1981 Yokohama Taiyo Whales Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 42-80
Finished 6th in the JPCL
Manager: Kiyoshi Doi (0-0), Toshihide Yamane (0-0)
Location: Yokohama-shi, Japan
Ballpark: Yokohama Stadium

1981 Yokohama Taiyo Whales Roster

The Yokohama Taiyo Whales of the Japan Central League ended the 1981 season with a record of 42 wins and 80 losses, finishing sixth in the JPCL.

The Whales scored 444 runs, worst in the league, and gave up 609 runs, most in the circuit. Tomio Tashiro walloped 30 home runs for Yokohama, while James Peters and Daisuke Yamashita swatted 15 or more also. Tomio Tashiro drove in 81 runs. Keiji Nagasaki paced hitters with significant playing time with a .292 average. Kazuhiko Endo topped the team with 8 wins, and Masao Sato recorded a 2.74 ERA, tops among hurlers with significant time on the mound.

Pete LaCock played in Major League Baseball during his career, the only member of the Yokohama Taiyo Whales to do so.

Kiyoshi Doi and Toshihide Yamane 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
Kazuhiko Endo	8	11	.421	3.92	35	17	9	5	0	2	135.3	144	62	59	15	51	5	96	2	0	3	586
Masao Sato	6	4	.600	2.73	57	15	4	3	1	1	118.7	122	41	36	8	19	6	61	8	0	0	490
Masaji Hiramatsu	6	7	.462	3.50	17	16	1	4	0	1	110.7	109	45	43	9	31	2	70	3	0	1	464
Masaaki Koga	5	10	.333	4.76	30	17	8	2	0	3	121.0	143	68	64	17	44	1	72	1	1	7	533
Akio Saito	5	15	.250	4.31	47	19	23	3	0	10	169.3	195	92	81	18	61	9	100	4	1	0	743
Hiroaki Takeuchi	3	5	.375	3.51	47	3	11	0	0	0	89.7	90	37	35	7	33	6	36	3	0	1	380
Osamu Nomura	3	14	.176	6.16	31	18	5	2	0	0	115.3	158	85	79	19	24	2	42	1	1	0	514
Hiroshi Ikeda	2	5	.286	4.52	46	2	16	0	0	3	67.7	71	37	34	9	26	5	40	3	0	3	293
Tetsuaki Maedomari	2	7	.222	5.26	36	21	7	1	0	0	104.3	129	69	61	12	40	3	56	1	0	0	468
Sadaaki Fujioka	1	0	1.000	8.46	20	0	7	0	0	0	22.3	38	25	21	2	7	2	9	1	0	0	110
Katsutaro Arai	1	2	.333	5.00	14	2	5	1	0	0	36.0	47	23	20	8	10	1	18	1	0	1	159
Fumio Kubo	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	8
Hidemi Kato	0	0		3.86	32	0	4	0	0	0	18.7	25	9	8	2	14	1	15	0	0	2	91
Tsuneo Horii	0	0		5.40	6	0	2	0	0	0	6.7	8	4	4	2	4	0	5	0	0	0	32
Yoshio Tanaka	0	0		5.89	12	0	6	0	0	0	18.3	23	12	12	3	9	2	7	0	0	0	84
Totals	42	80	.344	4.41	431	130	109	21	1	20	1136.0	1303	609	557	131	375	45	628	28	3	18	4955

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
Daisuke Yamashita	130	554	490	68	136	31	1	16	52	6	11	51	38	.278	.347	.443	.790	217	10	2	9	2	1
Tomio Tashiro	130	540	489	62	131	19	1	30	81	8	5	42	90	.268	.324	.495	.819	242	15	2	0	7	5
Yoshikazu Takagi	115	432	382	44	103	17	1	9	50	7	8	43	69	.270	.349	.390	.739	149	4	4	2	1	3
Keiji Nagasaki	118	383	343	42	100	12	5	10	35	10	12	29	41	.292	.345	.443	.788	152	3	0	9	2	1
James Peters	123	345	308	37	84	10	2	15	40	8	5	33	88	.273	.342	.464	.806	143	7	1	0	3	4
Pete LaCock	90	344	300	36	82	16	0	10	36	0	1	41	41	.273	.359	.427	.785	128	9	0	1	2	0
Mitsuo Motoi	93	360	321	25	76	13	0	1	16	4	3	27	32	.237	.306	.287	.593	92	7	5	7	0	0
Hisaaki Fukushima	106	334	298	22	74	14	5	7	37	0	2	23	46	.248	.303	.399	.702	119	10	3	4	6	8
Masayuki Nakatsuka	100	235	221	17	61	12	2	1	12	3	1	10	21	.276	.306	.362	.668	80	5	0	3	1	0
Kaname Yashiki	105	229	208	22	53	6	1	1	12	16	8	14	50	.255	.305	.308	.613	64	0	2	3	2	0
Ko Saito	98	227	210	18	49	6	0	3	12	2	2	14	48	.233	.279	.305	.584	64	7	0	1	2	1
Yutaka Takagi	88	156	141	18	31	6	0	0	7	6	3	12	29	.220	.279	.262	.542	37	2	0	2	1	1
Hiroshi Okubo	65	134	114	9	30	6	0	0	7	0	3	5	16	.263	.331	.316	.646	36	2	7	7	1	0
Yasuhiko Tsuji	54	101	86	7	20	4	0	1	5	0	0	9	14	.233	.305	.314	.619	27	1	0	6	0	1
Hiroyoshi Shimizu	70	71	65	3	15	5	0	0	5	0	0	3	16	.231	.271	.308	.579	20	2	1	1	1	0
Tetsuaki Maedomari	36	28	25	0	7	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	9	.280	.308	.280	.588	7	0	0	2	0	0
Kazuhiko Endo	35	47	44	1	6	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	14	.136	.156	.136	.292	6	1	0	2	0	0
Masaji Hiramatsu	17	43	38	0	5	3	0	0	3	0	0	2	18	.132	.175	.211	.386	8	0	0	3	0	0
Akio Saito	47	53	49	2	5	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	18	.102	.118	.163	.281	8	2	0	2	1	0
Misao Takaura	29	31	28	4	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	8	.143	.143	.179	.321	5	2	0	3	0	0
Masaaki Koga	30	36	33	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	12	.121	.171	.121	.293	4	2	0	1	0	0
Masao Sato	57	33	29	0	3	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	13	.103	.133	.138	.271	4	0	1	3	0	0
Hiroshi Ikeda	46	9	7	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.286	.375	.286	.661	2	0	0	1	0	0
Takayuki Iwai	13	13	10	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.200	.333	.200	.533	2	0	2	1	0	0
Katsutaro Arai	14	7	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.143	.143	.143	.286	1	0	0	0	0	0
Hiroaki Takeuchi	47	15	13	1	1	0	0	1	3	0	0	1	6	.077	.143	.308	.451	4	0	0	1	0	0
Osamu Nomura	31	33	27	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	12	.037	.133	.037	.170	1	0	0	3	0	0
Kazuaki Mori	8	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mitsugu Ishibashi	10	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kazumasa Ichikawa	6	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.143	.000	.143	0	0	0	0	0	0
Teruyuki Uno	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sadaaki Fujioka	20	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shigeru Nishiyama	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1937	4816	4308	444	1086	183	19	105	422	70	64	369	766	.252	.313	.377	.690	1622	91	30	77	32	25

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Pete LaCock	1B	84					.000
Tomio Tashiro	1B	60					.000
Hiroyoshi Shimizu	1B	6					.000
Kazuaki Mori	1B	5					.000
Mitsuo Motoi	2B	85					.000
Hiroshi Okubo	2B	30					.000
Ko Saito	2B	27					.000
Yutaka Takagi	2B	19					.000
Takayuki Iwai	2B	4					.000
Hiroyoshi Shimizu	2B	1					.000
Tomio Tashiro	3B	76					.000
Ko Saito	3B	54					.000
Yutaka Takagi	3B	34					.000
Akio Saito	3B	2					.000
Hiroshi Okubo	3B	1					.000
Takayuki Iwai	3B	1					.000
Mitsugu Ishibashi	3B	1					.000
Hisaaki Fukushima	C	101					.000
Yasuhiko Tsuji	C	54					.000
Misao Takaura	C	22					.000
Teruyuki Uno	C	3					.000
Kazumasa Ichikawa	C	2					.000
Yoshikazu Takagi	OF	112					.000
James Peters	OF	108					.000
Kaname Yashiki	OF	98					.000
Keiji Nagasaki	OF	98					.000
Masayuki Nakatsuka	OF	63					.000
Tomio Tashiro	OF	19					.000
Pete LaCock	OF	4					.000
Kazuaki Mori	OF	1					.000
Masao Sato	P	57					.000
Hiroaki Takeuchi	P	47					.000
Akio Saito	P	47					.000
Hiroshi Ikeda	P	46					.000
Tetsuaki Maedomari	P	36					.000
Kazuhiko Endo	P	35					.000
Hidemi Kato	P	32					.000
Osamu Nomura	P	31					.000
Masaaki Koga	P	30					.000
Sadaaki Fujioka	P	20					.000
Masaji Hiramatsu	P	17					.000
Katsutaro Arai	P	14					.000
Yoshio Tanaka	P	12					.000
Tsuneo Horii	P	6					.000
Fumio Kubo	P	1					.000
Daisuke Yamashita	SS	130					.000
Ko Saito	SS	6					.000
Yutaka Takagi	SS	1					.000
Totals		1743	0	0	0	0	.000

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