1999 Orix BlueWave Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 68-65
Finished 3rd in the JPPL
Manager: Akira Ogi (68-65)
Location: Kobe, Japan
Ballpark: Kobe Sports Park Baseball Stadium, Kyocera Dome Osaka

1999 Orix BlueWave Roster

The Orix BlueWave of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1999 season with a record of 68 wins and 65 losses, finishing third in the JPPL.

The BlueWave scored 620 runs, best in the league. Orix conceded 577 runs. Ichiro Suzuki led the squad with 21 home runs, while Yasuo Fujii, Troy Neel and Harvey Pulliam each walloped 15 or more, too. Harvey Pulliam accounted for 85 RBI. Ichiro Suzuki paced batters with significant playing time with a .343 average. Hidetaka Kawagoe, Nobuyuki Hoshino and Masahiko Kaneda topped the squad with 11 wins each, and Hidetaka Kawagoe registered a 2.85 earned run average, best among pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.

Troy Neel, Robert Pérez, Ichiro Suzuki, Willie Banks, So Taguchi, Harvey Pulliam and Edwin Hurtado were all players from the 1999 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
Nobuyuki Hoshino	11	7	.611	3.85	26	26	0	4	1	0	156.7	151	77	67	16	62	1	96	1	0	4	669
Hidetaka Kawagoe	11	8	.579	2.85	26	25	0	8	2	0	177.0	159	75	56	14	47	2	134	1	0	2	730
Masahiko Kaneda	11	10	.524	3.49	30	29	1	4	1	0	188.0	165	84	73	13	76	0	116	7	0	5	800
Shinichi Kato	6	5	.545	3.47	19	17	2	4	3	1	98.7	99	40	38	8	20	0	44	3	2	1	402
Hisashi Ogura	5	2	.714	2.17	48	2	24	0	0	11	103.7	86	25	25	5	25	3	84	3	0	1	411
Taira Suzuki	5	4	.556	3.98	42	0	18	0	0	3	54.3	40	32	24	5	37	3	37	7	0	1	242
Edwin Hurtado	4	2	.667	2.29	34	0	15	0	0	4	63.0	53	20	16	2	39	2	44	1	2	2	273
Hiroshi Kobayashi	3	2	.600	4.55	6	6	0	1	0	0	29.7	32	20	15	1	15	0	16	1	0	3	135
Willie Banks	3	3	.500	3.94	13	2	6	0	0	1	29.7	27	16	13	3	21	1	26	0	0	3	135
Mark Mimbs	3	6	.333	3.42	42	10	1	0	0	1	76.3	77	34	29	11	27	0	43	2	1	1	325
Koichi Takahashi	3	6	.333	5.03	35	8	8	0	0	0	68.0	69	40	38	9	40	2	40	2	1	1	307
Yu Sugimoto	2	2	.500	5.40	10	4	3	0	0	0	21.7	23	13	13	1	17	0	15	0	0	0	98
Rui Makino	1	1	.500	3.54	17	1	7	0	0	0	20.3	22	12	8	4	7	0	23	1	0	1	88
Kiyohiko Sugimoto	0	0		0.00	3	0	1	0	0	0	1.3	2	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	9
Masahiro Kimura	0	0		2.79	6	1	2	0	0	0	9.7	6	5	3	1	7	0	6	0	0	0	41
Yoshitaka Mizuo	0	0		3.00	30	0	0	0	0	0	12.0	14	4	4	2	9	2	9	1	1	1	58
Nobuyuki Ebisu	0	0		3.86	10	0	5	0	0	0	16.3	25	13	7	0	7	0	11	2	0	1	84
Atsushi Ota	0	0		3.86	2	0	1	0	0	0	2.3	2	1	1	0	4	0	1	0	0	0	12
Takahide Ito	0	0		5.79	4	0	3	0	0	0	4.7	6	3	3	0	2	0	3	1	0	0	21
Koji Noda	0	0		18.00	2	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	2	2	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	5
Tomoya Kawaguchi	0	0		27.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.3	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
Hirotsugu Maeda	0	0		27.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.7	4	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	6
Masafumi Hirai	0	1	.000	8.40	5	2	3	0	0	0	15.0	25	18	14	3	13	0	7	0	0	1	81
Satoshi Kuriyama	0	1	.000	10.50	3	2	1	0	0	0	6.0	11	7	7	2	7	0	1	0	0	1	36
Satoshi Tokumoto	0	5	.000	5.92	35	0	12	0	0	1	48.7	43	33	32	7	24	4	23	5	0	0	216
Totals	68	65	.511	3.67	450	135	114	21	7	22	1205.0	1143	577	491	108	510	20	782	38	7	29	5186

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
Yoshitomo Tani	134	594	532	81	155	17	4	11	62	24	2	48	40	.291	.350	.400	.750	213	13	2	8	4	4
Ichiro Suzuki	103	468	411	80	141	27	2	21	68	12	1	45	46	.343	.412	.572	.984	235	5	7	0	5	15
So Taguchi	133	569	524	77	141	21	1	9	56	11	6	29	91	.269	.308	.365	.673	191	9	1	14	1	0
Harvey Pulliam	122	502	446	59	125	21	0	20	85	0	2	50	85	.280	.359	.462	.820	206	14	5	0	1	3
Koichi Oshima	110	462	361	46	101	15	1	1	33	5	1	64	54	.280	.394	.335	.729	121	2	6	28	3	0
Hirofumi Ogawa	112	367	321	40	88	16	0	6	37	2	2	39	66	.274	.350	.380	.730	122	13	0	4	3	1
Yasuo Fujii	115	403	323	39	79	17	0	15	51	0	2	74	92	.245	.390	.437	.826	141	1	4	0	2	2
Troy Neel	74	305	252	37	66	8	0	17	52	1	0	48	65	.262	.390	.496	.886	125	5	5	0	0	5
Makoto Shiozaki	104	277	221	22	55	8	2	0	24	8	2	33	49	.249	.346	.303	.649	67	4	1	20	2	0
Takashi Miwa	85	233	198	15	46	13	1	2	24	1	3	13	25	.232	.297	.338	.635	67	1	6	14	2	0
Takeshi Hidaka	96	267	239	22	44	12	0	3	31	0	1	13	50	.184	.233	.272	.505	65	3	3	9	3	0
Robert Pérez	50	182	166	16	42	10	2	2	23	0	0	12	33	.253	.298	.373	.672	62	7	0	1	3	1
Shuichiro Matsumoto	90	175	147	30	38	4	2	0	10	2	3	21	47	.259	.355	.313	.668	46	3	1	6	0	0
Akihito Igarashi	85	161	141	16	33	6	0	2	15	0	0	15	25	.234	.306	.319	.625	45	4	0	4	1	1
Manabu Satake	62	148	140	14	28	5	0	2	16	1	0	6	27	.200	.243	.279	.522	39	5	2	0	0	1
Toshihiro Kase	80	81	68	20	10	1	0	0	6	2	0	8	24	.147	.247	.162	.409	11	0	1	4	0	1
Paul Gonzalez	8	16	16	2	3	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	6	.188	.188	.438	.625	7	1	0	0	0	0
Naofumi Sugimoto	2	5	5	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.400	.400	.400	.800	2	0	0	0	0	0
Nobuo Takahashi	7	5	5	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.400	.400	.600	1.000	3	0	0	0	0	0
Fumiaki Imamura	9	12	12	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	3	.167	.167	.167	.333	2	1	0	0	0	0
Masaoki Tanaka	8	14	13	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	6	.154	.154	.308	.462	4	0	0	1	0	0
Hidemitsu Saito	41	16	12	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	.083	.267	.083	.350	1	0	0	1	0	0
Hiroki Fukutome	9	15	13	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	4	.077	.200	.077	.277	1	0	0	0	0	0
Ryota Aikawa	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yuji Goshima	2	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Yuichi Yanagisawa	4	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1647	5285	4574	620	1205	205	15	112	597	69	26	523	846	.263	.343	.388	.731	1776	92	44	114	30	34

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Yasuo Fujii	1B	89					.000
Yoshitomo Tani	1B	51					.000
Troy Neel	1B	21					.000
Akihito Igarashi	1B	21					.000
Hirofumi Ogawa	1B	11					.000
Manabu Satake	1B	6					.000
Fumiaki Imamura	1B	2					.000
Yuji Goshima	1B	2					.000
Paul Gonzalez	1B	2					.000
Toshihiro Kase	1B	1					.000
So Taguchi	2B	81					.000
Koichi Oshima	2B	74					.000
Hiroki Fukutome	2B	8					.000
Makoto Shiozaki	2B	6					.000
Akihito Igarashi	2B	4					.000
Akihito Igarashi	3B	56					.000
Koichi Oshima	3B	53					.000
Manabu Satake	3B	43					.000
Makoto Shiozaki	3B	42					.000
Hirofumi Ogawa	3B	11					.000
Shuichiro Matsumoto	3B	2					.000
Ichiro Suzuki	3B	1					.000
Hidemitsu Saito	3B	1					.000
Fumiaki Imamura	3B	1					.000
Hiroki Fukutome	3B	1					.000
Ryota Aikawa	3B	1					.000
Takeshi Hidaka	C	94					.000
Takashi Miwa	C	83					.000
Nobuo Takahashi	C	5					.000
Yuichi Yanagisawa	C	1					.000
Yoshitomo Tani	OF	120					.000
Ichiro Suzuki	OF	103					.000
Shuichiro Matsumoto	OF	70					.000
Toshihiro Kase	OF	63					.000
So Taguchi	OF	58					.000
Harvey Pulliam	OF	49					.000
Robert Pérez	OF	48					.000
Yasuo Fujii	OF	7					.000
Masaoki Tanaka	OF	6					.000
Yuichi Yanagisawa	OF	1					.000
Paul Gonzalez	OF	1					.000
Hisashi Ogura	P	48					.000
Taira Suzuki	P	42					.000
Mark Mimbs	P	42					.000
Satoshi Tokumoto	P	35					.000
Koichi Takahashi	P	35					.000
Edwin Hurtado	P	34					.000
Yoshitaka Mizuo	P	30					.000
Masahiko Kaneda	P	30					.000
Hidetaka Kawagoe	P	26					.000
Nobuyuki Hoshino	P	26					.000
Shinichi Kato	P	19					.000
Rui Makino	P	17					.000
Willie Banks	P	13					.000
Yu Sugimoto	P	10					.000
Nobuyuki Ebisu	P	10					.000
Hiroshi Kobayashi	P	6					.000
Masahiro Kimura	P	6					.000
Masafumi Hirai	P	5					.000
Takahide Ito	P	4					.000
Kiyohiko Sugimoto	P	3					.000
Satoshi Kuriyama	P	3					.000
Atsushi Ota	P	2					.000
Koji Noda	P	2					.000
Hirotsugu Maeda	P	1					.000
Tomoya Kawaguchi	P	1					.000
Hirofumi Ogawa	SS	81					.000
Makoto Shiozaki	SS	77					.000
Hidemitsu Saito	SS	37					.000
So Taguchi	SS	20					.000
Totals		1965	0	0	0	0	.000

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