1987 Yokohama Taiyo Whales Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 56-68
Finished 5th in the JPCL
Manager: Takeshi Koba (56-68)
Location: Yokohama-shi, Japan
Ballpark: Yokohama Stadium

1987 Yokohama Taiyo Whales Roster

The Yokohama Taiyo Whales of the Japan Central League ended the 1987 season with a record of 56 wins and 68 losses, finishing fifth in the JPCL.

The Whales plated 516 runs and allowed 601 runs. Carlos Ponce walloped 35 home runs for Yokohama and drove in 98 runs, while leading all regular hitters with a .323 average. Kazuhiko Endo topped the team with 14 wins and a team-best 2.88 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Members of the 1987 Yokohama Taiyo Whales who played in Major League Baseball during their careers were Sixto Lezcano, Jim Adduci and Carlos Ponce.

Takeshi Koba 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	14	7	.667	2.88	23	23	0	15	1	0	181.3	172	62	58	21	25	5	107	2	0	0	729
Hisao Niura	11	12	.478	4.26	25	25	0	7	4	0	152.0	151	78	72	20	47	3	107	2	0	0	645
Mitsunori Kakehata	7	9	.438	4.58	32	14	5	2	2	0	112.0	128	69	57	14	25	3	56	2	0	2	486
Yutaka Matsumoto	7	9	.438	4.86	31	16	8	5	1	1	129.7	112	70	70	15	39	1	88	9	0	7	546
Hiroaki Nakayama	5	12	.294	5.17	33	20	3	2	1	0	132.3	147	78	76	17	44	2	81	0	2	8	568
Akio Saito	4	1	.800	2.17	39	0	36	0	0	15	70.7	57	19	17	6	16	2	36	0	0	4	279
Kazuhiko Takahashi	3	1	.750	5.35	51	1	10	0	0	1	79.0	97	53	47	18	33	5	56	0	0	2	359
Hideaki Aikawa	3	5	.375	3.96	24	12	1	1	1	0	77.3	84	36	34	8	26	0	41	4	0	1	337
Kazuhiko Daimon	2	5	.286	3.70	27	8	5	2	1	0	75.3	64	35	31	10	32	5	57	2	0	3	316
Kenichi Shiozaki	0	0		0.00	2	0	1	0	0	0	2.7	2	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	11
Masakatsu Shirai	0	0		0.73	10	0	6	0	0	0	12.3	7	2	1	1	7	0	5	1	0	0	50
Denney Tomori	0	0		3.00	3	1	1	0	0	0	3.0	2	1	1	0	3	0	2	1	0	0	15
Hiroshi Masumoto	0	0		4.50	9	0	7	0	0	0	12.0	12	6	6	3	1	0	9	0	1	0	49
Tamotsu Nagai	0	0		5.88	39	0	2	0	0	1	26.0	27	19	17	5	7	2	24	1	0	1	111
Fumiaki Kadota	0	0		6.43	5	0	4	0	0	0	7.0	10	6	5	2	0	0	4	0	0	0	31
Mitsukuni Takeda	0	0		13.50	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.7	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	5
Tsuneo Horii	0	1	.000	4.94	23	0	5	0	0	0	27.3	35	24	15	3	18	1	13	1	0	2	133
Koji Sugiura	0	1	.000	12.46	3	1	1	0	0	0	4.3	6	7	6	0	5	0	4	0	0	0	23
Isamu Kida	0	5	.000	7.65	15	9	1	0	0	0	37.7	47	35	32	7	22	0	25	1	0	8	179
Totals	56	68	.452	4.30	395	130	96	34	11	18	1142.7	1162	601	546	150	352	30	716	26	3	38	4872

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
Carlos Ponce	130	550	492	75	159	31	4	35	98	9	2	46	73	.323	.387	.616	1.003	303	5	8	0	4	16
Kaname Yashiki	130	558	526	77	153	18	5	9	57	48	8	25	86	.291	.321	.395	.716	208	6	0	3	4	0
Yutaka Takagi	127	560	509	75	148	24	5	12	52	21	10	36	68	.291	.337	.428	.765	218	4	2	8	5	0
Masahiro Takahashi	128	507	438	45	104	9	3	2	24	14	9	36	102	.237	.296	.285	.581	125	6	2	27	4	7
Shinsaku Katahira	102	308	275	36	82	16	0	13	36	0	2	28	41	.298	.371	.498	.870	137	10	4	1	0	0
Jim Adduci	82	309	280	35	75	19	3	13	48	1	1	26	73	.268	.331	.496	.828	139	2	1	1	1	2
Yoshiharu Wakana	81	255	229	23	69	12	1	4	27	1	0	20	23	.301	.356	.415	.771	95	9	0	5	1	10
Tomio Tashiro	82	243	229	19	56	13	1	5	28	4	2	13	46	.245	.285	.376	.661	86	6	0	1	0	1
Hirokazu Kato	97	231	198	26	53	10	1	1	15	7	7	22	30	.268	.342	.343	.686	68	2	1	9	1	1
Daisuke Yamashita	94	196	172	12	32	5	0	3	11	3	3	12	15	.186	.238	.267	.505	46	1	0	11	1	1
Hidetaka Horiba	45	122	109	14	29	5	0	3	12	1	0	9	28	.266	.344	.394	.739	43	3	4	0	0	2
Toru Ikenoue	62	107	97	10	26	5	2	0	5	0	2	4	12	.268	.311	.361	.672	35	2	2	4	0	0
Yuji Ono	42	119	108	15	25	3	2	5	19	2	2	6	18	.231	.280	.435	.715	47	3	2	1	2	0
Sixto Lezcano	20	72	69	4	15	0	0	3	7	0	1	3	17	.217	.250	.348	.598	24	3	0	0	0	1
Mitsugu Ishibashi	92	67	63	11	14	1	1	1	9	3	2	2	11	.222	.242	.317	.560	20	1	0	1	1	0
Kazumasa Ichikawa	38	81	73	4	11	4	0	0	5	0	0	5	12	.151	.205	.205	.411	15	1	0	3	0	3
Mitsunori Kakehata	32	33	31	3	9	4	0	0	4	0	0	2	8	.290	.333	.419	.753	13	1	0	0	0	0
Kenichi Yamazaki	42	48	46	5	8	2	0	2	6	0	0	0	11	.174	.191	.348	.539	16	0	1	1	0	0
Kaoru Hirata	30	52	50	3	8	1	0	1	7	0	0	1	12	.160	.173	.240	.413	12	1	0	0	1	0
Hisao Niura	35	57	54	3	8	1	1	0	4	0	0	0	25	.148	.148	.204	.352	11	0	0	3	0	0
Toshio Choshi	8	24	23	1	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.304	.304	.304	.609	7	1	0	1	0	0
Kazuhiko Endo	30	72	67	4	7	0	2	0	7	0	0	2	25	.104	.130	.164	.295	11	0	0	3	0	0
Yoshiaki Hino	14	26	23	4	6	1	0	0	1	1	0	2	6	.261	.320	.304	.624	7	0	0	1	0	0
Yutaka Matsumoto	31	44	38	2	6	0	0	0	4	0	0	5	19	.158	.256	.158	.414	6	0	0	1	0	0
Hideaki Aikawa	24	25	23	3	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	9	.174	.208	.174	.382	4	0	0	1	0	0
Hiroshi Yoshimoto	9	11	11	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.273	.273	.273	.545	3	0	0	0	0	0
Yoshikazu Takagi	17	16	16	0	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	4	.188	.188	.188	.375	3	1	0	0	0	0
Kazuhiko Takahashi	51	10	9	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	.222	.300	.222	.522	2	0	0	0	0	0
Koichi Muraoka	18	17	14	5	2	1	0	1	2	1	0	1	2	.143	.200	.429	.629	6	0	0	2	0	0
Masahiko Miyashita	1	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	3.000	4.000	3	0	0	0	0	0
Akio Saito	39	11	10	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	4	.100	.100	.100	.200	1	0	0	1	0	0
Isamu Kida	15	11	11	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.091	.091	.091	.182	1	0	0	0	0	0
Tetsushi Okamoto	18	14	12	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.083	.214	.083	.298	1	1	1	0	0	0
Kazuhiko Daimon	28	16	14	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.071	.071	.071	.143	1	0	0	2	0	0
Hiroaki Nakayama	36	38	34	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	13	.029	.029	.029	.058	1	0	0	3	1	0
Tsuneo Horii	23	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kenji Itakura	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yasuhiko Kawano	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Akiyoshi Koyama	6	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.250	.000	.250	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tamotsu Nagai	39	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1903	4823	4365	516	1130	185	32	113	494	116	51	310	824	.259	.310	.394	.704	1718	69	28	94	26	44

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Shinsaku Katahira	1B	91					.000
Yuji Ono	1B	29					.000
Jim Adduci	1B	19					.000
Toru Ikenoue	1B	17					.000
Tomio Tashiro	1B	15					.000
Carlos Ponce	1B	10					.000
Kaoru Hirata	1B	10					.000
Hiroshi Yoshimoto	1B	2					.000
Yutaka Takagi	2B	126					.000
Daisuke Yamashita	2B	6					.000
Kaoru Hirata	2B	4					.000
Yoshiaki Hino	2B	4					.000
Hirokazu Kato	2B	3					.000
Toru Ikenoue	2B	2					.000
Koichi Muraoka	2B	1					.000
Daisuke Yamashita	3B	82					.000
Tomio Tashiro	3B	57					.000
Toru Ikenoue	3B	21					.000
Yuji Ono	3B	11					.000
Koichi Muraoka	3B	11					.000
Yoshiaki Hino	3B	8					.000
Toshio Choshi	3B	7					.000
Kaoru Hirata	3B	2					.000
Yutaka Takagi	3B	1					.000
Yoshiharu Wakana	C	78					.000
Hidetaka Horiba	C	42					.000
Kazumasa Ichikawa	C	37					.000
Tetsushi Okamoto	C	16					.000
Akiyoshi Koyama	C	4					.000
Kaname Yashiki	OF	129					.000
Carlos Ponce	OF	127					.000
Mitsugu Ishibashi	OF	71					.000
Jim Adduci	OF	70					.000
Hirokazu Kato	OF	52					.000
Sixto Lezcano	OF	19					.000
Kenichi Yamazaki	OF	13					.000
Hiroshi Yoshimoto	OF	2					.000
Yutaka Takagi	OF	1					.000
Yoshikazu Takagi	OF	1					.000
Yuji Ono	OF	1					.000
Masahiko Miyashita	OF	1					.000
Yasuhiko Kawano	OF	1					.000
Kazuhiko Takahashi	P	51					.000
Akio Saito	P	39					.000
Tamotsu Nagai	P	39					.000
Hiroaki Nakayama	P	33					.000
Mitsunori Kakehata	P	32					.000
Yutaka Matsumoto	P	31					.000
Kazuhiko Daimon	P	27					.000
Hisao Niura	P	25					.000
Hideaki Aikawa	P	24					.000
Tsuneo Horii	P	23					.000
Kazuhiko Endo	P	23					.000
Isamu Kida	P	15					.000
Masakatsu Shirai	P	10					.000
Hiroshi Masumoto	P	9					.000
Fumiaki Kadota	P	5					.000
Denney Tomori	P	3					.000
Koji Sugiura	P	3					.000
Kenichi Shiozaki	P	2					.000
Mitsukuni Takeda	P	1					.000
Masahiro Takahashi	SS	128					.000
Koichi Muraoka	SS	5					.000
Daisuke Yamashita	SS	4					.000
Toru Ikenoue	SS	4					.000
Yutaka Takagi	SS	2					.000
Yoshiaki Hino	SS	2					.000
Toshio Choshi	SS	1					.000
Totals		1745	0	0	0	0	.000

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