1983 Yakult Swallows Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 53-69
Finished 6th in the JPCL
Manager: Shiro Takegami (53-69)
Ballpark: Meiji Jingu Stadium

1983 Yakult Swallows Roster

The Yakult Swallows of the Japan Central League ended the 1983 season with a record of 53 wins and 69 losses, finishing sixth in the JPCL.

The Swallows plated 557 runs, worst in the circuit, and surrendered 604 runs. Robert Marcano paced Yakult with 25 home runs, while Susumu Watanabe, Katsuo Osugi, Tsutomu Wakamatsu and Yukio Yaegashi each walloped 15 or more also. Robert Marcano accounted for 78 RBI. Tsutomu Wakamatsu topped all regular batters by hitting .337. Kenichi Kajima led the team with 14 wins and a team-best 3.22 earned run average, leading regular hurlers.

Dan Briggs played in Major League Baseball during his career, the only member of the Yakult Swallows to do so.

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	14	12	.538	3.21	43	27	11	12	3	3	232.7	190	87	83	28	84	9	147	9	0	2	953
Takao Obana	11	10	.524	4.69	41	16	19	4	0	6	165.0	193	93	86	19	44	9	88	2	0	1	712
Hiromu Matsuoka	11	14	.440	4.09	35	29	3	7	0	0	191.3	179	90	87	23	67	3	92	1	1	4	803
Kenji Miyamoto	7	8	.467	4.48	30	21	5	4	0	2	134.7	141	69	67	27	41	1	51	10	0	0	588
Takashi Imoto	6	14	.300	5.46	27	23	1	5	1	0	141.7	169	90	86	30	52	4	65	2	1	1	628
Shinichiro Ihara	2	1	.667	4.39	13	3	6	0	0	0	26.7	35	13	13	4	7	0	15	1	0	1	116
Shigeki Nakamoto	1	0	1.000	2.38	12	0	9	0	0	2	22.7	17	7	6	3	10	1	11	0	0	0	93
Daisuke Araki	1	0	1.000	5.97	15	4	7	0	0	0	28.7	32	20	19	4	19	1	14	1	0	2	137
Masaharu Tachino	0	0		4.22	8	0	2	0	0	0	10.7	9	6	5	1	1	0	8	0	0	0	43
Masayuki Suzuki	0	0		6.48	5	0	1	0	0	0	8.3	8	6	6	2	8	1	4	0	0	1	38
Keiichi Sakai	0	0		7.45	15	0	5	0	0	0	19.3	30	16	16	8	2	0	8	1	0	0	89
Koji Torihara	0	1	.000	5.73	9	0	4	0	0	0	11.0	15	7	7	2	2	0	3	0	0	0	48
Yukio Takemoto	0	1	.000	6.38	12	2	1	0	0	0	24.0	28	20	17	6	12	0	18	1	1	1	112
Akira Kuramochi	0	3	.000	4.72	17	0	6	0	0	0	26.7	23	14	14	2	23	2	18	1	0	0	125
Shinji Kuroda	0	5	.000	4.75	32	4	11	0	0	2	72.0	86	42	38	11	23	4	37	2	0	1	320
Totals	53	69	.434	4.52	332	130	98	32	4	15	1144.0	1184	604	574	173	425	36	604	31	3	16	4947

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	112	451	413	61	139	21	1	15	60	11	1	27	21	.337	.378	.501	.879	207	11	1	9	1	2
Toru Sugiura	123	502	446	66	132	24	5	13	62	19	4	47	31	.296	.361	.460	.820	205	5	1	3	5	3
Robert Marcano	128	518	487	70	132	27	2	25	78	2	2	24	58	.271	.308	.489	.796	238	16	3	1	3	4
Shintaro Mizutani	118	454	404	51	108	16	2	3	28	19	10	24	58	.267	.306	.339	.645	137	4	0	22	4	2
Susumu Watanabe	118	428	381	60	106	12	0	19	45	3	2	38	56	.278	.351	.459	.810	175	6	5	3	1	2
Dan Briggs	123	406	381	40	102	24	1	12	44	2	2	13	72	.268	.306	.430	.737	164	5	9	1	2	1
Katsuo Osugi	99	349	322	40	84	6	2	21	53	0	0	23	40	.261	.315	.488	.803	157	11	3	0	1	5
Fujio Sumi	89	351	314	35	79	11	0	11	30	2	0	16	31	.252	.289	.392	.681	123	11	1	19	1	0
Yukio Yaegashi	97	294	264	27	67	8	1	16	45	0	0	20	43	.254	.313	.473	.786	125	7	4	3	3	5
Akihiko Oya	66	178	150	12	39	5	1	2	20	1	1	21	16	.260	.347	.347	.693	52	3	0	5	2	5
Hajime Kugitani	51	131	115	15	35	5	0	5	16	3	4	5	16	.304	.331	.478	.809	55	1	1	7	3	1
Junji Ogawa	71	132	131	13	33	5	0	4	13	0	1	1	28	.252	.258	.382	.639	50	0	0	0	0	0
Masaaki Iwashita	82	108	90	9	22	1	0	0	6	6	0	14	14	.244	.370	.256	.626	23	0	4	0	0	1
Hiromu Matsuoka	35	66	62	5	18	4	0	0	4	0	0	1	16	.290	.302	.355	.656	22	1	0	3	0	0
Kenichi Kajima	44	84	72	7	14	3	1	0	5	0	0	1	21	.194	.205	.264	.469	19	0	0	11	0	0
Shigeru Sugimura	65	57	53	6	10	2	0	1	6	0	0	1	10	.189	.200	.283	.483	15	0	0	2	1	0
Kenji Miyamoto	30	46	41	2	9	1	2	0	3	0	0	1	16	.220	.238	.341	.580	14	0	0	4	0	0
Shinji Ramoto	42	21	17	8	6	0	0	1	3	10	5	3	2	.353	.450	.529	.979	9	1	0	1	0	0
Shinya Ashizawa	13	22	21	2	6	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	.286	.318	.333	.652	7	0	0	0	0	0
Takao Obana	41	49	48	3	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	21	.125	.125	.125	.250	6	2	0	1	0	0
Keiichi Shibui	30	33	28	3	5	1	0	0	2	1	1	2	5	.179	.281	.214	.496	6	0	2	1	0	0
Minoru Aoki	71	36	31	17	5	0	0	0	0	11	2	2	4	.161	.212	.161	.373	5	1	0	3	0	0
Takashi Imoto	28	48	37	0	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	5	19	.081	.190	.081	.272	3	0	0	6	0	0
Daisuke Araki	16	4	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	1	0	0
Masayuki Sasaki	9	8	6	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	.167	.250	.167	.417	1	0	0	0	1	0
Takayoshi Kiminami	23	27	27	2	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	5	.037	.037	.037	.074	1	2	0	0	0	0
Shinichiro Ihara	17	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shinji Kuroda	36	15	12	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	3	0	0
Hideharu Takani	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yukio Takemoto	12	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Akira Kuramochi	20	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shigeki Nakamoto	12	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yasuhiro Hagiwara	10	9	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.111	.000	.111	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1853	4841	4378	557	1166	177	18	149	531	90	35	292	619	.266	.315	.417	.732	1826	87	34	109	28	31

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Katsuo Osugi	1B	88					.000
Dan Briggs	1B	63					.000
Susumu Watanabe	1B	42					.000
Fujio Sumi	1B	1					.000
Junji Ogawa	1B	1					.000
Yasuhiro Hagiwara	1B	1					.000
Robert Marcano	2B	128					.000
Shigeru Sugimura	2B	12					.000
Keiichi Shibui	2B	6					.000
Shinji Ramoto	2B	4					.000
Susumu Watanabe	2B	1					.000
Fujio Sumi	3B	88					.000
Susumu Watanabe	3B	55					.000
Shigeru Sugimura	3B	23					.000
Yukio Yaegashi	C	92					.000
Akihiko Oya	C	56					.000
Takayoshi Kiminami	C	7					.000
Shinya Ashizawa	C	7					.000
Toru Sugiura	OF	121					.000
Tsutomu Wakamatsu	OF	109					.000
Dan Briggs	OF	91					.000
Junji Ogawa	OF	61					.000
Minoru Aoki	OF	59					.000
Hajime Kugitani	OF	44					.000
Masaaki Iwashita	OF	32					.000
Shinji Ramoto	OF	6					.000
Masayuki Sasaki	OF	1					.000
Kenichi Kajima	P	43					.000
Takao Obana	P	41					.000
Hiromu Matsuoka	P	35					.000
Shinji Kuroda	P	32					.000
Kenji Miyamoto	P	30					.000
Takashi Imoto	P	27					.000
Akira Kuramochi	P	17					.000
Keiichi Sakai	P	15					.000
Daisuke Araki	P	15					.000
Shinichiro Ihara	P	13					.000
Yukio Takemoto	P	12					.000
Shigeki Nakamoto	P	12					.000
Koji Torihara	P	9					.000
Masaharu Tachino	P	8					.000
Masayuki Suzuki	P	5					.000
Shintaro Mizutani	SS	117					.000
Susumu Watanabe	SS	24					.000
Keiichi Shibui	SS	21					.000
Shigeru Sugimura	SS	12					.000
Totals		1705	0	0	0	0	.000

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