1988 Yokohama Taiyo Whales Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 59-67
Finished 4th in the JPCL
Manager: Takeshi Koba (59-67)
Location: Yokohama-shi, Japan
Ballpark: Yokohama Stadium

1988 Yokohama Taiyo Whales Roster

The Yokohama Taiyo Whales of the Japan Central League ended the 1988 season with a record of 59 wins and 67 losses, finishing fourth in the JPCL.

The Whales scored 514 runs and allowed 542 runs, most in the circuit. Carlos Ponce walloped 33 home runs for Yokohama, while Jim Paciorek swatted 15 or more, too. Carlos Ponce drove in 102 runs. Jim Paciorek led all regular hitters with a .332 average. Mitsunori Kakehata topped the squad with 11 wins, and Hiroaki Nakayama registered a 2.28 earned run average, tops among regular hurlers.

Jim Paciorek and Carlos Ponce both played in Major League Baseball during their careers.

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
Mitsunori Kakehata	11	8	.579	3.22	51	12	10	6	0	1	151.0	146	58	54	11	34	5	94	2	0	2	614
Hiroaki Nakayama	10	6	.625	2.28	70	0	57	0	0	24	142.3	124	40	36	11	52	10	118	3	1	9	597
Hisao Niura	10	11	.476	4.32	29	28	0	7	1	0	160.3	147	83	77	14	66	6	110	3	0	6	681
Kazuhiko Daimon	6	6	.500	4.14	32	13	8	1	0	1	91.3	85	43	42	9	32	2	73	6	0	5	384
Akio Saito	5	4	.556	3.49	24	17	0	2	0	0	105.7	114	45	41	4	27	4	38	2	2	0	439
Hideaki Aikawa	5	8	.385	4.88	17	16	0	1	0	0	72.0	69	41	39	5	36	1	47	1	1	1	311
Kazuhiko Endo	5	12	.294	4.76	23	21	0	1	0	0	109.7	123	63	58	17	22	1	67	1	0	0	465
Tamotsu Nagai	2	0	1.000	4.26	27	0	6	0	0	0	12.7	19	10	6	0	5	1	9	2	0	0	64
Yutaka Matsumoto	2	3	.400	5.49	43	7	8	1	0	3	95.0	117	59	58	12	28	3	51	5	0	5	424
Masaru Ishikawa	1	0	1.000	2.74	44	0	8	0	0	0	65.7	69	24	20	2	19	3	28	4	0	0	276
Hiroki Nomura	1	1	.500	0.60	2	2	0	1	1	0	15.0	14	2	1	1	3	0	4	0	0	0	55
Isamu Kida	1	5	.167	5.05	16	12	3	0	0	0	57.0	59	34	32	10	28	1	45	0	0	4	255
Hirofumi Sekine	0	0			1	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
Kazuhiko Takahashi	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.3	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4
Mitsukuni Takeda	0	0		4.00	7	0	4	0	0	0	9.0	5	5	4	0	5	0	5	0	0	0	36
Katsunori Kitano	0	0		4.00	5	0	1	0	0	0	9.0	7	4	4	2	3	0	7	0	0	0	35
Koki Morita	0	0		12.46	3	2	0	0	0	0	4.3	6	6	6	3	4	0	3	0	0	1	23
Toru Okamoto	0	3	.000	4.41	31	0	5	0	0	0	51.0	40	25	25	5	18	2	35	1	0	1	206
Totals	59	67	.468	3.93	426	130	110	20	2	29	1151.3	1147	542	503	106	384	39	734	30	4	34	4871

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
Jim Paciorek	130	537	497	58	165	33	2	17	76	6	4	30	59	.332	.373	.509	.882	253	16	5	1	4	5
Masahiro Takahashi	130	585	542	62	159	22	2	3	42	16	3	34	96	.293	.332	.358	.690	194	3	0	4	5	1
Carlos Ponce	130	557	497	79	145	25	6	33	102	5	5	49	69	.292	.357	.565	.923	281	12	5	0	6	3
Yutaka Takagi	114	489	416	67	125	21	3	7	46	29	14	59	45	.300	.385	.416	.801	173	6	1	9	4	1
Toshio Choshi	125	480	425	44	115	12	1	0	23	6	4	20	59	.271	.311	.304	.615	129	4	5	30	0	0
Kaname Yashiki	121	408	368	36	87	7	1	3	30	33	9	31	55	.236	.294	.285	.579	105	6	0	6	3	1
Kenichi Yamazaki	71	247	222	35	66	12	2	2	28	8	1	14	36	.297	.337	.396	.734	88	1	2	4	5	0
Kazumasa Ichikawa	96	280	234	18	66	13	0	6	37	0	1	20	19	.282	.356	.415	.771	97	3	8	16	2	8
Yoshiharu Wakana	74	173	156	13	37	5	1	1	8	0	0	16	12	.237	.308	.301	.609	47	5	0	1	0	8
Shinsaku Katahira	61	150	135	10	33	3	1	5	17	1	0	10	19	.244	.315	.393	.708	53	4	4	1	0	0
Tomio Tashiro	46	97	91	5	27	4	0	1	16	0	0	5	17	.297	.330	.374	.704	34	5	0	0	1	0
Koichi Muraoka	63	107	91	18	21	1	0	0	5	7	1	8	16	.231	.300	.242	.542	22	0	1	7	0	0
Mitsugu Ishibashi	80	96	74	23	20	4	1	3	10	4	3	15	19	.270	.396	.473	.869	35	0	1	5	1	1
Hirokazu Kato	72	89	80	13	20	6	0	0	10	2	0	7	16	.250	.307	.325	.632	26	7	0	1	1	3
Yasuhiko Kawano	26	61	57	6	15	0	2	1	4	1	2	1	10	.263	.288	.386	.674	22	1	1	2	0	0
Yoshiaki Hino	31	72	64	3	15	3	0	0	3	2	0	5	19	.234	.290	.281	.571	18	4	0	3	0	0
Hidetaka Horiba	45	49	44	1	13	4	0	0	10	0	0	4	16	.295	.367	.386	.754	17	1	1	0	0	0
Toru Ikenoue	44	50	44	4	12	3	0	2	8	0	0	0	7	.273	.333	.477	.811	21	2	4	2	0	0
Hisao Niura	34	58	53	4	9	1	1	0	2	0	0	2	25	.170	.200	.226	.426	12	0	0	3	0	0
Hideaki Aikawa	20	28	27	0	6	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	13	.222	.222	.222	.444	6	1	0	1	0	0
Akio Saito	25	36	32	0	6	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	8	.188	.188	.188	.375	6	0	0	4	0	0
Isamu Kida	18	17	17	0	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	.235	.235	.235	.471	4	0	0	0	0	0
Kazuhiko Daimon	35	24	20	0	4	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	5	.200	.190	.200	.390	4	2	0	3	1	0
Hiroaki Nakayama	70	32	25	0	4	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	8	.160	.192	.280	.472	7	0	0	6	0	0
Kazuhiko Endo	25	40	32	2	4	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	17	.125	.176	.125	.301	4	1	0	6	0	0
Mitsunori Kakehata	53	44	41	4	4	0	0	1	2	0	0	1	15	.098	.116	.171	.287	7	1	0	1	1	0
Yuji Ono	19	28	25	1	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	10	.120	.179	.160	.339	4	0	1	0	1	0
Takashi Okawa	5	6	5	3	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	.400	.500	.600	1.100	3	0	0	0	0	0
Toru Okamoto	31	7	6	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.500	.833	3	0	0	1	0	0
Masaaki Iwashita	16	15	14	1	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	7	.143	.200	.143	.343	2	0	0	0	0	0
Yutaka Matsumoto	46	19	18	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	.111	.158	.111	.269	2	1	0	0	0	0
Tetsushi Okamoto	17	21	20	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.100	.100	.100	.200	2	1	0	1	0	0
Masaru Ishikawa	44	4	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0	0	0	0
Hiroki Nomura	3	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0	0	0	0
Yoshiyuki Shimizu	5	6	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.200	.333	.200	.533	1	0	0	0	0	0
Masahiko Miyashita	10	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.200	.000	.200	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1935	4921	4389	514	1198	183	24	85	492	121	47	340	717	.273	.328	.384	.712	1684	87	39	118	35	31

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Jim Paciorek	1B	81					.000
Shinsaku Katahira	1B	43					.000
Tomio Tashiro	1B	29					.000
Yuji Ono	1B	14					.000
Toru Ikenoue	1B	10					.000
Carlos Ponce	1B	8					.000
Hidetaka Horiba	1B	2					.000
Yutaka Takagi	2B	89					.000
Koichi Muraoka	2B	28					.000
Yoshiaki Hino	2B	24					.000
Toshio Choshi	2B	21					.000
Toru Ikenoue	2B	2					.000
Tatsuya Shindo	2B	1					.000
Toshio Choshi	3B	107					.000
Koichi Muraoka	3B	30					.000
Yutaka Takagi	3B	24					.000
Yoshiaki Hino	3B	6					.000
Toru Ikenoue	3B	3					.000
Yoshiyuki Shimizu	3B	1					.000
Takashi Okawa	3B	1					.000
Mitsugu Ishibashi	3B	1					.000
Kazumasa Ichikawa	C	95					.000
Yoshiharu Wakana	C	73					.000
Tetsushi Okamoto	C	17					.000
Hidetaka Horiba	C	3					.000
Carlos Ponce	OF	124					.000
Kaname Yashiki	OF	120					.000
Jim Paciorek	OF	76					.000
Mitsugu Ishibashi	OF	66					.000
Kenichi Yamazaki	OF	65					.000
Yasuhiko Kawano	OF	20					.000
Hirokazu Kato	OF	14					.000
Yutaka Takagi	OF	6					.000
Masahiko Miyashita	OF	6					.000
Masaaki Iwashita	OF	1					.000
Hiroaki Nakayama	P	70					.000
Mitsunori Kakehata	P	51					.000
Masaru Ishikawa	P	44					.000
Yutaka Matsumoto	P	43					.000
Kazuhiko Daimon	P	32					.000
Toru Okamoto	P	31					.000
Hisao Niura	P	29					.000
Tamotsu Nagai	P	27					.000
Akio Saito	P	24					.000
Kazuhiko Endo	P	23					.000
Hideaki Aikawa	P	17					.000
Isamu Kida	P	16					.000
Mitsukuni Takeda	P	7					.000
Katsunori Kitano	P	5					.000
Koki Morita	P	3					.000
Hiroki Nomura	P	2					.000
Kazuhiko Takahashi	P	1					.000
Hirofumi Sekine	P	1					.000
Masahiro Takahashi	SS	130					.000
Takashi Okawa	SS	4					.000
Koichi Muraoka	SS	3					.000
Toshio Choshi	SS	1					.000
Totals		1775	0	0	0	0	.000

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