1998 Chiba Lotte Marines Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 61-71
Finished 6th in the JPPL
Manager: Akihito Kondo (61-71)
Location: Chiba-shi, Japan
Ballpark: Zozo Marine Stadium

1998 Chiba Lotte Marines Roster

The Chiba Lotte Marines of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1998 season with a record of 61 wins and 71 losses, finishing sixth in the JPPL.

The Marines scored 581 runs and surrendered 563 runs. Kiyoshi Hatsushiba led Chiba Lotte with 25 home runs, and Julio Franco walloped 15 or more, too. Kiyoshi Hatsushiba recorded 86 runs batted in. Mitsuchika Hirai paced batters with significant playing time by connecting at a .320 clip. Tomohiro Kuroki topped the squad with 13 wins and a team-best 3.29 earned run average, best among pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.

Players from the 1998 Chiba Lotte Marines who spent time in the Majors during their careers included Mark Carreon, Satoru Komiyama, Joe Crawford, Julio Franco, Scott Davison and Yasuhiko Yabuta.

Akihito Kondo 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
Tomohiro Kuroki	13	9	.591	3.29	31	28	3	8	2	0	197.0	185	78	72	14	89	2	124	1	0	12	831
Satoru Komiyama	11	12	.478	3.57	27	27	0	10	2	0	201.7	224	101	80	20	27	1	126	5	1	2	836
Junichiro Muto	8	7	.533	3.76	26	21	1	2	2	0	141.3	131	69	59	18	55	1	102	5	0	2	611
Soichi Fujita	6	4	.600	2.17	56	0	23	0	0	7	66.3	62	18	16	3	19	2	54	1	1	4	270
Kazumi Sonokawa	5	4	.556	3.89	39	10	2	2	1	0	83.3	95	38	36	7	28	2	53	4	0	1	368
Toshiyuki Goto	4	2	.667	2.30	10	8	1	2	1	0	62.7	50	19	16	3	19	0	28	2	1	0	246
Joe Crawford	4	6	.400	4.77	15	15	0	2	0	0	77.3	85	48	41	6	51	1	37	2	3	2	358
Tsuneyuki Iso	3	4	.429	5.66	16	10	2	1	0	0	55.7	58	36	35	10	30	2	37	2	0	7	252
Brian Warren	2	1	.667	0.93	24	0	6	0	0	3	29.0	18	3	3	0	8	0	9	2	0	2	109
Yasuhiko Yabuta	2	9	.182	4.84	17	16	0	2	0	0	100.3	123	61	54	15	40	1	45	1	6	8	448
Hiromu Kojima	1	0	1.000	3.48	17	0	3	0	0	0	10.3	7	5	4	0	4	0	7	3	1	1	44
Takahisa Hoshiba	1	0	1.000	3.71	18	0	10	0	0	0	34.0	38	14	14	3	11	0	14	2	0	1	146
Koji Takekiyo	1	3	.250	3.60	20	0	8	0	0	0	35.0	32	15	14	4	16	0	23	2	0	0	153
Hiroyuki Kobayashi	0	0		0.00	2	0	2	0	0	0	2.3	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	11
Shingo Ono	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	5
Hiroaki Kawamata	0	0		3.04	16	0	5	0	0	0	26.7	18	10	9	4	7	0	21	0	0	1	102
Ryu Hanekawa	0	0		27.00	2	0	2	0	0	0	0.3	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Scott Davison	0	1	.000	2.35	5	0	1	0	0	0	7.7	8	2	2	0	5	2	8	0	0	0	35
Yoshihisa Kondo	0	2	.000	5.23	26	0	7	0	0	0	31.0	36	20	18	4	12	1	27	0	0	2	141
Atsushi Yoshida	0	3	.000	7.64	17	0	11	0	0	3	17.7	26	15	15	4	9	3	13	0	1	0	87
Yasuyuki Kawamoto	0	4	.000	3.42	25	0	18	0	0	9	26.3	24	10	10	2	15	2	22	0	0	1	115
Totals	61	71	.462	3.72	410	135	106	29	8	22	1207.0	1225	563	499	118	448	20	750	32	14	47	5171

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
Julio Franco	131	562	487	78	141	27	2	18	77	7	5	68	107	.290	.379	.464	.843	226	16	4	0	3	8
Kiyoshi Hatsushiba	134	537	473	68	140	38	3	25	86	0	1	56	79	.296	.374	.548	.922	259	18	5	0	3	1
Kazuya Fukuura	129	526	465	61	132	32	3	3	57	1	2	51	78	.284	.356	.385	.740	179	10	4	0	6	3
Mitsuchika Hirai	116	448	387	59	124	21	0	8	35	3	0	45	42	.320	.391	.437	.827	169	4	1	13	2	3
Koichi Hori	127	493	444	51	107	24	4	10	44	12	5	39	85	.241	.303	.381	.683	169	8	2	4	4	4
Makoto Kosaka	124	527	430	51	100	12	8	3	33	43	11	40	48	.233	.299	.319	.617	137	3	3	48	6	2
Iwao Omura	95	296	283	20	81	10	0	6	38	2	1	11	45	.286	.314	.385	.699	109	13	1	0	1	1
Yukihiko Sato	104	266	231	32	74	18	0	8	41	0	2	27	44	.320	.394	.502	.896	116	5	3	2	3	3
Mark Carreon	60	251	227	22	68	12	0	8	37	0	0	22	20	.300	.359	.458	.817	104	8	0	0	2	0
Kenji Morozumi	103	217	190	30	53	6	4	0	18	4	5	19	22	.279	.343	.353	.695	67	1	1	4	3	0
Naoki Matsumoto	85	181	165	19	46	6	4	2	13	1	0	8	16	.279	.320	.400	.720	66	3	2	6	0	0
Tadaharu Sakai	98	217	183	18	45	18	0	1	18	1	1	17	35	.246	.307	.361	.668	66	2	0	15	2	0
Kenji Yoshitsuru	86	190	162	23	38	3	1	4	25	0	0	18	29	.235	.313	.340	.653	55	1	1	8	1	0
Takashi Tachikawa	81	182	153	19	33	6	3	2	6	3	1	24	44	.216	.324	.333	.657	51	5	1	3	1	3
Masaumi Shimizu	57	146	131	12	24	3	0	2	13	2	0	8	33	.183	.236	.252	.488	33	3	1	6	0	0
Yasushi Yamamoto	32	50	45	6	15	5	3	0	8	0	0	4	9	.333	.400	.578	.978	26	2	1	0	0	0
Takumi Shiigi	53	73	61	6	10	0	0	1	3	0	0	7	11	.164	.250	.213	.463	13	0	0	5	0	0
Yoichi Fukuzawa	36	38	30	5	6	0	0	1	4	0	0	5	9	.200	.297	.300	.597	9	0	0	1	2	0
Akira Otsuka	5	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Kazutoshi Higuchi	11	8	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.167	.286	.167	.452	1	0	0	1	0	0
Norihito Yamashita	10	10	10	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.100	.100	.100	.200	1	0	0	0	0	0
Ryosuke Sawai	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Masahiro Takahashi	4	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	1	0	0
Saburo Omura	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1685	5228	4572	581	1240	241	35	102	556	80	34	470	767	.271	.340	.406	.747	1857	103	30	117	39	28

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Kazuya Fukuura	1B	127					.000
Yasushi Yamamoto	1B	13					.000
Yukihiko Sato	1B	7					.000
Kiyoshi Hatsushiba	1B	4					.000
Julio Franco	1B	1					.000
Naoki Matsumoto	2B	62					.000
Julio Franco	2B	60					.000
Tadaharu Sakai	2B	33					.000
Koichi Hori	2B	20					.000
Yasushi Yamamoto	2B	4					.000
Kazutoshi Higuchi	2B	1					.000
Kiyoshi Hatsushiba	3B	120					.000
Tadaharu Sakai	3B	49					.000
Naoki Matsumoto	3B	6					.000
Yasushi Yamamoto	3B	2					.000
Masahiro Takahashi	3B	2					.000
Ryosuke Sawai	3B	1					.000
Koichi Hori	3B	1					.000
Kazutoshi Higuchi	3B	1					.000
Kenji Yoshitsuru	C	83					.000
Masaumi Shimizu	C	57					.000
Takumi Shiigi	C	52					.000
Yoichi Fukuzawa	C	35					.000
Mitsuchika Hirai	OF	113					.000
Koichi Hori	OF	112					.000
Kenji Morozumi	OF	88					.000
Iwao Omura	OF	80					.000
Yukihiko Sato	OF	73					.000
Takashi Tachikawa	OF	61					.000
Akira Otsuka	OF	3					.000
Norihito Yamashita	OF	2					.000
Saburo Omura	OF	2					.000
Masahiro Takahashi	OF	1					.000
Soichi Fujita	P	56					.000
Kazumi Sonokawa	P	39					.000
Tomohiro Kuroki	P	31					.000
Satoru Komiyama	P	27					.000
Junichiro Muto	P	26					.000
Yoshihisa Kondo	P	26					.000
Yasuyuki Kawamoto	P	25					.000
Brian Warren	P	24					.000
Koji Takekiyo	P	20					.000
Takahisa Hoshiba	P	18					.000
Atsushi Yoshida	P	17					.000
Yasuhiko Yabuta	P	17					.000
Hiromu Kojima	P	17					.000
Hiroaki Kawamata	P	16					.000
Tsuneyuki Iso	P	16					.000
Joe Crawford	P	15					.000
Toshiyuki Goto	P	10					.000
Scott Davison	P	5					.000
Hiroyuki Kobayashi	P	2					.000
Ryu Hanekawa	P	2					.000
Shingo Ono	P	1					.000
Makoto Kosaka	SS	123					.000
Tadaharu Sakai	SS	22					.000
Naoki Matsumoto	SS	2					.000
Kazutoshi Higuchi	SS	2					.000
Koichi Hori	SS	1					.000
Totals		1836	0	0	0	0	.000

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