1981 Yakult Swallows Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 56-58
Finished 4th in the JPCL
Manager: Shiro Takegami (56-58)
Ballpark: Meiji Jingu Stadium

1981 Yakult Swallows Roster

The Yakult Swallows of the Japan Central League ended the 1981 season with a record of 56 wins and 58 losses, finishing fourth in the JPCL.

The Swallows scored 520 runs and allowed 591 runs. Katsuo Osugi led Yakult with 20 home runs, while Toru Sugiura, Susumu Watanabe and Fujio Sumi each walloped 15 or more also. Katsuo Osugi drove in 78 runs and topped all regular batters by hitting .343. Hiromu Matsuoka paced the squad with 12 wins and a team-best 3.76 earned run average, best among regular hurlers.

John Scott and Charlie Manuel 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
Hiromu Matsuoka	12	7	.632	3.75	36	25	10	7	0	4	194.3	191	84	81	29	67	5	133	8	1	5	822
Yasujiro Suzuki	9	8	.529	3.81	33	25	1	7	1	0	182.0	190	88	77	18	46	4	78	8	0	6	782
Shinichiro Ihara	9	9	.500	4.59	32	26	1	3	0	0	166.7	188	90	85	17	52	5	96	6	2	2	728
Masaharu Tachino	6	5	.545	3.82	39	2	14	0	0	5	68.3	67	32	29	8	21	1	28	0	1	1	277
Takao Obana	6	6	.500	4.23	30	19	3	4	1	0	125.7	135	65	59	18	34	2	84	4	0	2	532
Kenichi Kajima	6	10	.375	5.36	39	22	3	3	0	1	144.3	170	92	86	22	48	6	98	9	0	0	645
Tetsuo Nishii	5	5	.500	3.93	47	3	23	0	0	4	94.0	99	42	41	11	23	3	51	5	1	1	396
Akira Okawa	1	0	1.000	3.29	21	0	6	0	0	0	27.3	31	12	10	4	19	1	14	0	0	0	124
Keiichi Sakai	1	1	.500	5.40	14	0	5	0	0	0	20.0	19	12	12	4	7	2	15	0	0	1	79
Toshio Kanbe	1	3	.250	3.56	32	5	21	0	0	10	60.7	59	25	24	3	22	3	37	2	2	2	255
Daizo Kataoka	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Hidenori Minami	0	0		5.91	8	1	3	0	0	0	10.7	9	8	7	3	8	0	6	1	0	0	48
Takeshi Yasuda	0	0		9.00	6	0	2	0	0	0	7.0	11	7	7	3	2	0	2	0	0	0	32
Koji Torihara	0	0		11.37	4	0	3	0	0	0	6.3	7	8	8	2	9	0	4	0	0	0	33
Yukio Kurosaka	0	1	.000	10.38	5	0	2	0	0	0	8.7	10	10	10	1	4	0	5	0	0	0	40
Yukio Takemoto	0	3	.000	3.72	17	2	8	0	0	0	29.0	28	16	12	2	16	1	20	3	0	0	129
Totals	56	58	.491	4.30	364	130	106	24	2	24	1146.0	1214	591	548	145	378	33	671	46	7	20	4925

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
Katsuo Osugi	120	453	414	59	142	21	2	20	78	1	3	33	43	.343	.391	.548	.939	227	12	2	0	4	8
Fujio Sumi	120	486	431	52	121	17	2	18	46	2	4	38	62	.281	.342	.455	.797	196	5	3	13	1	2
Toru Sugiura	122	468	401	71	116	20	1	16	61	13	6	52	52	.289	.375	.464	.839	186	4	6	4	5	6
Susumu Watanabe	125	445	404	48	108	21	2	16	57	5	4	31	68	.267	.322	.448	.770	181	11	3	4	3	4
Tsutomu Wakamatsu	95	358	323	49	94	12	2	13	37	5	3	24	24	.291	.345	.461	.806	149	11	4	4	3	4
Shintaro Mizutani	118	375	332	39	84	15	7	4	27	18	11	21	47	.253	.301	.377	.677	125	1	3	16	3	4
Minoru Aoki	104	306	282	44	75	11	4	1	16	34	12	12	53	.266	.301	.344	.645	97	3	3	7	2	0
Charlie Manuel	81	280	246	28	64	10	0	12	36	1	0	31	42	.260	.343	.447	.790	110	8	1	0	2	4
Akihiko Oya	82	234	213	21	47	8	3	2	23	2	1	10	18	.221	.253	.315	.568	67	10	0	9	2	1
Shinya Ashizawa	81	162	153	14	36	8	1	3	21	0	1	4	37	.235	.259	.359	.619	55	3	1	4	0	0
Keiichi Shibui	79	153	143	11	28	3	0	2	11	3	5	6	29	.196	.238	.259	.497	37	6	2	2	0	0
Yukio Yaegashi	71	183	164	8	28	2	0	3	15	0	3	13	42	.171	.243	.238	.481	39	3	3	2	1	0
John Scott	44	134	127	18	27	5	0	4	9	3	2	4	18	.213	.254	.346	.600	44	3	3	0	0	1
Hajime Kugitani	57	72	64	14	20	2	0	2	8	4	2	3	15	.312	.375	.438	.812	28	1	4	0	1	0
Shigeru Sugimura	40	87	81	4	19	5	0	0	7	0	1	3	12	.235	.267	.296	.564	24	1	1	1	1	2
Yasujiro Suzuki	34	62	59	6	18	4	1	1	7	0	0	0	19	.305	.305	.458	.763	27	0	0	3	0	0
Masaaki Iwashita	67	91	81	6	18	1	0	1	8	2	0	3	10	.222	.300	.272	.572	22	2	6	1	0	0
Hiromu Matsuoka	37	66	59	3	11	1	0	2	9	0	0	2	20	.186	.206	.305	.511	18	0	0	3	2	0
Takahiro Yanagihara	45	83	73	7	10	2	0	0	3	0	0	8	18	.137	.220	.164	.384	12	0	0	1	1	0
Shinichiro Ihara	32	57	51	3	9	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	17	.176	.176	.176	.353	9	2	0	6	0	0
Kenichi Kajima	40	42	36	2	4	0	0	0	4	0	1	3	16	.111	.175	.111	.286	4	0	0	2	1	0
Shinji Ramoto	41	16	16	7	3	1	0	0	0	9	2	0	4	.188	.188	.250	.438	4	0	0	0	0	0
Takao Obana	30	38	36	1	3	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	13	.083	.108	.083	.191	3	0	0	1	0	0
Toshio Kanbe	32	16	15	0	2	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	8	.133	.133	.133	.267	2	0	0	1	0	0
Yukio Takemoto	17	2	2	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	1.000	1.500	2	0	0	0	0	0
Masaharu Tachino	39	9	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	.125	.125	.125	.250	1	0	0	1	0	0
Yoshinori Yamashita	39	13	13	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.077	.077	.077	.154	1	0	0	0	0	0
Tetsuo Nishii	47	19	16	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	.062	.118	.062	.180	1	0	0	2	0	0
Yasuji Matsuzaki	26	18	17	5	1	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	4	.059	.111	.059	.170	1	0	0	0	0	0
Yukio Kurosaka	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Masamichi Genoka	6	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hidenori Minami	8	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Akira Okawa	22	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Keiichi Sakai	14	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Masayuki Sasaki	13	10	10	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1933	4748	4279	520	1092	170	25	120	492	105	63	304	710	.255	.309	.391	.700	1672	86	45	88	32	36

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Katsuo Osugi	1B	112					.000
Toru Sugiura	1B	41					.000
Susumu Watanabe	1B	7					.000
Yasuji Matsuzaki	1B	7					.000
Takahiro Yanagihara	1B	3					.000
Susumu Watanabe	2B	119					.000
Keiichi Shibui	2B	25					.000
Shigeru Sugimura	2B	11					.000
Shinji Ramoto	2B	10					.000
Shintaro Mizutani	2B	1					.000
Fujio Sumi	3B	120					.000
Shintaro Mizutani	3B	12					.000
Shigeru Sugimura	3B	10					.000
Yasuji Matsuzaki	3B	6					.000
Akihiko Oya	C	65					.000
Yukio Yaegashi	C	52					.000
Shinya Ashizawa	C	41					.000
Toru Sugiura	OF	104					.000
Minoru Aoki	OF	89					.000
Tsutomu Wakamatsu	OF	87					.000
Charlie Manuel	OF	73					.000
Hajime Kugitani	OF	47					.000
John Scott	OF	32					.000
Yoshinori Yamashita	OF	31					.000
Takahiro Yanagihara	OF	29					.000
Masaaki Iwashita	OF	21					.000
Masayuki Sasaki	OF	5					.000
Masamichi Genoka	OF	3					.000
Tetsuo Nishii	P	47					.000
Masaharu Tachino	P	39					.000
Kenichi Kajima	P	39					.000
Hiromu Matsuoka	P	36					.000
Yasujiro Suzuki	P	33					.000
Toshio Kanbe	P	32					.000
Shinichiro Ihara	P	32					.000
Takao Obana	P	30					.000
Akira Okawa	P	21					.000
Yukio Takemoto	P	17					.000
Keiichi Sakai	P	14					.000
Hidenori Minami	P	8					.000
Takeshi Yasuda	P	6					.000
Yukio Kurosaka	P	5					.000
Koji Torihara	P	4					.000
Daizo Kataoka	P	1					.000
Shintaro Mizutani	SS	112					.000
Keiichi Shibui	SS	48					.000
Shigeru Sugimura	SS	20					.000
Shinji Ramoto	SS	6					.000
Totals		1713	0	0	0	0	.000

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