1997 Fukuoka Daiei Hawks Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 63-71
Finished 4th in the JPPL
Manager: Sadaharu Oh (63-71)
Location: Fukuoka, Japan
Ballpark: Fukuoka Yahuoku! Dome

1997 Fukuoka Daiei Hawks Roster

The Fukuoka Daiei Hawks of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1997 season with a record of 63 wins and 71 losses, finishing fourth in the JPPL.

The Daiei Hawks plated 587 runs and allowed 610 runs, most in the league. Hiroki Kokubo walloped 36 home runs for Fukuoka, while Kenji Johjima and Koichiro Yoshinaga added 15 or more also. Hiroki Kokubo drove in 114 runs. Kenji Johjima led batters with significant playing time by connecting at a .308 clip. Kimiyasu Kudo topped the squad with 11 wins and a team-best 3.35 ERA, leading regular hurlers.

Players from the 1997 Fukuoka Daiei Hawks who spent time in the Majors during their careers included Tadahito Iguchi, Kenji Johjima, Rod Nichols, José Núñez, Greg Pirkl and David West.

Sadaharu Oh 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
Kimiyasu Kudo	11	6	.647	3.35	27	27	0	0	0	0	161.3	153	61	60	14	48	2	146	3	0	2	670
Masahiro Sakumoto	8	5	.615	2.26	49	0	9	0	0	3	59.7	49	17	15	0	30	6	46	2	1	2	247
David West	8	5	.615	6.38	19	19	0	1	1	0	91.7	105	67	65	9	62	1	63	4	0	7	435
Shintaro Yoshitake	7	7	.500	3.54	18	15	1	7	2	0	109.3	97	44	43	13	22	0	76	1	0	0	438
Kenichi Wakatabe	7	8	.467	4.81	35	19	2	3	0	0	118.0	150	66	63	12	34	0	63	6	0	2	534
Shuji Yoshida	4	3	.571	3.40	49	0	17	0	0	3	39.7	33	17	15	1	20	1	34	1	0	3	171
Kazuhiro Takeda	4	9	.308	3.85	26	26	0	3	2	0	163.7	177	85	70	17	39	2	102	3	0	3	699
Keisaburo Tanoue	4	9	.308	5.09	32	14	3	0	0	0	93.7	104	57	53	3	29	1	52	2	0	7	405
Katsunori Okamoto	3	6	.333	3.19	52	0	39	0	0	19	53.7	52	20	19	3	15	4	60	1	1	4	228
Keiji Kimura	2	6	.250	3.91	48	4	12	0	0	5	71.3	71	34	31	6	34	8	54	0	0	1	313
Masahiro Doi	1	0	1.000	2.25	2	2	0	0	0	0	8.0	5	2	2	2	4	0	4	0	0	0	32
Tomoyuki Uchiyama	1	0	1.000	4.71	17	0	1	0	0	0	21.0	24	11	11	2	12	0	15	1	0	1	94
Masao Fujii	1	0	1.000	5.32	15	0	5	0	0	0	23.7	29	15	14	3	2	0	19	1	0	1	101
José Núñez	1	2	.333	3.71	24	0	6	0	0	1	34.0	35	14	14	4	7	0	26	0	0	1	141
Toyohiko Yoshida	1	2	.333	6.14	27	3	0	0	0	0	44.0	53	30	30	6	20	0	27	2	0	6	202
Rod Nichols	0	0		3.00	3	0	2	0	0	0	3.0	3	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	11
Hidekazu Watanabe	0	0		3.86	4	3	0	0	0	0	14.0	20	7	6	2	4	0	8	0	0	1	67
Masashi Arikura	0	0		4.05	3	0	1	0	0	0	6.7	7	3	3	1	1	0	3	0	0	0	25
Motofumi Nishimura	0	0		4.26	9	0	1	0	0	0	6.3	6	3	3	0	3	0	2	2	0	1	28
Shinji Kurano	0	0		4.68	15	2	11	0	0	0	32.7	44	18	17	1	17	0	23	1	0	2	154
Yasuji Hamagiwa	0	0		4.91	4	1	0	0	0	0	11.0	13	8	6	0	6	0	8	0	0	0	52
Tomio Watanabe	0	0		11.57	6	0	2	0	0	0	2.3	6	3	3	0	5	0	1	0	0	3	17
Shinji Matsuda	0	0		13.50	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.7	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
Kazumi Saito	0	0		27.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.7	2	2	2	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	6
Masakazu Watanabe	0	1	.000	13.50	5	0	1	0	0	0	7.3	13	11	11	1	5	0	5	0	0	1	39
Mitsugu Saito	0	2	.000	3.86	32	0	8	0	0	4	28.0	25	13	12	2	12	2	23	0	0	0	122
Totals	63	71	.470	4.26	523	135	121	14	5	35	1205.3	1278	610	570	103	433	27	861	31	2	48	5235

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
Hiroki Kokubo	135	588	527	88	159	37	3	36	114	4	3	52	112	.302	.366	.588	.954	310	16	4	0	5	2
Kenji Johjima	120	470	432	49	133	24	2	15	68	6	2	22	62	.308	.343	.477	.820	206	15	5	4	7	1
Koichiro Yoshinaga	132	521	443	57	133	21	0	29	73	0	1	75	72	.300	.403	.544	.947	241	11	1	2	0	12
Noriyoshi Omichi	130	521	441	55	129	17	2	6	46	1	3	60	60	.293	.373	.381	.754	168	13	2	9	9	0
Arihito Muramatsu	131	551	477	59	115	15	4	0	29	42	23	58	56	.241	.327	.289	.616	138	5	3	12	1	2
Koji Akiyama	97	421	371	46	91	20	2	12	52	11	5	43	62	.245	.329	.407	.736	151	9	4	2	1	0
Hiroshi Yugamidani	101	327	296	41	89	10	2	5	28	2	1	18	52	.301	.346	.399	.744	118	4	4	6	3	0
Chihiro Hamana	116	422	370	45	89	12	1	5	31	18	5	30	61	.241	.295	.319	.614	118	5	1	15	6	0
Shikato Yanagita	110	320	275	31	66	9	2	1	30	6	2	25	30	.240	.305	.298	.603	82	4	2	15	3	1
Motoyasu Wakai	80	224	194	22	56	6	0	1	17	0	0	27	20	.289	.371	.335	.706	65	3	0	0	3	1
Tadahito Iguchi	76	252	217	31	44	6	3	8	23	3	3	24	67	.203	.304	.369	.673	80	4	8	2	1	0
Ryo Kawano	57	142	133	11	29	4	0	7	24	0	0	6	28	.218	.261	.406	.667	54	4	2	0	1	0
Hiroshi Shibahara	66	98	88	6	14	1	0	1	2	0	1	5	28	.159	.204	.205	.409	18	1	0	5	0	1
Toru Kawagoe	33	58	50	6	12	2	0	2	5	0	1	3	8	.240	.296	.400	.696	20	0	1	4	0	0
Greg Pirkl	16	49	47	3	10	2	0	2	5	0	0	1	10	.213	.245	.383	.628	18	5	1	0	0	0
Nobuhiko Matsunaka	20	48	43	4	9	1	0	0	6	0	1	2	13	.209	.255	.233	.488	10	2	1	1	1	0
Yoshihiro Suzuki	65	37	35	11	7	0	0	0	4	0	1	2	5	.200	.243	.200	.443	7	0	0	0	0	0
Fujio Tamura	22	31	25	3	6	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	5	.240	.321	.240	.561	6	1	0	3	0	0
Hiromi Matsunaga	15	34	24	6	3	1	0	1	3	1	1	8	7	.125	.344	.292	.635	7	0	0	2	0	0
Mitsuru Homma	18	6	5	7	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	.400	.500	.400	.900	2	0	0	0	0	0
Kazuyoshi Yoshimoto	3	6	6	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.333	.333	.333	.667	2	0	0	0	0	0
Hiroshi Fujimoto	28	39	31	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	7	.065	.216	.065	.281	2	1	0	2	0	0
Koji Bonishi	5	11	11	1	1	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	2	.091	.091	.364	.455	4	0	0	0	0	0
Takayuki Nishijima	9	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1585	5178	4543	587	1201	188	21	132	564	94	55	471	771	.264	.336	.402	.738	1827	103	39	84	41	20

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Shikato Yanagita	1B	52					.000
Motoyasu Wakai	1B	35					.000
Ryo Kawano	1B	31					.000
Hiroki Kokubo	1B	21					.000
Koichiro Yoshinaga	1B	20					.000
Hiroshi Fujimoto	1B	15					.000
Nobuhiko Matsunaka	1B	13					.000
Kenji Johjima	1B	7					.000
Noriyoshi Omichi	1B	2					.000
Hiroshi Yugamidani	1B	1					.000
Chihiro Hamana	1B	1					.000
Hiroki Kokubo	2B	106					.000
Shikato Yanagita	2B	28					.000
Chihiro Hamana	2B	4					.000
Hiroshi Yugamidani	2B	2					.000
Hiroshi Yugamidani	3B	72					.000
Chihiro Hamana	3B	43					.000
Shikato Yanagita	3B	37					.000
Hiroki Kokubo	3B	11					.000
Hiromi Matsunaga	3B	10					.000
Mitsuru Homma	3B	7					.000
Hiroshi Fujimoto	3B	7					.000
Kenji Johjima	C	117					.000
Toru Kawagoe	C	25					.000
Fujio Tamura	C	21					.000
Koji Bonishi	C	5					.000
Arihito Muramatsu	OF	129					.000
Noriyoshi Omichi	OF	124					.000
Koji Akiyama	OF	95					.000
Hiroshi Shibahara	OF	64					.000
Yoshihiro Suzuki	OF	55					.000
Motoyasu Wakai	OF	21					.000
Hiroshi Yugamidani	OF	19					.000
Takayuki Nishijima	OF	4					.000
Kazuyoshi Yoshimoto	OF	2					.000
Nobuhiko Matsunaka	OF	1					.000
Ryo Kawano	OF	1					.000
Katsunori Okamoto	P	52					.000
Shuji Yoshida	P	49					.000
Masahiro Sakumoto	P	49					.000
Keiji Kimura	P	48					.000
Kenichi Wakatabe	P	35					.000
Keisaburo Tanoue	P	32					.000
Mitsugu Saito	P	32					.000
Toyohiko Yoshida	P	27					.000
Kimiyasu Kudo	P	27					.000
Kazuhiro Takeda	P	26					.000
José Núñez	P	24					.000
David West	P	19					.000
Shintaro Yoshitake	P	18					.000
Tomoyuki Uchiyama	P	17					.000
Shinji Kurano	P	15					.000
Masao Fujii	P	15					.000
Motofumi Nishimura	P	9					.000
Tomio Watanabe	P	6					.000
Masakazu Watanabe	P	5					.000
Hidekazu Watanabe	P	4					.000
Yasuji Hamagiwa	P	4					.000
Rod Nichols	P	3					.000
Masashi Arikura	P	3					.000
Masahiro Doi	P	2					.000
Kazumi Saito	P	1					.000
Shinji Matsuda	P	1					.000
Chihiro Hamana	SS	71					.000
Hiroshi Yugamidani	SS	6					.000
Mitsuru Homma	SS	4					.000
Shikato Yanagita	SS	1					.000
Totals		1813	0	0	0	0	.000

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