Tsuneo Horiuchi

Tsuneo Horiuchi 堀内 恒夫
Pitcher
Born: January 16, 1948 (1948-01-16) Kōfu, Yamanashi
Batted: Right	Threw: Right
Professional debut
NPB: April 14, 1966 for the Yomiuri Giants
Last professional appearance
October 22, 1983 for the Yomiuri Giants
NPB statistics
Win–Loss	203–139
Earned run average	3.27
Strikeouts	1,865
Teams
As player Yomiuri Giants (1966–1983) As manager Yomiuri Giants (2004–2005)
Career highlights and awards
1966 Central League Rookie of the Year 2x Eiji Sawamura Award (1966, 1972) 1972 Central League MVP
Member of the Japanese
Baseball Hall of Fame
Inducted	2008

Tsuneo Horiuchi (堀内 恒夫, Horiuchi Tsuneo, born January 16, 1948 in Kōfu, Yamanashi) is a former professional baseball pitcher in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. In 2008 he was voted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. He stood as a candidate of the House of Councillors election, 2010 for the LDP but lost. Receiving 101,840 preference votes nationwide, he ranked 13th on the LDP list – the party received only twelve proportional seats – and is thus the top replacement candidate for a possible kuriage-tōsen, i.e. the first candidate to be elected without vote if an LDP proportional seat in the 2010 class of Councillors falls vacant.

Statistics

Year	No.	G	CG	SO	NoBB	W	L	S	W%	BF	IP	Hits	HR	BB	HBP	Ks	WP	Balks	R	ER	ERA
1966	21	33	14	7	1	16	2		.889	714	181.0	125	5	69	4	117	5	0	34	28	1.39
1967	18	23	13	2	0	12	2		.857	609	149.0	126	7	59	1	82	6	0	41	36	2.17
1968		40	12	3	0	17	10		.630	845	206.2	153	31	105	4	142	4	0	81	76	3.30
1969		41	12	4	0	14	13		.519	1004	236.2	211	21	107	6	160	6	1	94	82	3.11
1970		42	18	1	0	18	10		.643	1130	282.2	202	22	103	7	228	2	0	82	65	2.07
1971		40	14	3	0	14	8		.636	924	226.0	183	18	82	6	155	7	0	83	78	3.11
1972		48	26	4	1	26	9		.743	1282	312.0	292	34	95	3	203	3	0	110	101	2.91
1973		39	15	2	1	12	17		.414	953	221.0	238	28	70	6	113	1	1	117	111	4.52
1974		46	21	3	1	19	11	1	.633	1106	276.2	217	31	80	7	127	2	0	101	82	2.66
1975		38	8	2	1	10	18	0	.357	893	213.2	212	28	75	6	118	4	1	100	90	3.79
1976]		34	11	2	0	14	6	0	.700	763	177.1	173	23	71	4	82	2	0	84	78	3.97
1977		34	4	1	1	10	9	3	.526	657	151.1	163	20	53	5	86	3	0	81	77	4.59
1978		35	7	3	1	12	9	0	.571	829	201.0	190	22	59	3	113	1	0	86	79	3.54
1979		24	1	0	0	4	7	0	.364	400	86.1	111	16	35	2	59	1	0	68	64	6.70
1980		19	2	0	0	3	5	1	.375	319	75.0	78	12	22	1	58	0	0	43	36	4.32
1981		9	0	0	0	1	3	0	.250	92	22.0	27	3	1	0	11	1	0	16	11	4.50
1982		4	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	29	7.0	8	0	0	0	2	0	0	5	3	3.86
1983		11	0	0	0	1	0	1	1.000	79	19.2	16	2	9	1	9	0	0	9	9	4.12
Career		566	178	37	7	203	139	6	.594	12628	3045	2725	323	1095	66	1865	48	3	1235	1106	3.27

External links

• Nippon Professional Baseball career statistics from Japanesebaseball.com

Awards
Preceded by Shigeyuki Takahashi	Central League Rookie of the Year 1966	Succeeded by Shiro Takegami
Preceded by Shigeo Nagashima	Central League MVP 1972	Succeeded by Sadaharu Oh
Sporting positions
Preceded by Tatsunori Hara	Yomiuri Giants manager 2004–2005	Succeeded by Tatsunori Hara