Players with 20+ HRs

Unfortunatly, that isn't one of those stats published in the Record Book I have.  But it does have team home runs for every year.

The Giants and Fighters hit the most home runs last year with 203 and 177 respectively.  With that as a guide, here are the teams with 160 or more home runs since 1990:

• 1990: Dragons (162), Lions (162), BlueWave (186), Buffaloes (181)


• 1991: Dragons (178)


• 1992: Swallows (173)


• 1993: -


• 1994: Buffaloes (169)


• 1995: Carp (166)


• 1996: Dragons (179), Carp (162)


• 1997: Carp (164)


• 1998: -


• 1999: Giants (182)


• 2000: Giants (203), Fighters (177)

Teams with at least 200 home runs in a season are:

• 1978: Carp (205)


• 1980: Buffaloes (239)


• 1980: Lions (219)


• 1980: Braves (204)


• 1985: Tigers (219)


• 1985: Buffaloes (212)


• 2000: Giants (203)

Notice the big gap from 1985 to 2000?  The current "Major size" stadiums started with Tokyo Dome in 1989.  It took a while, but the batters have adjusted, and more importantly, gained confidence in the larger stadiums.  I think that the Giants and Fighters, who share that same Tokyo Dome, best exemplify this by leading their respective leagues in home runs last year.

I went through the website Pro Yakyu Kiroku Hakubutsukan and while its
team stats aren't complete, I think they give a
pretty good indication of how to answer the above query.

Team with the Most Players Hitting Double Figures in Homers:

1980 Kintetsu Buffaloes (10). This is why they
were able to set the team homer record at 239.
Leading the way for the club that year were Chuck
Manuel (48), Kozo Haneda (30), Shigeru Kurihashi
(28) and Mitsuyasu Hirano (23). Incidentally, that
was Hirano's sole 20+ homer campaign, as his next
highest amounts were in 1979 (18) and 1982 (15).

Team with Most 20 Home Run Hitters in a Season:

That would be the 1976 Hiroshima Carp, where
six of their players surpassed 20 that season.
The performers in question are : Sachio Kinugasa
(26), Koji Yamamoto (23), Gail Hopkins (20), Toshiyuki Mimura (27), Jitsuo Mizutani (26) and
Richie Scheinblum (20).

Team with Most 30 Home Run Hitters for a Season:

The Carp then went out in 1978 and became the
first team to have four batters reach 30 circuit
clouts in the same season. Those responsible for
that state of affairs were: Jim Lyttle (33), Yamamoto (44), Adrian Garret (40), Kinugasa (30).

Btw, I haven't checked, but that may also be the first time that TWO players on the same club
had 40 or more homers in the same season, but again, I'm not absolutely positive about that.
Furthermore, both Norihiro Nakamura and Tuffy Rhodes are poised to end up in the 40's for
Kintetsu this season, so this mark may be tied
soon.

The 1984 Chunichi Dragons HAD four players nail 30 over the fence in the same season, too. The names were: Ken Macha (31), Masaru Uno (37), Kenichi Tanizawa (34) and Yasunori Ohshima (30).

Aside from the aforementioned Carp and Dragons, the 1985 Hanshin Tigers, when they won their first ever Japan Series also had four of their best whack 30. That was the season that Randy Bass came within a whisker of breaking Sadaharu's record of 55 homers by clouting 54. Also exceeding 30 were Akinobu Mayumi(34), Masayuki Kakefu (40) and Akinobu Okada (35).

But how about the most consistent 30 homer plus
hitting team? That would be the Seibu Lions during
their glory years, who had three with 30 or more
four times in a five year stretch between 1988-1992, with the combination of Kazuhiro Kiyohara, Koji Akiyama and Orestes Destrade doing
it together in three of those four seasons.

The first club to have THREE on the same team hit more than 30 in a season were the shortlived Shochiku Robins in 1950, when Makoto Otsuru set the then all time single season homer record with 51 (that was first transgressed by Katsuya Nomura's 52 in 1963 and then Oh's 55 in 1964). Backing him up were Yoshiyuki Iwamoto (39) and Torao Oooka (34). Btw, that is NOT a mispelling.

Thanks for posing the question. While researching it I learned a lot, even if it was
rather time consuming. Aladdinsane