1996 Chiba Lotte Marines Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 60-67
Finished 5th in the JPPL
Manager: Akira Ejiri (0-0), Shozo Eto (0-0)
Location: Chiba-shi, Japan
Ballpark: Zozo Marine Stadium

1996 Chiba Lotte Marines Roster

The Chiba Lotte Marines of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1996 season with a record of 60 wins and 67 losses, finishing fifth in the JPPL.

The Marines plated 456 runs, worst in the league, and yielded 525 runs. Kiyoshi Hatsushiba paced Chiba Lotte with 17 home runs, and Koichi Hori walloped 15 or more, too. Koichi Hori drove in 68 runs and topped all qualifying hitters on the roster by connecting at a .312 clip. Eric Hillman led the team with 14 wins, while Eric Hillman and Hideki Irabu earned a 2.41 ERA, tops among qualifying pitchers.

Darrell Whitmore, Eric Hillman, Jack Daugherty, Hideki Irabu, Satoru Komiyama, Wes Chamberlain, Randy Ready and Yasuhiko Yabuta were all players from the 1996 Chiba Lotte Marines who played in the Majors during their careers.

Akira Ejiri and Shozo Eto 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
Eric Hillman	14	9	.609	2.40	29	29	0	11	3	0	213.3	179	66	57	12	46	1	119	15	0	3	861
Hideki Irabu	12	6	.667	2.40	23	23	0	3	0	0	157.3	108	56	42	7	59	0	167	3	4	7	639
Tomohiro Kuroki	8	7	.533	3.58	28	19	5	0	0	0	135.7	119	58	54	11	57	3	90	4	0	4	576
Satoru Komiyama	8	13	.381	4.54	25	25	0	2	0	0	154.7	192	86	78	17	39	2	90	5	0	4	680
Toshihide Narimoto	7	6	.538	3.32	45	0	39	0	0	23	62.3	56	26	23	8	15	5	64	1	0	2	259
Yasuyuki Kawamoto	4	5	.444	2.78	50	0	24	0	0	10	64.7	47	20	20	6	23	1	76	0	0	2	254
Yasuhiko Yabuta	4	6	.400	3.62	18	11	3	1	1	0	92.0	79	39	37	8	29	0	58	3	0	5	376
Atsushi Yoshida	2	3	.400	5.52	27	0	8	0	0	0	45.7	44	28	28	6	31	0	29	0	0	1	203
Yasuhiro Enoki	1	3	.250	3.92	17	4	5	0	0	0	39.0	44	20	17	8	12	1	20	4	0	0	170
Takashi Wada	0	0		0.00	4	0	3	0	0	0	5.3	5	1	0	0	1	0	7	0	0	1	21
Takatoshi Kishikawa	0	0		4.76	14	0	4	0	0	0	11.3	11	6	6	0	2	0	10	0	0	1	47
Akinori Kobayashi	0	0		5.40	3	0	1	0	0	0	6.7	9	4	4	1	2	0	1	0	0	1	30
Toshiyuki Goto	0	0		5.40	2	0	1	0	0	0	1.7	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7
Naoyuki Naito	0	0		6.30	4	2	2	0	0	0	10.0	12	7	7	1	4	0	8	1	0	0	45
Hiroshi Tsuno	0	0		6.55	12	0	0	0	0	0	11.0	12	8	8	3	4	0	7	0	0	0	47
Kotaro Azuse	0	0		10.80	4	0	2	0	0	0	3.3	7	4	4	2	3	0	1	0	0	0	19
Junichiro Muto	0	1	.000	5.03	26	4	8	0	0	0	59.0	70	35	33	7	15	0	48	2	0	1	253
Koji Nakada	0	1	.000	6.23	9	2	5	0	0	0	17.3	16	12	12	7	6	0	19	0	0	1	72
Kazumi Sonokawa	0	7	.000	5.45	23	11	2	1	0	0	76.0	89	48	46	11	22	1	49	2	0	5	336
Totals	60	67	.472	3.68	363	130	112	18	4	33	1166.3	1101	525	477	115	370	14	863	40	4	38	4895

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
Koichi Hori	122	527	465	70	145	28	3	16	68	8	2	55	87	.312	.384	.488	.872	227	7	1	4	2	2
Kiyoshi Hatsushiba	123	511	469	52	124	23	5	17	61	2	1	35	106	.264	.317	.443	.761	208	16	3	0	4	5
Tokitaka Minamibuchi	128	518	439	41	116	22	1	5	38	7	1	48	36	.264	.335	.353	.688	155	12	0	29	2	2
Mitsuchika Hirai	122	415	357	38	89	16	2	5	33	4	6	36	52	.249	.319	.347	.666	124	11	1	20	1	4
Akihito Igarashi	114	362	321	32	87	14	1	3	35	1	2	27	32	.271	.327	.349	.676	112	3	0	13	1	2
Kenji Morozumi	112	373	316	40	80	9	4	0	11	15	8	39	79	.253	.338	.307	.645	97	0	2	15	1	2
Toru Nimura	105	353	319	22	80	14	0	4	24	1	1	30	51	.251	.318	.332	.650	106	12	2	1	1	0
Wes Chamberlain	68	290	261	26	66	11	0	11	38	7	2	26	52	.253	.328	.421	.749	110	47	3	0	0	0
Iwao Omura	76	211	199	23	62	12	0	8	32	0	0	5	44	.312	.332	.492	.824	98	2	3	0	4	1
Darrell Whitmore	57	244	229	27	61	9	0	12	29	12	5	12	65	.266	.307	.463	.770	106	4	2	0	1	1
Fujio Tamura	95	223	169	17	28	5	0	1	8	0	1	30	53	.166	.294	.213	.507	36	2	1	22	1	0
Masahiko Jozume	79	176	146	10	27	6	0	2	15	4	2	10	32	.185	.234	.267	.501	39	1	0	18	2	0
Tadaharu Sakai	68	114	98	13	22	4	1	0	5	4	1	7	14	.224	.274	.286	.559	28	3	0	8	1	0
Yukihiko Sato	54	105	88	7	20	4	3	0	16	1	0	11	20	.227	.304	.341	.645	30	1	0	3	3	0
Randy Ready	30	107	90	3	18	4	0	1	11	0	0	15	22	.200	.318	.278	.596	25	0	1	0	1	0
Ken Hirano	23	59	47	6	14	5	0	0	4	0	0	2	12	.298	.320	.404	.724	19	0	0	9	1	0
Naoki Matsumoto	26	44	42	5	13	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	6	.310	.310	.333	.643	14	0	0	2	0	0
Hiroyasu Hayashi	31	78	64	5	12	0	0	0	2	1	0	12	12	.188	.316	.188	.503	12	0	0	2	0	0
Kenji Yoshitsuru	20	28	26	0	6	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	7	.231	.286	.269	.555	7	1	0	0	0	0
Takashi Tachikawa	14	31	29	3	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	6	.172	.226	.172	.398	5	3	0	0	0	0
Jack Daugherty	19	45	42	1	5	2	0	0	4	0	0	3	13	.119	.178	.167	.344	7	1	0	0	0	0
Norihito Yamashita	13	26	22	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	6	.091	.231	.136	.367	3	2	0	0	0	0
Norifumi Nishimura	34	31	25	9	2	0	0	0	0	4	0	6	2	.080	.258	.080	.338	2	0	0	0	0	0
Saburo Omura	9	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Shoji Toyama	3	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0	0	0	0
Hideaki Watanabe	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kenji Tanba	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kiyoshi Yamanaka	12	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kenichiro Hayakawa	29	31	24	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	9	.000	.172	.000	.172	0	0	1	2	0	0
Totals	1590	4916	4301	456	1086	191	20	85	437	71	32	421	823	.252	.320	.365	.686	1572	128	20	148	26	19

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Toru Nimura	1B	67					.000
Akihito Igarashi	1B	54					.000
Wes Chamberlain	1B	28					.000
Yukihiko Sato	1B	11					.000
Jack Daugherty	1B	5					.000
Norihito Yamashita	1B	4					.000
Shoji Toyama	1B	1					.000
Kiyoshi Hatsushiba	1B	1					.000
Tokitaka Minamibuchi	2B	128					.000
Naoki Matsumoto	2B	14					.000
Tadaharu Sakai	2B	9					.000
Kiyoshi Hatsushiba	3B	106					.000
Koichi Hori	3B	19					.000
Toru Nimura	3B	10					.000
Tadaharu Sakai	3B	6					.000
Yukihiko Sato	3B	1					.000
Akihito Igarashi	3B	1					.000
Fujio Tamura	C	95					.000
Masahiko Jozume	C	78					.000
Kenji Yoshitsuru	C	20					.000
Kiyoshi Yamanaka	C	11					.000
Mitsuchika Hirai	OF	121					.000
Kenji Morozumi	OF	104					.000
Iwao Omura	OF	55					.000
Darrell Whitmore	OF	53					.000
Akihito Igarashi	OF	52					.000
Yukihiko Sato	OF	34					.000
Norifumi Nishimura	OF	27					.000
Kenichiro Hayakawa	OF	26					.000
Hiroyasu Hayashi	OF	19					.000
Ken Hirano	OF	16					.000
Takashi Tachikawa	OF	13					.000
Randy Ready	OF	13					.000
Saburo Omura	OF	3					.000
Kenji Tanba	OF	2					.000
Yasuyuki Kawamoto	P	50					.000
Toshihide Narimoto	P	45					.000
Eric Hillman	P	29					.000
Tomohiro Kuroki	P	28					.000
Atsushi Yoshida	P	27					.000
Junichiro Muto	P	26					.000
Satoru Komiyama	P	25					.000
Kazumi Sonokawa	P	23					.000
Hideki Irabu	P	23					.000
Yasuhiko Yabuta	P	18					.000
Yasuhiro Enoki	P	17					.000
Takatoshi Kishikawa	P	14					.000
Hiroshi Tsuno	P	12					.000
Koji Nakada	P	9					.000
Takashi Wada	P	4					.000
Naoyuki Naito	P	4					.000
Kotaro Azuse	P	4					.000
Akinori Kobayashi	P	3					.000
Toshiyuki Goto	P	2					.000
Koichi Hori	SS	95					.000
Tadaharu Sakai	SS	45					.000
Akihito Igarashi	SS	12					.000
Saburo Omura	SS	4					.000
Totals		1726	0	0	0	0	.000

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