1998 Hiroshima Toyo Carp Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 60-75
Finished 5th in the JPCL
Manager: Toshiyuki Mimura (60-75)
Location: Hiroshima, Japan
Ballpark: Hiroshima Municipal Stadium

1998 Hiroshima Toyo Carp Roster

The Hiroshima Toyo Carp of the Japan Central League ended the 1998 season with a record of 60 wins and 75 losses, finishing fifth in the JPCL.

The Toyo Carp plated 578 runs and surrendered 613 runs, most in the league. Akira Eto paced Hiroshima with 28 home runs, while Tomoaki Kanemoto, Tomonori Maeda and Koichi Ogata each walloped 15 or more as well. Akira Eto recorded 81 runs batted in. Tomonori Maeda topped hitters with significant playing time by connecting at a .335 clip. Nate Minchey led the team with 15 wins and a team-best 2.75 ERA, leading hurlers with significant time on the mound.

Players from the 1998 Hiroshima Toyo Carp who spent time in Major League Baseball during their careers included Timo Pérez, Nate Minchey, Ken Takahashi and Hiroki Kuroda.

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
Nate Minchey	15	11	.577	2.75	35	35	0	6	2	0	236.0	241	91	72	19	57	2	123	7	0	4	980
Kanei Kobayashi	9	6	.600	2.87	54	0	38	0	0	18	81.7	50	26	26	9	36	2	105	2	0	4	330
Shinichi Kato	8	6	.571	2.99	22	22	0	3	1	0	141.7	157	64	47	15	27	1	62	5	2	5	608
Shigeo Tamaki	6	4	.600	4.99	50	0	20	0	0	2	74.0	73	44	41	5	30	2	53	4	0	2	321
Shinji Sasaoka	5	11	.312	3.79	29	16	12	1	0	6	121.0	113	54	51	17	25	1	96	3	1	3	491
Yasuyuki Yamauchi	4	7	.364	5.19	27	15	4	2	0	0	93.7	104	58	54	16	44	2	67	1	1	4	425
Yutaka Ono	3	2	.600	2.91	13	8	1	0	0	0	43.3	41	18	14	4	17	2	24	0	1	1	184
Ken Takahashi	3	8	.273	3.83	41	9	9	0	0	0	101.0	92	45	43	10	46	2	76	2	1	5	431
Makoto Kito	3	8	.273	5.04	18	17	0	1	1	0	94.7	110	56	53	16	30	1	64	1	1	1	414
Ryuji Yokoyama	2	1	.667	2.57	24	0	6	0	0	1	35.0	23	13	10	1	19	2	43	1	1	7	147
Toshikazu Sawazaki	1	0	1.000	4.94	17	1	4	0	0	0	23.7	30	14	13	3	12	0	18	0	0	2	111
Hiroki Kuroda	1	4	.200	6.60	18	6	3	0	0	0	45.0	53	34	33	5	24	0	25	1	0	1	199
Hideki Takahashi	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Eiji Kiyokawa	0	0		2.70	9	0	0	0	0	0	3.3	1	1	1	0	2	0	3	0	0	0	13
Takanobu Wakabayashi	0	0		3.00	4	0	2	0	0	0	3.0	4	1	1	1	1	0	2	1	0	0	13
Felix Perdomo	0	0		4.15	13	0	2	0	0	0	17.3	15	8	8	0	11	0	6	1	0	1	74
Hisaki Tomioka	0	0		4.29	16	0	8	0	0	0	21.0	19	11	10	1	20	0	24	0	0	4	99
Ken Yamasaki	0	0		9.53	4	0	1	0	0	0	5.7	7	6	6	2	7	0	2	0	0	0	33
Ryuji Endo	0	0		12.00	2	0	1	0	0	0	3.0	4	5	4	1	3	0	3	0	0	1	17
Masayuki Hasegawa	0	0		36.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	1.0	3	4	4	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	8
Tsuyoshi Kikuchihara	0	1	.000	5.40	7	0	3	0	0	0	10.0	14	11	6	1	6	0	13	0	0	1	50
Kotaro Azuse	0	1	.000	6.00	13	0	0	0	0	0	6.0	7	5	4	0	2	0	5	2	0	1	29
Yoshiki Tanaka	0	1	.000	6.91	8	2	1	0	0	0	14.3	25	11	11	3	11	0	16	0	0	0	78
Tsutomu Yamada	0	1	.000	9.37	13	0	4	0	0	0	16.3	23	18	17	2	8	1	18	2	0	2	82
Masato Kawano	0	3	.000	7.24	6	3	3	0	0	0	13.7	13	15	11	0	11	0	10	1	0	1	63
Totals	60	75	.444	4.03	445	135	122	13	4	27	1206.0	1222	613	540	131	451	18	860	34	8	50	5201

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
Tomonori Maeda	127	551	504	71	169	36	0	24	80	5	2	41	54	.335	.388	.550	.938	277	8	4	0	2	1
Kenjiro Nomura	135	607	561	75	158	26	4	14	49	15	9	41	63	.282	.333	.417	.750	234	8	3	0	2	6
Tomoaki Kanemoto	133	573	499	77	126	33	3	21	74	9	6	68	94	.253	.347	.457	.804	228	2	5	0	1	0
Koichi Ogata	107	442	380	67	124	24	3	15	59	17	12	47	61	.326	.400	.524	.924	199	6	4	5	6	0
Akira Eto	132	580	475	88	120	17	0	28	81	7	3	97	103	.253	.379	.465	.845	221	7	3	0	5	1
Kozo Shoda	110	425	376	44	103	9	0	1	17	0	0	31	35	.274	.330	.306	.636	115	5	1	16	1	0
Itsuki Asai	109	311	277	35	75	11	2	6	40	4	2	31	44	.271	.347	.390	.737	108	6	2	0	1	2
Terunobu Seto	120	362	322	20	75	8	1	3	27	4	3	18	73	.233	.277	.292	.569	94	8	3	16	3	3
Timo Pérez	98	256	230	22	68	8	1	5	35	4	5	20	21	.296	.350	.404	.755	93	6	1	2	3	4
Kenji Tomashino	79	215	186	15	47	8	2	4	14	4	1	8	41	.253	.288	.382	.670	71	2	2	17	2	0
Kojiro Machida	89	198	172	14	42	8	0	4	23	2	0	18	41	.244	.325	.360	.685	62	3	4	1	3	2
Takuya Kimura	86	150	131	20	32	5	2	0	8	14	2	13	27	.244	.310	.313	.623	41	0	0	5	1	0
Alejandro Quesada	34	63	61	8	19	1	0	3	9	0	0	2	14	.311	.333	.475	.809	29	1	0	0	0	0
Shinichi Kato	23	54	44	2	10	2	0	0	6	0	1	4	14	.227	.300	.273	.573	12	1	1	4	1	0
Kei Tamura	28	44	41	4	9	2	0	0	0	0	0	3	7	.220	.273	.268	.541	11	3	0	0	0	0
Shinji Ko	33	36	30	2	8	1	0	0	4	0	0	3	4	.267	.333	.300	.633	9	0	0	3	0	0
Shinji Sasaoka	31	39	36	1	8	2	0	0	3	0	0	2	18	.222	.263	.278	.541	10	0	0	1	0	0
Shuji Nishiyama	13	44	37	3	7	2	0	2	7	0	0	3	3	.189	.250	.405	.655	15	1	0	4	0	1
Ken Takahashi	45	24	23	1	5	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	11	.217	.217	.261	.478	6	0	0	1	0	0
Nate Minchey	35	87	81	4	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	44	.062	.095	.062	.157	5	2	0	3	0	0
Yutaka Ono	18	14	12	0	4	1	0	0	2	0	0	2	6	.333	.429	.417	.845	5	0	0	0	0	0
Kenichi Takayama	21	29	27	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	6	.111	.138	.111	.249	3	0	0	0	1	0
Makoto Kito	20	33	27	2	3	0	0	1	3	0	0	1	16	.111	.143	.222	.365	6	0	0	5	0	0
Takeshi Nonogaki	14	22	19	2	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	2	5	.105	.227	.158	.385	3	1	1	0	0	0
Yoshikazu Kura	6	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	1	0	0	0	0
Koji Obata	38	10	9	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.111	.111	.111	.222	1	0	0	1	0	0
Hiroki Kuroda	18	10	9	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	3	.111	.111	.111	.222	1	0	0	1	0	0
Yasuyuki Yamauchi	30	31	28	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	12	.036	.069	.036	.105	1	1	0	2	0	0
Toshikazu Sawazaki	19	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Masato Kawano	7	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yoshiki Tanaka	8	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Tsuyoshi Kikuchihara	7	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shigeo Tamaki	50	9	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	.000	.222	.000	.222	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kanei Kobayashi	54	12	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	2	0	0
Felix Perdomo	13	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ryuji Yokoyama	24	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1914	5249	4630	578	1226	206	18	131	547	86	46	462	843	.265	.334	.402	.736	1861	72	34	91	32	20

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Itsuki Asai	1B	84					.000
Kojiro Machida	1B	55					.000
Timo Pérez	1B	32					.000
Alejandro Quesada	1B	1					.000
Takuya Kimura	1B	1					.000
Kozo Shoda	2B	95					.000
Kenji Tomashino	2B	46					.000
Takuya Kimura	2B	10					.000
Shinji Ko	2B	7					.000
Kenichi Takayama	2B	4					.000
Takeshi Nonogaki	2B	1					.000
Akira Eto	3B	132					.000
Kenichi Takayama	3B	2					.000
Takeshi Nonogaki	3B	2					.000
Shinji Ko	3B	1					.000
Terunobu Seto	C	120					.000
Koji Obata	C	37					.000
Shuji Nishiyama	C	13					.000
Yoshikazu Kura	C	6					.000
Tomoaki Kanemoto	OF	131					.000
Tomonori Maeda	OF	119					.000
Koichi Ogata	OF	103					.000
Takuya Kimura	OF	35					.000
Timo Pérez	OF	30					.000
Alejandro Quesada	OF	20					.000
Kojiro Machida	OF	4					.000
Itsuki Asai	OF	1					.000
Kanei Kobayashi	P	54					.000
Shigeo Tamaki	P	50					.000
Ken Takahashi	P	41					.000
Nate Minchey	P	35					.000
Shinji Sasaoka	P	29					.000
Yasuyuki Yamauchi	P	27					.000
Ryuji Yokoyama	P	24					.000
Shinichi Kato	P	22					.000
Hiroki Kuroda	P	18					.000
Makoto Kito	P	18					.000
Toshikazu Sawazaki	P	17					.000
Hisaki Tomioka	P	16					.000
Tsutomu Yamada	P	13					.000
Felix Perdomo	P	13					.000
Yutaka Ono	P	13					.000
Kotaro Azuse	P	13					.000
Eiji Kiyokawa	P	9					.000
Yoshiki Tanaka	P	8					.000
Tsuyoshi Kikuchihara	P	7					.000
Masato Kawano	P	6					.000
Ken Yamasaki	P	4					.000
Takanobu Wakabayashi	P	4					.000
Ryuji Endo	P	2					.000
Hideki Takahashi	P	1					.000
Masayuki Hasegawa	P	1					.000
Kenjiro Nomura	SS	130					.000
Shinji Ko	SS	4					.000
Takuya Kimura	SS	4					.000
Kenichi Takayama	SS	1					.000
Takeshi Nonogaki	SS	1					.000
Totals		1677	0	0	0	0	.000

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