1977 Yomiuri Giants Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 80-46
Finished 1st in the JPCL
Manager: Shigeo Nagashima (80-46)
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Ballpark: Korakuen Stadium

1977 Yomiuri Giants Roster

The Yomiuri Giants of the Japan Central League ended the 1977 season with a record of 80 wins and 46 losses, finishing first in the JPCL.

The Giants paced the circuit with 648 runs, powered by 181 home runs. Yomiuri surrendered 504 runs, fewest in the league. Sadaharu Oh crushed 50 homers for the squad, while Isao Harimoto, Shigeru Takada, Isao Shibata and Masahiro Yanagida each walloped 15 or more also. Sadaharu Oh drove in 124 runs. Isao Harimoto led all regular hitters by hitting .348. Shigeru Kobayashi topped the team with 18 wins, and Hisao Niura recorded a 2.32 ERA, leading regular hurlers.

Clyde Wright and Jack Lind both played in Major League Baseball during their careers.

Shigeo Nagashima 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
Shigeru Kobayashi	18	8	.692	2.91	42	30	11	11	3	7	216.3	197	89	70	25	65	9	155	4	2	0	897
Hisao Niura	11	3	.786	2.32	44	15	17	5	1	9	136.0	104	38	35	10	60	6	96	1	1	2	549
Clyde Wright	11	9	.550	4.24	31	25	1	5	1	0	172.0	190	87	81	25	62	5	82	8	1	3	754
Tsuneo Horiuchi	10	9	.526	4.58	34	23	5	4	1	3	151.3	163	81	77	20	53	3	86	5	0	3	657
Keishi Asano	9	4	.692	2.51	31	7	9	2	0	1	93.3	86	32	26	13	38	4	61	1	0	3	394
Takashi Nishimoto	8	5	.615	2.67	47	7	19	2	1	4	118.0	115	44	35	10	31	5	54	5	0	1	486
Hajime Kato	4	1	.800	2.91	13	8	5	0	0	3	55.7	40	19	18	8	28	1	60	1	0	2	237
Susumu Omata	3	0	1.000	2.84	30	2	8	0	0	1	57.0	39	18	18	6	24	4	38	2	0	2	230
Yoshimasa Takahashi	3	2	.600	4.37	45	1	10	0	0	3	55.7	58	34	27	9	22	6	30	0	0	3	241
Kazuaki Fujishiro	2	3	.400	4.71	15	9	2	0	0	0	42.0	50	25	22	7	19	0	30	0	0	0	189
Isao Tamura	1	0	1.000	4.02	8	0	4	0	0	0	15.7	15	7	7	3	9	0	5	1	0	0	64
Katsuyoshi Shiotsuki	0	0		6.00	2	0	2	0	0	0	3.0	5	2	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	16
Toshiyuki Nakayama	0	0		10.80	3	0	0	0	0	0	1.7	5	4	2	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	13
Kunikazu Ogawa	0	1	.000	6.43	9	1	3	0	0	0	14.0	15	10	10	4	6	0	11	1	0	0	62
Shoji Sadaoka	0	1	.000	8.22	9	2	5	0	0	0	15.3	19	14	14	5	12	1	9	0	0	0	74
Totals	80	46	.635	3.48	363	130	101	29	7	31	1147.0	1101	504	444	148	432	44	720	29	4	19	4863

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
Isao Harimoto	122	492	440	67	153	16	6	24	82	3	4	40	37	.348	.404	.575	.979	253	14	6	0	6	2
Isao Shibata	127	565	506	94	145	24	7	18	52	34	5	51	50	.287	.353	.468	.822	237	5	3	2	3	0
Sadaharu Oh	130	570	432	114	140	15	0	50	124	1	3	126	37	.324	.477	.706	1.183	305	14	6	0	6	16
Shigeru Takada	127	554	473	81	140	22	2	17	65	11	6	40	42	.296	.351	.459	.809	217	6	3	32	6	1
Masahiro Yanagida	114	441	374	68	127	18	2	21	67	17	6	55	36	.340	.425	.567	.992	212	7	3	6	3	1
Kazumasa Kono	125	419	357	49	105	18	6	12	45	13	5	39	49	.294	.377	.479	.856	171	6	10	10	3	3
Shozo Doi	115	374	334	34	87	19	1	8	49	6	1	17	16	.260	.294	.395	.689	132	3	1	17	5	1
Takashi Yoshida	93	279	249	20	57	6	0	5	25	0	1	18	19	.229	.283	.313	.596	78	1	2	7	3	5
Jack Lind	65	227	198	24	47	5	2	9	23	1	1	23	48	.237	.330	.419	.750	83	2	5	0	1	0
Kenji Awaguchi	90	152	143	12	35	2	0	5	21	2	1	5	26	.245	.278	.364	.642	52	3	2	1	1	0
Koji Yamamoto	89	98	94	6	26	5	0	2	18	0	0	3	13	.277	.296	.394	.690	37	1	0	0	1	0
Tadashi Matsumoto	49	61	57	11	20	3	0	4	11	10	3	4	10	.351	.393	.614	1.007	35	0	0	0	0	0
Takeshi Ueda	63	65	56	7	16	3	1	1	9	1	0	3	10	.286	.333	.429	.762	24	1	1	5	0	0
Yuji Kasama	35	66	61	4	16	3	0	1	5	0	0	4	11	.262	.318	.361	.679	22	0	1	0	0	1
Shigeru Sugiyama	30	63	51	7	14	3	0	0	7	1	0	9	4	.275	.371	.333	.704	17	1	0	1	2	0
Shigeru Kobayashi	42	83	76	5	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	24	.158	.190	.158	.348	12	1	0	4	0	0
Tadashi Yazawa	43	79	65	7	11	2	0	2	6	0	0	11	12	.169	.308	.292	.600	19	2	2	1	0	0
Clyde Wright	31	67	59	3	9	2	0	1	9	0	0	0	21	.153	.150	.237	.387	14	1	0	7	1	0
Tsuneo Horiuchi	34	54	44	3	8	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	13	.182	.217	.227	.445	10	0	0	8	0	0
Takashi Nishimoto	47	30	28	2	6	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	7	.214	.214	.357	.571	10	0	0	2	0	0
Haruaki Harada	45	40	35	2	6	0	0	0	3	0	0	4	5	.171	.275	.171	.446	6	1	1	0	0	0
Kazuo Yamamoto	53	26	22	3	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.227	.261	.273	.534	6	1	0	3	0	0
Kazunori Shinozuka	18	26	24	2	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	.208	.269	.208	.478	5	0	0	0	0	0
Hisao Niura	44	42	35	1	5	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	17	.143	.189	.171	.361	6	0	0	5	0	0
Hajime Kato	13	21	16	1	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.250	.250	.312	.562	5	0	0	5	0	0
Itaru Ninomiya	108	32	28	18	4	1	0	0	1	2	1	1	4	.143	.200	.179	.379	5	1	1	2	0	0
Keishi Asano	31	25	21	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.143	.143	.143	.286	3	0	0	4	0	0
Kiyoshi Nakahata	7	5	5	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.400	.400	.400	.800	2	1	0	0	0	0
Toshimitsu Suetsugu	3	12	11	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.182	.250	.182	.432	2	0	0	0	0	0
Yoshimasa Takahashi	45	8	5	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.200	.429	.200	.629	1	1	0	1	0	0
Kazuaki Fujishiro	15	12	12	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	.083	.083	.167	.250	2	0	0	0	0	0
Tomoharu Fukushima	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Toshihiro Okita	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Susumu Omata	30	11	8	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	6	.000	.200	.000	.200	0	0	0	1	0	0
Isao Tamura	8	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Shoji Sadaoka	9	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Kunikazu Ogawa	9	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2012	5008	4327	648	1212	172	28	181	628	102	37	468	545	.280	.354	.458	.812	1983	74	47	125	41	30

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Sadaharu Oh	1B	130					.000
Koji Yamamoto	1B	18					.000
Takeshi Ueda	1B	12					.000
Shozo Doi	2B	103					.000
Jack Lind	2B	43					.000
Tadashi Matsumoto	2B	20					.000
Takeshi Ueda	2B	7					.000
Kazuo Yamamoto	2B	2					.000
Kazunori Shinozuka	2B	1					.000
Shigeru Takada	3B	118					.000
Kazuo Yamamoto	3B	37					.000
Takeshi Ueda	3B	14					.000
Tadashi Matsumoto	3B	9					.000
Jack Lind	3B	7					.000
Kazumasa Kono	3B	2					.000
Kiyoshi Nakahata	3B	1					.000
Takashi Yoshida	C	93					.000
Tadashi Yazawa	C	40					.000
Yuji Kasama	C	31					.000
Shigeru Sugiyama	C	30					.000
Tomoharu Fukushima	C	2					.000
Isao Shibata	OF	123					.000
Isao Harimoto	OF	120					.000
Masahiro Yanagida	OF	109					.000
Itaru Ninomiya	OF	97					.000
Kenji Awaguchi	OF	41					.000
Shigeru Takada	OF	29					.000
Koji Yamamoto	OF	25					.000
Haruaki Harada	OF	5					.000
Toshimitsu Suetsugu	OF	3					.000
Sadaharu Oh	OF	2					.000
Takashi Nishimoto	P	47					.000
Yoshimasa Takahashi	P	45					.000
Hisao Niura	P	44					.000
Shigeru Kobayashi	P	42					.000
Tsuneo Horiuchi	P	34					.000
Clyde Wright	P	31					.000
Keishi Asano	P	31					.000
Susumu Omata	P	30					.000
Kazuaki Fujishiro	P	15					.000
Hajime Kato	P	13					.000
Shoji Sadaoka	P	9					.000
Kunikazu Ogawa	P	9					.000
Isao Tamura	P	8					.000
Toshiyuki Nakayama	P	3					.000
Katsuyoshi Shiotsuki	P	2					.000
Kazumasa Kono	SS	120					.000
Jack Lind	SS	26					.000
Takeshi Ueda	SS	20					.000
Kazunori Shinozuka	SS	7					.000
Kazuo Yamamoto	SS	2					.000
Totals		1812	0	0	0	0	.000

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