1977 Hiroshima Toyo Carp Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 51-67
Finished 5th in the JPCL
Manager: Takeshi Koba (51-67)
Location: Hiroshima, Japan
Ballpark: Hiroshima Municipal Stadium

1977 Hiroshima Toyo Carp Roster

The Hiroshima Toyo Carp of the Japan Central League ended the 1977 season with a record of 51 wins and 67 losses, finishing fifth in the JPCL.

The Toyo Carp scored 603 runs and allowed 672 runs. Koji Yamamoto walloped 44 home runs for Hiroshima, while Adrian Garrett, Sachio Kinugasa and Jim Lyttle each swatted 15 or more also. Koji Yamamoto drove in 113 runs. Jitsuo Mizutani paced all regular batters by connecting at a .312 clip. Satoshi Takahashi topped the squad with 20 wins and a team-best 3.74 ERA, best among qualifying pitchers.

Adrian Garrett and Jim Lyttle 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
Satoshi Takahashi	20	14	.588	3.73	44	40	4	14	1	0	284.7	289	132	118	42	111	1	156	9	1	4	1237
Kojiro Ikegaya	11	16	.407	5.22	44	31	10	12	1	5	226.0	241	140	131	48	67	2	176	1	0	2	974
Hiroaki Fukushi	6	6	.500	5.11	46	6	29	0	0	5	100.3	129	59	57	11	41	6	39	4	0	3	461
Manabu Kitabeppu	5	7	.417	5.54	33	22	4	3	0	0	131.7	150	87	81	27	51	1	90	6	0	0	588
Satoshi Niimi	3	7	.300	6.12	22	14	6	2	0	0	78.0	94	57	53	15	35	1	41	4	0	0	355
Masashi Doi	2	2	.500	4.40	37	2	7	0	0	0	71.7	76	45	35	14	27	2	40	3	0	1	306
Takuya Mochizuki	2	6	.250	3.94	32	4	9	0	0	0	64.0	59	35	28	7	22	0	23	1	0	3	266
Yoshiro Sotokoba	1	2	.333	5.48	6	5	1	0	0	0	21.3	26	14	13	2	10	0	4	1	0	1	99
Seiji Kobayashi	1	3	.250	6.70	18	6	3	0	0	0	43.0	51	33	32	9	25	0	34	4	0	0	200
Hideyuki Hirata	0	0		0.00	2	0	2	0	0	0	3.3	1	0	0	0	2	0	3	0	0	0	14
Kazuo Yamane	0	0		2.25	9	0	7	0	0	0	12.0	11	7	3	2	7	0	8	0	0	1	52
Yasuo Minagawa	0	0		4.05	4	0	1	0	0	0	6.7	12	3	3	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	31
Sumiyoshi Kadota	0	0		6.00	2	0	1	0	0	0	3.0	4	2	2	0	2	0	3	0	0	0	13
Yutaka Ono	0	0		135.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.3	5	5	5	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	8
Satoru Miwa	0	1	.000	4.27	34	0	10	0	0	2	52.7	49	25	25	11	19	2	27	4	0	2	227
Naoki Enomoto	0	1	.000	9.00	10	0	1	0	0	0	3.0	7	3	3	1	3	0	2	0	0	0	19
Hiroki Watanabe	0	2	.000	5.52	39	0	4	0	0	1	29.3	42	25	18	6	15	1	21	3	0	0	150
Totals	51	67	.432	4.83	383	130	99	31	2	13	1131.0	1246	672	607	197	440	16	669	40	1	17	5000

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
Koji Yamamoto	130	552	448	102	138	24	4	44	113	22	4	94	64	.308	.428	.674	1.102	302	12	4	0	6	6
Jim Lyttle	120	496	452	75	136	23	0	19	65	13	3	38	60	.301	.356	.478	.834	216	14	2	2	2	2
Sachio Kinugasa	130	582	514	88	136	22	2	25	67	28	15	53	81	.265	.340	.461	.801	237	11	6	8	1	1
Jitsuo Mizutani	119	444	404	53	126	31	2	13	50	2	4	35	46	.312	.367	.495	.862	200	13	2	0	3	3
Adrian Garrett	128	509	445	64	124	19	0	35	91	1	3	57	103	.279	.358	.557	.915	248	6	1	0	6	13
Shiro Mizunuma	118	381	334	39	84	16	2	5	32	7	1	36	48	.251	.333	.356	.690	119	8	5	6	0	3
Toshiyuki Mimura	104	376	347	27	83	14	1	8	40	2	1	17	54	.239	.283	.354	.637	123	6	5	5	2	0
Tsuyoshi Oshita	89	347	304	36	76	8	1	2	24	19	9	24	24	.250	.304	.303	.607	92	4	1	15	3	0
Tomio Kinoshita	106	201	182	21	44	11	1	4	21	7	2	10	28	.242	.278	.379	.657	69	3	0	7	2	1
Junzo Uchida	80	139	121	16	40	2	0	4	24	1	0	15	16	.331	.399	.446	.845	54	5	0	1	2	0
Yoshihiko Takahashi	58	141	130	23	38	6	2	0	6	14	2	7	33	.292	.338	.369	.707	48	3	2	2	0	0
Kojiro Ikegaya	44	82	67	6	20	1	0	0	5	1	0	5	16	.299	.347	.313	.661	21	2	0	10	0	0
Hiroyuki Michihara	45	73	70	6	18	2	0	0	4	0	1	1	8	.257	.288	.286	.573	20	2	2	0	0	0
Yasuhiro Hagiwara	52	90	79	9	18	5	2	0	5	0	0	9	5	.228	.307	.342	.649	27	3	0	2	0	0
Shuichi Fukazawa	88	44	43	10	11	2	0	1	6	5	2	1	5	.256	.273	.372	.645	16	1	0	0	0	0
Hironori Shogaki	36	56	50	3	11	2	0	1	6	0	0	5	11	.220	.291	.320	.611	16	2	0	1	0	0
Toshihiko Sonoda	40	48	47	3	10	1	0	1	1	1	0	0	10	.213	.213	.298	.511	14	0	0	1	0	0
Shigeki Morioka	41	56	49	7	10	1	1	0	0	0	0	7	7	.204	.304	.265	.569	13	0	0	0	0	0
Satoshi Takahashi	44	106	90	3	10	0	0	0	4	0	0	1	32	.111	.129	.111	.240	10	1	1	13	1	0
Yoshiyuki Sano	20	28	28	1	8	1	0	0	6	0	0	0	11	.286	.286	.321	.607	9	0	0	0	0	0
Manabu Kitabeppu	33	48	43	3	6	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	17	.140	.159	.140	.299	6	0	0	4	0	0
Satoshi Niimi	23	24	22	2	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	7	.227	.292	.227	.519	5	0	0	0	0	0
Satoru Miwa	34	5	5	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.400	.400	.400	.800	2	0	0	0	0	0
Akio Nakao	31	7	7	5	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	.286	.286	.286	.571	2	0	0	0	0	0
Masashi Doi	38	12	8	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.250	.333	.250	.583	2	0	0	3	0	0
Seiji Kobayashi	18	6	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.200	.200	.200	.400	1	0	0	1	0	0
Toshifumi Takatsuki	10	8	8	1	1	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	4	.125	.125	.500	.625	4	1	0	0	0	0
Hiroaki Fukushi	46	20	17	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	8	.059	.059	.059	.118	1	0	0	3	0	0
Yoshiro Sotokoba	6	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yasuo Minagawa	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Takuya Mochizuki	32	10	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.100	.000	.100	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1868	4897	4334	603	1161	191	18	163	577	124	47	420	709	.268	.335	.433	.768	1877	97	31	84	28	29

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Jitsuo Mizutani	1B	71					.000
Adrian Garrett	1B	63					.000
Tomio Kinoshita	1B	36					.000
Yoshiyuki Sano	1B	6					.000
Yasuhiro Hagiwara	1B	5					.000
Toshifumi Takatsuki	1B	3					.000
Tsuyoshi Oshita	2B	86					.000
Toshiyuki Mimura	2B	43					.000
Tomio Kinoshita	2B	29					.000
Toshihiko Sonoda	2B	6					.000
Jim Lyttle	2B	6					.000
Akio Nakao	2B	4					.000
Yoshiyuki Sano	2B	1					.000
Sachio Kinugasa	3B	130					.000
Shiro Mizunuma	C	115					.000
Hiroyuki Michihara	C	43					.000
Koji Yamamoto	OF	129					.000
Jim Lyttle	OF	111					.000
Shuichi Fukazawa	OF	71					.000
Adrian Garrett	OF	58					.000
Jitsuo Mizutani	OF	44					.000
Junzo Uchida	OF	34					.000
Yasuhiro Hagiwara	OF	24					.000
Hironori Shogaki	OF	19					.000
Shigeki Morioka	OF	10					.000
Yoshihiko Takahashi	OF	9					.000
Hiroaki Fukushi	P	46					.000
Satoshi Takahashi	P	44					.000
Kojiro Ikegaya	P	44					.000
Hiroki Watanabe	P	39					.000
Masashi Doi	P	37					.000
Satoru Miwa	P	34					.000
Manabu Kitabeppu	P	33					.000
Takuya Mochizuki	P	32					.000
Satoshi Niimi	P	22					.000
Seiji Kobayashi	P	18					.000
Naoki Enomoto	P	10					.000
Kazuo Yamane	P	9					.000
Yoshiro Sotokoba	P	6					.000
Yasuo Minagawa	P	4					.000
Sumiyoshi Kadota	P	2					.000
Hideyuki Hirata	P	2					.000
Yutaka Ono	P	1					.000
Toshiyuki Mimura	SS	67					.000
Tomio Kinoshita	SS	56					.000
Yoshihiko Takahashi	SS	42					.000
Akio Nakao	SS	25					.000
Yoshiyuki Sano	SS	2					.000
Totals		1731	0	0	0	0	.000

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