1987 Yakult Swallows Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 58-64
Finished 4th in the JPCL
Manager: Junzo Sekine (58-64)
Ballpark: Meiji Jingu Stadium

1987 Yakult Swallows Roster

The Yakult Swallows of the Japan Central League ended the 1987 season with a record of 58 wins and 64 losses, finishing fourth in the JPCL.

The Swallows scored 553 runs and conceded 637 runs, most in the circuit. Bob Horner walloped 31 home runs for Yakult, while Katsumi Hirosawa, Leon Lee and Toru Sugiura each swatted 15 or more, too. Bob Horner, Toru Sugiura and Leon Lee each recorded 73 runs batted in. Toru Sugiura led hitters with significant playing time by hitting .304. Akimitsu Ito topped the team with 14 wins, and Takao Obana recorded a 3.97 ERA, best among regular hurlers.

Bob Horner and Mark Brouhard both played in Major League Baseball during their careers.

Junzo Sekine 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
Akimitsu Ito	14	11	.560	4.27	31	31	0	6	1	0	196.0	211	103	93	26	58	5	87	6	1	1	842
Takao Obana	11	15	.423	3.96	33	29	3	9	2	3	206.7	227	111	91	24	37	7	145	5	0	4	869
Daisuke Araki	10	9	.526	5.07	31	25	1	5	0	0	151.0	168	90	85	29	32	3	72	4	0	6	641
Hikaru Takano	7	6	.538	4.02	38	14	22	4	1	11	134.3	139	69	60	13	59	4	95	1	0	4	589
Kazuya Yano	6	6	.500	5.09	28	12	4	0	0	0	86.7	93	50	49	12	30	7	56	2	0	6	377
Eijiro Ai	5	5	.500	6.49	36	5	18	0	0	1	79.0	104	66	57	14	28	2	49	5	0	3	368
Kenji Miyamoto	5	6	.455	4.52	38	11	11	0	0	2	97.7	105	50	49	12	28	7	43	1	0	0	416
Tsutomu Yamada	0	0		3.00	5	0	0	0	0	0	6.0	5	4	2	1	6	0	7	0	0	0	31
Shigeki Nakamoto	0	0		3.42	40	0	11	0	0	3	47.3	47	20	18	7	13	3	21	1	0	0	189
Akira Okawa	0	0		15.00	2	0	1	0	0	0	3.0	5	5	5	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	14
Naoyuki Naito	0	0		20.25	3	0	0	0	0	0	2.7	6	8	6	1	3	0	3	1	0	0	19
Keiichi Sakai	0	1	.000	3.95	28	0	10	0	0	0	43.3	45	21	19	8	14	4	22	3	0	1	183
Tsuyoshi Nishioka	0	2	.000	3.75	27	2	14	1	0	0	48.0	47	21	20	6	18	0	36	1	0	2	202
Kenichi Kajima	0	3	.000	4.01	37	1	10	0	0	2	42.7	45	19	19	4	10	4	20	2	0	0	181
Totals	58	64	.475	4.51	377	130	105	25	4	22	1144.3	1247	637	573	159	336	46	657	32	1	27	4921

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
Leon Lee	120	492	453	60	136	14	1	22	73	0	0	37	60	.300	.352	.481	.833	218	19	0	0	2	4
Katsumi Hirosawa	130	512	461	61	131	21	3	19	60	9	2	41	105	.284	.346	.466	.813	215	16	5	1	4	1
Toru Sugiura	117	443	375	68	114	18	3	24	73	3	2	62	57	.304	.400	.560	.960	210	5	1	0	5	1
Yukio Arai	105	409	372	52	112	22	2	9	38	2	3	31	31	.301	.360	.444	.803	165	4	3	3	0	2
Yukio Yaegashi	120	437	400	35	112	18	1	9	47	2	5	24	69	.280	.322	.398	.719	159	16	3	5	5	4
Takahiro Ikeyama	127	453	400	42	100	25	1	13	46	3	1	37	112	.250	.317	.415	.732	166	8	3	11	2	13
Bob Horner	93	355	303	60	99	15	0	31	73	0	0	50	65	.327	.423	.683	1.106	207	9	1	0	1	3
Keiichi Shibui	118	385	324	45	64	5	1	6	19	6	3	22	70	.198	.251	.275	.526	89	9	2	35	2	0
Junji Ogawa	113	245	229	32	55	5	3	11	31	2	2	13	48	.240	.280	.432	.712	99	5	0	2	1	0
Fujio Sumi	68	183	166	18	36	4	1	5	12	0	0	8	24	.217	.257	.343	.601	57	5	1	8	0	0
Shinichi Sakurai	57	142	132	13	34	3	1	0	7	1	0	2	26	.258	.267	.295	.562	39	4	0	7	1	1
Tsutomu Wakamatsu	55	81	69	6	26	2	2	3	16	0	0	10	7	.377	.450	.594	1.044	41	2	0	1	1	2
Hideki Kuriyama	72	99	92	13	18	1	1	0	5	0	1	3	7	.196	.229	.228	.457	21	3	1	3	0	1
Shinji Hata	33	70	68	8	14	4	0	3	11	1	0	2	11	.206	.229	.397	.626	27	2	0	0	0	0
Mark Brouhard	11	32	29	4	11	3	0	2	5	1	1	3	4	.379	.438	.690	1.127	20	0	0	0	0	0
Daisuke Araki	31	55	50	4	10	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	21	.200	.200	.200	.400	10	2	0	5	0	0
Takao Obana	33	74	62	1	8	0	0	0	4	0	0	4	24	.129	.182	.129	.311	8	1	0	8	0	0
Akimitsu Ito	31	78	71	5	6	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	24	.085	.108	.085	.193	6	0	0	4	1	0
Kenta Aoshima	58	39	34	6	5	0	0	1	3	0	0	5	12	.147	.256	.235	.492	8	1	0	0	0	2
Masao Yanada	74	17	17	7	4	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	.235	.235	.235	.471	4	0	0	0	0	0
Shinya Ashizawa	11	19	19	0	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	.211	.211	.211	.421	4	1	0	0	0	0
Masahiko Goseki	24	24	24	2	4	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	5	.167	.167	.333	.500	8	3	0	0	0	0
Kazuya Yano	28	25	19	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	8	.158	.200	.158	.358	3	0	0	5	0	0
Kenji Miyamoto	38	28	23	4	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	11	.130	.231	.130	.361	3	1	0	2	0	0
Hikaru Takano	38	45	34	3	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	12	.088	.139	.118	.257	4	0	0	9	0	0
Masamichi Genoka	19	11	10	2	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	3	.200	.273	.500	.773	5	0	0	0	0	0
Shigeru Sugimura	10	16	15	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.133	.125	.133	.258	2	0	0	0	1	0
Eijiro Ai	36	17	16	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.125	.125	.125	.250	2	0	0	1	0	0
Shigeki Nakamoto	40	4	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	2	0	0
Susumu Watanabe	36	27	24	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	9	.042	.148	.042	.190	1	2	1	0	0	0
Katsuyuki Dobashi	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shinji Fujieda	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tsuyoshi Nishioka	27	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Takaaki Kato	5	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Keiichi Sakai	28	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kenichi Kajima	37	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	3	0	0
Totals	1948	4835	4307	553	1120	163	21	159	532	30	22	365	850	.260	.319	.418	.738	1802	118	21	116	26	34

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Leon Lee	1B	92					.000
Toru Sugiura	1B	32					.000
Bob Horner	1B	26					.000
Susumu Watanabe	1B	13					.000
Katsumi Hirosawa	1B	2					.000
Keiichi Shibui	2B	117					.000
Shinichi Sakurai	2B	40					.000
Fujio Sumi	2B	18					.000
Masao Yanada	2B	7					.000
Susumu Watanabe	2B	5					.000
Hideki Kuriyama	2B	2					.000
Kenta Aoshima	2B	1					.000
Bob Horner	3B	65					.000
Fujio Sumi	3B	46					.000
Kenta Aoshima	3B	44					.000
Leon Lee	3B	35					.000
Susumu Watanabe	3B	3					.000
Shigeru Sugimura	3B	3					.000
Shinichi Sakurai	3B	1					.000
Yukio Yaegashi	C	118					.000
Shinji Hata	C	20					.000
Shinya Ashizawa	C	10					.000
Shinji Fujieda	C	4					.000
Katsumi Hirosawa	OF	130					.000
Junji Ogawa	OF	105					.000
Yukio Arai	OF	98					.000
Toru Sugiura	OF	93					.000
Hideki Kuriyama	OF	54					.000
Masao Yanada	OF	26					.000
Mark Brouhard	OF	10					.000
Tsutomu Wakamatsu	OF	9					.000
Masamichi Genoka	OF	6					.000
Takaaki Kato	OF	4					.000
Masahiko Goseki	OF	3					.000
Shigeki Nakamoto	P	40					.000
Hikaru Takano	P	38					.000
Kenji Miyamoto	P	38					.000
Kenichi Kajima	P	37					.000
Eijiro Ai	P	36					.000
Takao Obana	P	33					.000
Akimitsu Ito	P	31					.000
Daisuke Araki	P	31					.000
Kazuya Yano	P	28					.000
Keiichi Sakai	P	28					.000
Tsuyoshi Nishioka	P	27					.000
Tsutomu Yamada	P	5					.000
Naoyuki Naito	P	3					.000
Akira Okawa	P	2					.000
Takahiro Ikeyama	SS	126					.000
Shinichi Sakurai	SS	11					.000
Masao Yanada	SS	7					.000
Keiichi Shibui	SS	2					.000
Totals		1765	0	0	0	0	.000

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