2003 Yakult Swallows Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 71-66
Finished 3rd in the JPCL
Manager: Tsutomu Wakamatsu (71-66)
Ballpark: Meiji Jingu Stadium

2003 Yakult Swallows Roster

The Yakult Swallows of the Japan Central League ended the 2003 season with a record of 71 wins and 66 losses, finishing third in the JPCL.

The Swallows scored 683 runs and conceded 627 runs. Alex Ramírez walloped 40 home runs for Yakult, while Todd Betts, Ken Suzuki and Atsuya Furuta each swatted 15 or more, too. Alex Ramírez drove in 124 runs and topped all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .333. Masanori Ishikawa led the squad with 12 wins, and Yuya Kamada recorded a 3.21 ERA, best among pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.

Players from the 2003 Yakult Swallows who spent time in the Majors during their careers included Akinori Iwamura, Ryota Igarashi, Jason Beverlin, Shingo Takatsu, Kevin Hodges and Alex Ramírez.

Tsutomu Wakamatsu 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
Masanori Ishikawa	12	11	.522	3.79	30	30	0	3	0	0	190.0	201	88	80	21	33	4	97	7	1	3	793
Jason Beverlin	8	4	.667	4.08	19	19	0	0	0	0	106.0	114	51	48	16	36	2	94	5	2	3	460
Hirotoshi Ishii	6	1	.857	1.99	36	0	9	0	0	1	45.3	37	10	10	4	10	4	61	2	0	2	182
Yuya Kamada	6	7	.462	3.21	30	15	3	2	2	0	115.0	104	43	41	11	25	2	83	2	1	1	462
Hideki Sato	5	4	.556	4.69	28	8	4	0	0	0	63.3	73	35	33	9	19	0	34	1	1	1	278
Ryota Igarashi	5	5	.500	3.89	66	0	21	0	0	0	74.0	60	33	32	9	33	2	83	1	1	7	310
Yuhei Takai	5	6	.455	5.03	27	17	4	0	0	0	102.0	99	62	57	14	56	2	80	7	0	12	458
Kevin Hodges	5	9	.357	5.90	20	19	0	0	0	0	100.7	119	74	66	15	39	1	48	8	1	5	455
Katsutoshi Ishido	4	1	.800	3.67	5	5	0	0	0	0	27.0	21	11	11	5	11	0	15	2	0	0	113
Yataro Sakamoto	4	1	.800	6.00	32	5	7	0	0	0	54.0	71	40	36	14	19	2	44	1	0	1	247
Masato Hanada	3	1	.750	3.54	21	6	4	0	0	0	53.3	51	23	21	7	15	2	43	1	0	5	227
Futoshi Yamabe	2	0	1.000	1.05	34	0	5	0	0	0	43.0	34	12	5	3	16	3	36	2	0	3	180
Shingo Takatsu	2	3	.400	3.00	44	0	42	0	0	34	42.0	42	18	14	7	21	7	26	0	0	2	185
Ryu Kawabata	2	3	.400	3.48	37	0	11	0	0	0	41.3	44	20	16	1	16	3	37	1	0	1	183
Tatsuki Yamamoto	1	3	.250	2.64	50	0	9	0	0	0	47.7	46	17	14	2	14	2	33	1	1	4	196
Nobuyuki Ebisu	1	3	.250	7.36	5	5	0	0	0	0	22.0	36	18	18	6	1	1	9	0	0	0	98
Masahiro Yoshikawa	0	0		0.00	4	0	1	0	0	0	3.0	3	0	0	0	2	0	3	0	0	0	14
Shugo Fujii	0	0		3.38	1	1	0	0	0	0	2.7	3	1	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	12
Tadashi Honma	0	0		5.14	6	0	1	0	0	0	7.0	9	5	4	2	1	0	8	1	0	0	30
Toshihide Narimoto	0	0		5.22	32	0	7	0	0	0	39.7	43	23	23	11	5	1	35	5	1	2	166
Shinji Matsuda	0	0		18.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	2.0	4	4	4	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	12
Hirotsugu Maeda	0	1	.000	4.58	15	1	5	0	0	0	19.7	22	10	10	7	4	0	11	0	0	1	81
Shohei Tateyama	0	3	.000	5.19	10	9	1	0	0	0	50.3	51	29	29	11	10	1	37	3	0	0	208
Totals	71	66	.518	4.12	553	140	135	5	2	35	1251.0	1287	627	573	176	389	39	918	51	9	53	5350

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
Alex Ramírez	140	614	567	105	189	34	3	40	124	4	6	34	104	.333	.373	.616	.988	349	14	6	0	7	6
Shinya Miyamoto	140	643	543	78	154	20	1	7	44	11	3	38	78	.284	.336	.363	.698	197	10	7	50	5	1
Ken Suzuki	135	549	482	67	153	36	0	20	95	2	5	56	84	.317	.392	.517	.909	249	8	6	1	4	2
Atsuya Furuta	139	576	509	69	146	27	1	23	75	2	0	49	77	.287	.360	.479	.840	244	14	11	4	3	6
Todd Betts	112	438	408	61	117	24	1	15	52	2	4	22	92	.287	.329	.461	.790	188	6	5	0	3	0
Mitsuru Manaka	121	389	369	49	108	21	3	6	48	6	1	13	37	.293	.318	.415	.732	153	7	2	2	3	1
Katsuyuki Dobashi	89	299	268	22	81	16	0	6	27	0	0	18	27	.302	.357	.429	.786	115	10	6	5	2	6
Atsunori Inaba	69	289	260	46	71	8	3	11	30	4	1	18	48	.273	.336	.454	.790	118	6	7	3	1	0
Noriyuki Shiroishi	117	280	245	33	64	14	0	5	28	1	2	23	41	.261	.330	.380	.709	93	7	3	7	2	3
Akinori Iwamura	60	258	232	43	61	6	2	12	35	5	1	22	55	.263	.328	.461	.789	107	3	1	2	1	3
Shinichi Sato	76	221	206	16	57	7	2	4	31	4	1	6	33	.277	.309	.388	.697	80	1	5	1	3	0
Ryuji Miyade	60	169	159	17	44	6	1	5	18	1	0	6	27	.277	.315	.421	.737	67	5	3	1	0	0
Tetsuya Iida	66	180	156	26	41	8	0	3	17	3	2	15	31	.263	.326	.372	.697	58	2	0	8	1	0
Masanori Ishikawa	32	73	63	4	14	1	0	0	4	0	0	0	18	.222	.234	.238	.472	15	0	1	9	0	0
Hirobumi Watarai	39	45	40	8	12	3	0	2	4	0	1	3	8	.300	.349	.525	.874	21	1	0	2	0	1
Kosei Ono	44	45	40	3	8	0	0	0	3	0	0	4	12	.200	.267	.200	.467	8	1	0	0	1	1
Munehiro Shida	8	20	19	3	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	.316	.350	.368	.718	7	0	0	0	0	0
Yuhei Takai	30	35	30	2	6	2	0	0	4	0	0	0	15	.200	.200	.267	.467	8	1	0	5	0	0
Masakazu Fukukawa	22	22	21	1	5	1	0	0	4	0	0	1	7	.238	.273	.286	.558	6	0	0	0	0	0
Jason Beverlin	19	36	32	1	5	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	17	.156	.176	.156	.333	5	0	0	2	1	0
Yuichi Matsumoto	12	14	14	2	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.286	.286	.357	.643	5	0	0	0	0	0
Chihiro Hamana	20	22	18	3	4	0	1	0	1	0	1	3	9	.222	.364	.333	.697	6	1	1	0	0	0
Hideki Sato	28	18	15	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	8	.200	.250	.200	.450	3	0	0	2	0	0
Katsutoshi Ishido	5	11	11	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	3	.182	.182	.182	.364	2	0	0	0	0	0
Yoshiyuki Noguchi	51	14	12	17	2	0	0	0	0	5	2	1	5	.167	.231	.167	.397	2	0	0	1	0	0
Masato Hanada	22	14	13	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.154	.154	.154	.308	2	0	0	1	0	0
Shohei Tateyama	12	17	16	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	.125	.125	.125	.250	2	0	0	1	0	0
Yuya Kamada	31	34	28	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	15	.071	.071	.071	.143	2	1	0	6	0	0
Kevin Hodges	20	32	29	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	17	.069	.067	.069	.136	2	0	0	2	1	0
Shugo Fujii	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Ryota Igarashi	66	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Hajime Miki	26	8	7	4	1	0	0	0	0	4	1	0	2	.143	.143	.143	.286	1	0	0	1	0	0
Hiroki Hongo	9	8	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.125	.125	.125	.250	1	0	0	0	0	0
Futoshi Yamabe	34	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yataro Sakamoto	34	8	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	1	0	0
Hirotsugu Maeda	15	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ryu Kawabata	37	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hirotoshi Ishii	36	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nobuyuki Ebisu	5	6	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.200	.000	.200	0	0	0	1	0	0
Tatsuki Yamamoto	50	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	1	0	0
Totals	2032	5397	4840	683	1369	236	18	159	649	54	31	336	907	.283	.335	.438	.773	2118	99	64	119	38	30

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Todd Betts	1B	103					.000
Ken Suzuki	1B	34					.000
Hirobumi Watarai	1B	14					.000
Ryuji Miyade	1B	6					.000
Yuichi Matsumoto	1B	1					.000
Noriyuki Shiroishi	2B	91					.000
Katsuyuki Dobashi	2B	83					.000
Hajime Miki	2B	19					.000
Yoshiyuki Noguchi	2B	11					.000
Chihiro Hamana	2B	2					.000
Ken Suzuki	3B	98					.000
Akinori Iwamura	3B	47					.000
Noriyuki Shiroishi	3B	31					.000
Yoshiyuki Noguchi	3B	14					.000
Atsuya Furuta	C	139					.000
Kosei Ono	C	14					.000
Masakazu Fukukawa	C	2					.000
Alex Ramírez	OF	140					.000
Mitsuru Manaka	OF	99					.000
Atsunori Inaba	OF	69					.000
Tetsuya Iida	OF	62					.000
Shinichi Sato	OF	55					.000
Ryuji Miyade	OF	39					.000
Akinori Iwamura	OF	16					.000
Munehiro Shida	OF	7					.000
Hirobumi Watarai	OF	3					.000
Yoshiyuki Noguchi	OF	1					.000
Ryota Igarashi	P	66					.000
Tatsuki Yamamoto	P	50					.000
Shingo Takatsu	P	44					.000
Ryu Kawabata	P	37					.000
Hirotoshi Ishii	P	36					.000
Futoshi Yamabe	P	34					.000
Yataro Sakamoto	P	32					.000
Toshihide Narimoto	P	32					.000
Yuya Kamada	P	30					.000
Masanori Ishikawa	P	30					.000
Hideki Sato	P	28					.000
Yuhei Takai	P	27					.000
Masato Hanada	P	21					.000
Kevin Hodges	P	20					.000
Jason Beverlin	P	19					.000
Hirotsugu Maeda	P	15					.000
Shohei Tateyama	P	10					.000
Tadashi Honma	P	6					.000
Katsutoshi Ishido	P	5					.000
Nobuyuki Ebisu	P	5					.000
Masahiro Yoshikawa	P	4					.000
Shinji Matsuda	P	1					.000
Shugo Fujii	P	1					.000
Shinya Miyamoto	SS	140					.000
Noriyuki Shiroishi	SS	2					.000
Yoshiyuki Noguchi	SS	2					.000
Totals		1897	0	0	0	0	.000

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