2001 Nippon Ham Fighters Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 53-84
Finished 6th in the JPPL
Manager: Yasunori Oshima (53-84)
Location: Tokyo, Japan

2001 Nippon Ham Fighters Roster

The Nippon Ham Fighters of the Japan Pacific League ended the 2001 season with a record of 53 wins and 84 losses, finishing sixth in the JPPL.

The Ham Fighters scored 593 runs, worst in the league, and surrendered 713 runs. Michihiro Ogasawara walloped 32 home runs for Nippon, while Atsushi Kataoka, Yukio Tanaka and Sherman Obando each swatted 15 or more as well. Michihiro Ogasawara recorded 86 runs batted in and topped all qualifying hitters on the roster by connecting at a .339 clip. Tsuyoshi Shimoyanagi paced the team with 9 wins, and Tsutomu Iwamoto and Satoru Kanemura registered a 4.91 earned run average, best among qualifying pitchers.

Players from the 2001 Nippon Ham Fighters who spent time in the Majors during their careers included Scott Sanders, Kensuke Tanaka, Kevin Ohme, Yoshinori Tateyama, Nigel Wilson and Sherman Obando.

Yasunori Oshima 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
Tsuyoshi Shimoyanagi	9	8	.529	5.06	21	21	0	3	1	0	121.0	114	73	68	24	50	1	89	9	0	1	529
Tsutomu Iwamoto	7	12	.368	4.91	22	21	1	6	0	0	143.0	150	81	78	27	60	2	94	1	0	6	625
Satoru Kanemura	7	13	.350	4.89	25	23	1	0	0	0	141.7	164	81	77	20	66	0	94	2	0	7	639
Hayato Nakamura	6	3	.667	3.94	15	14	0	3	3	0	89.0	77	40	39	13	42	1	63	2	0	2	373
Hiroshi Shibakusa	6	4	.600	3.57	56	0	12	0	0	2	85.7	73	36	34	12	32	5	52	7	0	1	354
Tomokazu Iba	4	3	.571	2.53	40	0	24	0	0	4	46.3	38	15	13	4	19	0	46	0	0	2	194
Naoyuki Tateishi	3	4	.429	6.83	18	10	2	0	0	0	55.3	64	45	42	10	29	1	41	4	0	0	258
Scott Sanders	3	5	.375	4.36	24	11	1	0	0	0	86.7	87	47	42	13	45	0	70	5	0	4	386
Hiroyuki Sekine	2	4	.333	3.36	11	11	0	1	0	0	69.7	57	33	26	12	21	0	53	1	1	0	288
Carlos Mirabal	2	6	.250	3.44	51	1	41	0	0	18	55.0	62	22	21	7	16	1	43	2	0	1	242
Akio Shimizu	2	7	.222	4.90	22	17	1	2	0	0	108.3	113	62	59	16	48	1	87	7	0	1	478
Yoshinori Tateyama	1	0	1.000	10.67	10	1	1	0	0	0	14.3	22	17	17	5	9	0	9	2	0	0	72
Kiyoshi Sasaki	1	6	.143	6.29	26	7	3	0	0	0	54.3	43	43	38	11	52	0	40	2	0	3	257
Ryohei Endo	0	0			1	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Takashi Kamishima	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	0.3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Masaru Yoshizaki	0	0		2.89	10	0	5	0	0	0	9.3	5	3	3	1	6	0	4	0	0	1	36
Takeshi Ito	0	0		3.09	6	0	2	0	0	0	11.7	16	4	4	2	9	0	6	0	0	2	56
Hiroshi Shintani	0	0		4.43	17	0	5	0	0	0	22.3	18	11	11	7	5	0	18	1	0	1	89
Tatsuhito Kato	0	0		4.78	16	0	5	0	0	0	26.3	23	15	14	4	16	2	28	0	3	6	118
Masaki Ikoma	0	0		6.23	4	0	3	0	0	0	4.3	6	4	3	1	4	0	1	0	0	1	23
Yukihiro Sakurai	0	0		8.10	2	0	1	0	0	0	3.3	3	3	3	0	3	0	1	1	0	0	15
Kazutoshi Yamahara	0	0		8.31	4	0	1	0	0	0	4.3	4	4	4	4	0	0	3	0	0	0	17
Itsuki Shoda	0	0		9.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	2.0	1	3	2	1	6	0	3	0	0	0	14
Satoshi Yano	0	0		9.82	3	0	1	0	0	0	3.7	7	4	4	2	3	0	2	0	0	1	20
Junji Kuroki	0	0		67.50	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.7	4	5	5	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	7
Kazuyuki Atsuzawa	0	1	.000	6.38	15	0	3	0	0	0	24.0	23	18	17	6	17	0	26	2	0	2	112
Mitsugu Saito	0	2	.000	5.94	14	0	5	0	0	0	16.7	19	12	11	3	9	1	8	1	0	0	78
Kevin Ohme	0	2	.000	14.85	3	2	0	0	0	0	6.7	10	11	11	2	3	0	4	0	0	0	33
Noriyuki Takahashi	0	4	.000	4.11	59	0	6	0	0	0	46.0	43	21	21	10	10	0	38	4	0	1	188
Totals	53	84	.387	4.79	498	140	125	15	4	24	1252.0	1247	713	667	219	581	15	923	53	4	43	5503

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
Michihiro Ogasawara	140	643	576	108	195	40	2	32	86	1	6	63	102	.339	.407	.582	.989	335	8	4	0	0	7
Makoto Kaneko	140	559	501	57	127	22	2	8	56	9	9	38	65	.253	.311	.353	.665	177	4	6	10	4	3
Yukio Tanaka	139	556	491	46	125	22	0	20	77	2	2	57	109	.255	.333	.422	.755	207	12	2	4	2	3
Tatsuya Ide	109	488	427	66	123	20	2	11	35	14	6	46	89	.288	.358	.422	.779	180	6	3	7	5	1
Atsushi Kataoka	106	463	401	57	102	18	1	16	62	1	2	57	62	.254	.346	.424	.770	170	8	1	0	4	2
Hiroshi Narahara	124	399	334	32	79	19	3	4	19	27	5	33	59	.237	.304	.347	.652	116	5	0	31	1	0
Yutaka Nakamura	120	294	257	34	69	13	1	3	25	4	5	29	34	.268	.340	.362	.702	93	4	0	6	2	0
Toshihiro Noguchi	99	298	275	20	63	13	2	6	36	2	3	14	46	.229	.271	.356	.627	98	5	2	6	1	0
Sherman Obando	52	225	201	29	52	7	0	15	51	0	3	19	38	.259	.329	.517	.846	104	1	3	0	2	3
Kazuteru Shimada	58	177	166	15	36	3	0	4	16	0	2	6	27	.217	.247	.307	.554	51	2	1	3	1	1
Yoshinori Ueda	77	172	155	13	34	3	1	6	17	2	0	13	35	.219	.288	.368	.656	57	4	2	2	0	0
Hichori Morimoto	65	148	133	16	33	4	2	1	9	11	2	9	35	.248	.303	.331	.634	44	2	2	3	1	0
Tsutomu Ishimoto	51	143	122	18	30	2	1	0	3	9	3	10	30	.246	.306	.279	.585	34	0	1	9	1	0
Kazunari Sanematsu	62	167	149	16	29	4	0	6	19	0	0	6	53	.195	.239	.342	.581	51	4	3	8	1	0
Nigel Wilson	34	136	120	13	27	2	1	6	14	0	0	13	34	.225	.316	.408	.725	49	3	3	0	0	2
Seigo Fujishima	38	108	98	11	25	5	0	4	19	1	1	6	25	.255	.308	.429	.737	42	2	2	1	1	0
Masahiko Harada	29	92	83	10	22	5	1	1	4	6	0	5	13	.265	.315	.386	.700	32	0	1	3	0	0
Kensuke Tanaka	56	116	99	12	14	1	1	3	9	0	2	13	28	.141	.239	.263	.502	26	0	0	3	1	0
Masanori Taguchi	31	71	60	8	12	2	0	0	3	1	0	4	20	.200	.262	.233	.495	14	1	1	6	0	0
Katsuhiro Nishiura	18	47	41	3	8	2	0	1	5	0	1	5	11	.195	.283	.317	.600	13	1	0	1	0	0
Shigeyuki Furuki	45	48	43	6	7	1	1	0	2	2	2	3	9	.163	.234	.233	.467	10	0	1	1	0	0
Shinji Takahashi	16	23	22	2	6	0	0	0	3	1	0	1	6	.273	.304	.273	.577	6	2	0	0	0	0
Kokichi Akune	12	11	10	1	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.300	.300	.400	.700	4	0	0	1	0	0
Yasufumi Ogai	6	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tomoyuki Oda	2	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yuji Iiyama	7	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nobuaki Arai	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1639	5394	4774	593	1221	209	21	147	570	95	54	450	937	.256	.323	.401	.724	1913	74	38	105	27	22

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Michihiro Ogasawara	1B	140					.000
Makoto Kaneko	2B	140					.000
Kensuke Tanaka	2B	5					.000
Shigeyuki Furuki	2B	1					.000
Kokichi Akune	2B	1					.000
Atsushi Kataoka	3B	102					.000
Hiroshi Narahara	3B	40					.000
Kensuke Tanaka	3B	21					.000
Kokichi Akune	3B	7					.000
Yuji Iiyama	3B	3					.000
Tomoyuki Oda	3B	2					.000
Shigeyuki Furuki	3B	2					.000
Toshihiro Noguchi	C	91					.000
Kazunari Sanematsu	C	61					.000
Masanori Taguchi	C	31					.000
Shinji Takahashi	C	7					.000
Nobuaki Arai	C	1					.000
Yutaka Nakamura	OF	113					.000
Tatsuya Ide	OF	103					.000
Yoshinori Ueda	OF	61					.000
Hichori Morimoto	OF	59					.000
Yukio Tanaka	OF	48					.000
Tsutomu Ishimoto	OF	39					.000
Seigo Fujishima	OF	34					.000
Masahiko Harada	OF	23					.000
Katsuhiro Nishiura	OF	12					.000
Sherman Obando	OF	6					.000
Yasufumi Ogai	OF	5					.000
Toshihiro Noguchi	OF	2					.000
Shigeyuki Furuki	OF	2					.000
Noriyuki Takahashi	P	59					.000
Hiroshi Shibakusa	P	56					.000
Carlos Mirabal	P	51					.000
Tomokazu Iba	P	40					.000
Kiyoshi Sasaki	P	26					.000
Satoru Kanemura	P	25					.000
Scott Sanders	P	24					.000
Akio Shimizu	P	22					.000
Tsutomu Iwamoto	P	22					.000
Tsuyoshi Shimoyanagi	P	21					.000
Naoyuki Tateishi	P	18					.000
Hiroshi Shintani	P	17					.000
Tatsuhito Kato	P	16					.000
Hayato Nakamura	P	15					.000
Kazuyuki Atsuzawa	P	15					.000
Mitsugu Saito	P	14					.000
Hiroyuki Sekine	P	11					.000
Masaru Yoshizaki	P	10					.000
Yoshinori Tateyama	P	10					.000
Takeshi Ito	P	6					.000
Kazutoshi Yamahara	P	4					.000
Masaki Ikoma	P	4					.000
Satoshi Yano	P	3					.000
Kevin Ohme	P	3					.000
Yukihiro Sakurai	P	2					.000
Itsuki Shoda	P	1					.000
Junji Kuroki	P	1					.000
Takashi Kamishima	P	1					.000
Ryohei Endo	P	1					.000
Hiroshi Narahara	SS	96					.000
Yukio Tanaka	SS	57					.000
Kazuteru Shimada	SS	47					.000
Shigeyuki Furuki	SS	24					.000
Kensuke Tanaka	SS	16					.000
Yuji Iiyama	SS	5					.000
Makoto Kaneko	SS	1					.000
Totals		1906	0	0	0	0	.000

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