1980 Yokohama Taiyo Whales Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 59-62
Finished 4th in the JPCL
Manager: Kiyoshi Doi (59-62)
Location: Yokohama-shi, Japan
Ballpark: Yokohama Stadium

1980 Yokohama Taiyo Whales Roster

The Yokohama Taiyo Whales of the Japan Central League ended the 1980 season with a record of 59 wins and 62 losses, finishing fourth in the JPCL.

The Whales scored 534 runs and conceded 587 runs. Tomio Tashiro walloped 36 home runs for Yokohama, and Skip James added 15 or more, too. Tomio Tashiro drove in 94 runs. Mitsuo Motoi led all qualifying hitters on the roster with a .314 average. Osamu Nomura topped the team with 15 wins, while Kazuhiko Endo recorded a 3.17 ERA, tops among hurlers with significant time on the mound.

Skip James and Félix Millán both played in Major League Baseball during their careers.

Kiyoshi Doi 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
Osamu Nomura	15	10	.600	4.68	33	30	2	4	1	0	192.3	225	110	100	30	51	4	92	14	0	3	848
Akio Saito	14	17	.452	3.78	35	33	1	17	1	1	247.3	245	111	104	24	72	5	165	3	4	1	1024
Masaji Hiramatsu	10	11	.476	4.29	30	29	1	9	0	0	199.3	227	108	95	26	57	4	107	6	1	1	855
Kazuhiko Endo	5	5	.500	3.17	54	2	45	0	0	16	105.0	92	41	37	15	31	8	108	0	1	0	435
Yoshio Tanaka	5	10	.333	4.78	33	16	2	2	0	0	96.0	100	59	51	12	47	2	61	5	0	0	432
Hiroshi Masumoto	4	3	.571	3.38	23	7	5	1	0	0	61.3	66	25	23	5	19	4	27	3	1	0	261
Shigeyuki Takahashi	3	5	.375	4.47	14	11	0	0	0	0	54.3	57	29	27	5	37	2	39	2	0	5	254
Sadaaki Fujioka	1	0	1.000	3.72	42	0	10	0	0	1	58.0	62	29	24	5	32	4	20	3	0	0	257
Yukinobu Miyamoto	1	0	1.000	9.00	6	0	4	0	0	0	6.0	10	7	6	5	4	0	5	0	0	0	30
Hiroaki Takeuchi	1	1	.500	3.56	22	0	6	0	0	0	30.3	27	14	12	1	15	2	11	1	0	0	127
Fumiaki Kadota	0	0		2.84	6	0	3	0	0	0	6.3	4	2	2	0	4	0	4	0	0	0	27
Hidemi Kato	0	0		3.33	24	0	7	0	0	1	27.0	25	10	10	3	11	0	13	1	1	0	114
Hiroshi Ikeda	0	0		3.38	11	1	2	0	0	0	24.0	19	9	9	4	6	1	12	1	0	0	94
Shiro Miyamoto	0	0		6.65	29	1	4	0	0	0	21.7	33	18	16	2	8	0	25	0	0	0	104
Michiro Sato	0	0		11.25	12	0	5	0	0	0	12.0	20	15	15	2	6	1	7	0	0	0	61
Totals	59	62	.488	4.19	374	130	97	33	2	19	1141.0	1212	587	531	139	400	37	696	39	8	10	4923

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
Tomio Tashiro	128	529	472	74	140	22	4	36	94	6	8	50	104	.297	.364	.589	.953	278	12	2	1	4	6
Yoshikazu Takagi	128	517	460	62	130	24	3	12	56	5	6	47	88	.283	.348	.426	.774	196	12	2	3	5	2
Mitsuo Motoi	119	475	407	51	128	24	1	12	70	18	12	53	64	.314	.393	.467	.860	190	9	3	7	5	2
Daisuke Yamashita	121	461	419	50	111	21	4	9	41	15	6	29	52	.265	.312	.399	.711	167	9	1	9	3	1
Skip James	111	420	368	58	99	18	2	21	57	2	3	47	75	.269	.353	.500	.853	184	6	2	1	2	2
Félix Millán	107	365	332	38	95	8	1	4	20	10	10	21	12	.286	.328	.352	.680	117	5	0	11	1	3
Makoto Matsubara	111	357	340	33	89	21	0	11	53	2	1	15	24	.262	.294	.421	.715	143	9	1	0	1	2
Masayuki Nakatsuka	110	299	269	23	84	7	4	1	14	7	5	22	22	.312	.364	.379	.743	102	6	1	5	2	0
Hisaaki Fukushima	122	373	337	27	71	10	0	13	45	0	0	23	71	.211	.263	.356	.619	120	7	2	8	3	9
Keiji Nagasaki	86	299	245	42	57	12	1	10	25	13	9	43	48	.233	.361	.412	.773	101	0	6	5	0	1
Kaname Yashiki	105	121	110	26	27	1	1	0	5	14	7	10	24	.245	.314	.273	.587	30	1	1	0	0	0
Ko Saito	52	82	77	6	21	0	1	2	3	0	1	5	23	.273	.317	.377	.694	29	1	0	0	0	0
Yasuhiko Tsuji	50	71	58	10	12	4	0	0	4	0	0	12	20	.207	.343	.276	.619	16	1	0	1	0	1
Hiroyoshi Shimizu	51	50	45	4	11	2	0	1	4	0	0	4	10	.244	.320	.356	.676	16	1	1	0	0	0
Masaji Hiramatsu	32	78	67	8	10	0	0	1	4	0	0	5	21	.149	.205	.194	.400	13	1	0	5	1	0
Kazuhiko Endo	55	23	23	2	8	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	6	.348	.348	.478	.826	11	0	0	0	0	0
Akio Saito	37	89	86	4	8	3	0	1	3	0	0	0	28	.093	.093	.163	.256	14	1	0	3	0	0
Osamu Nomura	33	74	65	4	7	1	0	0	3	0	0	8	28	.108	.205	.123	.329	8	2	0	1	0	0
Takayuki Iwai	40	28	27	5	4	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	8	.148	.143	.185	.328	5	0	0	0	1	0
Yukio Iida	19	30	30	1	4	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	6	.133	.133	.167	.300	5	1	0	0	0	0
Hiroshi Okubo	20	20	19	1	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	6	.158	.200	.158	.358	3	1	0	0	0	0
Yoshio Tanaka	34	28	27	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	13	.111	.143	.111	.254	3	0	0	0	0	0
Hiroaki Takeuchi	22	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
Toru Takenouchi	6	7	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.143	.143	.143	.286	1	0	0	0	0	0
Sadaaki Fujioka	42	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Masayuki Miura	19	5	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Shiro Miyamoto	29	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.333	.000	.333	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hiroshi Ikeda	11	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Misao Takaura	4	4	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.250	.000	.250	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shigeyuki Takahashi	16	17	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	2	0	0	0	0
Hidemi Kato	24	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hiroshi Masumoto	23	14	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.000	.083	.000	.083	0	0	0	2	0	0
Totals	1867	4849	4338	534	1124	180	22	135	509	93	70	399	773	.259	.323	.404	.727	1753	88	22	62	28	29

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Makoto Matsubara	1B	89					.000
Félix Millán	1B	57					.000
Skip James	1B	14					.000
Tomio Tashiro	1B	5					.000
Hiroyoshi Shimizu	1B	1					.000
Mitsuo Motoi	2B	106					.000
Félix Millán	2B	44					.000
Hiroshi Okubo	2B	7					.000
Hiroyoshi Shimizu	2B	2					.000
Makoto Matsubara	2B	1					.000
Tomio Tashiro	3B	126					.000
Ko Saito	3B	14					.000
Hisaaki Fukushima	C	120					.000
Yasuhiko Tsuji	C	50					.000
Masayuki Miura	C	13					.000
Misao Takaura	C	4					.000
Yoshikazu Takagi	OF	126					.000
Skip James	OF	103					.000
Masayuki Nakatsuka	OF	91					.000
Kaname Yashiki	OF	89					.000
Keiji Nagasaki	OF	76					.000
Makoto Matsubara	OF	19					.000
Yukio Iida	OF	10					.000
Toru Takenouchi	OF	3					.000
Tomio Tashiro	OF	2					.000
Kazuhiko Endo	P	54					.000
Sadaaki Fujioka	P	42					.000
Akio Saito	P	35					.000
Yoshio Tanaka	P	33					.000
Osamu Nomura	P	33					.000
Masaji Hiramatsu	P	30					.000
Shiro Miyamoto	P	29					.000
Hidemi Kato	P	24					.000
Hiroshi Masumoto	P	23					.000
Hiroaki Takeuchi	P	22					.000
Shigeyuki Takahashi	P	14					.000
Michiro Sato	P	12					.000
Hiroshi Ikeda	P	11					.000
Yukinobu Miyamoto	P	6					.000
Fumiaki Kadota	P	6					.000
Daisuke Yamashita	SS	118					.000
Ko Saito	SS	9					.000
Mitsuo Motoi	SS	9					.000
Takayuki Iwai	SS	6					.000
Totals		1688	0	0	0	0	.000

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