1995 Orix BlueWave Roster
Team Record: 82-47
Finished 1st in the JPPL
Manager: Akira Ogi (82-47)
Location: Kobe, Japan
Ballpark: Kobe Sports Park Baseball Stadium
The Orix BlueWave of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1995 season with a record of 82 wins and 47 losses, finishing first in the JPPL.
The BlueWave scored 571 runs, best in the league. Orix conceded 428 runs. Troy Neel led the team with 27 home runs, while Ichiro Suzuki and Doug Jennings walloped 15 or more, too. Ichiro Suzuki drove in 80 runs and topped all qualifying hitters on the roster with a .342 average. Masafumi Hirai paced the squad with 15 wins, and Koichi Takahashi registered a 2.68 earned run average, best among hurlers with significant time on the mound.
Players from the 1995 Orix BlueWave who spent time in the Majors during their careers included Takahito Nomura, Ichiro Suzuki, Shigetoshi Hasegawa, Troy Neel, Doug Jennings and So Taguchi.
Akira Ogi served as manager.Click on column headings to sort.
| Player | Bats | Throws | Birth Date | Height | Weight | Hometown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toshifumi Baba | R | R | February 10, 1965 | 5'8" | 170 | Mizuma-gun, Fukuoka JP |
| Nobuyuki Ebisu | R | R | April 24, 1972 | 6'0" | 205 | Kobe, Hyogo JP |
| Yasuo Fujii | L | R | July 7, 1962 | 5'11" | 178 | Fukuyama, Hiroshima JP |
| Junichi Fukura | R | R | May 28, 1960 | 5'9" | 160 | Kitaura-cho, Miyazaki JP |
| Shigetoshi Hasegawa | R | R | August 1, 1968 | 5'11" | 160 | Kobe, JP |
| Masafumi Hirai | R | R | April 21, 1975 | 6'1" | 214 | Uwajima, Ehime JP |
| Katsuhiro Hiratsuka | R | R | January 29, 1966 | 6'0" | 180 | Sumida Ward, Tokyo JP |
| Kenji Horie | R | R | August 8, 1970 | 5'10" | 167 | Fuchu, Hiroshima JP |
| Nobuyuki Hoshino | L | L | January 31, 1966 | 6'0" | 162 | Asahikawa, Hokkaido JP |
| Takahide Ito | R | R | October 21, 1963 | 6'0" | 171 | Kita Shitara-gun, Aichi JP |
| Doug Jennings | L | L | September 30, 1964 | 5'10" | 175 | Atlanta, GA US |
| Masahiko Kaneda | L | L | April 30, 1969 | 5'10" | 136 | Bungotakada, Oita JP |
| Naoyuki Kazaoka | R | R | January 24, 1968 | 5'9" | 158 | Kasugai, Aichi JP |
| Yuichi Kiyohara | L | L | May 23, 1969 | 5'10" | 190 | Higashikuni, Oita JP |
| Hiroshi Kobayashi | R | R | November 30, 1970 | 6'0" | 180 | Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima JP |
| Rui Makino | R | R | July 17, 1974 | 6'0" | 190 | Yokohama, Kanagawa JP |
| Eiji Maruo | R | R | April 26, 1972 | 5'8" | 150 | Himeji, Hyogo JP |
| Hideaki Matsuyama | R | R | April 18, 1967 | 5'9" | 165 | Ito-gun, Wakayama JP |
| Takashi Miwa | R | R | December 1, 1969 | 5'10" | 178 | Kashiwa, Chiba JP |
| Yoshitaka Mizuo | L | L | May 2, 1968 | 5'11" | 180 | Sakade, Kagawa JP |
| Atsuhiro Motonishi | R | R | May 15, 1962 | 5'9" | 165 | Nagasaki, Nagasaki JP |
| Satoshi Nakajima | R | R | March 27, 1969 | 6'0" | 181 | Kita Akita-gun, Akita JP |
| Troy Neel | L | R | September 14, 1965 | 6'4" | 210 | Freeport, TX US |
| Koji Noda | R | R | February 9, 1968 | 6'1" | 180 | Kuma-gun, Kumamoto JP |
| Takahito Nomura | L | L | January 10, 1969 | 5'7" | 175 | Kouchi, Kochi JP |
| Hirofumi Ogawa | R | R | March 6, 1967 | 5'8" | 171 | Tateyama, Chiba JP |
| Akinobu Okada | R | R | November 25, 1957 | 5'9" | 170 | Kita Ward, Osaka JP |
| Yoshinori Sato | R | R | September 11, 1954 | 5'11" | 190 | Okushiri-gun, Hokkaido JP |
| Minoru Shibahara | L | L | August 6, 1960 | 5'9" | 176 | Bizen, Okayama JP |
| Naofumi Sugimoto | R | R | May 9, 1971 | 5'10" | 176 | Anan, Tokushima JP |
| Hironori Suguro | R | R | September 23, 1963 | 5'11" | 167 | Funabashi, Chiba JP |
| Ichiro Suzuki | L | R | October 22, 1973 | 5'11" | 175 | Nichi Kasugai-gun, Aichi JP |
| Taira Suzuki | R | R | March 10, 1970 | 6'2" | 171 | Iwata, Fukuoka JP |
| So Taguchi | R | R | July 2, 1969 | 5'10" | 170 | Fukuoka, Fukuoka JP |
| Makoto Takada | L | R | June 9, 1964 | 5'11" | 176 | Koto Ward, Tokyo JP |
| Koichi Takahashi | R | R | July 2, 1971 | 6'0" | 178 | Noshiro, Akita JP |
| Satoshi Takahashi | R | R | January 26, 1967 | 6'4" | 215 | Yokohama, Kanagawa JP |
| Toru Takashima | R | R | April 18, 1970 | 5'7" | 165 | Utsunomiya, Tochigi JP |
| Takashi Watabe | L | L | August 27, 1972 | 5'10" | 143 | Sapporo, Hokkaido JP |
| Nobuhiko Watanabe | R | R | March 22, 1966 | 5'9" | 140 | Ochi-gun, Shimane JP |
| Minoru Yojo | L | L | September 27, 1966 | 5'11" | 180 | Naka Koma-gun, Yamanashi JP |
