1956 Kintetsu Pearls Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 68-82
Finished 5th in the JPPL
Manager: Takeo Akuta (68-82)
Location: Osaka, Japan
Ballpark: Osaka Stadium, Nippon Life Stadium, Fujiidera Stadium

1956 Kintetsu Pearls Roster

The Kintetsu Pearls of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1956 season with a record of 68 wins and 82 losses, finishing fifth in the JPPL.

The Pearls scored 495 runs and surrendered 583 runs. Bill Pinckard paced Kintetsu with 16 home runs Akitoshi Kodama accounted for 82 RBI. Tsutomu Kimura topped batters with significant playing time by hitting .287. Fumio Takechi led the team with 16 wins and a team-best 2.43 ERA, tops among pitchers with enough qualifying appearances. Takeo Akuta 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
Fumio Takechi	16	16	.500	2.43	45	30	12	16	4		255.7	234	88	69	11	29	3	113	1	0	1	1015
Junzo Sekine	9	11	.450	2.95	28	20	6	10	2		152.3	132	64	50	6	29	1	66	2	0	0	616
Yasuo Nagai	8	11	.421	3.52	39	15	15	3	1		143.3	123	65	56	8	58	0	63	4	0	8	609
Mitsuro Sawafuji	7	5	.583	2.71	26	14	9	2	1		106.3	104	38	32	5	15	0	38	3	0	2	427
Tsutomu Kuroda	6	4	.600	2.72	40	15	10	1	0		152.3	129	64	46	6	61	0	90	1	1	1	632
Yoshimi Ebara	5	5	.500	2.60	32	12	12	1	1		93.3	84	33	27	3	40	1	49	1	0	0	390
Ryoichi Sato	5	9	.357	2.77	38	16	10	4	0		152.7	131	54	47	8	48	0	90	0	0	0	623
Noboru Yamashita	5	11	.312	3.84	35	17	10	2	0		126.7	123	63	54	15	33	3	73	5	0	0	528
Kyohei Okamoto	4	7	.364	4.82	36	12	15	1	1		108.3	112	69	58	8	30	0	24	9	1	2	473
Masaru Nagao	2	0	1.000	1.00	4	1	1	0	0		9.0	7	1	1	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	36
Masao Haido	1	1	.500	6.75	18	0	11	0	0		29.3	42	27	22	4	9	0	17	2	0	2	137
Takeo Shigemura	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0		2.0	1	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	7
Takeshi Hamaguchi	0	0		7.71	1	0	0	0	0		2.3	1	2	2	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	10
Teruaki Wakasugi	0	1	.000	5.27	7	1	3	0	0		13.7	14	8	8	3	3	0	2	0	0	0	58
Sadatoshi Tsujinaka	0	1	.000	6.23	2	1	0	0	0		8.7	8	7	6	0	5	0	4	0	0	1	38
Totals	68	82	.453	3.17	352	154	114	40	10	0	1356.0	1245	583	478	78	367	8	631	28	2	17	5599

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
Akitoshi Kodama	151	607	571	69	156	26	4	13	82	16	24	29	47	.273	.310	.401	.711	229	18	3	1	3	4
Tsutomu Kimura	135	527	470	64	135	14	9	1	22	22	16	42	26	.287	.348	.362	.709	170	3	2	12	1	0
Takeshi Suzuki	133	495	431	54	105	14	2	0	17	37	13	28	50	.244	.292	.285	.577	123	10	2	32	2	1
Takatsugu Toguchi	142	471	424	41	102	16	9	7	45	12	10	28	51	.241	.287	.370	.657	157	8	1	14	4	1
Osamu Takechi	111	408	358	29	85	7	1	0	56	21	9	44	25	.237	.320	.263	.583	94	9	1	2	3	2
Masaaki Oishi	106	319	298	22	71	12	3	2	34	9	5	19	57	.238	.286	.319	.605	95	3	1	1	0	0
Takashi Kusaka	85	274	244	32	63	10	1	0	16	9	8	24	22	.258	.327	.307	.635	75	4	1	5	0	3
Bill Pinckard	94	311	294	28	55	12	2	16	43	11	3	13	71	.187	.222	.405	.627	119	10	1	0	3	5
Masatoshi Kato	108	287	263	29	53	12	1	4	28	1	4	18	33	.202	.265	.300	.565	79	4	5	0	1	0
Koji Shimada	75	166	140	12	38	4	0	1	14	3	4	13	31	.271	.333	.321	.655	45	2	0	13	0	0
Kenichi Kimino	85	160	149	16	35	1	3	0	11	2	6	8	19	.235	.272	.282	.554	42	1	0	2	1	0
Yoji Matsuoka	120	254	205	16	34	8	1	0	18	14	7	38	54	.166	.298	.215	.513	44	2	2	6	3	3
Katsuhiko Hara	57	142	124	10	24	0	0	0	10	1	1	11	13	.194	.255	.194	.449	24	1	0	5	2	0
Junzo Sekine	59	89	82	11	22	1	0	1	15	0	0	3	5	.268	.291	.317	.608	26	0	0	3	1	0
Seisaku Ishiguro	47	137	123	11	21	2	1	1	11	7	2	8	29	.171	.226	.228	.453	28	3	1	4	1	0
Dick Parente	59	104	93	8	20	5	0	0	4	2	3	10	17	.215	.298	.269	.567	25	2	1	0	0	0
Fumio Takechi	45	84	71	4	14	0	0	0	4	0	0	2	11	.197	.219	.197	.416	14	2	0	11	0	0
Masakazu Kito	26	68	53	12	13	3	0	0	10	3	2	12	4	.245	.382	.302	.684	16	2	1	0	2	0
Seisaburo Yamada	58	111	96	5	13	2	0	0	2	3	0	10	19	.135	.224	.156	.381	15	2	1	4	0	0
Mitsuro Sawafuji	26	35	30	3	8	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	9	.267	.290	.300	.590	9	0	0	4	0	0
Shizuo Yamamoto	41	71	55	4	8	1	0	0	3	2	0	13	9	.145	.304	.164	.468	9	0	0	2	1	1
Masaharu Sekimori	25	45	38	4	7	1	0	0	3	1	3	5	7	.184	.295	.211	.506	8	1	1	1	0	0
Ryoichi Sato	38	49	43	0	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	10	.116	.156	.140	.295	6	0	0	4	0	0
Kyohei Okamoto	36	30	27	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	.111	.111	.111	.222	3	1	0	3	0	0
Tenji Shiomura	23	33	29	2	3	0	0	1	2	0	0	3	7	.103	.212	.207	.419	6	0	1	0	0	0
Yasuo Nagai	39	41	30	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	9	18	.100	.308	.100	.408	3	0	0	2	0	0
Noboru Yamashita	36	39	39	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	.077	.077	.077	.154	3	0	0	0	0	0
Yoshimi Ebara	32	26	25	1	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	11	.080	.115	.200	.315	5	0	0	0	0	0
Katsumi Hayashi	24	29	25	3	2	0	1	0	1	1	0	4	6	.080	.207	.160	.367	4	1	0	0	0	0
Tsutomu Kuroda	42	41	35	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	11	.057	.108	.057	.165	2	0	0	4	0	0
Ryoichi Atsuta	2	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0	0	0	0
Masao Haido	22	18	15	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	1	.067	.222	.200	.422	3	1	0	0	0	0
Hisao Hosomizo	5	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Koichi Murata	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sadatoshi Tsujinaka	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Teruaki Wakasugi	8	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Masaru Nagao	4	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Takeshi Hamaguchi	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2103	5486	4895	495	1107	153	39	48	452	177	121	403	694	.226	.287	.303	.590	1482	90	25	135	28	20

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Kenichi Kimino	1B	69					.000
Osamu Takechi	1B	36					.000
Tenji Shiomura	1B	16					.000
Masakazu Kito	1B	10					.000
Masao Haido	1B	4					.000
Takatsugu Toguchi	2B	130					.000
Shizuo Yamamoto	2B	23					.000
Koji Shimada	2B	22					.000
Dick Parente	2B	18					.000
Akitoshi Kodama	3B	151					.000
Koji Shimada	3B	5					.000
Ryoichi Atsuta	3B	2					.000
Masatoshi Kato	C	96					.000
Seisaburo Yamada	C	57					.000
Katsuhiko Hara	C	53					.000
Hisao Hosomizo	C	4					.000
Takashi Chogin	C	1					.000
Tsutomu Kimura	OF	132					.000
Yoji Matsuoka	OF	103					.000
Masaaki Oishi	OF	97					.000
Bill Pinckard	OF	91					.000
Takashi Kusaka	OF	74					.000
Seisaku Ishiguro	OF	41					.000
Katsumi Hayashi	OF	19					.000
Masaharu Sekimori	OF	18					.000
Masakazu Kito	OF	9					.000
Noboru Yamashita	OF	1					.000
Fumio Takechi	P	45					.000
Tsutomu Kuroda	P	40					.000
Yasuo Nagai	P	39					.000
Ryoichi Sato	P	38					.000
Kyohei Okamoto	P	36					.000
Noboru Yamashita	P	35					.000
Yoshimi Ebara	P	32					.000
Junzo Sekine	P	28					.000
Mitsuro Sawafuji	P	26					.000
Masao Haido	P	18					.000
Teruaki Wakasugi	P	7					.000
Masaru Nagao	P	4					.000
Sadatoshi Tsujinaka	P	2					.000
Takeo Shigemura	P	1					.000
Takeshi Hamaguchi	P	1					.000
Takeshi Suzuki	SS	130					.000
Koji Shimada	SS	30					.000
Takatsugu Toguchi	SS	13					.000
Dick Parente	SS	10					.000
Totals		1817	0	0	0	0	.000

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