1998 Orix BlueWave Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 66-66
Finished 3rd in the JPPL
Manager: Akira Ogi (66-66)
Location: Kobe, Japan
Ballpark: Kobe Sports Park Baseball Stadium, Kyocera Dome Osaka

1998 Orix BlueWave Roster

The Orix BlueWave of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1998 season with a record of 66 wins and 66 losses, finishing third in the JPPL.

The BlueWave plated 586 runs and gave up 609 runs. Yasuo Fujii walloped 30 home runs for Orix, while Troy Neel and Harvey Pulliam swatted 15 or more as well. Yasuo Fujii drove in 80 runs. Ichiro Suzuki led batters with significant playing time with a .358 average. Hiroshi Kobayashi topped the squad with 10 wins and a team-best 3.59 ERA, tops among hurlers with significant time on the mound.

Willie Fraser, Troy Neel, Masao Kida, Harvey Pulliam, So Taguchi, Chris Donnels, Edwin Hurtado and Ichiro Suzuki were all players from the 1998 Orix BlueWave who played in the Majors during their careers.

Akira Ogi 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
Hiroshi Kobayashi	10	9	.526	3.59	31	18	8	1	1	4	133.0	121	63	53	9	73	7	78	4	0	5	591
Edwin Hurtado	8	5	.615	3.74	49	4	23	0	0	7	113.0	103	53	47	11	54	3	73	4	3	6	474
Masafumi Hirai	6	3	.667	2.48	36	3	9	0	0	1	65.3	50	23	18	8	20	1	48	1	0	3	265
Nobuyuki Hoshino	6	10	.375	5.12	22	22	0	4	2	0	128.3	152	76	73	15	47	2	76	2	0	6	570
Taira Suzuki	5	0	1.000	2.10	45	0	12	0	0	5	51.3	48	21	12	3	29	0	46	1	3	2	227
Willie Fraser	5	5	.500	4.72	24	16	3	1	0	1	108.7	126	60	57	10	41	3	36	3	2	5	476
Masahiko Kaneda	4	2	.667	2.79	10	8	2	1	0	0	51.7	40	19	16	3	16	0	36	0	0	1	200
Koichi Takahashi	4	5	.444	2.90	21	12	2	1	1	0	83.7	83	27	27	6	29	0	57	4	0	0	353
Masao Kida	4	7	.364	4.62	36	13	22	1	0	16	97.3	97	54	50	9	36	1	74	4	1	6	420
Yoshitaka Mizuo	3	0	1.000	1.89	55	0	1	0	0	0	33.3	30	8	7	2	11	2	31	1	0	1	139
Kazuyuki Maeda	3	1	.750	4.20	20	8	0	8	0	1	30.0	31	16	14	2	20	0	20	2	1	0	141
Takahide Ito	3	6	.333	4.71	16	14	0	0	0	0	72.7	78	40	38	11	37	0	64	8	0	1	337
Mark Mimbs	2	4	.333	3.55	13	8	2	0	0	0	50.7	44	28	20	6	22	1	53	0	0	1	214
Hisashi Ogura	1	0	1.000	4.34	12	0	5	0	0	0	18.7	18	10	9	2	8	2	10	0	0	0	81
Satoshi Kuriyama	1	1	.500	3.86	5	3	1	0	0	0	16.3	12	7	7	3	9	0	11	0	0	0	67
Jiro Toyoda	1	1	.500	4.33	21	1	6	0	0	0	35.3	32	20	17	4	17	3	25	3	1	1	154
Yuichi Kiyohara	0	0		2.57	9	0	5	0	0	0	7.0	8	2	2	0	2	0	8	0	0	0	30
Yoshinori Sato	0	0		5.19	8	1	5	0	0	0	8.7	11	5	5	1	1	0	6	0	0	0	38
Eiji Maruo	0	0		6.75	7	3	3	0	0	0	16.0	19	15	12	2	13	1	8	1	1	1	79
Nobuyuki Ebisu	0	0		6.86	11	0	5	0	0	0	21.0	30	16	16	1	4	0	17	0	0	2	93
Koji Noda	0	0		7.11	4	1	1	0	0	0	6.3	10	5	5	2	3	0	2	0	0	0	31
Kiyohiko Sugimoto	0	0		7.71	3	0	0	0	0	0	4.7	5	4	4	1	5	0	5	0	0	0	24
Rui Makino	0	0		13.50	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.7	0	1	1	0	4	0	1	0	0	0	6
Yu Sugimoto	0	7	.000	6.04	16	8	2	1	0	1	47.7	54	36	32	5	38	1	39	0	1	2	234
Totals	66	66	.500	4.06	475	143	117	18	4	36	1201.3	1202	609	542	116	539	27	824	38	13	43	5244

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
Ichiro Suzuki	135	558	506	79	181	36	3	13	71	11	4	43	35	.358	.414	.518	.932	262	21	7	0	2	15
Yoshitomo Tani	132	532	476	59	135	19	1	10	45	1	3	41	36	.284	.341	.391	.732	186	11	3	7	5	0
So Taguchi	132	573	497	85	135	26	2	9	41	8	8	48	68	.272	.338	.386	.724	192	13	3	23	2	2
Koichi Oshima	129	506	409	58	113	14	2	8	50	10	1	57	53	.276	.372	.379	.751	155	5	7	30	3	0
Troy Neel	108	452	389	52	112	26	1	28	76	0	1	51	108	.288	.383	.576	.959	224	7	10	0	2	3
Yasuo Fujii	126	491	400	65	100	22	3	30	80	2	1	85	127	.250	.381	.545	.926	218	2	2	0	4	4
Harvey Pulliam	92	377	326	38	93	16	0	18	62	1	0	39	52	.285	.369	.500	.869	163	13	7	0	5	0
Hirofumi Ogawa	102	319	290	30	69	14	0	7	27	0	2	24	64	.238	.297	.359	.656	104	10	1	3	1	4
Akihito Igarashi	110	245	214	17	44	7	2	3	21	1	2	23	38	.206	.282	.299	.581	64	4	0	7	1	1
Takashi Miwa	77	213	186	16	43	5	2	2	13	1	2	12	21	.231	.282	.312	.594	58	5	2	11	2	0
Takeshi Hidaka	78	197	180	16	41	10	0	2	14	1	1	11	42	.228	.276	.317	.593	57	3	1	5	0	0
Chris Donnels	44	164	140	17	37	9	0	5	22	1	1	23	44	.264	.372	.436	.808	61	6	1	0	0	0
Manabu Satake	62	162	150	11	30	6	0	0	10	3	1	3	16	.200	.229	.240	.469	36	5	3	5	1	0
Makoto Shiozaki	60	134	119	14	28	5	2	1	9	0	1	6	29	.235	.272	.336	.608	40	2	0	9	0	0
Yasutaka Hironaga	41	56	50	4	11	1	0	2	9	0	0	4	16	.220	.286	.360	.646	18	3	1	0	1	0
Hiroki Fukutome	57	67	63	6	11	2	0	1	5	0	0	2	20	.175	.200	.254	.454	16	1	0	2	0	0
Hiroshi Fujimoto	42	52	46	3	8	2	0	0	3	0	0	6	17	.174	.269	.217	.487	10	3	0	0	0	0
Makoto Takada	19	45	39	2	5	3	0	1	1	0	0	3	6	.128	.190	.282	.473	11	1	0	3	0	0
Nobuo Takahashi	12	25	20	3	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	8	.200	.273	.250	.523	5	0	0	3	0	0
Satoshi Takahashi	6	12	11	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	7	.182	.250	.273	.523	3	0	0	0	0	0
Hideaki Matsuyama	18	6	6	7	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	0	0	0
Toshihiro Kase	21	21	19	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	3	.053	.143	.053	.195	1	1	0	0	0	0
Eiji Yamamoto	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Masaoki Tanaka	8	4	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hidemitsu Saito	6	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Jim Bonnici	9	11	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.000	.091	.000	.091	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mitsuhiro Kubo	6	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jun Hagiwara	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Minoru Yojo	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1636	5234	4561	586	1204	225	18	140	561	42	29	487	819	.264	.339	.413	.753	1885	117	48	109	29	29

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Yasuo Fujii	1B	83					.000
Chris Donnels	1B	38					.000
Hiroshi Fujimoto	1B	26					.000
Troy Neel	1B	25					.000
Akihito Igarashi	1B	21					.000
Hirofumi Ogawa	1B	11					.000
Minoru Yojo	1B	1					.000
Satoshi Takahashi	1B	1					.000
Jim Bonnici	1B	1					.000
Koichi Oshima	2B	92					.000
So Taguchi	2B	65					.000
Hiroki Fukutome	2B	25					.000
Makoto Shiozaki	2B	13					.000
Akihito Igarashi	2B	13					.000
Hirofumi Ogawa	2B	6					.000
Manabu Satake	2B	2					.000
Hideaki Matsuyama	2B	1					.000
Hiroshi Fujimoto	2B	1					.000
Akihito Igarashi	3B	77					.000
Manabu Satake	3B	53					.000
Koichi Oshima	3B	38					.000
Hiroki Fukutome	3B	21					.000
Chris Donnels	3B	11					.000
Hiroshi Fujimoto	3B	10					.000
Hideaki Matsuyama	3B	6					.000
Makoto Shiozaki	3B	1					.000
Hirofumi Ogawa	3B	1					.000
Troy Neel	3B	1					.000
Jun Hagiwara	3B	1					.000
Takashi Miwa	C	77					.000
Takeshi Hidaka	C	76					.000
Makoto Takada	C	19					.000
Nobuo Takahashi	C	12					.000
Mitsuhiro Kubo	C	6					.000
Naofumi Sugimoto	C	1					.000
Ichiro Suzuki	OF	135					.000
Yoshitomo Tani	OF	129					.000
So Taguchi	OF	105					.000
Harvey Pulliam	OF	45					.000
Yasuo Fujii	OF	44					.000
Toshihiro Kase	OF	19					.000
Yasutaka Hironaga	OF	14					.000
Satoshi Takahashi	OF	4					.000
Masaoki Tanaka	OF	3					.000
Akihito Igarashi	OF	3					.000
Koichi Oshima	OF	1					.000
Yoshitaka Mizuo	P	55					.000
Edwin Hurtado	P	49					.000
Taira Suzuki	P	45					.000
Masao Kida	P	36					.000
Masafumi Hirai	P	36					.000
Hiroshi Kobayashi	P	31					.000
Willie Fraser	P	24					.000
Nobuyuki Hoshino	P	22					.000
Jiro Toyoda	P	21					.000
Koichi Takahashi	P	21					.000
Kazuyuki Maeda	P	20					.000
Yu Sugimoto	P	16					.000
Takahide Ito	P	16					.000
Mark Mimbs	P	13					.000
Hisashi Ogura	P	12					.000
Nobuyuki Ebisu	P	11					.000
Masahiko Kaneda	P	10					.000
Yuichi Kiyohara	P	9					.000
Yoshinori Sato	P	8					.000
Eiji Maruo	P	7					.000
Satoshi Kuriyama	P	5					.000
Koji Noda	P	4					.000
Kiyohiko Sugimoto	P	3					.000
Rui Makino	P	1					.000
Hirofumi Ogawa	SS	86					.000
Makoto Shiozaki	SS	45					.000
Koichi Oshima	SS	37					.000
Hiroki Fukutome	SS	17					.000
So Taguchi	SS	10					.000
Hidemitsu Saito	SS	5					.000
Akihito Igarashi	SS	1					.000
Totals		2014	0	0	0	0	.000

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