1992 Yokohama Taiyo Whales Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 61-69
Finished 5th in the JPCL
Manager: Akira Ejiri (0-0), Yutaka Sudo (0-0)
Location: Yokohama-shi, Japan
Ballpark: Yokohama Stadium

1992 Yokohama Taiyo Whales Roster

The Yokohama Taiyo Whales of the Japan Central League ended the 1992 season with a record of 61 wins and 69 losses, finishing fifth in the JPCL.

The Whales scored 521 runs and surrendered 553 runs. Larry Sheets led Yokohama with 26 home runs, and R. J. Reynolds walloped 15 or more also. Larry Sheets drove in 100 runs and topped batters with significant playing time with a .308 average. Koki Morita paced the team with 14 wins and a team-best 2.06 ERA, best among pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.

Players from the 1992 Yokohama Taiyo Whales who spent time in Major League Baseball during their careers included R. J. Reynolds, Larry Sheets, Kazuhiro Sasaki and Takashi Saito.

Akira Ejiri and Yutaka Sudo 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
Koki Morita	14	6	.700	2.05	52	6	16	1	0	2	131.7	100	37	30	9	51	4	80	6	0	4	539
Kazuhiro Sasaki	12	6	.667	2.46	53	0	45	0	0	21	87.7	47	32	24	6	39	5	135	1	0	8	356
Toru Okamoto	8	9	.471	3.23	27	25	0	4	2	0	159.0	147	63	57	18	62	6	97	3	0	4	675
Hiroki Nomura	5	4	.556	5.48	21	15	1	1	1	0	93.7	118	57	57	15	23	0	75	1	0	1	408
Mitsunori Kakehata	4	2	.667	3.10	55	0	13	0	0	1	93.0	81	39	32	3	30	7	64	4	0	1	388
Manabu Tanabe	4	9	.308	3.84	29	23	2	2	0	0	131.3	125	63	56	12	84	1	98	4	0	7	593
Kazuhiko Endo	3	2	.600	4.10	13	13	0	0	0	0	59.3	65	28	27	7	13	0	41	0	0	1	253
Katsuya Udo	3	6	.333	4.99	19	9	1	1	0	0	61.3	62	36	34	7	35	1	38	4	0	2	275
Akio Saito	3	8	.273	3.65	17	15	0	4	0	0	91.3	92	42	37	12	11	1	66	4	0	0	368
Naoya Shimada	2	2	.500	4.50	14	5	2	1	0	0	46.0	45	25	23	4	23	4	28	1	0	1	202
Kazuhiko Daimon	2	6	.250	4.02	38	7	10	0	0	1	87.3	88	41	39	12	29	1	55	4	1	0	373
Hirohisa Takada	1	2	.333	3.24	15	3	6	0	0	0	25.0	25	14	9	4	8	0	18	0	0	0	105
Daisuke Miura	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	6
Yutaka Matsumoto	0	0		3.16	30	3	11	3	0	0	42.7	51	22	15	3	8	2	23	0	0	0	183
Kotaro Azuse	0	1	.000	6.15	24	2	7	0	0	0	26.3	20	18	18	6	24	1	19	2	0	1	121
Denney Tomori	0	1	.000	27.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	1.7	3	5	5	1	4	0	1	1	0	0	13
Takashi Saito	0	2	.000	8.44	6	2	1	0	0	0	16.0	18	16	15	2	10	0	21	0	0	2	76
Yoshitaka Mizuo	0	3	.000	5.04	8	5	1	1	0	0	25.0	27	15	14	4	14	0	18	1	0	1	112
Totals	61	69	.469	3.75	423	134	116	18	3	25	1180.3	1114	553	492	125	468	33	878	36	1	33	5046

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
Larry Sheets	131	537	487	61	150	32	2	26	100	1	0	40	59	.308	.365	.542	.907	264	17	6	0	4	7
Yutaka Takagi	131	599	500	76	150	32	2	5	39	24	12	81	62	.300	.394	.402	.796	201	7	1	10	7	5
R. J. Reynolds	113	470	427	57	106	16	0	19	66	12	6	39	102	.248	.313	.419	.732	179	13	2	0	2	2
Kaname Yashiki	115	406	365	41	101	18	2	2	31	8	8	36	62	.277	.340	.353	.693	129	2	0	3	2	0
Tatsuya Shindo	108	388	353	45	87	18	1	11	30	7	0	25	75	.246	.304	.397	.700	140	7	4	6	0	2
Yoshiyuki Shimizu	96	352	278	35	62	9	1	4	29	2	2	36	51	.223	.312	.306	.618	85	7	2	32	4	1
Takuro Ishii	69	250	219	26	59	3	3	3	23	4	1	12	33	.269	.312	.352	.664	77	4	2	16	1	0
Takashi Osanai	86	256	233	27	52	6	4	6	27	0	2	21	45	.223	.290	.361	.651	84	3	1	1	0	1
Kosaku Akimoto	98	283	244	20	52	12	1	2	27	2	0	29	51	.213	.299	.295	.594	72	5	2	5	3	3
Futoshi Miyazato	96	190	173	22	44	8	2	1	16	7	4	13	15	.254	.306	.341	.647	59	3	0	4	0	0
Kenichi Yamazaki	62	188	163	23	42	9	1	1	19	9	1	17	27	.258	.326	.344	.670	56	2	1	4	3	1
Hitoshi Hatayama	71	186	172	18	38	6	2	10	21	1	0	12	57	.221	.274	.453	.728	78	1	1	0	1	0
Motonobu Tanishige	74	186	162	16	31	9	0	2	9	0	0	18	34	.191	.280	.284	.564	46	2	2	4	0	5
Kenji Horie	38	108	94	12	27	3	0	1	11	7	1	5	21	.287	.330	.351	.681	33	1	1	8	0	0
Akimasa Yokotani	63	77	73	11	17	1	1	2	9	0	1	2	10	.233	.253	.356	.609	26	0	0	2	0	1
Michio Aoyama	38	39	34	2	9	2	0	1	11	0	0	4	8	.265	.333	.412	.745	14	0	0	0	1	0
Hiroki Nomura	23	35	31	2	8	1	0	1	4	0	0	0	14	.258	.258	.387	.645	12	0	0	4	0	0
Kazumasa Ichikawa	19	25	23	1	7	1	0	0	2	0	0	2	3	.304	.360	.348	.708	8	1	0	0	0	0
Manabu Tanabe	36	44	37	3	7	2	0	0	3	0	0	2	18	.189	.231	.243	.474	9	0	0	5	0	0
Toru Okamoto	30	57	51	3	7	1	0	0	2	0	0	3	17	.137	.185	.157	.342	8	2	0	3	0	0
Kazuhiko Miyakawa	21	24	23	2	6	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.261	.292	.348	.639	8	0	0	0	0	0
Takashi Okawa	28	43	33	4	6	2	0	0	3	0	1	3	12	.182	.250	.242	.492	8	3	0	7	0	0
Takahiro Shirahata	19	18	17	3	4	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	3	.235	.278	.353	.631	6	1	1	0	0	0
Akio Saito	17	27	22	2	4	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	6	.182	.182	.182	.364	4	2	0	5	0	0
Katsuya Udo	20	17	14	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	5	.214	.267	.214	.481	3	1	0	2	0	0
Masahiro Takahashi	22	25	22	3	3	1	0	0	1	1	0	3	10	.136	.240	.182	.422	4	0	0	0	0	0
Junki Kono	14	24	23	3	3	1	0	0	1	2	0	1	11	.130	.167	.174	.341	4	0	0	0	0	0
Kazuhiro Sasaki	53	14	13	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	7	.154	.154	.154	.308	2	0	0	1	0	0
Kazuhiko Endo	14	20	19	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.105	.105	.105	.211	2	2	0	1	0	0
Koki Morita	57	31	26	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	8	.077	.111	.077	.188	2	1	0	4	0	0
Hirohisa Takada	15	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0	0	0
Tadami Futamura	10	12	9	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	4	.111	.333	.111	.444	1	0	0	0	0	0
Naoya Shimada	15	11	9	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	5	.111	.200	.111	.311	1	0	0	1	0	0
Kazuhiko Daimon	41	13	11	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	3	.091	.167	.091	.258	1	0	0	1	0	0
Yutaka Matsumoto	30	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Kotaro Azuse	24	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.333	.000	.333	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kazuaki Kawabata	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yoshitaka Mizuo	10	8	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Yoshiki Otsuka	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mitsunori Kakehata	57	9	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.000	.111	.000	.111	0	0	0	0	0	0
Takashi Saito	7	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ryuji Okamoto	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Katsuhiro Hiratsuka	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1977	4991	4392	521	1095	195	23	97	495	87	39	414	864	.249	.316	.370	.686	1627	87	26	131	28	28

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Takashi Osanai	1B	72					.000
Hitoshi Hatayama	1B	36					.000
Larry Sheets	1B	33					.000
Futoshi Miyazato	1B	22					.000
Yoshiyuki Shimizu	1B	4					.000
Takahiro Shirahata	1B	1					.000
Yutaka Takagi	2B	131					.000
Masahiro Takahashi	2B	3					.000
Tatsuya Shindo	2B	1					.000
Kazuhiko Miyakawa	2B	1					.000
Kenji Horie	2B	1					.000
Yoshiyuki Shimizu	3B	87					.000
Takuro Ishii	3B	42					.000
Kenji Horie	3B	22					.000
Kazuhiko Miyakawa	3B	7					.000
Masahiro Takahashi	3B	3					.000
Tatsuya Shindo	3B	2					.000
Ryuji Okamoto	3B	1					.000
Kosaku Akimoto	C	98					.000
Motonobu Tanishige	C	69					.000
Kazumasa Ichikawa	C	11					.000
Yoshiki Otsuka	C	1					.000
R. J. Reynolds	OF	108					.000
Larry Sheets	OF	107					.000
Kaname Yashiki	OF	100					.000
Futoshi Miyazato	OF	57					.000
Kenichi Yamazaki	OF	49					.000
Hitoshi Hatayama	OF	19					.000
Michio Aoyama	OF	19					.000
Takashi Okawa	OF	16					.000
Akimasa Yokotani	OF	9					.000
Junki Kono	OF	7					.000
Takahiro Shirahata	OF	2					.000
Tadami Futamura	OF	2					.000
Mitsunori Kakehata	P	55					.000
Kazuhiro Sasaki	P	53					.000
Koki Morita	P	52					.000
Kazuhiko Daimon	P	38					.000
Yutaka Matsumoto	P	30					.000
Manabu Tanabe	P	29					.000
Toru Okamoto	P	27					.000
Kotaro Azuse	P	24					.000
Hiroki Nomura	P	21					.000
Katsuya Udo	P	19					.000
Akio Saito	P	17					.000
Hirohisa Takada	P	15					.000
Naoya Shimada	P	14					.000
Kazuhiko Endo	P	13					.000
Yoshitaka Mizuo	P	8					.000
Takashi Saito	P	6					.000
Denney Tomori	P	1					.000
Daisuke Miura	P	1					.000
Tatsuya Shindo	SS	104					.000
Takuro Ishii	SS	32					.000
Kenji Horie	SS	12					.000
Masahiro Takahashi	SS	1					.000
Takashi Okawa	SS	1					.000
Totals		1716	0	0	0	0	.000

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