1979 Yomiuri Giants Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 58-62
Finished 5th in the JPCL
Manager: Shigeo Nagashima (58-62)
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Ballpark: Korakuen Stadium

1979 Yomiuri Giants Roster

The Yomiuri Giants of the Japan Central League ended the 1979 season with a record of 58 wins and 62 losses, finishing fifth in the JPCL.

The Giants scored 554 runs and gave up 549 runs. Sadaharu Oh walloped 33 home runs for Yomiuri, while Kazumasa Kono and John Sipin swatted 15 or more as well. Sadaharu Oh drove in 81 runs. John Sipin led all regular batters by hitting .312. Hisao Niura topped the team with 15 wins, and Takashi Nishimoto earned a 2.76 ERA, tops among pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.

John Sipin and Rick Kreuger 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
Hisao Niura	15	11	.577	3.43	45	28	16	12	3	5	236.3	211	94	90	24	68	7	223	6	0	1	961
Suguru Egawa	9	10	.474	2.80	27	23	0	7	2	0	161.0	132	57	50	22	50	3	138	0	1	0	653
Takashi Nishimoto	8	4	.667	2.76	44	17	13	5	1	6	153.0	143	54	47	13	38	5	85	6	0	4	631
Hajime Kato	7	10	.412	3.99	36	22	7	1	0	2	142.0	124	68	63	23	57	2	98	1	0	1	596
Kazuaki Fujishiro	4	7	.364	3.99	27	12	5	1	1	0	76.7	68	42	34	13	33	1	59	3	0	1	328
Tsuneo Horiuchi	4	7	.364	6.67	24	14	5	1	0	0	86.3	111	68	64	16	35	5	59	2	0	1	400
Yoshitaka Katori	3	2	.600	3.36	38	0	10	0	0	2	59.0	45	24	22	5	25	2	29	5	1	0	244
Rick Kreuger	2	1	.667	4.66	18	1	7	0	0	0	29.0	26	17	15	4	12	0	16	2	1	1	122
Shigeo Ishii	2	2	.500	3.69	15	5	4	0	0	0	39.0	40	20	16	7	10	0	21	2	0	0	169
Keishi Asano	2	3	.400	6.02	21	5	5	0	0	0	49.3	60	34	33	8	27	2	33	1	0	2	229
Mitsuo Sumi	2	5	.286	3.99	45	1	19	0	0	6	65.3	52	39	29	3	39	2	61	2	0	3	288
Kenyu Akamine	0	0		4.50	1	0	1	0	0	0	2.0	2	1	1	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	11
Susumu Omata	0	0		5.59	21	1	10	0	0	1	29.0	29	19	18	4	18	0	16	1	0	1	129
Shoji Sadaoka	0	0		5.79	7	1	1	0	0	0	14.0	20	12	9	3	7	0	11	1	0	0	66
Totals	58	62	.483	3.87	369	130	103	27	7	22	1142.0	1063	549	491	145	423	29	849	32	3	15	4827

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	117	478	432	70	135	17	1	27	74	3	2	43	73	.312	.373	.544	.917	235	12	0	1	2	3
Sadaharu Oh	120	506	407	73	116	15	0	33	81	1	1	89	48	.285	.415	.565	.980	230	9	5	0	5	10
Kazumasa Kono	128	488	439	53	100	22	1	15	56	21	1	28	73	.228	.283	.385	.668	169	9	7	11	3	0
Kiyoshi Nakahata	100	352	333	42	98	18	3	12	45	4	4	7	46	.294	.312	.474	.787	158	8	3	6	3	0
Isao Shibata	114	449	395	53	95	18	1	9	33	10	9	47	59	.241	.326	.359	.685	142	3	3	4	0	3
Masahiro Yanagida	114	371	336	39	89	14	2	14	44	7	7	32	50	.265	.327	.443	.770	149	12	0	1	2	2
Shigeru Takada	96	355	316	48	87	10	2	8	21	6	3	23	33	.275	.329	.396	.725	125	5	3	12	1	0
Koji Yamamoto	117	232	220	24	64	12	0	5	29	1	0	8	24	.291	.316	.414	.730	91	4	1	1	2	2
Isao Harimoto	77	255	228	26	60	7	0	8	32	1	0	23	21	.263	.329	.399	.729	91	5	1	0	3	1
Takashi Yoshida	87	209	187	13	53	8	0	6	22	1	1	18	30	.283	.349	.422	.772	79	5	2	0	2	10
Kenji Awaguchi	102	225	205	27	53	10	0	5	20	6	3	15	28	.259	.309	.380	.690	78	0	1	2	2	2
Kazuhiro Yamakura	97	211	192	21	40	2	1	7	18	5	1	16	38	.208	.273	.339	.611	65	2	1	2	0	4
Kaoru Hirata	61	93	82	14	28	7	0	3	19	1	3	5	15	.341	.378	.537	.914	44	1	1	3	2	0
Kazunori Shinozuka	76	97	90	11	25	2	2	0	10	1	0	6	14	.278	.323	.344	.667	31	7	0	1	0	0
Yasuyuki Nakai	92	79	74	11	19	3	2	1	10	4	3	2	11	.257	.286	.392	.678	29	2	1	2	0	0
Hisao Niura	45	87	77	10	13	2	0	1	5	0	0	3	29	.169	.200	.234	.434	18	0	0	7	0	0
Haruaki Harada	56	51	49	5	12	1	0	0	4	0	1	2	11	.245	.275	.265	.540	13	0	0	0	0	1
Hajime Kato	36	46	42	1	8	0	0	0	3	0	0	3	11	.190	.244	.190	.435	8	0	0	1	0	0
Takashi Nishimoto	45	51	45	0	7	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	11	.156	.191	.200	.391	9	2	0	4	0	0
Tomoharu Fukushima	8	8	8	2	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.375	.375	.625	1.000	5	0	0	0	0	0
Mitsuo Sumi	45	13	10	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.300	.364	.300	.664	3	0	0	2	0	0
Itaru Ninomiya	13	14	13	5	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.231	.286	.231	.516	3	1	0	0	0	0
Yuji Kasama	22	19	16	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	.188	.316	.188	.503	3	0	2	0	0	0
Suguru Egawa	27	59	55	2	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	28	.055	.071	.055	.126	3	2	0	3	0	0
Keishi Asano	21	13	12	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.167	.167	.250	.417	3	0	0	1	0	0
Kazuaki Fujishiro	27	21	19	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	8	.105	.150	.105	.255	2	0	0	1	0	0
Yoshitaka Katori	38	12	11	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.091	.091	.091	.182	1	0	0	1	0	0
Tsuneo Horiuchi	24	28	25	0	1	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	5	.040	.038	.040	.078	1	0	0	2	1	0
Rick Kreuger	18	5	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	2	0	0
Shigeo Ishii	15	10	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	3	0	0
Kosho Sakomaru	14	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shoji Sadaoka	7	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Susumu Omata	21	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tokuzo Nakatsukasa	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Kenyu Akamine	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1983	4850	4341	554	1123	171	16	154	532	72	39	377	701	.259	.320	.412	.732	1788	90	31	73	28	38

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Sadaharu Oh	1B	117					.000
Koji Yamamoto	1B	46					.000
John Sipin	1B	5					.000
Masahiro Yanagida	1B	2					.000
Kaoru Hirata	1B	1					.000
John Sipin	2B	106					.000
Kazunori Shinozuka	2B	48					.000
Kaoru Hirata	2B	37					.000
Kiyoshi Nakahata	2B	1					.000
Kiyoshi Nakahata	3B	97					.000
Shigeru Takada	3B	52					.000
Kazunori Shinozuka	3B	4					.000
Kaoru Hirata	3B	2					.000
Takashi Yoshida	C	84					.000
Yuji Kasama	C	19					.000
Tomoharu Fukushima	C	7					.000
Isao Shibata	OF	108					.000
Masahiro Yanagida	OF	107					.000
Kazuhiro Yamakura	OF	96					.000
Kenji Awaguchi	OF	79					.000
Yasuyuki Nakai	OF	76					.000
Isao Harimoto	OF	66					.000
Koji Yamamoto	OF	49					.000
Shigeru Takada	OF	46					.000
John Sipin	OF	22					.000
Itaru Ninomiya	OF	13					.000
Kosho Sakomaru	OF	7					.000
Haruaki Harada	OF	3					.000
Tokuzo Nakatsukasa	OF	1					.000
Mitsuo Sumi	P	45					.000
Hisao Niura	P	45					.000
Takashi Nishimoto	P	44					.000
Yoshitaka Katori	P	38					.000
Hajime Kato	P	36					.000
Kazuaki Fujishiro	P	27					.000
Suguru Egawa	P	27					.000
Tsuneo Horiuchi	P	24					.000
Susumu Omata	P	21					.000
Keishi Asano	P	21					.000
Rick Kreuger	P	18					.000
Shigeo Ishii	P	15					.000
Shoji Sadaoka	P	7					.000
Kenyu Akamine	P	1					.000
Kazumasa Kono	SS	128					.000
Kazunori Shinozuka	SS	16					.000
Totals		1814	0	0	0	0	.000

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