1977 Yakult Swallows Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 62-58
Finished 2nd in the JPCL
Manager: Tatsuro Hiroka (62-58)
Ballpark: Meiji Jingu Stadium

1977 Yakult Swallows Roster

The Yakult Swallows of the Japan Central League ended the 1977 season with a record of 62 wins and 58 losses, finishing second in the JPCL.

The Swallows scored 593 runs and surrendered 553 runs. Charlie Manuel walloped 42 home runs for Yakult, while Katsuo Osugi, Tsutomu Wakamatsu and Roger Repoz each swatted 15 or more also. Katsuo Osugi drove in 104 runs. Tsutomu Wakamatsu topped all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .358. Takeshi Yasuda led the team with 17 wins, and Kenichi Kajima registered a 3.36 earned run average, best among hurlers with significant time on the mound.

Roger Repoz and Charlie Manuel both played in Major League Baseball during their careers.

Tatsuro Hiroka 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
Takeshi Yasuda	17	16	.515	3.74	51	20	24	8	1	6	214.0	229	95	89	35	51	10	108	3	0	2	894
Yasujiro Suzuki	14	9	.609	3.67	37	28	4	7	2	0	184.0	171	84	75	21	41	1	72	14	0	0	754
Teruo Aida	9	9	.500	4.28	40	29	5	6	0	0	174.3	204	90	83	25	37	1	100	5	0	2	749
Hiromu Matsuoka	9	10	.474	4.12	47	24	17	4	1	7	188.0	182	93	86	23	78	4	138	6	1	3	809
Kenichi Kajima	7	7	.500	3.35	44	15	10	3	1	1	150.7	132	59	56	16	40	2	105	13	0	0	619
Sanshiro Nishioka	3	1	.750	4.00	15	2	2	0	0	0	27.0	29	14	12	3	13	1	17	1	0	0	121
Tetsuo Nishii	3	2	.600	3.72	30	3	12	0	0	2	58.0	47	24	24	5	24	2	38	1	0	2	239
Hiroshi Sato	0	0		3.00	10	0	5	0	0	0	15.0	17	7	5	2	2	0	10	0	0	0	60
Makoto Kurata	0	0		6.65	15	2	5	0	0	0	23.0	28	19	17	7	14	1	12	1	0	1	109
Noriaki Matsumura	0	0		6.75	2	0	0	0	0	0	4.0	4	3	3	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	18
Kunio Kobayashi	0	0		8.44	16	0	4	0	0	0	10.7	18	10	10	1	5	0	2	0	0	1	56
Eishoku Nagakawa	0	0		9.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5
Takahiro Watanabe	0	0		10.38	3	0	0	0	0	0	4.3	11	5	5	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	25
Shinichiro Ihara	0	2	.000	3.82	41	2	12	0	0	1	70.7	72	32	30	11	26	2	52	5	0	2	306
Keiichi Sakai	0	2	.000	6.63	6	5	1	0	0	0	19.0	27	17	14	6	6	0	8	1	0	0	89
Totals	62	58	.517	4.01	358	130	102	28	5	17	1143.7	1173	553	510	157	341	24	666	50	1	13	4853

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	122	503	441	95	158	30	5	20	70	13	4	46	14	.358	.423	.585	1.008	258	9	7	4	5	3
Katsuo Osugi	123	505	453	62	149	19	1	31	104	0	2	37	65	.329	.382	.581	.963	263	16	7	0	8	9
Yasunori Nagao	128	549	476	68	116	21	5	4	30	13	6	33	40	.244	.296	.334	.630	159	6	3	35	2	0
Charlie Manuel	114	419	358	70	113	8	0	42	97	3	0	49	60	.316	.403	.690	1.093	247	10	7	0	5	6
Roger Repoz	111	408	365	52	96	15	1	22	55	1	2	35	70	.263	.328	.490	.819	179	2	3	0	5	2
Kazuhide Funada	101	339	304	24	86	10	2	1	20	15	5	29	25	.283	.346	.339	.685	103	10	1	4	1	0
Akihiko Oya	85	308	282	28	71	14	1	8	29	1	1	17	30	.252	.293	.394	.686	111	5	1	4	4	7
Kunio Fukutomi	94	236	207	33	57	9	1	6	31	1	0	25	24	.275	.355	.415	.770	86	2	1	2	1	3
Shintaro Mizutani	114	274	236	22	48	8	5	0	20	8	4	16	41	.203	.263	.280	.542	66	1	3	19	0	1
Yukio Yaegashi	60	191	176	24	47	9	0	6	18	0	1	11	48	.267	.317	.420	.738	74	2	2	2	0	1
Susumu Watanabe	91	252	225	28	46	9	0	8	26	7	2	18	52	.204	.283	.351	.634	79	7	7	1	1	1
Toru Sugiura	83	142	124	24	40	10	0	6	14	5	1	13	18	.323	.393	.548	.941	68	0	2	2	1	0
Yoshinori Yamashita	82	168	148	20	32	7	1	7	24	2	1	15	28	.216	.299	.419	.718	62	4	3	1	1	0
Takao Ise	58	67	66	2	18	1	0	1	11	1	0	1	16	.273	.284	.333	.617	22	2	0	0	0	0
Yasujiro Suzuki	37	64	57	3	15	3	0	0	3	0	0	3	10	.263	.300	.316	.616	18	0	0	4	0	0
Kuniaki Nakamura	36	89	82	8	14	3	0	3	6	0	2	6	11	.171	.227	.317	.544	26	5	0	1	0	1
Hiromu Matsuoka	47	66	58	6	10	1	0	5	9	0	0	2	24	.172	.200	.448	.648	26	0	0	6	0	0
Takeshi Yasuda	51	73	64	6	10	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	14	.156	.194	.172	.366	11	3	0	6	0	0
Kenichi Kajima	45	50	41	4	7	1	0	0	2	0	0	4	18	.171	.244	.195	.440	8	0	0	5	0	0
Teruo Aida	40	59	47	1	7	2	0	0	3	0	0	5	18	.149	.231	.191	.422	9	0	0	7	0	0
Fujio Sumi	23	18	17	2	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	3	.176	.222	.235	.458	4	0	0	0	0	0
Shigeru Sugimura	32	19	18	1	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	8	.167	.211	.222	.433	4	0	0	0	0	0
Makoto Tsuchida	39	32	29	2	3	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	8	.103	.188	.138	.325	4	0	2	0	0	0
Shinichiro Ihara	41	10	9	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.222	.222	.222	.444	2	0	0	1	0	0
Keiichi Ikuta	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.500	.000	.500	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hajime Kugitani	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hiroshi Takahashi	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Makoto Kurata	15	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Masanori Matsui	32	7	7	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kenji Sera	12	10	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.100	.000	.100	0	0	1	0	0	0
Keiichi Sakai	6	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tetsuo Nishii	30	8	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.250	.000	.250	0	0	0	4	0	0
Sanshiro Nishioka	15	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Minoru Aoki	15	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1889	4881	4315	593	1151	184	22	170	575	71	34	373	660	.267	.330	.438	.768	1889	84	50	109	34	34

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Katsuo Osugi	1B	121					.000
Toru Sugiura	1B	21					.000
Takao Ise	1B	3					.000
Roger Repoz	1B	1					.000
Kazuhide Funada	1B	1					.000
Yasunori Nagao	2B	124					.000
Kuniaki Nakamura	2B	14					.000
Kazuhide Funada	2B	6					.000
Shintaro Mizutani	2B	3					.000
Susumu Watanabe	2B	1					.000
Shigeru Sugimura	2B	1					.000
Kazuhide Funada	3B	95					.000
Susumu Watanabe	3B	39					.000
Kuniaki Nakamura	3B	20					.000
Fujio Sumi	3B	15					.000
Makoto Tsuchida	3B	1					.000
Masanori Matsui	3B	1					.000
Akihiko Oya	C	84					.000
Yukio Yaegashi	C	58					.000
Kenji Sera	C	3					.000
Hiroshi Takahashi	C	2					.000
Makoto Tsuchida	C	1					.000
Tsutomu Wakamatsu	OF	116					.000
Charlie Manuel	OF	101					.000
Roger Repoz	OF	97					.000
Kunio Fukutomi	OF	56					.000
Yoshinori Yamashita	OF	44					.000
Masanori Matsui	OF	24					.000
Makoto Tsuchida	OF	22					.000
Toru Sugiura	OF	12					.000
Takao Ise	OF	8					.000
Minoru Aoki	OF	1					.000
Takeshi Yasuda	P	51					.000
Hiromu Matsuoka	P	47					.000
Kenichi Kajima	P	44					.000
Shinichiro Ihara	P	41					.000
Teruo Aida	P	40					.000
Yasujiro Suzuki	P	37					.000
Tetsuo Nishii	P	30					.000
Kunio Kobayashi	P	16					.000
Sanshiro Nishioka	P	15					.000
Makoto Kurata	P	15					.000
Hiroshi Sato	P	10					.000
Keiichi Sakai	P	6					.000
Takahiro Watanabe	P	3					.000
Noriaki Matsumura	P	2					.000
Eishoku Nagakawa	P	1					.000
Shintaro Mizutani	SS	110					.000
Susumu Watanabe	SS	56					.000
Shigeru Sugimura	SS	30					.000
Yasunori Nagao	SS	6					.000
Totals		1656	0	0	0	0	.000

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