1980 Yakult Swallows Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 68-52
Finished 2nd in the JPCL
Manager: Shiro Takegami (68-52)
Ballpark: Meiji Jingu Stadium

1980 Yakult Swallows Roster

The Yakult Swallows of the Japan Central League ended the 1980 season with a record of 68 wins and 52 losses, finishing second in the JPCL.

The Swallows paced the league with 562 runs. Yakult allowed 462 runs. Katsuo Osugi led the squad with 21 home runs, while Toru Sugiura, Sam Perlozzo, Tsutomu Wakamatsu and John Scott each walloped 15 or more, too. Katsuo Osugi drove in 82 runs. Tsutomu Wakamatsu topped all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .351. Kenichi Kajima paced the team with 15 wins, and Hiromu Matsuoka registered a 2.35 earned run average, best among qualifying pitchers.

Sam Perlozzo and John Scott both played in Major League Baseball during their careers.

Shiro Takegami 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
Kenichi Kajima	15	8	.652	2.76	33	25	1	11	2	0	195.7	164	67	60	21	60	5	148	9	1	1	802
Hiromu Matsuoka	13	6	.684	2.35	29	17	8	9	4	1	157.0	145	47	41	10	47	4	92	2	2	3	646
Yasujiro Suzuki	11	6	.647	2.99	37	23	10	5	2	5	183.7	194	70	61	17	46	3	75	14	0	0	780
Takao Obana	8	13	.381	3.01	34	26	4	10	0	1	209.3	182	91	70	20	70	2	123	2	0	3	857
Tetsuo Nishii	5	1	.833	2.73	29	6	10	2	1	0	79.0	65	28	24	8	25	4	57	2	1	1	318
Keiichi Sakai	4	3	.571	3.09	28	3	15	0	0	4	55.3	47	21	19	6	25	1	37	4	2	3	229
Takeshi Yasuda	4	3	.571	3.82	22	9	9	2	2	1	77.7	77	33	33	12	20	3	24	0	0	0	319
Toshio Kanbe	3	5	.375	3.89	20	13	5	2	1	0	69.3	67	31	30	10	21	0	32	2	1	0	278
Makoto Kurata	2	0	1.000	8.59	5	1	0	0	0	0	7.3	8	8	7	0	13	1	4	0	0	1	41
Shinichiro Ihara	2	3	.400	4.70	19	0	14	0	0	6	30.7	34	16	16	6	8	2	24	1	0	1	132
Koji Torihara	1	0	1.000	2.53	10	0	3	0	0	0	21.3	18	6	6	1	9	1	11	2	0	0	90
Yuichi Goto	0	0		0.00	5	0	2	0	0	0	8.0	6	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	31
Daizo Kataoka	0	0		0.00	2	1	0	0	0	0	4.0	3	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	15
Yukio Kurosaka	0	0		6.75	3	0	2	0	0	0	4.0	4	3	3	2	4	0	2	0	0	0	21
Teruo Aida	0	1	.000	6.84	13	3	2	0	0	0	26.3	39	21	20	6	10	0	17	2	0	0	128
Hidenori Minami	0	1	.000	31.50	1	1	0	0	0	0	2.0	6	7	7	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	13
Hiroshi Kamizuru	0	2	.000	3.79	9	2	4	0	0	0	19.0	17	13	8	6	7	0	15	0	0	0	78
Totals	68	52	.567	3.17	299	130	89	41	12	18	1149.7	1076	462	405	126	372	26	664	40	7	13	4778

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
Tsutomu Wakamatsu	116	474	427	62	150	36	1	15	63	16	5	45	31	.351	.414	.546	.959	233	5	1	0	1	17
Sam Perlozzo	118	520	473	70	133	11	3	15	43	13	15	23	30	.281	.325	.412	.738	195	4	9	13	2	0
Katsuo Osugi	118	460	425	52	128	19	1	21	82	0	3	25	42	.301	.339	.499	.838	212	14	3	0	7	2
Toru Sugiura	123	481	408	71	127	24	4	20	62	18	11	66	54	.311	.408	.537	.945	219	8	2	3	2	13
John Scott	123	488	449	63	120	22	4	16	69	20	13	32	70	.267	.315	.441	.756	198	3	1	3	3	1
Akihiko Oya	110	404	368	35	104	15	3	8	50	1	10	25	32	.283	.330	.405	.735	149	14	3	4	4	2
Fujio Sumi	97	332	295	35	74	12	0	7	28	5	2	21	52	.251	.303	.363	.666	107	2	1	15	0	2
Susumu Watanabe	87	305	269	26	68	15	1	11	35	3	1	26	54	.253	.330	.439	.769	118	5	5	5	0	2
Shintaro Mizutani	94	291	258	38	65	9	2	2	16	15	6	16	41	.252	.295	.326	.620	84	4	0	16	1	1
Masaaki Iwashita	75	122	108	15	32	7	2	2	18	2	2	10	19	.296	.377	.454	.831	49	0	4	0	0	1
Yukio Yaegashi	63	124	113	12	24	7	0	3	13	1	2	6	35	.212	.282	.354	.636	40	3	5	0	0	0
Kazuhide Funada	53	83	71	9	22	1	0	2	10	4	0	9	11	.310	.383	.408	.791	29	1	0	2	1	2
Keiichi Shibui	50	76	68	14	19	1	0	2	6	4	1	3	16	.279	.324	.382	.707	26	1	2	2	1	0
Takahiro Yanagihara	47	80	77	10	15	6	0	2	8	0	1	3	19	.195	.225	.351	.576	27	1	0	0	0	0
Shigeru Sugimura	29	59	53	5	13	3	0	1	4	0	0	2	5	.245	.298	.358	.657	19	3	2	2	0	0
Kenichi Kajima	33	72	56	5	10	0	0	0	3	1	0	5	21	.179	.242	.179	.421	10	1	0	10	1	0
Yasuji Matsuzaki	7	25	24	5	9	0	0	0	3	2	0	1	2	.375	.400	.375	.775	9	0	0	0	0	0
Yasujiro Suzuki	37	62	55	7	7	1	0	2	7	0	0	4	23	.127	.186	.255	.441	14	0	0	3	0	0
Hiromu Matsuoka	29	55	52	4	6	0	0	1	2	0	0	2	14	.115	.148	.173	.321	9	0	0	1	0	0
Takao Obana	34	72	67	4	6	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	34	.090	.103	.090	.192	6	0	0	4	0	0
Hajime Kugitani	9	11	11	0	4	1	0	0	3	0	1	0	4	.364	.364	.455	.818	5	0	0	0	0	0
Toshio Kanbe	20	19	18	1	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	7	.222	.263	.222	.485	4	0	0	0	0	0
Shinya Ashizawa	17	20	19	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	.211	.250	.211	.461	4	0	0	0	0	0
Yoshinori Yamashita	22	25	21	1	4	1	0	0	2	0	0	3	6	.190	.292	.238	.530	5	0	0	1	0	0
Minoru Aoki	62	27	25	13	4	0	0	0	0	6	5	1	9	.160	.192	.160	.352	4	1	0	1	0	0
Kunio Fukutomi	31	36	35	1	4	1	0	1	5	0	0	1	11	.114	.139	.229	.367	8	1	0	0	0	0
Tetsuo Nishii	29	19	18	1	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	.167	.167	.222	.389	4	0	0	1	0	0
Takeshi Yasuda	22	17	16	1	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	5	.125	.125	.312	.438	5	0	0	1	0	0
Makoto Kurata	5	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Daizo Kataoka	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Shinichiro Ihara	19	7	6	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	1	0	0
Takao Ise	6	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	0	0	0
Keiichi Ikuta	6	10	10	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.100	.100	.100	.200	1	0	0	0	0	0
Keiichi Sakai	28	11	10	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.091	.000	.091	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hiroshi Kamizuru	9	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Koji Torihara	10	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Takehiko Tanaka	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Hiroshi Takahashi	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hidenori Minami	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Teruo Aida	13	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1758	4807	4325	562	1166	193	21	132	537	111	78	333	680	.270	.326	.415	.741	1797	73	38	88	23	43

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Katsuo Osugi	1B	112					.000
Toru Sugiura	1B	28					.000
Kazuhide Funada	1B	16					.000
Susumu Watanabe	1B	13					.000
Keiichi Ikuta	1B	2					.000
Susumu Watanabe	2B	62					.000
Shintaro Mizutani	2B	39					.000
Sam Perlozzo	2B	31					.000
Keiichi Shibui	2B	17					.000
Shigeru Sugimura	2B	14					.000
Kazuhide Funada	2B	6					.000
Yasuji Matsuzaki	2B	1					.000
Fujio Sumi	3B	96					.000
Kazuhide Funada	3B	26					.000
Susumu Watanabe	3B	16					.000
Shintaro Mizutani	3B	16					.000
Shigeru Sugimura	3B	15					.000
Yasuji Matsuzaki	3B	7					.000
Keiichi Shibui	3B	2					.000
Takehiko Tanaka	3B	1					.000
Akihiko Oya	C	110					.000
Yukio Yaegashi	C	33					.000
Shinya Ashizawa	C	3					.000
John Scott	OF	122					.000
Toru Sugiura	OF	117					.000
Tsutomu Wakamatsu	OF	111					.000
Minoru Aoki	OF	37					.000
Takahiro Yanagihara	OF	33					.000
Masaaki Iwashita	OF	26					.000
Hajime Kugitani	OF	8					.000
Yoshinori Yamashita	OF	7					.000
Kunio Fukutomi	OF	7					.000
Shintaro Mizutani	OF	1					.000
Yasujiro Suzuki	P	37					.000
Takao Obana	P	34					.000
Kenichi Kajima	P	33					.000
Tetsuo Nishii	P	29					.000
Hiromu Matsuoka	P	29					.000
Keiichi Sakai	P	28					.000
Takeshi Yasuda	P	22					.000
Toshio Kanbe	P	20					.000
Shinichiro Ihara	P	19					.000
Teruo Aida	P	13					.000
Koji Torihara	P	10					.000
Hiroshi Kamizuru	P	9					.000
Makoto Kurata	P	5					.000
Yuichi Goto	P	5					.000
Yukio Kurosaka	P	3					.000
Daizo Kataoka	P	2					.000
Hidenori Minami	P	1					.000
Sam Perlozzo	SS	88					.000
Shintaro Mizutani	SS	43					.000
Keiichi Shibui	SS	17					.000
Shigeru Sugimura	SS	1					.000
Totals		1583	0	0	0	0	.000

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