1999 Orix BlueWave Roster
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
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 Troy Neel, Yasuo Fujii 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, Harvey Pulliam, So Taguchi, Edwin Hurtado, Robert Pérez, Willie Banks and Ichiro Suzuki were all players from the 1999 Orix BlueWave who played in the Majors during their careers.
Akira Ogi served as manager.Click on column headings to sort.
| Player | Bats | Throws | Birth Date | Height | Weight | Hometown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ryota Aikawa | R | R | January 18, 1977 | 6'0" | 172 | Fukuoka, Fukuoka JP |
| Willie Banks | R | R | February 27, 1969 | 6'1" | 190 | Jersey City, NJ US |
| 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 |
| Hiroki Fukutome | R | R | May 21, 1975 | 5'10" | 173 | Nagoya, Aichi JP |
| Paul Gonzalez | L | R | April 22, 1969 | 6'0" | 190 | Fort Worth, TX US |
| Yuji Goshima | L | R | April 20, 1976 | 5'11" | 195 | Kofu, Yamanashi JP |
| Takeshi Hidaka | L | R | August 15, 1977 | 5'11" | 185 | Kita Kyushu, Fukuoka JP |
| Masafumi Hirai | R | R | April 21, 1975 | 6'1" | 214 | Uwajima, Ehime JP |
| Nobuyuki Hoshino | L | L | January 31, 1966 | 6'0" | 162 | Asahikawa, Hokkaido JP |
| Edwin Hurtado | R | R | February 1, 1970 | 6'3" | 215 | Barquisimeto, Lara VE |
| Akihito Igarashi | L | R | April 12, 1968 | 5'11" | 158 | Maebashi, Gunma JP |
| Fumiaki Imamura | R | R | July 13, 1977 | 5'11" | 154 | Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto JP |
| Takahide Ito | R | R | October 21, 1963 | 6'0" | 171 | Kita Shitara-gun, Aichi JP |
| Masahiko Kaneda | L | L | April 30, 1969 | 5'10" | 136 | Bungotakada, Oita JP |
| Toshihiro Kase | L | L | October 6, 1976 | 5'10" | 176 | Amagasaki, Hyogo JP |
| Shinichi Kato | R | R | July 19, 1965 | 5'11" | 178 | Kurayoshi, Tottori JP |
| Hidetaka Kawagoe | R | R | June 8, 1973 | 5'9" | 163 | Sagamihara, Kanagawa JP |
| Tomoya Kawaguchi | August 25, 1979 | |||||
| Masahiro Kimura | R | R | August 16, 1974 | 6'4" | 191 | , Tokyo JP |
| Hiroshi Kobayashi | R | R | November 30, 1970 | 6'0" | 180 | Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima JP |
| Satoshi Kuriyama | R | R | June 15, 1974 | 6'1" | 176 | Niigata, Niigata JP |
| Hirotsugu Maeda | L | L | January 3, 1976 | 5'8" | 180 | Munakata, Fukuoka JP |
| Rui Makino | R | R | July 17, 1974 | 6'0" | 190 | Yokohama, Kanagawa JP |
| Shuichiro Matsumoto | L | R | June 22, 1972 | 5'10" | 154 | Kumamoto, Kumamoto JP |
| Mark Mimbs | L | L | February 13, 1969 | 6'2" | 190 | Macon, GA US |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Hirofumi Ogawa | R | R | March 6, 1967 | 5'8" | 171 | Tateyama, Chiba JP |
| Hisashi Ogura | R | R | August 10, 1970 | 5'10" | 163 | Kanuma, Tochigi JP |
| Koichi Oshima | S | R | June 17, 1967 | 5'6" | 147 | Itabashi Ward, Tokyo JP |
| Atsushi Ota | March 20, 1978 | |||||
| Robert Pérez | R | R | June 4, 1969 | 6'3" | 205 | Ciudad Bolivar, Bolivar VE |
| Harvey Pulliam | R | R | October 20, 1967 | 6'0" | 210 | San Francisco, CA US |
| Hidemitsu Saito | R | R | April 18, 1975 | 6'0" | 172 | Yokohama, Kanagawa JP |
| Manabu Satake | R | R | October 27, 1974 | 5'10" | 170 | Sapporo, Hokkaido JP |
| Makoto Shiozaki | R | R | June 29, 1973 | 5'10" | 159 | Yashiro, Kumamoto JP |
| Kiyohiko Sugimoto | July 9, 1974 | |||||
| Naofumi Sugimoto | R | R | May 9, 1971 | 5'10" | 176 | Anan, Tokushima JP |
| Yu Sugimoto | R | R | June 19, 1973 | 6'1" | 191 | Tokorozawa, Saitama 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 |
| Koichi Takahashi | R | R | July 2, 1971 | 6'0" | 178 | Noshiro, Akita JP |
| Nobuo Takahashi | L | R | March 22, 1972 | 5'10" | 170 | Showamura, Gunma JP |
| Masaoki Tanaka | L | R | May 5, 1977 | 5'8" | 143 | Kumamoto, Kumamoto JP |
| Yoshitomo Tani | R | R | February 9, 1973 | 5'8" | 170 | Higashi Osaka, Osaka JP |
| Satoshi Tokumoto | L | R | September 20, 1976 | 5'11" | 190 | Itoman, Okinawa JP |
| Yuichi Yanagisawa | R | R | August 2, 1971 | 5'11" | 162 | Matsumoto, Nagano JP |
