1997 Hiroshima Toyo Carp Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 66-69
Finished 3rd in the JPCL
Manager: Toshiyuki Mimura (66-69)
Location: Hiroshima, Japan
Ballpark: Hiroshima Municipal Stadium

1997 Hiroshima Toyo Carp Roster

The Hiroshima Toyo Carp of the Japan Central League ended the 1997 season with a record of 66 wins and 69 losses, finishing third in the JPCL.

The Toyo Carp scored 651 runs and surrendered 653 runs, most in the circuit. Tomoaki Kanemoto walloped 33 home runs for Hiroshima, while Tomonori Maeda, Akira Eto, Koichi Ogata and Luis Lopez each swatted 15 or more also. Luis Lopez drove in 112 runs and topped batters with significant playing time by connecting at a .320 clip. Toshikazu Sawazaki led the squad with 12 wins, and Yutaka Ono recorded a 2.86 ERA, best among qualifying pitchers.

Players from the 1997 Hiroshima Toyo Carp who spent time in the Majors during their careers included Luis Lopez, Timo Pérez, Alfonso Soriano, Hiroki Kuroda and Ken Takahashi.

Toshiyuki Mimura 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
Toshikazu Sawazaki	12	8	.600	3.74	38	21	10	2	1	0	156.3	162	68	65	23	47	1	106	7	0	4	673
Ryuji Yokoyama	10	5	.667	3.27	56	0	19	0	0	1	93.7	79	35	34	7	39	0	104	3	0	8	399
Yutaka Ono	9	6	.600	2.85	23	23	0	2	1	0	135.7	121	58	43	7	47	2	80	0	0	3	570
Yasuyuki Yamauchi	7	11	.389	5.21	28	25	1	3	1	0	152.0	172	90	88	23	47	2	120	3	1	6	672
Hiroki Kuroda	6	9	.400	4.40	23	23	0	4	1	0	135.0	147	72	66	17	63	0	64	4	1	8	601
Hideki Takahashi	5	1	.833	3.86	42	0	13	0	0	0	58.3	68	31	25	4	20	4	34	1	0	1	258
Shinji Sasaoka	5	5	.500	2.65	39	0	35	0	0	21	57.7	54	19	17	5	20	3	64	2	0	3	243
Yoshiki Tanaka	3	1	.750	5.47	15	11	3	0	0	0	54.3	52	38	33	6	38	2	41	1	0	4	252
Ken Takahashi	3	4	.429	4.79	34	4	4	0	0	0	62.0	69	37	33	8	34	1	35	0	0	3	282
Felix Perdomo	2	2	.500	4.03	17	0	8	0	0	0	29.0	26	16	13	2	13	1	18	4	0	3	127
Kotaro Azuse	1	0	1.000	5.26	37	0	4	0	0	0	25.7	21	17	15	2	11	0	17	6	1	1	113
Masayuki Hasegawa	1	0	1.000	6.10	2	2	0	0	0	0	10.3	12	7	7	1	4	0	10	0	0	0	46
Makoto Kito	1	5	.167	5.66	17	8	5	1	1	0	49.3	63	33	31	11	20	2	38	2	0	0	225
Shinichi Kato	1	5	.167	7.48	17	9	2	0	0	0	49.3	72	42	41	13	14	1	18	4	1	3	231
Takanobu Wakabayashi	0	0		2.92	30	0	5	0	0	0	37.0	38	12	12	1	11	0	21	2	0	1	157
Yasukatsu Shirai	0	0		7.50	4	0	1	0	0	0	6.0	7	5	5	2	6	0	1	0	0	0	29
Koji Kobayakawa	0	0		11.00	15	1	5	0	0	0	9.0	10	11	11	3	8	0	4	1	0	0	44
Tsuyoshi Kikuchihara	0	0		11.57	1	1	0	0	0	0	2.3	3	3	3	0	3	0	0	1	0	1	14
Takashi Maema	0	0		11.81	6	0	0	0	0	0	5.3	6	7	7	0	5	0	6	1	0	0	28
Shigenobu Shima	0	1	.000	7.71	2	1	0	0	0	0	2.3	5	3	2	0	5	0	1	0	0	0	15
Masahito Yamane	0	1	.000	8.31	3	0	0	0	0	0	4.3	4	4	4	0	2	0	3	0	0	0	19
Ken Yamasaki	0	2	.000	5.17	20	6	3	0	0	0	38.3	47	23	22	9	7	0	23	0	0	0	163
Shigeo Tamaki	0	3	.000	4.84	25	0	5	0	0	0	35.3	34	22	19	2	20	1	29	1	0	0	161
Totals	66	69	.489	4.44	494	135	123	12	5	22	1208.7	1272	653	596	146	484	20	837	43	4	49	5322

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
Luis Lopez	134	580	532	80	170	37	0	30	112	0	0	36	58	.320	.366	.558	.924	297	15	6	0	6	1
Kenjiro Nomura	131	601	540	81	151	25	0	13	52	26	5	54	68	.280	.349	.398	.748	215	10	5	0	2	3
Koichi Ogata	135	615	528	103	143	26	5	17	57	49	9	70	93	.271	.361	.436	.797	230	9	6	9	2	1
Tomoaki Kanemoto	133	552	465	77	140	17	2	33	82	13	9	80	104	.301	.404	.559	.963	260	8	3	0	4	5
Tomonori Maeda	100	419	382	55	116	23	1	15	68	1	0	28	35	.304	.348	.487	.835	186	7	2	0	7	2
Akira Eto	110	479	393	78	99	12	3	28	76	3	0	81	92	.252	.384	.511	.896	201	6	4	0	1	4
Kozo Shoda	117	365	324	34	78	11	2	6	34	0	2	19	29	.241	.282	.343	.625	111	8	0	21	1	0
Kojiro Machida	103	301	257	34	62	10	0	10	33	4	4	33	56	.241	.342	.397	.739	102	7	7	3	1	0
Shuji Nishiyama	103	313	264	22	54	4	0	5	28	6	0	36	64	.205	.300	.277	.577	73	8	1	10	2	11
Timo Pérez	86	152	139	17	34	4	2	3	15	2	2	10	16	.245	.295	.367	.662	51	5	0	3	0	3
Terunobu Seto	79	175	152	13	31	4	2	2	12	1	0	14	30	.204	.288	.296	.584	45	4	4	5	0	3
Kenichi Takayama	33	75	68	8	18	3	1	1	4	0	0	2	11	.265	.296	.382	.678	26	3	1	4	0	0
Itsuki Asai	87	88	77	4	18	2	1	1	6	1	0	10	17	.234	.330	.325	.654	25	2	1	0	0	3
Takuya Kimura	77	88	78	17	18	1	0	0	5	8	1	8	25	.231	.302	.244	.546	19	0	0	2	0	0
Takeshi Nonogaki	41	58	52	5	17	1	2	0	5	0	0	2	8	.327	.352	.423	.775	22	2	0	4	0	0
Toshikazu Sawazaki	38	53	43	1	12	3	0	0	6	0	0	2	11	.279	.311	.349	.660	15	0	0	8	0	0
Yutaka Ono	23	52	44	2	7	1	0	0	5	0	0	2	15	.159	.188	.182	.369	8	0	0	4	2	0
Yasuyuki Yamauchi	33	57	52	1	5	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	25	.096	.113	.096	.209	5	1	0	4	0	0
Ken Takahashi	34	16	16	3	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	.250	.250	.250	.500	4	0	0	0	0	0
Masayuki Hasegawa	2	5	5	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.400	.400	.400	.800	2	0	0	0	0	0
Koji Obata	17	13	12	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	8	.167	.231	.167	.397	2	0	0	0	0	0
Alfonso Soriano	9	19	17	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	.118	.211	.118	.328	2	0	0	0	0	0
Shinji Ko	45	42	33	4	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	6	5	.061	.225	.061	.286	2	1	1	2	0	1
Shigenobu Shima	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Ryuji Yokoyama	57	8	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.143	.250	.143	.393	1	0	0	0	0	0
Shinichi Kato	17	15	12	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.083	.154	.083	.237	1	0	0	2	0	0
Hiroki Kuroda	27	48	40	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	25	.025	.114	.025	.139	1	0	0	4	0	0
Kaoru Nihei	15	8	7	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	.000	.125	.000	.125	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ken Yamasaki	20	9	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Takanobu Wakabayashi	30	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.333	.000	.333	0	0	0	1	0	0
Yoshiki Tanaka	15	16	13	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	6	.000	.071	.000	.071	0	1	0	2	0	0
Shigeo Tamaki	25	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.500	.000	.500	0	0	0	2	0	0
Shoshi Chiyomaru	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Koji Kobayakawa	15	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Makoto Kito	17	15	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	9	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Kazuki Fukuchi	2	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tsuyoshi Kikuchihara	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Felix Perdomo	17	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shinji Sasaoka	39	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.333	.000	.333	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1971	5263	4594	651	1189	184	21	164	608	117	32	508	840	.259	.336	.415	.751	1907	97	41	92	28	37

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Luis Lopez	1B	134					.000
Kojiro Machida	1B	28					.000
Itsuki Asai	1B	16					.000
Kozo Shoda	2B	101					.000
Kenichi Takayama	2B	23					.000
Shinji Ko	2B	23					.000
Kojiro Machida	2B	15					.000
Takeshi Nonogaki	2B	10					.000
Takuya Kimura	2B	10					.000
Alfonso Soriano	2B	7					.000
Kazuki Fukuchi	2B	1					.000
Akira Eto	3B	110					.000
Kojiro Machida	3B	27					.000
Takeshi Nonogaki	3B	14					.000
Shinji Ko	3B	3					.000
Shuji Nishiyama	C	98					.000
Terunobu Seto	C	78					.000
Koji Obata	C	12					.000
Koichi Ogata	OF	134					.000
Tomoaki Kanemoto	OF	128					.000
Tomonori Maeda	OF	95					.000
Takuya Kimura	OF	38					.000
Timo Pérez	OF	30					.000
Kojiro Machida	OF	29					.000
Kaoru Nihei	OF	8					.000
Itsuki Asai	OF	3					.000
Ryuji Yokoyama	P	56					.000
Hideki Takahashi	P	42					.000
Shinji Sasaoka	P	39					.000
Toshikazu Sawazaki	P	38					.000
Kotaro Azuse	P	37					.000
Ken Takahashi	P	34					.000
Takanobu Wakabayashi	P	30					.000
Yasuyuki Yamauchi	P	28					.000
Shigeo Tamaki	P	25					.000
Yutaka Ono	P	23					.000
Hiroki Kuroda	P	23					.000
Ken Yamasaki	P	20					.000
Felix Perdomo	P	17					.000
Makoto Kito	P	17					.000
Shinichi Kato	P	17					.000
Yoshiki Tanaka	P	15					.000
Koji Kobayakawa	P	15					.000
Takashi Maema	P	6					.000
Yasukatsu Shirai	P	4					.000
Masahito Yamane	P	3					.000
Shigenobu Shima	P	2					.000
Masayuki Hasegawa	P	2					.000
Tsuyoshi Kikuchihara	P	1					.000
Kenjiro Nomura	SS	129					.000
Takeshi Nonogaki	SS	11					.000
Shinji Ko	SS	8					.000
Totals		1817	0	0	0	0	.000

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