1996 Nippon Ham Fighters Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 68-58
Finished 2nd in the JPPL
Manager: Taira Sumitomo (0-0), Toshiharu Ueda (0-0)
Location: Tokyo, Japan

1996 Nippon Ham Fighters Roster

The Nippon Ham Fighters of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1996 season with a record of 68 wins and 58 losses, finishing second in the JPPL.

The Ham Fighters allowed 502 runs, least in the league. Nippon plated 527 runs. Bernardo Brito paced the squad with 29 home runs, while Rob Ducey, Yukio Tanaka and Atsushi Kataoka each walloped 15 or more, too. Bernardo Brito accounted for 83 RBI. Atsushi Kataoka topped hitters with significant playing time by connecting at a .315 clip. Kip Gross led the team with 17 wins, and Yukihiro Nishizaki earned a 2.88 ERA, leading qualifying pitchers.

Members of the 1996 Nippon Ham Fighters who played in Major League Baseball during their careers were Kip Gross, Bernardo Brito and Rob Ducey.

Taira Sumitomo and Toshiharu Ueda 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
Kip Gross	17	9	.654	3.62	28	28	0	8	1	0	193.7	201	92	78	18	53	3	79	9	1	9	827
Yukihiro Nishizaki	14	7	.667	2.87	26	26	0	5	1	0	181.7	152	63	58	17	89	2	139	4	0	10	769
Masaru Imazeki	11	9	.550	3.22	24	21	1	10	3	0	159.3	123	60	57	23	49	3	122	6	0	3	644
Tsutomu Iwamoto	10	9	.526	3.99	27	27	0	4	1	0	176.0	160	80	78	15	51	1	144	6	0	5	730
Hiroshi Shibakusa	7	9	.438	3.81	26	22	0	3	0	0	130.0	134	62	55	17	49	1	67	3	0	7	560
Takeshi Shimazaki	5	4	.556	2.31	54	0	25	0	0	14	97.3	85	30	25	4	19	5	58	1	0	0	385
Akihito Kaneishi	1	1	.500	2.10	28	0	27	0	0	20	25.7	32	6	6	1	6	1	12	1	0	0	111
Tsuyoshi Shimoyanagi	1	2	.333	3.77	23	0	12	0	0	2	43.0	32	19	18	3	20	3	39	0	0	0	181
Hiroshi Nagatomi	1	2	.333	5.36	26	1	8	0	0	2	40.3	41	26	24	5	19	1	32	1	0	2	173
Tadayoshi Kawabe	1	3	.250	4.89	17	2	5	0	0	0	42.3	52	23	23	5	14	0	29	2	0	1	190
Hiroshi Numata	0	0		3.60	3	1	2	0	0	0	5.0	4	3	2	0	3	0	1	1	0	0	22
Junji Kuroki	0	0		5.40	2	0	2	0	0	0	5.0	4	3	3	2	2	0	4	0	0	1	20
Norihiro Akimura	0	0		7.20	4	0	4	0	0	0	5.0	7	4	4	2	5	0	1	1	0	1	28
Hiroyuki Sekine	0	1	.000	2.33	9	1	2	0	0	0	19.3	17	5	5	0	12	1	15	0	0	1	81
Mitsujiro Sakai	0	1	.000	2.89	7	0	1	0	0	0	9.3	10	3	3	0	5	0	4	0	0	1	41
Shoji Hiramatsu	0	1	.000	3.89	20	1	11	0	0	0	41.7	38	23	18	9	20	0	24	1	0	3	181
Totals	68	58	.540	3.50	324	130	100	30	6	38	1174.7	1092	502	457	121	416	21	770	36	1	44	4943

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
Yukio Tanaka	130	575	513	73	142	29	3	22	82	3	2	52	90	.277	.344	.474	.818	243	12	4	0	6	2
Atsushi Kataoka	115	489	416	60	131	20	3	15	51	3	3	65	70	.315	.408	.486	.893	202	7	1	6	1	2
Bernardo Brito	126	542	470	61	119	17	0	29	83	1	1	65	147	.253	.347	.474	.821	223	16	4	0	3	7
Tatsuya Ide	122	472	414	44	105	13	5	7	38	11	10	34	85	.254	.312	.360	.672	149	7	2	20	2	3
Rob Ducey	120	519	427	68	105	17	5	26	59	3	3	86	90	.246	.373	.492	.864	210	5	2	1	3	6
Makoto Kaneko	117	465	395	50	103	14	2	4	33	15	2	25	67	.261	.307	.337	.644	133	5	3	38	4	0
Tetsuro Hirose	119	446	390	40	100	21	3	3	34	8	2	32	47	.256	.314	.349	.663	136	7	2	19	3	0
Yoshinori Ueda	126	376	319	34	64	9	1	7	35	8	3	35	71	.201	.288	.301	.589	96	5	5	15	2	2
Masanori Taguchi	101	327	286	22	60	12	0	5	22	0	2	17	92	.210	.280	.304	.584	87	6	11	13	0	0
Hiroshi Watanabe	79	190	171	14	38	11	0	1	18	1	1	13	33	.222	.282	.304	.586	52	4	2	2	2	0
Hideyuki Yasuda	59	118	103	9	25	5	0	3	14	0	0	9	32	.243	.304	.379	.683	39	1	1	3	2	0
Tsutomu Ishimoto	24	69	64	12	18	2	2	1	4	7	3	3	11	.281	.313	.422	.735	27	0	0	2	0	0
Kazuhiko Yamashita	72	99	91	5	17	1	1	0	5	0	0	4	17	.187	.219	.220	.439	20	3	0	3	1	0
Koichi Ogawa	56	84	73	9	15	1	0	2	9	2	0	7	17	.205	.280	.301	.582	22	2	1	2	1	0
Yutaka Nakamura	28	50	47	7	14	0	0	3	7	0	0	2	9	.298	.327	.489	.816	23	0	0	1	0	0
Ryuki Nemoto	10	19	17	0	4	1	1	0	2	0	0	1	4	.235	.316	.412	.728	7	0	1	0	0	0
Nobuaki Arai	26	25	21	2	4	0	0	0	2	0	1	3	5	.190	.280	.190	.470	4	0	0	0	1	0
Shinichi Kawana	39	29	27	12	3	1	0	1	1	6	1	2	8	.111	.172	.259	.432	7	2	0	0	0	0
Shunji Nishi	8	10	10	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.400	2	0	0	0	0	0
Nozomu Suzuki	10	19	15	2	2	1	0	1	1	0	0	3	8	.133	.278	.400	.678	6	0	0	1	0	0
Yuichi Komaki	5	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0	0	0
Noriyuki Shiroishi	3	5	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.200	.200	.200	.400	1	0	0	0	0	0
Katsuhiro Nishiura	6	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shinichi Igarashi	9	10	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.100	.000	.100	0	0	0	0	0	0
Seigo Fujishima	25	19	16	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	7	.000	.158	.000	.158	0	0	1	0	0	0
Shogo Arai	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Totals	1538	4968	4310	527	1073	175	26	130	502	69	34	461	917	.249	.325	.392	.717	1690	83	40	126	31	22

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Atsushi Kataoka	1B	110					.000
Hiroshi Watanabe	1B	22					.000
Hideyuki Yasuda	1B	15					.000
Shunji Nishi	1B	3					.000
Ryuki Nemoto	1B	3					.000
Nozomu Suzuki	1B	2					.000
Koichi Ogawa	1B	1					.000
Makoto Kaneko	2B	116					.000
Hiroshi Watanabe	2B	37					.000
Nozomu Suzuki	2B	3					.000
Koichi Ogawa	2B	1					.000
Tetsuro Hirose	3B	119					.000
Koichi Ogawa	3B	24					.000
Atsushi Kataoka	3B	18					.000
Shogo Arai	3B	2					.000
Nozomu Suzuki	3B	1					.000
Shunji Nishi	3B	1					.000
Masanori Taguchi	C	100					.000
Kazuhiko Yamashita	C	70					.000
Nobuaki Arai	C	24					.000
Yuichi Komaki	C	3					.000
Hideyuki Yasuda	C	1					.000
Yoshinori Ueda	OF	121					.000
Tatsuya Ide	OF	120					.000
Rob Ducey	OF	120					.000
Hideyuki Yasuda	OF	25					.000
Shinichi Kawana	OF	25					.000
Yutaka Nakamura	OF	23					.000
Seigo Fujishima	OF	19					.000
Tsutomu Ishimoto	OF	18					.000
Koichi Ogawa	OF	15					.000
Ryuki Nemoto	OF	2					.000
Hiroshi Watanabe	OF	1					.000
Shinichi Igarashi	OF	1					.000
Takeshi Shimazaki	P	54					.000
Akihito Kaneishi	P	28					.000
Kip Gross	P	28					.000
Tsutomu Iwamoto	P	27					.000
Hiroshi Shibakusa	P	26					.000
Yukihiro Nishizaki	P	26					.000
Hiroshi Nagatomi	P	26					.000
Masaru Imazeki	P	24					.000
Tsuyoshi Shimoyanagi	P	23					.000
Shoji Hiramatsu	P	20					.000
Tadayoshi Kawabe	P	17					.000
Hiroyuki Sekine	P	9					.000
Mitsujiro Sakai	P	7					.000
Norihiro Akimura	P	4					.000
Hiroshi Numata	P	3					.000
Junji Kuroki	P	2					.000
Yukio Tanaka	SS	130					.000
Totals		1620	0	0	0	0	.000

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