1996 Yomiuri Giants Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 77-53
Finished 1st in the JPCL
Manager: Shigeo Nagashima (77-53)
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Ballpark: Tokyo Dome

1996 Yomiuri Giants Roster

The Yomiuri Giants of the Japan Central League ended the 1996 season with a record of 77 wins and 53 losses, finishing first in the JPCL.

The Giants paced the circuit with just 478 runs allowed. Yomiuri scored 563 runs. Hideki Matsui walloped 38 home runs for the team, while Shane Mack and Hiromitsu Ochiai added 15 or more, too. Hideki Matsui drove in 99 runs and topped batters with significant playing time by hitting .314. Balvino Gálvez and Masaki Saito led the team with 16 wins each, and Masaki Saito recorded a 2.36 ERA, best among hurlers with significant time on the mound.

Jeff Manto, Takashi Kashiwada, Balvino Gálvez, Hideki Okajima, Masao Kida, Hideki Matsui and Shane Mack were all players from the 1996 Yomiuri Giants who played in the Majors during their careers.

Shigeo Nagashima 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
Masaki Saito	16	4	.800	2.36	25	25	0	8	4	0	187.0	172	52	49	13	44	3	158	5	0	0	768
Balvino Gálvez	16	6	.727	3.05	28	27	0	12	3	0	203.7	186	74	69	18	59	2	112	9	0	5	838
Masao Kida	7	9	.438	3.78	33	16	9	3	2	2	123.7	121	53	52	15	34	2	99	5	0	4	517
Hirofumi Kono	6	1	.857	3.29	39	0	10	0	0	3	52.0	33	19	19	3	22	5	39	0	0	1	203
Kazutaka Nishiyama	6	5	.545	4.40	34	5	10	0	0	1	61.3	62	32	30	3	35	1	37	4	0	1	276
Hiromi Makihara	6	6	.500	4.12	18	18	0	4	1	0	122.3	113	57	56	18	53	3	92	1	0	7	519
Kazutomo Miyamoto	5	3	.625	3.05	23	18	2	2	2	0	100.3	97	35	34	11	38	1	52	2	1	2	432
Hiroshi Ishige	4	1	.800	3.51	23	0	6	0	0	3	33.3	32	15	13	4	24	2	28	0	0	4	154
Mario Brito	3	2	.600	3.33	39	0	31	0	0	19	48.7	50	18	18	5	18	1	43	1	0	0	207
Katsuhito Mizuno	2	0	1.000	3.14	10	0	2	0	0	0	14.3	9	5	5	1	7	1	7	0	0	0	57
Hirokazu Okada	2	1	.667	5.70	27	0	4	0	0	1	30.0	23	19	19	4	19	3	26	1	0	1	130
Shigeyori Koharazawa	2	4	.333	6.43	22	0	4	0	0	0	28.0	22	21	20	6	21	2	25	2	1	3	127
Hideki Okajima	1	0	1.000	0.71	5	1	2	0	0	0	12.7	13	2	1	0	9	0	8	1	0	1	60
Kazuhisa Kawaguchi	1	4	.200	2.95	29	11	7	0	0	3	76.3	68	28	25	8	33	5	62	6	0	4	331
Hideyuki Awano	0	0		3.00	4	0	2	0	0	0	9.0	5	3	3	0	2	1	13	0	0	0	35
Tetsuhiro Monna	0	0		6.14	5	1	1	0	0	0	7.3	9	5	5	1	5	0	7	0	0	2	34
Ryuji Kimura	0	1	.000	2.25	7	0	5	0	0	0	8.0	7	3	2	0	3	1	9	0	0	0	33
Takashi Kashiwada	0	1	.000	3.27	8	0	3	0	0	0	11.0	10	4	4	1	6	1	1	0	0	1	47
Kiyoshi Hashimoto	0	1	.000	12.00	8	0	1	0	0	0	6.0	13	8	8	4	2	0	3	0	0	3	33
Junichi Kawahara	0	4	.000	4.50	9	8	1	1	0	0	50.0	53	25	25	6	19	0	45	2	0	1	216
Totals	77	53	.592	3.47	396	130	100	30	12	32	1185.0	1098	478	457	121	453	34	866	39	2	40	5017

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
Hideki Matsui	130	569	487	97	153	34	1	38	99	7	2	71	98	.314	.401	.622	1.023	303	5	4	0	7	1
Shane Mack	127	534	484	71	142	28	0	22	75	12	1	41	83	.293	.354	.488	.842	236	17	6	0	3	1
Hiromitsu Ochiai	106	448	376	60	113	18	0	21	86	3	0	67	53	.301	.408	.516	.924	194	11	3	0	2	3
Toshihisa Nishi	114	453	403	70	109	15	2	7	24	17	5	37	58	.270	.333	.370	.703	149	2	2	9	2	0
Masahiro Kawai	126	549	440	50	102	14	0	2	22	5	1	48	49	.232	.310	.277	.588	122	7	3	56	2	0
Takayuki Shimizu	107	307	287	37	84	14	4	11	38	9	5	13	41	.293	.337	.484	.821	139	2	6	1	0	1
Daisuke Motoki	91	326	288	34	66	14	1	9	35	3	2	25	51	.229	.294	.378	.672	109	5	3	6	4	0
Shinichi Murata	99	305	265	15	55	14	2	5	26	0	0	26	62	.208	.284	.332	.616	88	8	3	9	2	5
Naoki Sugiyama	66	157	147	15	37	5	0	3	12	0	0	4	41	.252	.288	.347	.635	51	3	4	1	1	0
Koji Goto	59	138	123	18	35	9	0	2	16	1	2	11	14	.285	.348	.407	.754	50	3	2	0	2	1
Yoshikazu Komura	66	137	119	20	32	4	1	0	5	4	7	9	21	.269	.341	.319	.660	38	0	4	5	0	1
Akihito Fukuo	56	92	75	11	25	4	0	3	13	0	0	12	13	.333	.433	.507	.940	38	0	2	2	1	2
Katsuya Kishigawa	55	94	79	7	18	1	0	5	14	0	0	14	28	.228	.351	.430	.781	34	1	1	0	0	3
Katsumi Hirosawa	38	103	91	9	18	3	0	4	13	0	0	11	29	.198	.282	.363	.644	33	4	0	0	1	0
Yudai Deguchi	73	84	72	6	16	5	1	1	9	5	3	6	23	.222	.282	.361	.643	26	1	0	6	0	0
Sadaaki Yoshimura	53	65	61	2	15	0	0	2	11	0	1	3	9	.246	.277	.344	.621	21	1	0	0	1	0
Masaki Saito	26	72	64	2	9	2	0	0	3	0	0	1	29	.141	.154	.172	.326	11	0	0	7	0	0
Kazushige Nagashima	23	60	56	4	8	2	0	3	8	0	1	3	19	.143	.200	.339	.539	19	2	1	0	0	0
Balvino Gálvez	29	77	64	6	8	2	0	2	3	0	0	2	30	.125	.152	.250	.402	16	1	0	11	0	0
Kosuke Yoshihara	25	24	21	4	7	1	0	1	3	1	0	1	5	.333	.391	.524	.915	11	0	1	1	0	0
Masao Kida	35	41	36	3	7	0	0	1	5	0	0	0	17	.194	.194	.278	.472	10	0	0	5	0	0
Takeshi Omori	14	45	37	5	7	2	0	2	2	0	0	8	10	.189	.333	.405	.739	15	0	0	0	0	0
Shinji Inoue	28	45	40	1	7	2	0	0	4	1	0	4	12	.175	.250	.225	.475	9	0	0	1	0	0
Yuji Yoshioka	29	41	38	3	5	0	0	1	4	1	0	2	16	.132	.171	.211	.381	8	1	0	0	1	0
Hiromi Makihara	20	46	46	1	5	2	0	0	4	0	0	0	23	.109	.109	.152	.261	7	0	0	0	0	0
Jeff Manto	10	35	27	1	3	1	0	0	1	0	1	6	7	.111	.286	.148	.434	4	1	1	0	1	1
Kazutomo Miyamoto	27	37	31	2	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	10	.097	.125	.129	.254	4	0	0	5	0	0
Hiroshi Ishige	23	4	3	1	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	.667	.667	1.667	2.333	5	0	0	1	0	0
Mario Brito	39	6	6	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.333	.333	.333	.667	2	0	0	0	0	0
Kazuhisa Kawaguchi	31	22	22	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	.091	.091	.091	.182	2	0	0	0	0	0
Masahiro Takami	2	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Akiyoshi Sasaki	8	3	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0	0	0
Hirokazu Okada	28	4	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0	0	0	0
Kaoru Okazaki	12	13	11	2	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	1	.091	.231	.364	.594	4	1	0	0	0	1
Junichi Kawahara	9	18	17	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	12	.059	.111	.059	.170	1	0	0	0	0	0
Hirofumi Kono	39	7	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hideyuki Awano	4	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shigeyori Koharazawa	22	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Katsuhito Mizuno	10	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000	.667	.000	.667	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kazutaka Nishiyama	36	14	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	9	.000	.071	.000	.071	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hideki Okajima	5	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Koichi Ogata	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1901	4987	4353	563	1100	197	12	147	538	69	31	432	894	.253	.325	.405	.729	1762	76	46	126	30	20

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Hiromitsu Ochiai	1B	106					.000
Katsumi Hirosawa	1B	15					.000
Takeshi Omori	1B	13					.000
Yuji Yoshioka	1B	11					.000
Koji Goto	1B	9					.000
Daisuke Motoki	2B	77					.000
Yoshikazu Komura	2B	51					.000
Toshihisa Nishi	2B	26					.000
Akihito Fukuo	2B	21					.000
Yudai Deguchi	2B	5					.000
Toshihisa Nishi	3B	91					.000
Kazushige Nagashima	3B	23					.000
Koji Goto	3B	23					.000
Yuji Yoshioka	3B	9					.000
Jeff Manto	3B	9					.000
Daisuke Motoki	3B	8					.000
Akihito Fukuo	3B	5					.000
Kaoru Okazaki	3B	2					.000
Shinichi Murata	C	95					.000
Naoki Sugiyama	C	64					.000
Kosuke Yoshihara	C	22					.000
Masahiro Takami	C	1					.000
Hideki Matsui	OF	130					.000
Shane Mack	OF	127					.000
Takayuki Shimizu	OF	94					.000
Yudai Deguchi	OF	54					.000
Katsuya Kishigawa	OF	24					.000
Katsumi Hirosawa	OF	19					.000
Koji Goto	OF	15					.000
Shinji Inoue	OF	13					.000
Sadaaki Yoshimura	OF	10					.000
Koichi Ogata	OF	1					.000
Hirofumi Kono	P	39					.000
Mario Brito	P	39					.000
Kazutaka Nishiyama	P	34					.000
Masao Kida	P	33					.000
Kazuhisa Kawaguchi	P	29					.000
Balvino Gálvez	P	28					.000
Hirokazu Okada	P	27					.000
Masaki Saito	P	25					.000
Kazutomo Miyamoto	P	23					.000
Hiroshi Ishige	P	23					.000
Shigeyori Koharazawa	P	22					.000
Hiromi Makihara	P	18					.000
Katsuhito Mizuno	P	10					.000
Junichi Kawahara	P	9					.000
Takashi Kashiwada	P	8					.000
Kiyoshi Hashimoto	P	8					.000
Ryuji Kimura	P	7					.000
Hideki Okajima	P	5					.000
Tetsuhiro Monna	P	5					.000
Hideyuki Awano	P	4					.000
Masahiro Kawai	SS	125					.000
Daisuke Motoki	SS	16					.000
Akihito Fukuo	SS	5					.000
Akiyoshi Sasaki	SS	2					.000
Toshihisa Nishi	SS	2					.000
Totals		1719	0	0	0	0	.000

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