1973 Yakult Atoms Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 62-65
Finished 4th in the JPCL
Manager: Osamu Mihara (62-65)
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Ballpark: Meiji Jingu Stadium

1973 Yakult Atoms Roster

The Yakult Atoms of the Japan Central League ended the 1973 season with a record of 62 wins and 65 losses, finishing fourth in the JPCL.

The Atoms plated 377 runs, worst in the circuit, and yielded 406 runs. Tsutomu Wakamatsu paced Yakult with 17 home runs and recorded 60 runs batted in, while leading all qualifying hitters on the roster with a .313 average. Hiromu Matsuoka topped the squad with 21 wins, and Takeshi Yasuda registered a 2.03 earned run average, leading regular hurlers.

Members of the 1973 Yakult Atoms who played in Major League Baseball during their careers were Joe Pepitone, Dave Roberts and Art López.

Osamu Mihara 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
Hiromu Matsuoka	21	18	.538	2.23	48	25	19	14	2		295.0	223	83	73	18	115	17	218	10	0	4	1203
Keishi Asano	14	12	.538	2.37	43	20	15	2	1		178.3	137	56	47	15	63	9	136	2	1	1	716
Takeshi Yasuda	10	12	.455	2.03	53	14	22	11	4		208.7	175	50	47	13	25	9	107	1	0	0	799
Takahiro Watanabe	8	8	.500	2.38	39	19	10	3	1		125.0	98	52	33	14	39	4	63	5	0	0	517
Naoki Enomoto	5	4	.556	2.71	37	23	6	1	0		146.3	117	51	44	16	51	7	74	1	0	2	597
Kunio Kobayashi	2	3	.400	2.88	26	13	4	1	0		59.3	56	23	19	4	15	1	28	2	0	0	244
Tetsuo Nishii	2	3	.400	3.17	30	12	9	1	0		93.7	82	38	33	9	33	1	52	5	0	1	391
Shinichiro Ihara	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0		0.7	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3
Shigeo Sugiyama	0	0		3.38	3	0	0	0	0		2.7	5	3	1	1	1	0	4	0	0	0	15
Shoji Yasuki	0	0		9.00	1	0	1	0	0		1.0	3	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	6
Kiyoharu Matsuoka	0	0		10.29	5	0	2	0	0		7.0	9	8	8	1	4	0	3	0	0	0	34
Kozo Ishioka	0	1	.000	6.23	6	0	3	0	0		8.7	14	7	6	1	2	0	7	0	0	0	42
Teruo Aida	0	4	.000	5.79	21	4	5	0	0		42.0	57	34	27	4	14	1	27	2	0	0	197
Totals	62	65	.488	2.61	313	130	97	33	8	0	1168.3	977	406	339	96	362	49	720	28	1	9	4764

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
Tsutomu Wakamatsu	128	486	438	59	137	29	2	17	60	12	8	32	43	.313	.366	.505	.870	221	4	5	10	1	8
Yoshinori Yamashita	130	483	433	37	112	10	3	11	43	10	8	33	78	.259	.320	.372	.692	161	13	7	8	2	0
Fumihiro Tojo	125	449	407	35	91	14	2	2	28	9	14	28	53	.224	.273	.283	.555	115	6	0	13	1	0
Kazuhide Funada	117	396	347	32	80	11	2	4	24	9	5	31	58	.231	.295	.308	.603	107	8	1	16	1	0
Art López	117	354	313	33	73	13	0	11	39	3	2	35	24	.233	.312	.380	.692	119	13	2	1	3	7
Akihiko Oya	121	393	355	28	67	8	2	7	21	3	2	25	46	.189	.240	.282	.522	100	14	0	10	3	7
Kuniaki Nakamura	121	336	300	27	64	10	0	4	21	2	7	21	56	.213	.264	.287	.551	86	7	0	14	1	0
Junzo Uchida	93	248	219	21	60	13	1	1	19	3	5	19	19	.274	.325	.356	.681	78	4	0	5	5	2
Takashi Arakawa	56	215	194	20	45	7	0	7	17	1	0	13	29	.232	.280	.376	.656	73	3	0	8	0	0
Yoshihito Oda	82	157	148	11	32	5	0	3	13	1	4	8	36	.216	.256	.311	.567	46	1	0	1	0	0
Shiro Takegami	68	167	147	11	31	6	1	2	12	1	2	12	17	.211	.275	.306	.581	45	3	1	7	0	0
Dave Roberts	36	132	115	13	29	5	2	2	16	0	1	16	19	.252	.348	.383	.731	44	1	1	0	0	1
Norifumi Kido	79	126	115	4	28	2	1	0	11	2	0	0	12	.243	.241	.278	.520	32	2	0	10	1	0
Hiromu Matsuoka	48	112	107	3	22	3	0	1	9	0	0	1	39	.206	.213	.262	.475	28	0	0	4	0	0
Takeshi Yasuda	57	79	73	4	18	4	0	0	2	0	0	4	15	.247	.286	.301	.587	22	3	0	2	0	1
Yoichi Inoue	63	71	60	14	13	0	0	2	3	3	1	7	15	.217	.299	.317	.615	19	3	0	4	0	2
Shigeo Nagai	43	45	41	2	8	1	0	1	5	0	0	1	12	.195	.200	.293	.493	12	0	0	0	3	0
Keishi Asano	43	58	53	4	8	2	0	0	3	0	0	1	23	.151	.167	.189	.355	10	0	0	4	0	0
Taneo Okumiya	37	67	60	7	8	2	0	1	4	1	0	4	15	.133	.200	.217	.417	13	3	1	2	0	0
Joe Pepitone	14	49	43	1	7	0	0	1	2	0	0	5	7	.163	.265	.233	.498	10	0	1	0	0	3
Yoshiaki Kushiro	12	13	13	3	6	0	0	1	3	0	0	0	1	.462	.462	.692	1.154	9	0	0	0	0	0
Yasunori Nagao	33	42	42	3	6	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	.143	.143	.167	.310	7	0	0	0	0	0
Takahiro Watanabe	39	34	28	0	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.143	.143	.143	.286	4	0	0	6	0	0
Toru Sugiura	27	39	37	2	4	2	0	0	2	0	0	2	12	.108	.154	.162	.316	6	1	0	0	0	0
Naoki Enomoto	37	42	37	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	21	.054	.125	.054	.179	2	0	0	2	0	0
Teruo Aida	21	7	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.143	.143	.143	.286	1	0	0	0	0	0
Kunio Kobayashi	26	17	14	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	.071	.133	.071	.205	1	0	0	2	0	0
Yukio Yaegashi	20	21	17	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	5	.000	.143	.000	.143	0	0	1	0	1	0
Susumu Watanabe	8	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shuhei Uehara	6	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shoji Kawai	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tetsuo Nishii	30	20	16	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	11	.000	.158	.000	.158	0	0	0	1	0	0
Totals	1838	4668	4189	377	957	148	16	78	359	60	61	307	683	.228	.283	.327	.610	1371	89	20	130	22	31

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Yoshihito Oda	1B	67					.000
Kazuhide Funada	1B	42					.000
Dave Roberts	1B	36					.000
Kuniaki Nakamura	1B	35					.000
Toru Sugiura	1B	19					.000
Joe Pepitone	1B	13					.000
Art López	1B	6					.000
Hiromu Matsuoka	1B	3					.000
Norifumi Kido	1B	3					.000
Takayuki Nakano	1B	1					.000
Kuniaki Nakamura	2B	98					.000
Shiro Takegami	2B	54					.000
Kazuhide Funada	2B	45					.000
Shigeo Nagai	2B	5					.000
Susumu Watanabe	2B	2					.000
Norifumi Kido	3B	77					.000
Kazuhide Funada	3B	59					.000
Takashi Arakawa	3B	56					.000
Susumu Watanabe	3B	3					.000
Akihiko Oya	C	121					.000
Taneo Okumiya	C	33					.000
Yoshiaki Kushiro	C	8					.000
Keishi Asano	C	1					.000
Yoshinori Yamashita	OF	129					.000
Tsutomu Wakamatsu	OF	127					.000
Art López	OF	105					.000
Junzo Uchida	OF	76					.000
Yoichi Inoue	OF	57					.000
Shuhei Uehara	OF	4					.000
Kozo Ishioka	OF	4					.000
Yukio Yaegashi	OF	2					.000
Joe Pepitone	OF	2					.000
Yoshiaki Kushiro	OF	2					.000
Toru Sugiura	OF	1					.000
Takayuki Nakano	OF	1					.000
Shigeo Nagai	OF	1					.000
Kazuhide Funada	OF	1					.000
Takeshi Yasuda	P	53					.000
Hiromu Matsuoka	P	48					.000
Keishi Asano	P	43					.000
Takahiro Watanabe	P	39					.000
Naoki Enomoto	P	37					.000
Tetsuo Nishii	P	30					.000
Kunio Kobayashi	P	26					.000
Teruo Aida	P	21					.000
Kozo Ishioka	P	6					.000
Kiyoharu Matsuoka	P	5					.000
Shigeo Sugiyama	P	3					.000
Shoji Yasuki	P	1					.000
Shinichiro Ihara	P	1					.000
Fumihiro Tojo	SS	124					.000
Yasunori Nagao	SS	20					.000
Kazuhide Funada	SS	16					.000
Susumu Watanabe	SS	3					.000
Kuniaki Nakamura	SS	1					.000
Kozo Ishioka	SS	1					.000
Totals		1777	0	0	0	0	.000

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