Niura	4	3	.571	2.01	19	10	5	2	1		58.3	43	17	13	4	26	1	43	2	0	2	239
Toshihiko Kosaka	2	2	.500	5.50	17	2	6	0	0		36.0	26	22	22	6	19	0	34	1	0	1	154
Osamu Shimano	1	0	1.000	4.50	1	0	0	0	0		4.0	5	2	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	18
Kunio Jonouchi	1	0	1.000	5.00	5	0	4	0	0		9.0	12	6	5	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	41
Hiroaki Fukushi	0	0		4.91	2	1	1	0	0		7.3	6	4	4	1	3	0	6	0	0	1	29
Totals	70	52	.574	2.94	300	130	87	43	9	0	1158.0	937	434	378	103	369	27	755	40	2	25	4713

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
Shigeo Nagashima	130	547	485	84	155	21	2	34	86	4	3	59	45	.320	.395	.581	.976	282	20	2	0	1	8
Shigeru Takada	127	535	477	74	129	26	2	11	51	38	8	33	42	.270	.326	.403	.729	192	5	8	14	3	1
Isao Shibata	119	490	436	55	123	23	3	3	32	35	20	46	43	.282	.352	.369	.721	161	8	2	4	2	0
Sadaharu Oh	130	565	434	92	120	18	2	39	101	8	2	121	65	.276	.435	.597	1.032	259	8	5	0	5	17
Yukinobu Kuroe	124	456	407	54	113	20	3	6	42	22	3	30	27	.278	.336	.386	.721	157	8	8	6	5	0
Toshimitsu Suetsugu	92	216	196	22	61	9	0	4	29	5	3	10	17	.311	.343	.418	.761	82	6	2	3	5	1
Shozo Doi	108	300	252	21	56	9	5	3	21	14	6	27	13	.222	.301	.333	.635	84	8	2	18	1	0
Masahiko Mori	95	285	256	19	55	8	2	4	22	1	1	26	28	.215	.285	.309	.594	79	8	0	1	2	8
Takeshi Ueda	79	213	183	26	48	10	1	2	15	6	4	17	20	.262	.348	.361	.708	66	5	7	6	0	0
Isao Hirono	76	159	141	8	36	6	0	4	22	0	1	17	26	.255	.340	.383	.723	54	2	1	0	0	0
Masahiro Yanagida	67	135	116	12	33	7	3	4	23	3	2	17	21	.284	.376	.500	.876	58	1	0	2	0	3
Koji Ano	49	112	101	7	22	1	0	3	12	1	0	7	13	.218	.286	.317	.603	32	1	3	0	1	1
Yasuhiro Hagiwara	58	123	107	10	22	2	1	1	13	2	1	10	16	.206	.267	.271	.538	29	0	0	3	3	1
Takashi Yoshida	42	92	82	8	18	3	0	0	5	0	1	6	14	.220	.304	.256	.560	21	1	4	0	0	0
Makoto Tsuchida	51	83	75	11	15	3	0	2	8	1	2	6	18	.200	.277	.320	.597	24	1	2	0	0	0
Tsuneo Horiuchi	41	84	76	3	15	3	0	1	10	0	0	2	16	.197	.235	.276	.511	21	0	2	3	1	0
Kazumi Takahashi	41	84	74	6	14	1	1	0	2	0	0	4	21	.189	.231	.230	.460	17	0	0	6	0	0
Yoshihiro Aiba	49	49	44	4	9	1	0	1	8	1	0	5	11	.205	.286	.295	.581	13	2	0	0	0	0
Hidetake Watanabe	38	73	70	2	7	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	26	.100	.125	.114	.239	8	1	0	1	0	0
Takashi Hamamura	39	50	45	2	6	1	0	0	1	1	0	2	9	.133	.188	.156	.343	7	2	1	2	0	0
Narihiro Abe	6	15	13	3	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.308	.308	.385	.692	5	0	0	2	0	0
Yasuharu Taki	52	59	52	3	4	0	0	1	3	0	0	4	11	.077	.169	.135	.304	7	3	2	0	1	0
Mitsuhiro Sekimoto	35	43	36	2	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	3	14	.083	.154	.139	.293	5	0	0	4	0	0
Kenji Otake	4	7	7	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.286	.286	.429	.714	3	0	0	0	0	0
Shinichi Yamauchi	33	16	15	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.133	.133	.133	.267	2	0	0	1	0	0
Hiroaki Fukushi	2	3	2	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.500	.333	.500	.833	1	0	0	0	1	0
Toshiro Saisho	27	5	4	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.250	.200	.250	.450	1	0	0	0	1	0
Tsukasa Yamashita	42	14	11	7	1	0	0	0	0	7	5	2	3	.091	.231	.091	.322	1	1	0	1	0	0
Makoto Kurata	44	18	16	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	9	.062	.118	.062	.180	1	0	0	1	0	0
Katsuya Sugawara	25	23	19	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	12	.053	.143	.105	.248	2	0	0	2	0	0
Kenji Awaguchi	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kazumasa Kono	2	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Keiichi Uchida	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Osamu Shimano	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hisao Niura	19	13	12	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Toshihiko Kosaka	17	9	8	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.111	.000	.111	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1870	4885	4261	538	1077	178	25	123	511	149	62	460	565	.253	.331	.393	.723	1674	92	51	81	32	40

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Sadaharu Oh	1B	130					.000
Shozo Doi	2B	100					.000
Yukinobu Kuroe	2B	65					.000
Tsukasa Yamashita	2B	8					.000
Yasuharu Taki	2B	7					.000
Takeshi Ueda	2B	6					.000
Takashi Hamamura	2B	2					.000
Shigeo Nagashima	3B	129					.000
Yasuharu Taki	3B	12					.000
Takeshi Ueda	3B	7					.000
Kenji Otake	3B	3					.000
Kazumasa Kono	3B	1					.000
Masahiko Mori	C	93					.000
Koji Ano	C	46					.000
Takashi Yoshida	C	40					.000
Tadashi Yazawa	C	1					.000
Makoto Tsuchida	C	1					.000
Shigeru Takada	OF	124					.000
Isao Shibata	OF	115					.000
Toshimitsu Suetsugu	OF	77					.000
Masahiro Yanagida	OF	48					.000
Isao Hirono	OF	46					.000
Yasuhiro Hagiwara	OF	44					.000
Makoto Tsuchida	OF	36					.000
Toshiro Saisho	OF	25					.000
Yoshihiro Aiba	OF	12					.000
Narihiro Abe	OF	4					.000
Shigeru Sugiyama	OF	2					.000
Tadashi Yazawa	OF	1					.000
Kunio Jonouchi	OF	1					.000
Kenji Awaguchi	OF	1					.000
Makoto Kurata	P	44					.000
Kazumi Takahashi	P	41					.000
Tsuneo Horiuchi	P	40					.000
Hidetake Watanabe	P	38					.000
Mitsuhiro Sekimoto	P	35					.000
Shinichi Yamauchi	P	33					.000
Katsuya Sugawara	P	25					.000
Hisao Niura	P	19					.000
Toshihiko Kosaka	P	17					.000
Kunio Jonouchi	P	5					.000
Hiroaki Fukushi	P	2					.000
Osamu Shimano	P	1					.000
Takeshi Ueda	SS	69					.000
Yukinobu Kuroe	SS	67					.000
Takashi Hamamura	SS	33					.000
Yasuharu Taki	SS	17					.000
Kazumasa Kono	SS	1					.000
Totals		1674	0	0	0	0	.000

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