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1938 Japanese Baseball League (Spring) Pitching Leaders

1937 Season

Classification: Foreign

Overall: 140 games, 8 teams, approx. 35 games in season

Attendance: n/a

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Rk	Name	Age	Tm	Lev	W	L	W-L%	ERA	RA9	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W
1	Victor Starffin	22	KYO	Fgn	14	3	.824	2.04	2.38	24	16	6	13	5	158.2	106	42	36	5	57	76	2	0	1	639	1.027	6.0	0.3	3.2	4.3	1.33
2	Tadashi Kameda?	25	EAG	Fgn	12	9	.571	2.06	2.69	29	19	9	17	5	187.2	105	56	43	3	143	137	1	0	5	788	1.321	5.0	0.1	6.9	6.6	0.96
3	Yukio Nishimura	18	OSA	Fgn	11	4	.733	1.53	2.85	19	16	2	11	3	129.1	111	41	22	2	66	65	1	1	3	558	1.369	7.7	0.1	4.6	4.5	0.98
4	Takao Misono	22	OSA	Fgn	10	1	.909	1.75	2.98	16	9	6	5	0	87.2	68	29	17	2	30	32	1	0	0	361	1.118	7.0	0.2	3.1	3.3	1.07
5	Saburo Asaoka	24	TOO	Fgn	8	9	.471	2.94	4.51	21	14	7	10	0	137.2	133	69	45	4	55	39	0	0	3	602	1.366	8.7	0.3	3.6	2.5	0.71
6	Masayoshi Nakayama	20	NGY	Fgn	8	7	.533	2.86	4.08	19	12	9	8	1	125.2	96	57	40	3	79	57	1	0	3	551	1.393	6.9	0.2	5.7	4.1	0.72
7	Yoshio Kikuya	22	LIO	Fgn	7	18	.280	4.20	6.29	26	21	4	14	1	167.1	158	117	78	4	120	80	5	0	3	783	1.661	8.5	0.2	6.5	4.3	0.67
8	Hachiro Maekawa	26	KYO	Fgn	6	3	.667	3.61	4.47	13	6	5	1	0	52.1	45	26	21	2	34	28	4	0	0	241	1.510	7.7	0.3	5.8	4.8	0.82
9	Mitsuhiko Ishida	22	HAU	Fgn	5	4	.556	3.16	3.65	12	8	3	6	0	74.0	53	30	26	4	37	29	1	0	1	304	1.216	6.4	0.5	4.5	3.5	0.78
10	Hirotaro Mori	23	HAU	Fgn	5	2	.714	1.59	2.38	8	6	2	1	0	45.1	29	12	8	0	25	7	1	0	3	193	1.191	5.8	0.0	5.0	1.4	0.28
11	Fumio Fujimura	21	OSA	Fgn	4	1	.800	3.05	3.92	6	2	3	0	0	20.2	29	9	7	0	4	11	0	0	0	91	1.597	12.6	0.0	1.7	4.8	2.75
12	Hiroshi Kaneko*	23	TOO	Fgn	4	6	.400	3.59	4.91	18	9	8	5	0	95.1	87	52	38	3	56	28	4	0	0	418	1.500	8.2	0.3	5.3	2.6	0.50
13	Shigeru Morii	23	NAG	Fgn	4	9	.308	3.48	4.99	18	12	6	7	0	101.0	104	56	39	2	36	30	0	0	0	441	1.386	9.3	0.2	3.2	2.7	0.83
14	Masao Furukawa?	23	EAG	Fgn	3	5	.375	4.10	4.52	11	10	1	1	1	63.2	61	32	29	0	40	15	0	1	1	283	1.586	8.6	0.0	5.7	2.1	0.38
15	Kuranosuke Furuya	27	NGY	Fgn	3	6	.333	4.54	6.01	12	11	0	5	0	73.1	85	49	37	1	51	17	2	0	3	358	1.855	10.4	0.1	6.3	2.1	0.33
16	Kozo Matsuo*	21	NAG	Fgn	3	8	.273	3.82	5.68	17	12	2	5	0	101.1	89	64	43	2	77	59	2	0	4	472	1.638	7.9	0.2	6.8	5.2	0.77
17	Saburo Miyatake	30	HAU	Fgn	3	1	.750	2.63	3.62	6	3	3	1	0	27.1	16	11	8	1	22	6	1	0	0	116	1.390	5.3	0.3	7.2	2.0	0.27
18	Miyoshi Nakagawa*	18	EAG	Fgn	3	1	.750	1.76	3.33	7	6	1	3	2	46.0	35	17	9	0	19	25	0	1	0	190	1.174	6.8	0.0	3.7	4.9	1.32
19	Michio Nishizawa	16	NAG	Fgn	3	4	.429	2.05	2.68	12	5	7	3	0	57.0	38	17	13	1	35	11	1	0	1	244	1.281	6.0	0.2	5.5	1.7	0.31
20	Kashiwa Odano	21	HAU	Fgn	3	2	.600	1.70	1.98	10	6	2	4	2	63.2	43	14	12	1	35	14	0	0	0	262	1.225	6.1	0.1	4.9	2.0	0.40
21	Katsusaburo Asano*	22	HAU	Fgn	2	2	.500	2.02	2.94	9	5	4	3	1	49.0	45	16	11	2	12	16	1	0	1	203	1.163	8.3	0.4	2.2	2.9	1.33
22	Masaru Kageura	22	OSA	Fgn	2	0	1.000	2.45	2.45	6	1	5	0	0	29.1	26	8	8	0	12	16	1	0	0	125	1.295	8.0	0.0	3.7	4.9	1.33
23	Tetsuharu Kawakami*	18	KYO	Fgn	2	2	.500	2.56	3.17	11	8	2	2	1	59.2	55	21	17	2	26	23	1	0	1	254	1.358	8.3	0.3	3.9	3.5	0.88
24	Hisashi Kondo*	19	LIO	Fgn	2	5	.286	3.08	4.27	16	10	6	7	1	105.1	107	50	36	4	64	44	1	0	1	479	1.623	9.1	0.3	5.5	3.8	0.69
25	Tomosaburo Narita*	21	KYO	Fgn	2	3	.400	3.72	5.82	8	5	1	3	0	38.2	29	25	16	2	16	18	2	0	0	162	1.164	6.8	0.5	3.7	4.2	1.13
26	Michio Shigematsu	21	HAU	Fgn	2	1	.667	0.92	1.23	4	4	0	3	1	29.1	16	4	3	0	6	9	0	0	1	112	0.750	4.9	0.0	1.8	2.8	1.50
27	Tsuneo Tsuri	20	OSA	Fgn	2	0	1.000	3.73	4.60	7	6	0	0	0	31.1	22	16	13	2	28	11	3	0	0	140	1.596	6.3	0.6	8.0	3.2	0.39
28	Chujiro Endo	20	TOO	Fgn	1	3	.250	4.37	5.91	8	8	0	1	0	35.0	38	23	17	0	29	4	2	0	0	169	1.914	9.8	0.0	7.5	1.0	0.14
29	Sakae Shigesato	22	NAG	Fgn	1	3	.250	5.17	6.89	9	5	2	1	0	31.1	34	24	18	0	27	9	2	0	2	155	1.947	9.8	0.0	7.8	2.6	0.33
30	Ineo Shioda	27	NGY	Fgn	1	0	1.000	4.30	4.70	5	0	4	0	0	23.0	18	12	11	1	20	12	2	0	1	106	1.652	7.0	0.4	7.8	4.7	0.60
31	Tsuruo Suzuki	23	NGY	Fgn	1	6	.143	5.59	8.47	13	8	2	2	0	56.1	69	53	35	5	36	23	1	0	2	281	1.864	11.0	0.8	5.8	3.7	0.64
32	Satoshi Takahashi	19	HAU	Fgn	1	1	.500	2.22	3.70	5	3	2	1	1	24.1	17	10	6	1	9	15	0	0	0	99	1.068	6.3	0.4	3.3	5.5	1.67
33	Shoichi Aoki	20	OSA	Fgn	0	0		2.63	3.95	4	1	3	0	0	13.2	13	6	4	0	4	2	0	0	1	54	1.244	8.6	0.0	2.6	1.3	0.50
34	Kenichi Aoshiba	25	KYO	Fgn	0	0		0.00	0.00	2	0	2	0	0	3.2	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	13	0.818	4.9	0.0	2.5	0.0	0.00
35	Jiro Ito	28	TOO	Fgn	0	2	.000	5.11	6.32	7	3	4	0	0	37.0	36	26	21	1	18	7	0	0	1	164	1.459	8.8	0.2	4.4	1.7	0.39
36	Hiroki Kinoshita	31	NAG	Fgn	0	0		3.18	6.35	3	1	2	0	0	11.1	13	8	4	0	4	5	0	0	2	53	1.500	10.3	0.0	3.2	4.0	1.25
37	Shigeru Mizuhara	29	KYO	Fgn	0	0		18.00	18.00	1	0	0	0	0	2.0	3	4	4	0	3	1	0	0	0	11	3.000	13.5	0.0	13.5	4.5	0.33
38	Junichi Mochizuki*	19	EAG	Fgn	0	0		2.61	3.48	3	0	3	0	0	10.1	8	4	3	0	2	5	0	0	0	43	0.968	7.0	0.0	1.7	4.4	2.50
39	Hideo Murasawa*	20	TOO	Fgn	0	1	.000	5.40	21.60	1	1	0	0	0	1.2	5	4	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	12	4.200	27.0	0.0	10.8	0.0	0.00
40	Kazuaki Otomo	21	LIO	Fgn	0	3	.000	3.30	5.40	7	4	3	1	0	30.0	30	18	11	0	24	9	1	0	1	146	1.800	9.0	0.0	7.2	2.7	0.38
41	Sukesaburo Tsunekawa*	19	NGY	Fgn	0	3	.000	7.20	8.70	9	4	4	1	0	30.0	31	29	24	1	26	9	0	0	1	144	1.900	9.3	0.3	7.8	2.7	0.35