1976 Lotte Orions Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 63-56
Finished 3rd in the JPPL
Manager: Masaichi Kaneda (63-56)
Location: Tokyo, Japan

1976 Lotte Orions Roster

The Lotte Orions of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1976 season with a record of 63 wins and 56 losses, finishing third in the JPPL.

The Orions plated 476 runs and allowed 441 runs. Michiyo Arito paced Lotte with 25 home runs, and Hiroyuki Yamazaki walloped 15 or more also. Michiyo Arito drove in 68 runs. Sumio Hirota led all regular hitters with a .285 average. Choji Murata topped the squad with 21 wins, while Soroku Yagisawa also added 15 or more victories also Choji Murata recorded a 1.82 ERA, tops among hurlers with significant time on the mound.

Jim Lefebvre and John Briggs both played in Major League Baseball during their careers.

Masaichi Kaneda 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
Choji Murata	21	11	.656	1.82	46	24	21	18	5	4	257.3	209	67	52	13	73	3	202	8	0	13	1037
Soroku Yagisawa	15	9	.625	2.46	34	22	8	5	0	1	171.7	153	53	47	14	29	1	66	5	0	2	676
Fumio Narita	10	10	.500	3.42	35	26	7	4	1	1	165.7	164	78	63	17	39	4	98	6	0	5	693
Masaharu Mitsui	6	7	.462	2.54	28	14	11	9	1	6	120.3	101	38	34	9	29	0	104	1	0	2	480
Norihiro Mizutani	3	4	.429	3.48	35	14	2	0	0	0	72.3	74	35	28	6	25	0	26	2	1	0	311
Tomehiro Kaneda	3	8	.273	4.05	23	17	6	3	0	0	106.7	125	52	48	12	29	1	50	3	0	0	465
Seiichi Ogawa	2	0	1.000	2.05	8	2	4	0	0	0	26.3	25	9	6	1	7	0	9	1	1	0	105
Akira Kuramochi	2	2	.500	2.64	31	0	9	0	0	2	64.7	52	20	19	9	36	2	40	3	0	1	275
Haruo Narishige	1	0	1.000	4.06	12	2	3	0	0	1	31.0	35	15	14	3	9	0	17	3	0	1	134
Hiromasa Sato	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.7	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	6
Mitsuyasu Matsuda	0	0		3.60	2	0	2	0	0	0	5.0	4	2	2	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	20
Kiyoharu Matsuoka	0	1	.000	4.09	16	2	5	0	0	0	50.7	46	28	23	7	17	0	20	2	0	0	214
Yoshio Tanaka	0	2	.000	5.52	9	3	4	1	0	1	29.3	28	20	18	4	13	0	16	2	0	1	126
Masaaki Kitaru	0	2	.000	5.55	14	4	7	0	0	0	35.7	45	24	22	2	12	0	14	1	0	1	163
Totals	63	56	.529	2.97	294	130	90	40	7	16	1138.3	1061	441	376	97	321	11	663	37	2	26	4705

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
Michiyo Arito	129	528	473	74	126	18	3	25	68	15	10	42	91	.266	.330	.476	.806	225	12	5	4	4	0
Sumio Hirota	113	439	403	49	115	14	2	4	31	26	9	19	34	.285	.322	.360	.681	145	7	3	13	1	1
Hiroyuki Yamazaki	121	478	418	50	114	19	2	16	62	7	4	48	67	.273	.345	.443	.788	185	6	1	6	5	2
Takahiro Tokutsu	111	382	355	33	100	17	5	4	42	1	8	16	23	.282	.318	.392	.709	139	9	5	1	5	1
Yoshihiro Iizuka	125	382	338	48	94	14	4	4	31	23	14	25	27	.278	.325	.379	.704	128	4	1	13	5	0
Kazuo Hasegawa	108	354	329	28	85	9	3	5	33	3	2	15	26	.258	.289	.350	.639	115	3	0	8	2	1
Tadayoshi Iwasaki	116	330	294	31	74	11	0	4	19	5	4	26	36	.252	.312	.330	.641	97	11	0	9	1	0
Kenji Doi	90	237	225	19	67	7	0	3	15	1	2	7	25	.298	.321	.369	.689	83	9	1	3	1	0
Jim Lefebvre	90	297	268	22	65	8	0	8	37	2	2	23	36	.243	.304	.362	.666	97	7	2	1	3	2
Kimiyasu Murakami	110	285	262	25	62	7	3	6	25	1	0	15	37	.237	.281	.355	.636	93	6	1	7	0	0
Shinichi Eto	69	237	214	22	49	2	0	6	24	1	2	18	24	.229	.287	.322	.609	69	6	1	0	4	0
John Briggs	47	188	163	18	37	8	0	7	24	4	4	20	44	.227	.312	.405	.717	66	2	1	2	2	1
Shinichi Sakaki	60	97	90	7	25	4	0	0	9	0	2	6	9	.278	.320	.322	.642	29	1	0	0	1	0
Masanori Arai	73	132	122	14	23	3	1	1	8	0	3	4	11	.189	.231	.254	.485	31	1	3	2	1	0
Takumi Ejima	50	95	88	11	21	6	0	4	14	3	0	2	17	.239	.258	.443	.701	39	1	1	2	2	0
Fumio Takahashi	54	84	80	12	19	2	1	1	4	1	1	1	12	.238	.241	.325	.566	26	0	0	1	2	0
Keisuke Senda	63	51	48	8	8	0	0	1	3	0	1	3	4	.167	.216	.229	.445	11	1	0	0	0	0
Shojiro Kikukawa	36	50	44	0	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	8	.159	.245	.182	.427	8	1	2	1	0	0
Toshiaki Yoshioka	27	15	15	4	3	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	.200	.200	.267	.467	4	0	0	0	0	0
Yoshitaka Shinya	8	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	1	0	0	0	0
Yuji Kitagawa	7	8	7	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	1	.143	.250	.143	.393	1	1	0	0	0	0
Yoshio Mizukami	5	8	7	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.143	.143	.286	.429	2	1	0	1	0	0
Nobuyuki Sasaki	13	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Masayoshi Moriyama	7	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1632	4689	4255	476	1097	152	24	99	454	94	69	294	539	.258	.307	.375	.682	1594	91	27	74	39	8

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Jim Lefebvre	1B	64					.000
Kazuo Hasegawa	1B	51					.000
Masanori Arai	1B	51					.000
Toshiaki Yoshioka	1B	13					.000
Shinichi Eto	1B	6					.000
Seiichi Ogawa	1B	3					.000
Masaaki Kitaru	1B	3					.000
Soroku Yagisawa	1B	2					.000
Hiromasa Sato	1B	1					.000
Haruo Narishige	1B	1					.000
Choji Murata	1B	1					.000
Akira Kuramochi	1B	1					.000
Tomehiro Kaneda	1B	1					.000
Michiyo Arito	1B	1					.000
Hiroyuki Yamazaki	2B	119					.000
Masanori Arai	2B	12					.000
Keisuke Senda	2B	4					.000
Toshiaki Yoshioka	2B	1					.000
Yuji Kitagawa	2B	1					.000
Shojiro Kikukawa	2B	1					.000
Michiyo Arito	3B	128					.000
Shojiro Kikukawa	3B	3					.000
Toshiaki Yoshioka	3B	1					.000
Keisuke Senda	3B	1					.000
Masanori Arai	3B	1					.000
Kimiyasu Murakami	C	110					.000
Shinichi Sakaki	C	55					.000
Kenji Doi	C	35					.000
Nobuyuki Sasaki	C	3					.000
Tadayoshi Iwasaki	OF	110					.000
Sumio Hirota	OF	110					.000
Takahiro Tokutsu	OF	106					.000
Takumi Ejima	OF	44					.000
Fumio Takahashi	OF	43					.000
John Briggs	OF	42					.000
Kazuo Hasegawa	OF	34					.000
Kenji Doi	OF	13					.000
Soroku Yagisawa	OF	10					.000
Fumio Narita	OF	10					.000
Tomehiro Kaneda	OF	8					.000
Yoshitaka Shinya	OF	6					.000
Nobuyuki Sasaki	OF	5					.000
Masayoshi Moriyama	OF	5					.000
Hiromasa Sato	OF	4					.000
Kiyoharu Matsuoka	OF	4					.000
Masanori Arai	OF	4					.000
Yoshio Tanaka	OF	3					.000
Haruo Narishige	OF	3					.000
Choji Murata	OF	3					.000
Mitsuyasu Matsuda	OF	3					.000
Masaaki Kitaru	OF	3					.000
Seiichi Ogawa	OF	2					.000
Masaharu Mitsui	OF	2					.000
Akira Kuramochi	OF	2					.000
Hiroyuki Yamazaki	OF	1					.000
Keisuke Senda	OF	1					.000
Choji Murata	P	46					.000
Fumio Narita	P	35					.000
Norihiro Mizutani	P	35					.000
Soroku Yagisawa	P	34					.000
Akira Kuramochi	P	31					.000
Masaharu Mitsui	P	28					.000
Tomehiro Kaneda	P	23					.000
Kiyoharu Matsuoka	P	16					.000
Masaaki Kitaru	P	14					.000
Haruo Narishige	P	12					.000
Yoshio Tanaka	P	9					.000
Seiichi Ogawa	P	8					.000
Mitsuyasu Matsuda	P	2					.000
Hiromasa Sato	P	1					.000
Yoshihiro Iizuka	SS	122					.000
Keisuke Senda	SS	36					.000
Yuji Kitagawa	SS	6					.000
Fumio Narita	SS	3					.000
Yoshio Mizukami	SS	3					.000
Toshiaki Yoshioka	SS	2					.000
Hiromasa Sato	SS	2					.000
Haruo Narishige	SS	2					.000
Masaharu Mitsui	SS	2					.000
Akira Kuramochi	SS	2					.000
Masaaki Kitaru	SS	2					.000
Shojiro Kikukawa	SS	2					.000
Yoshio Tanaka	SS	1					.000
Norihiro Mizutani	SS	1					.000
Kiyoharu Matsuoka	SS	1					.000
Tomehiro Kaneda	SS	1					.000
Masanori Arai	SS	1					.000
Totals		1738	0	0	0	0	.000

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