1998 Nippon Ham Fighters Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 67-65
Finished 2nd in the JPPL
Manager: Toshiharu Ueda (67-65)
Location: Tokyo, Japan

1998 Nippon Ham Fighters Roster

The Nippon Ham Fighters of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1998 season with a record of 67 wins and 65 losses, finishing second in the JPPL.

The Ham Fighters paced the league with 635 runs, powered by 150 home runs. Nippon allowed 571 runs. Nigel Wilson walloped 33 home runs for the squad, while Yukio Tanaka, Katsuhiro Nishiura, Jerry Brooks and Atsushi Kataoka each swatted 15 or more also. Nigel Wilson drove in 124 runs. Atsushi Kataoka topped hitters with significant playing time by connecting at a .300 clip. Tsutomu Iwamoto led the squad with 11 wins, and Satoru Kanemura registered a 2.73 earned run average, tops among pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.

Players from the 1998 Nippon Ham Fighters who spent time in Major League Baseball during their careers included Kip Gross, Nigel Wilson, Jerry Brooks and Erik Schullstrom.

Toshiharu Ueda 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
Tsutomu Iwamoto	11	8	.579	4.11	27	27	0	10	2	0	181.7	186	90	83	26	59	2	110	6	0	4	780
Masaru Imazeki	9	6	.600	3.74	21	18	3	3	2	0	110.7	113	54	46	12	40	0	64	4	2	0	478
Hiroyuki Sekine	9	7	.562	3.36	25	25	0	2	1	0	160.7	159	68	60	21	44	3	75	4	0	3	673
Satoru Kanemura	8	8	.500	2.73	31	15	4	5	1	1	135.0	124	46	41	12	37	0	85	4	0	0	556
Erik Schullstrom	7	3	.700	3.00	38	0	33	0	0	8	45.0	31	15	15	1	22	3	52	3	0	0	187
Hiroshi Shibakusa	7	11	.389	3.90	25	21	1	6	1	0	145.3	144	71	63	18	42	0	44	11	0	10	620
Hiroshi Numata	4	2	.667	4.24	14	10	2	1	0	0	51.0	53	28	24	2	30	3	34	2	1	3	235
Junji Kuroki	4	3	.571	4.80	41	0	22	0	0	8	50.7	56	28	27	7	25	3	25	1	2	2	230
Kip Gross	3	4	.429	3.96	7	7	0	1	0	0	36.3	30	18	16	1	15	0	11	4	3	0	154
Tsuyoshi Shimoyanagi	2	3	.400	3.07	66	1	17	0	0	5	93.7	74	37	32	8	47	4	71	3	0	3	400
Takehiro Ishii	2	5	.286	6.22	27	5	5	0	0	0	46.3	56	35	32	9	17	2	35	3	2	0	211
Rafael Orellano	1	3	.250	7.50	14	4	2	0	0	0	30.0	29	25	25	5	29	0	22	2	0	0	147
Yoshihiro Kojima	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.3	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	3
Masaki Ikoma	0	0		1.54	10	0	6	0	0	0	23.3	13	8	4	1	14	0	15	0	0	1	94
Kazuyuki Atsuzawa	0	0		2.25	5	0	3	0	0	0	8.0	12	2	2	0	5	1	9	0	0	2	39
Noriyuki Takahashi	0	0		4.04	33	0	4	0	0	0	35.7	26	18	16	3	15	1	22	1	0	0	150
Keigo Imai	0	0		18.00	2	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	3	2	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	6
Kenji Harada	0	0		22.50	2	0	2	0	0	0	2.0	6	5	5	0	4	0	1	0	0	0	16
Takeshi Shimazaki	0	1	.000	3.06	23	0	3	0	0	0	32.3	29	12	11	2	10	1	20	1	1	0	135
Akio Shimizu	0	1	.000	7.45	3	2	0	0	0	0	9.7	16	9	8	1	5	0	7	0	1	0	47
Totals	67	65	.508	3.84	415	135	107	28	7	22	1198.7	1160	571	512	130	462	23	703	49	12	28	5161

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
Atsushi Kataoka	133	584	466	89	140	26	1	17	83	2	0	113	93	.300	.435	.470	.905	219	8	1	0	4	1
Nigel Wilson	133	569	506	65	129	13	0	33	124	1	1	56	141	.255	.332	.476	.808	241	5	4	0	3	7
Katsuhiro Nishiura	134	562	485	83	119	24	4	20	62	18	6	67	109	.245	.338	.435	.773	211	14	3	2	5	2
Yukio Tanaka	107	482	420	62	115	28	0	24	63	2	0	53	102	.274	.361	.512	.873	215	8	6	0	3	6
Jerry Brooks	129	523	459	58	112	8	1	25	73	1	1	53	64	.244	.329	.429	.758	197	26	7	0	4	6
Hiroshi Narahara	128	464	364	72	102	6	4	1	25	30	6	60	50	.280	.388	.327	.715	119	9	4	36	0	1
Makoto Kaneko	127	442	380	53	100	10	2	4	26	11	3	40	42	.263	.336	.332	.668	126	7	2	20	0	0
Tatsuya Ide	130	334	296	38	64	11	2	6	28	10	5	20	56	.216	.263	.328	.591	97	4	0	15	3	0
Toshihiro Noguchi	109	312	268	37	63	14	3	10	34	6	3	21	61	.235	.293	.422	.715	113	3	3	15	5	0
Yoshinori Ueda	120	288	248	32	60	17	1	2	15	4	2	32	58	.242	.331	.343	.674	85	7	2	4	2	1
Hiromitsu Ochiai	59	192	162	11	38	6	0	2	18	0	1	26	22	.235	.344	.309	.652	50	12	2	0	2	0
Michihiro Ogasawara	71	98	86	7	26	5	0	1	9	1	1	11	17	.302	.378	.395	.773	34	3	0	0	1	1
Hideki Hashigami	91	94	83	11	25	3	0	1	12	5	2	9	20	.301	.366	.373	.739	31	2	0	1	1	1
Masanori Taguchi	60	139	118	7	24	2	0	1	12	0	1	7	29	.203	.260	.246	.506	29	4	2	12	0	0
Shunji Nishi	36	38	36	2	11	1	1	1	7	0	0	2	7	.306	.342	.472	.814	17	2	0	0	0	0
Koichi Ogawa	41	45	37	5	5	0	0	1	6	0	0	6	9	.135	.250	.216	.466	8	3	0	1	1	0
Ryuki Nemoto	12	22	22	2	2	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	3	.091	.091	.227	.318	5	1	0	0	0	0
Yutaka Nakamura	12	15	13	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	3	.077	.143	.154	.297	2	0	0	1	0	0
Shogo Arai	5	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yuichi Komaki	4	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kazuhiko Yamashita	9	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tsutomu Ishimoto	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1652	5210	4456	635	1136	175	19	150	599	91	34	577	888	.255	.343	.404	.746	1799	118	36	107	34	26

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Katsuhiro Nishiura	1B	64					.000
Yukio Tanaka	1B	51					.000
Hiromitsu Ochiai	1B	47					.000
Michihiro Ogasawara	1B	3					.000
Koichi Ogawa	1B	2					.000
Atsushi Kataoka	1B	2					.000
Makoto Kaneko	2B	125					.000
Hiroshi Narahara	2B	33					.000
Koichi Ogawa	2B	15					.000
Shogo Arai	2B	3					.000
Shunji Nishi	2B	2					.000
Atsushi Kataoka	3B	132					.000
Shunji Nishi	3B	5					.000
Koichi Ogawa	3B	3					.000
Hiroshi Narahara	3B	3					.000
Toshihiro Noguchi	C	107					.000
Masanori Taguchi	C	60					.000
Michihiro Ogasawara	C	20					.000
Kazuhiko Yamashita	C	9					.000
Yuichi Komaki	C	3					.000
Jerry Brooks	OF	127					.000
Tatsuya Ide	OF	121					.000
Yoshinori Ueda	OF	114					.000
Katsuhiro Nishiura	OF	102					.000
Hideki Hashigami	OF	76					.000
Koichi Ogawa	OF	9					.000
Yutaka Nakamura	OF	9					.000
Ryuki Nemoto	OF	8					.000
Michihiro Ogasawara	OF	1					.000
Yuichi Komaki	OF	1					.000
Tsuyoshi Shimoyanagi	P	66					.000
Junji Kuroki	P	41					.000
Erik Schullstrom	P	38					.000
Noriyuki Takahashi	P	33					.000
Satoru Kanemura	P	31					.000
Tsutomu Iwamoto	P	27					.000
Takehiro Ishii	P	27					.000
Hiroshi Shibakusa	P	25					.000
Hiroyuki Sekine	P	25					.000
Takeshi Shimazaki	P	23					.000
Masaru Imazeki	P	21					.000
Rafael Orellano	P	14					.000
Hiroshi Numata	P	14					.000
Masaki Ikoma	P	10					.000
Kip Gross	P	7					.000
Kazuyuki Atsuzawa	P	5					.000
Akio Shimizu	P	3					.000
Keigo Imai	P	2					.000
Kenji Harada	P	2					.000
Yoshihiro Kojima	P	1					.000
Hiroshi Narahara	SS	99					.000
Yukio Tanaka	SS	56					.000
Makoto Kaneko	SS	10					.000
Totals		1837	0	0	0	0	.000

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