1982 Yakult Swallows Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 45-75
Finished 6th in the JPCL
Manager: Shiro Takegami (45-75)
Ballpark: Meiji Jingu Stadium

1982 Yakult Swallows Roster

The Yakult Swallows of the Japan Central League ended the 1982 season with a record of 45 wins and 75 losses, finishing sixth in the JPCL.

The Swallows plated 437 runs, worst in the circuit, and gave up 519 runs. Katsuo Osugi paced Yakult with 17 home runs Toru Sugiura drove in 65 runs. Tsutomu Wakamatsu topped all regular batters by hitting .310. Takao Obana led the squad with 12 wins and a team-best 2.6 ERA, leading hurlers with significant time on the mound.

Larry Harlow and Dan Briggs both played in Major League Baseball during their careers.

Shiro Takegami 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
Takao Obana	12	16	.429	2.60	42	32	9	14	2	4	246.0	226	84	71	21	45	4	154	6	0	2	996
Hiromu Matsuoka	9	13	.409	3.32	34	21	11	5	1	3	168.0	153	74	62	18	54	7	101	4	1	1	706
Yasujiro Suzuki	7	4	.636	4.01	31	11	14	0	0	1	103.3	116	54	46	14	34	3	36	4	2	1	448
Kenichi Kajima	6	10	.375	4.23	43	13	10	3	0	2	127.7	115	63	60	19	41	8	91	13	0	3	538
Kenji Miyamoto	4	6	.400	3.80	36	16	14	1	0	1	116.0	117	57	49	14	29	3	36	5	0	1	487
Masaharu Tachino	3	10	.231	3.59	32	16	8	0	0	2	117.7	106	51	47	18	33	1	55	5	0	0	483
Masayuki Suzuki	2	8	.200	3.47	25	15	4	4	1	0	98.7	85	40	38	11	36	0	56	1	0	2	410
Koji Torihara	1	2	.333	3.12	21	1	8	0	0	3	40.3	38	15	14	6	10	1	12	1	0	0	160
Shinichiro Ihara	1	3	.250	4.15	19	3	7	0	0	0	30.3	29	16	14	9	20	4	21	1	0	0	139
Daizo Kataoka	0	0			1	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3
Yukio Takemoto	0	0		3.14	3	1	1	0	0	0	14.3	9	5	5	1	5	0	10	0	0	1	54
Yukio Kurosaka	0	0		4.66	15	1	4	0	0	0	19.3	21	10	10	5	10	1	15	1	0	0	88
Keiichi Sakai	0	0		6.75	8	0	3	0	0	0	9.3	10	7	7	3	4	0	4	0	0	0	40
Akira Okawa	0	0		7.11	14	0	3	0	0	0	25.3	24	20	20	2	18	1	14	0	0	2	111
Hiroshi Kamizuru	0	0		11.57	3	0	1	0	0	0	2.3	3	3	3	1	2	0	3	0	0	0	12
Tetsuo Nishii	0	3	.000	5.67	22	0	6	0	0	1	27.0	39	19	17	1	11	1	21	1	0	1	131
Totals	45	75	.375	3.65	349	130	103	27	4	17	1145.7	1093	519	464	143	353	34	629	42	3	14	4806

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
Toru Sugiura	130	530	474	64	136	24	8	14	65	22	10	50	52	.287	.357	.460	.817	218	4	3	1	2	7
Fujio Sumi	126	535	473	50	127	19	2	13	47	2	4	39	42	.268	.327	.400	.726	189	10	3	18	2	1
Tsutomu Wakamatsu	112	428	390	50	121	12	2	11	38	6	6	25	27	.310	.351	.436	.787	170	0	3	4	6	4
Shintaro Mizutani	120	415	368	38	94	11	3	1	21	22	7	30	46	.255	.313	.310	.622	114	5	2	12	3	4
Katsuo Osugi	88	324	298	30	84	11	0	17	59	1	0	22	39	.282	.327	.490	.817	146	11	0	0	4	3
Susumu Watanabe	112	375	331	40	70	15	1	11	35	0	4	34	54	.211	.293	.363	.655	120	4	4	6	0	3
Akihiko Oya	81	271	247	16	67	9	0	1	18	3	1	18	25	.271	.320	.320	.640	79	5	1	2	3	7
Dan Briggs	53	218	200	22	48	6	0	6	24	1	1	8	41	.240	.281	.360	.641	72	3	5	1	4	1
Junji Ogawa	85	201	197	12	42	4	0	3	16	2	1	2	39	.213	.220	.279	.499	55	4	0	1	1	0
Masaaki Iwashita	92	192	161	18	40	2	1	3	17	2	1	18	24	.248	.360	.329	.689	53	2	10	3	0	3
Yukio Yaegashi	73	212	186	11	34	6	0	5	14	0	0	22	47	.183	.275	.296	.571	55	0	2	1	1	6
Minoru Aoki	86	140	129	21	31	5	1	1	7	7	2	9	19	.240	.288	.318	.606	41	2	0	1	1	1
Keiichi Shibui	64	138	128	9	26	2	1	1	13	3	2	3	28	.203	.220	.258	.478	33	1	0	6	1	0
Shigeru Sugimura	87	124	109	8	25	3	1	1	5	1	2	4	12	.229	.263	.303	.566	33	2	1	10	0	1
Larry Harlow	42	120	110	11	18	2	1	4	12	2	1	10	34	.164	.233	.309	.542	34	2	0	0	0	1
Dave Denton	42	89	82	8	17	0	0	1	5	3	0	3	17	.207	.261	.244	.505	20	1	3	1	0	0
Kenichi Kajima	43	41	33	4	9	0	1	0	4	0	0	0	9	.273	.273	.333	.606	11	0	0	8	0	0
Takao Obana	42	86	78	3	8	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	29	.103	.125	.103	.228	8	1	0	6	0	0
Masayuki Sasaki	21	27	25	0	5	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	.200	.259	.280	.539	7	0	1	0	0	0
Yasujiro Suzuki	31	29	26	2	5	0	0	1	5	0	0	2	8	.192	.250	.308	.558	8	0	0	1	0	0
Takayoshi Kiminami	28	28	26	0	5	0	0	0	4	0	0	2	7	.192	.250	.192	.442	5	0	0	0	0	0
Hiromu Matsuoka	34	56	49	2	5	1	0	0	1	0	0	3	14	.102	.151	.122	.273	6	0	0	3	1	0
Hajime Kugitani	20	20	17	1	4	1	0	0	1	2	2	2	5	.235	.300	.294	.594	5	1	0	0	1	0
Shinya Ashizawa	31	41	36	7	4	0	0	1	4	0	0	5	9	.111	.220	.194	.414	7	2	0	0	0	0
Kenji Miyamoto	36	32	30	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	12	.067	.097	.133	.230	4	1	0	1	0	0
Tetsuo Nishii	23	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Yukio Takemoto	3	5	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.200	.200	.200	.400	1	0	0	0	0	0
Takahiro Yanagihara	17	13	9	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	4	.111	.385	.111	.496	1	1	1	0	0	0
Masaharu Tachino	32	36	33	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	16	.030	.059	.030	.089	1	2	0	2	0	0
Masayuki Suzuki	25	25	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	13	.000	.048	.000	.048	0	1	0	4	0	0
Shinji Ramoto	34	5	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	8	2	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Koji Torihara	21	8	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Yukio Kurosaka	15	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shinichiro Ihara	20	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Akira Okawa	14	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Totals	1883	4774	4291	437	1031	135	23	95	418	87	46	320	687	.240	.297	.349	.646	1497	65	39	94	30	42

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Katsuo Osugi	1B	79					.000
Toru Sugiura	1B	76					.000
Susumu Watanabe	1B	20					.000
Akihiko Oya	1B	4					.000
Takao Obana	1B	1					.000
Susumu Watanabe	2B	94					.000
Shigeru Sugimura	2B	50					.000
Dave Denton	2B	22					.000
Keiichi Shibui	2B	13					.000
Shintaro Mizutani	2B	6					.000
Fujio Sumi	3B	125					.000
Shigeru Sugimura	3B	10					.000
Shintaro Mizutani	3B	4					.000
Shinji Ramoto	3B	1					.000
Akihiko Oya	C	79					.000
Yukio Yaegashi	C	61					.000
Shinya Ashizawa	C	10					.000
Takayoshi Kiminami	C	3					.000
Tsutomu Wakamatsu	OF	102					.000
Toru Sugiura	OF	84					.000
Junji Ogawa	OF	80					.000
Minoru Aoki	OF	71					.000
Dan Briggs	OF	53					.000
Masaaki Iwashita	OF	42					.000
Larry Harlow	OF	35					.000
Hajime Kugitani	OF	15					.000
Masayuki Sasaki	OF	10					.000
Takahiro Yanagihara	OF	8					.000
Susumu Watanabe	OF	3					.000
Shinji Ramoto	OF	1					.000
Kenichi Kajima	P	43					.000
Takao Obana	P	42					.000
Kenji Miyamoto	P	36					.000
Hiromu Matsuoka	P	34					.000
Masaharu Tachino	P	32					.000
Yasujiro Suzuki	P	31					.000
Masayuki Suzuki	P	25					.000
Tetsuo Nishii	P	22					.000
Koji Torihara	P	21					.000
Shinichiro Ihara	P	19					.000
Yukio Kurosaka	P	15					.000
Akira Okawa	P	14					.000
Keiichi Sakai	P	8					.000
Yukio Takemoto	P	3					.000
Hiroshi Kamizuru	P	3					.000
Daizo Kataoka	P	1					.000
Shintaro Mizutani	SS	109					.000
Keiichi Shibui	SS	44					.000
Shigeru Sugimura	SS	16					.000
Totals		1680	0	0	0	0	.000

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