1998 Fukuoka Daiei Hawks Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 67-67
Finished 3rd in the JPPL
Manager: Sadaharu Oh (67-67)
Location: Fukuoka, Japan
Ballpark: Fukuoka Yahuoku! Dome

1998 Fukuoka Daiei Hawks Roster

The Fukuoka Daiei Hawks of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1998 season with a record of 67 wins and 67 losses, finishing third in the JPPL.

The Daiei Hawks plated 546 runs, worst in the league, and yielded 596 runs. Tadahito Iguchi paced Fukuoka with 21 home runs, while Kenji Johjima and Luis Lopez walloped 15 or more as well. Luis Lopez drove in 68 runs. Hiroshi Shibahara topped all qualifying hitters on the roster by connecting at a .314 clip. Kazuhiro Takeda led the squad with 13 wins, and Tatsuji Nishimura earned a 3.37 ERA, tops among pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.

Players from the 1998 Fukuoka Daiei Hawks who spent time in the Majors during their careers included Brian Williams, Tadahito Iguchi, Luis Lopez, Kenji Johjima and Ryan Thompson.

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
Kazuhiro Takeda	13	10	.565	3.62	28	28	0	4	0	0	176.3	173	82	71	16	68	3	103	2	2	3	751
Tatsuji Nishimura	10	10	.500	3.36	25	24	1	3	0	0	152.7	163	72	57	18	60	3	69	4	3	10	670
Kimiyasu Kudo	7	4	.636	3.07	15	14	0	1	0	0	93.7	90	35	32	8	28	1	65	2	1	0	386
Masahiro Sakumoto	6	6	.500	4.13	33	12	6	0	0	1	89.3	102	50	41	11	35	5	54	1	5	2	397
Shintaro Yoshitake	5	4	.556	4.58	15	11	2	2	1	0	74.7	89	42	38	7	23	1	24	4	1	2	332
Brian Williams	5	6	.455	5.60	20	12	4	1	0	1	70.7	57	47	44	6	47	0	64	5	0	4	315
Masao Fujii	4	0	1.000	3.05	48	0	12	0	0	0	65.0	51	25	22	6	22	3	36	1	0	1	260
Hidekazu Watanabe	4	8	.333	5.18	22	15	1	2	0	0	90.3	94	57	52	9	35	1	48	4	1	5	398
Shuji Yoshida	3	4	.429	2.10	63	0	19	0	0	10	55.7	45	14	13	4	19	2	50	1	0	2	225
Shintaro Yamasaki	2	3	.400	8.84	5	5	0	0	0	0	18.3	31	20	18	1	10	0	8	1	0	0	96
Takayuki Shinohara	2	4	.333	4.53	51	0	10	0	0	3	55.7	51	28	28	2	31	2	47	1	0	2	240
Keiji Kimura	2	4	.333	5.87	10	9	0	0	0	0	38.3	51	28	25	7	20	0	25	1	0	1	183
Masahiro Doi	1	0	1.000	2.35	3	3	0	1	0	0	15.3	12	4	4	1	12	0	13	0	1	1	67
Shinji Kurano	1	0	1.000	4.21	36	0	8	0	0	0	51.3	43	26	24	4	35	1	21	2	1	3	223
Mitsugu Saito	1	0	1.000	5.52	8	0	0	0	0	0	14.7	19	9	9	1	5	2	5	0	0	1	65
Katsunori Okamoto	1	2	.333	2.54	42	0	35	0	0	21	39.0	34	11	11	4	13	1	36	0	0	1	162
Junji Hoshino	0	0		0.00	2	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4
Hiroshi Nagatomi	0	0		1.29	33	0	9	0	0	3	21.0	14	4	3	0	11	1	13	0	0	2	84
Yasuji Hamagiwa	0	0		4.50	14	0	0	0	0	0	20.0	18	11	10	4	12	0	12	0	1	2	86
Kazumi Saito	0	0		7.36	1	0	1	0	0	0	3.7	6	3	3	0	3	0	1	1	0	0	19
Kenichi Wakatabe	0	0		7.50	7	0	2	0	0	0	6.0	8	5	5	1	3	0	3	1	0	0	29
Masakazu Watanabe	0	0		9.00	3	0	2	0	0	0	3.0	3	3	3	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	13
Shigeru Kimura	0	0		12.00	5	0	4	0	0	0	6.0	10	8	8	0	6	0	4	0	1	0	32
Keisaburo Tanoue	0	1	.000	4.12	8	2	1	0	0	0	19.7	24	9	9	2	6	1	10	0	0	1	88
Tomohiro Nagai	0	1	.000	4.76	7	0	3	0	0	0	5.7	4	3	3	1	5	0	7	1	0	0	26
Totals	67	67	.500	4.04	504	135	121	14	1	39	1187.0	1192	596	533	113	511	27	719	32	17	43	5151

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
Luis Lopez	134	527	480	58	141	35	0	17	68	1	3	34	34	.294	.346	.473	.819	227	14	7	1	5	2
Hiroshi Shibahara	111	454	385	54	121	14	3	2	35	18	7	47	88	.314	.389	.382	.770	147	3	3	14	5	1
Koji Akiyama	115	473	423	43	110	32	4	10	49	7	7	42	76	.260	.331	.426	.756	180	11	4	1	3	2
Kenji Johjima	122	440	395	53	99	19	0	16	58	5	2	27	67	.251	.309	.420	.729	166	18	8	6	4	4
Chihiro Hamana	125	409	342	54	93	11	4	4	25	7	7	47	52	.272	.363	.363	.726	124	6	2	18	0	0
Tadahito Iguchi	135	476	421	58	93	18	4	21	66	12	6	28	121	.221	.280	.432	.712	182	6	8	15	4	1
Koichiro Yoshinaga	112	437	365	38	91	18	0	13	48	0	0	66	78	.249	.362	.405	.768	148	4	1	1	4	6
Shikato Yanagita	124	390	334	27	84	11	0	0	35	9	3	25	31	.251	.307	.284	.591	95	8	3	25	3	0
Noriyoshi Omichi	90	331	281	29	83	16	1	4	38	4	0	39	38	.295	.383	.402	.786	113	5	3	5	3	0
Arihito Muramatsu	120	268	232	41	58	7	2	1	16	11	6	23	33	.250	.322	.310	.632	72	3	2	10	1	1
Takashi Uchinokura	64	149	130	9	30	2	0	2	9	0	0	16	36	.231	.315	.292	.607	38	1	0	3	0	0
Ryan Thompson	33	116	107	10	29	7	0	2	16	1	1	7	26	.271	.319	.393	.711	42	5	1	0	1	0
Hiroshi Yugamidani	53	110	99	11	28	4	1	1	6	0	4	4	15	.283	.311	.374	.684	37	2	0	7	0	0
Yoshihiro Suzuki	34	70	63	8	19	1	0	1	5	1	1	3	12	.302	.328	.365	.693	23	0	0	3	1	1
Nobuhiko Matsunaka	34	83	71	9	19	6	0	3	10	2	0	10	12	.268	.361	.479	.840	34	0	1	0	1	1
Shoya Shinzato	68	102	82	12	18	2	1	0	6	5	0	9	23	.220	.309	.268	.577	22	2	2	8	1	0
Hiroki Kokubo	17	75	71	7	16	3	1	2	11	0	0	3	19	.225	.267	.380	.647	27	1	1	0	0	1
Ryo Kawano	41	61	51	7	13	2	1	1	4	0	0	8	11	.255	.361	.392	.753	20	3	1	0	1	0
Motoyasu Wakai	40	41	32	4	8	1	0	0	1	1	0	9	3	.250	.415	.281	.696	9	2	0	0	0	0
Mitsuru Homma	17	11	10	5	5	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	5	0	0	1	0	0
Kazuyoshi Yoshimoto	22	22	19	4	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	.211	.286	.211	.496	4	1	2	1	0	0
Takayuki Nishijima	11	18	15	2	3	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	4	.200	.333	.200	.533	3	1	1	0	0	0
Koji Bonishi	18	14	14	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.143	.143	.143	.286	2	0	0	0	0	0
Toru Kawagoe	6	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yuji Yamaguchi	8	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1654	5080	4425	546	1167	209	22	100	507	89	47	449	786	.264	.336	.389	.725	1720	96	50	119	37	20

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Luis Lopez	1B	114					.000
Shikato Yanagita	1B	37					.000
Takashi Uchinokura	1B	12					.000
Kenji Johjima	1B	11					.000
Noriyoshi Omichi	1B	10					.000
Koichiro Yoshinaga	1B	9					.000
Ryo Kawano	1B	8					.000
Hiroki Kokubo	1B	6					.000
Motoyasu Wakai	1B	4					.000
Nobuhiko Matsunaka	1B	2					.000
Mitsuru Homma	1B	2					.000
Koji Bonishi	1B	1					.000
Chihiro Hamana	2B	113					.000
Shikato Yanagita	2B	57					.000
Shoya Shinzato	2B	7					.000
Hiroshi Yugamidani	2B	5					.000
Mitsuru Homma	2B	2					.000
Shikato Yanagita	3B	67					.000
Shoya Shinzato	3B	56					.000
Hiroshi Yugamidani	3B	44					.000
Luis Lopez	3B	19					.000
Hiroki Kokubo	3B	15					.000
Takashi Uchinokura	3B	7					.000
Mitsuru Homma	3B	5					.000
Chihiro Hamana	3B	1					.000
Kenji Johjima	C	106					.000
Takashi Uchinokura	C	46					.000
Koji Bonishi	C	9					.000
Toru Kawagoe	C	4					.000
Koichiro Yoshinaga	C	1					.000
Arihito Muramatsu	OF	115					.000
Koji Akiyama	OF	114					.000
Hiroshi Shibahara	OF	111					.000
Noriyoshi Omichi	OF	73					.000
Ryan Thompson	OF	29					.000
Yoshihiro Suzuki	OF	28					.000
Kazuyoshi Yoshimoto	OF	15					.000
Nobuhiko Matsunaka	OF	11					.000
Takayuki Nishijima	OF	8					.000
Yuji Yamaguchi	OF	7					.000
Mitsuru Homma	OF	4					.000
Ryo Kawano	OF	1					.000
Shuji Yoshida	P	63					.000
Takayuki Shinohara	P	51					.000
Masao Fujii	P	48					.000
Katsunori Okamoto	P	42					.000
Shinji Kurano	P	36					.000
Masahiro Sakumoto	P	33					.000
Hiroshi Nagatomi	P	33					.000
Kazuhiro Takeda	P	28					.000
Tatsuji Nishimura	P	25					.000
Hidekazu Watanabe	P	22					.000
Brian Williams	P	20					.000
Shintaro Yoshitake	P	15					.000
Kimiyasu Kudo	P	15					.000
Yasuji Hamagiwa	P	14					.000
Keiji Kimura	P	10					.000
Keisaburo Tanoue	P	8					.000
Mitsugu Saito	P	8					.000
Kenichi Wakatabe	P	7					.000
Tomohiro Nagai	P	7					.000
Shintaro Yamasaki	P	5					.000
Shigeru Kimura	P	5					.000
Masakazu Watanabe	P	3					.000
Masahiro Doi	P	3					.000
Junji Hoshino	P	2					.000
Kazumi Saito	P	1					.000
Tadahito Iguchi	SS	69					.000
Chihiro Hamana	SS	19					.000
Hiroshi Yugamidani	SS	3					.000
Totals		1891	0	0	0	0	.000

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