1966 Yomiuri Giants Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 89-41
Finished 1st in the JPCL
Manager: Tetsuharu Kawakami (89-41)
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Ballpark: Korakuen Stadium

1966 Yomiuri Giants Roster

Japan Series - Yomiuri Giants 4 games, Nankai Hawks 2

The Yomiuri Giants of the Japan Central League ended the 1966 season with a record of 89 wins and 41 losses, finishing first in the JPCL.

The Giants topped the circuit with 559 runs. Yomiuri yielded 335 runs, fewest in the league. Sadaharu Oh walloped 48 home runs for the team, and Shigeo Nagashima added 15 or more also. Sadaharu Oh drove in 116 runs. Shigeo Nagashima paced all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .344. Kunio Jonouchi led the squad with 21 wins, while Tsuneo Horiuchi contributed 15 or more victories also Tsuneo Horiuchi registered a 1.39 earned run average, leading hurlers with significant time on the mound. 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
Kunio Jonouchi	21	8	.724	2.01	40	35	5	21	6		282.0	231	70	63	11	53	11	134	7	0	0	1108
Tsuneo Horiuchi	16	2	.889	1.39	33	22	9	14	7		181.0	125	34	28	5	69	2	117	4	0	5	714
Hidetake Watanabe	13	6	.684	2.33	42	14	17	6	1		154.3	124	42	40	14	20	4	66	7	0	0	599
Minoru Nakamura	11	7	.611	2.64	32	26	1	8	2		177.0	150	62	52	15	36	4	85	3	1	0	701
Kazumi Takahashi	6	5	.545	2.17	19	10	1	2	0		74.7	56	18	18	7	34	1	53	2	0	1	308
Yukinori Miyata	5	3	.625	2.14	15	0	12	0	0		33.7	30	9	8	5	10	3	18	0	0	0	136
Akio Masuda	4	1	.800	2.78	30	5	11	0	0		58.3	49	18	18	6	14	0	40	1	0	0	229
Masaichi Kaneda	4	6	.400	3.42	19	12	6	1	0		84.3	72	36	32	12	25	3	58	3	0	2	341
Akira Takahashi	3	0	1.000	2.44	14	3	3	0	0		44.3	33	13	12	5	9	4	16	1	0	1	173
Yoshiyasu Tanebe	2	0	1.000	0.81	20	0	9	0	0		33.3	15	4	3	3	6	1	19	0	0	0	117
Yojiro Miyamoto	2	1	.667	2.04	22	0	6	0	0		53.0	42	13	12	4	10	1	22	0	0	0	203
Katsuya Sugawara	1	1	.500	2.77	3	2	0	1	1		13.0	11	4	4	0	7	0	6	0	0	1	57
Osamu Kubota	1	1	.500	4.50	5	5	0	1	0		22.0	21	12	11	4	9	3	4	2	0	0	96
Totals	89	41	.685	2.24	294	134	80	54	17	0	1211.0	959	335	301	91	302	37	638	30	1	10	4782

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	128	543	474	83	163	31	3	26	105	14	7	58	39	.344	.413	.586	.999	278	17	3	0	8	14
Sadaharu Oh	129	549	396	111	123	14	1	48	116	9	4	142	51	.311	.495	.715	1.210	283	5	7	0	4	41
Akira Kunimatsu	116	426	379	40	103	15	3	6	44	12	8	26	26	.272	.316	.375	.691	142	6	1	15	5	1
Shozo Doi	129	480	420	67	103	10	1	5	39	14	12	29	32	.245	.299	.310	.608	130	1	4	25	2	0
Masahiko Mori	125	454	425	25	103	13	2	5	62	1	1	21	19	.242	.277	.318	.595	135	12	1	3	4	8
Isao Shibata	114	481	406	72	102	14	3	7	25	46	13	65	66	.251	.359	.352	.711	143	4	4	5	1	0
Yukinobu Kuroe	91	289	262	44	64	10	3	2	17	21	7	21	35	.244	.309	.328	.637	86	4	4	1	1	1
Toshimitsu Suetsugu	76	178	166	15	39	5	5	3	18	6	1	6	24	.235	.259	.380	.638	63	4	0	4	2	0
Toshio Yanagida	96	207	180	22	37	6	0	5	18	3	7	21	40	.206	.299	.322	.621	58	1	3	3	0	2
Katsutoyo Yoshida	78	183	164	13	34	5	1	1	12	1	2	12	31	.207	.272	.268	.541	44	4	3	3	1	1
Kusuo Tanaka	53	117	110	6	25	2	0	1	6	0	2	5	24	.227	.267	.273	.540	30	1	1	1	0	0
Yutaka Sudo	70	118	98	4	19	3	1	0	6	3	0	11	10	.194	.282	.245	.527	24	4	1	8	0	2
Keisuke Senda	80	110	100	15	18	2	2	0	8	10	6	6	17	.180	.255	.240	.495	24	2	4	0	0	0
Isao Ohashi	42	62	60	1	16	2	0	0	5	0	1	1	11	.267	.290	.300	.590	18	3	1	0	0	0
Tsuneo Horiuchi	33	69	64	6	16	5	0	2	6	0	0	0	16	.250	.250	.422	.672	27	1	0	5	0	0
Yoshihiro Aiba	46	88	84	5	14	5	0	0	4	1	2	3	16	.167	.195	.226	.422	19	1	0	1	0	0
Akira Shiobara	58	79	72	4	12	1	1	0	7	1	1	2	7	.167	.205	.208	.413	15	1	2	1	2	0
Hidetake Watanabe	43	56	51	1	9	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	17	.176	.176	.176	.353	9	0	0	5	0	0
Minoru Nakamura	32	65	56	2	9	1	0	0	9	0	0	1	21	.161	.169	.179	.348	10	1	0	6	2	0
Yasuharu Taki	18	19	18	4	5	1	1	0	2	1	0	1	5	.278	.316	.444	.760	8	0	0	0	0	0
Kunio Jonouchi	40	103	93	4	5	0	0	1	2	0	0	4	54	.054	.093	.086	.179	8	2	0	6	0	0
Yuji Shimada	25	25	21	0	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	6	.190	.320	.190	.510	4	1	0	0	0	0
Katsutoshi Miyadera	16	24	22	2	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	6	.182	.250	.227	.477	5	0	0	0	0	0
Masaichi Kaneda	19	26	23	1	4	1	0	0	2	0	0	2	1	.174	.240	.217	.457	5	0	0	1	0	0
Tatsuro Hiroka	11	34	31	4	4	2	0	0	2	1	0	3	7	.129	.206	.194	.399	6	1	0	0	0	0
Yoshiyuki Ikezawa	43	43	34	0	4	1	0	0	4	0	0	8	6	.118	.302	.147	.449	5	1	1	0	0	0
Osamu Kubota	5	11	10	2	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	.300	.300	.300	.600	3	0	0	1	0	0
Shozo Eto	14	23	23	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.130	.130	.130	.261	3	1	0	0	0	0
Akira Hotta	11	15	11	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	.182	.357	.182	.539	2	0	0	1	0	0
Yukinori Miyata	15	11	11	1	2	1	0	1	4	0	0	0	7	.182	.182	.545	.727	6	1	0	0	0	0
Akio Masuda	30	13	13	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.154	.154	.154	.308	2	0	0	0	0	0
Akira Takahashi	15	14	14	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	.143	.143	.143	.286	2	1	0	0	0	0
Kazumi Takahashi	19	23	21	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	8	.095	.136	.095	.232	2	0	0	1	0	0
Chiyosaku Hayashi	2	3	3	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	1.333	1.667	4	0	0	0	0	0
Yoshiyasu Tanebe	20	7	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.200	.200	.200	.400	1	0	0	2	0	0
Toshiro Saisho	5	7	7	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.143	.143	.286	.429	2	0	0	0	0	0
Yojiro Miyamoto	22	10	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.111	.000	.111	0	0	0	1	0	0
Masaharu Matsumura	9	14	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	2	3	.000	.154	.000	.154	0	0	0	1	0	0
Katsuya Sugawara	3	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Takashi Yoshida	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1882	4985	4352	559	1058	152	27	114	529	148	74	461	638	.243	.319	.369	.688	1606	80	40	100	32	70

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Sadaharu Oh	1B	127					.000
Akira Kunimatsu	1B	8					.000
Yasuharu Taki	1B	2					.000
Shozo Doi	2B	106					.000
Yutaka Sudo	2B	61					.000
Shozo Eto	2B	11					.000
Akira Shiobara	2B	8					.000
Yukinobu Kuroe	2B	7					.000
Yasuharu Taki	2B	3					.000
Keisuke Senda	2B	3					.000
Masaharu Matsumura	2B	3					.000
Shigeo Nagashima	3B	127					.000
Akira Shiobara	3B	7					.000
Masaharu Matsumura	3B	4					.000
Yasuharu Taki	3B	2					.000
Keisuke Senda	3B	2					.000
Masahiko Mori	C	124					.000
Isao Ohashi	C	32					.000
Katsutoshi Miyadera	C	12					.000
Takashi Yoshida	C	1					.000
Isao Shibata	OF	113					.000
Akira Kunimatsu	OF	109					.000
Toshio Yanagida	OF	91					.000
Toshimitsu Suetsugu	OF	73					.000
Katsutoyo Yoshida	OF	69					.000
Kusuo Tanaka	OF	49					.000
Yoshihiro Aiba	OF	35					.000
Akira Hotta	OF	10					.000
Toshiro Saisho	OF	5					.000
Yuji Shimada	OF	3					.000
Yoshiyuki Ikezawa	OF	2					.000
Hidekazu Yoshizawa	OF	1					.000
Hidetake Watanabe	OF	1					.000
Akira Takahashi	OF	1					.000
Masahiro Saito	OF	1					.000
Chiyosaku Hayashi	OF	1					.000
Hidetake Watanabe	P	42					.000
Kunio Jonouchi	P	40					.000
Tsuneo Horiuchi	P	33					.000
Minoru Nakamura	P	32					.000
Akio Masuda	P	30					.000
Yojiro Miyamoto	P	22					.000
Yoshiyasu Tanebe	P	20					.000
Kazumi Takahashi	P	19					.000
Masaichi Kaneda	P	19					.000
Yukinori Miyata	P	15					.000
Akira Takahashi	P	14					.000
Osamu Kubota	P	5					.000
Katsuya Sugawara	P	3					.000
Yukinobu Kuroe	SS	79					.000
Shozo Doi	SS	39					.000
Keisuke Senda	SS	26					.000
Tatsuro Hiroka	SS	11					.000
Yasuharu Taki	SS	2					.000
Totals		1665	0	0	0	0	.000

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