1999 Nippon Ham Fighters Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 60-73
Finished 5th in the JPPL
Manager: Taira Sumitomo (0-0), Toshiharu Ueda (0-0)
Location: Tokyo, Japan

1999 Nippon Ham Fighters Roster

The Nippon Ham Fighters of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1999 season with a record of 60 wins and 73 losses, finishing fifth in the JPPL.

The Ham Fighters scored 614 runs and yielded 625 runs. Micah Franklin walloped 30 home runs for Nippon, while Michihiro Ogasawara, Yukio Tanaka, Atsushi Kataoka and Sherman Obando each swatted 15 or more as well. Michihiro Ogasawara recorded 83 runs batted in and topped batters with significant playing time by connecting at a .285 clip. Tsutomu Iwamoto led the squad with 13 wins and a team-best 3.81 earned run average, tops among regular hurlers.

Players from the 1999 Nippon Ham Fighters who spent time in the Majors during their careers included Yoshinori Tateyama, Shannon Withem, Nigel Wilson, Sherman Obando, Micah Franklin and Erik Schullstrom.

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
Tsutomu Iwamoto	13	11	.542	3.81	27	27	0	9	2	0	189.0	181	86	80	14	93	1	158	6	1	4	831
Hiroyuki Sekine	12	8	.600	4.34	24	24	0	3	1	0	139.0	142	73	67	28	36	0	78	4	0	0	589
Yoshinori Tateyama	6	5	.545	2.89	22	16	2	1	1	0	106.0	101	43	34	11	29	0	62	1	0	0	442
Shannon Withem	6	7	.462	5.76	17	17	0	2	0	0	86.0	116	63	55	15	36	0	31	5	0	5	402
Satoru Kanemura	3	1	.750	2.30	8	5	2	3	2	1	43.0	31	12	11	5	15	1	27	0	0	0	169
Takeshi Ito	3	1	.750	2.38	17	2	3	0	0	1	45.3	47	16	12	4	17	0	13	0	0	1	192
Junji Kuroki	3	3	.500	3.54	50	0	26	0	0	8	73.7	83	31	29	9	29	6	39	3	1	2	327
Hiroshi Shibakusa	3	4	.429	7.26	24	7	5	0	0	0	57.0	86	47	46	9	21	1	27	3	0	4	275
Kazutoshi Yamahara	3	6	.333	6.29	16	8	3	0	0	0	44.3	49	32	31	9	17	1	23	1	0	2	197
Erik Schullstrom	2	1	.667	1.69	14	0	14	0	0	7	16.0	15	3	3	0	2	0	21	0	0	0	65
Masaki Ikoma	2	8	.200	4.08	30	11	11	2	0	4	88.3	76	41	40	9	39	1	59	4	0	5	374
Naoyuki Tateishi	1	1	.500	5.40	21	3	3	0	0	1	46.7	49	28	28	4	14	1	34	5	2	2	202
Masaru Imazeki	1	2	.333	7.11	6	4	0	0	0	0	19.0	24	17	15	3	10	0	9	0	0	2	89
Tsuyoshi Shimoyanagi	1	4	.200	3.61	62	2	18	0	0	6	77.3	62	31	31	9	47	2	79	2	0	4	332
Rafael Orellano	1	5	.167	4.99	21	5	5	0	0	0	39.7	38	23	22	8	27	4	27	1	0	1	185
Kazuyuki Atsuzawa	0	0		0.00	3	0	1	0	0	0	3.3	0	1	0	0	4	0	0	1	0	1	15
Kenji Harada	0	0		1.83	24	0	2	0	0	0	19.7	15	4	4	2	9	0	15	0	0	0	80
Noriyuki Takahashi	0	0		6.35	28	0	1	0	0	0	17.0	23	13	12	4	2	0	9	0	0	1	74
Keigo Imai	0	0		7.56	6	0	1	0	0	0	16.7	14	15	14	1	13	0	12	3	0	1	78
Tsuyoshi Yoda	0	0		9.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	5
Katsuyuki Furumizo	0	1	.000	2.35	12	0	1	0	0	0	7.7	8	2	2	0	5	1	4	0	2	0	36
Yukihiro Sakurai	0	1	.000	3.00	4	0	2	0	0	0	6.0	2	2	2	1	3	0	6	0	0	0	23
Shoji Hiramatsu	0	1	.000	3.86	3	2	1	0	0	0	9.3	9	4	4	1	1	0	4	2	0	0	37
Takehiro Ishii	0	1	.000	5.76	20	0	7	0	0	0	25.0	34	19	16	3	7	1	13	2	0	0	115
Satoshi Yano	0	1	.000	6.59	6	1	4	0	0	0	13.7	13	10	10	0	13	0	8	3	1	0	68
Hiroshi Numata	0	1	.000	9.82	4	1	3	0	0	0	7.3	9	8	8	2	9	0	3	0	0	0	39
Totals	60	73	.451	4.34	470	135	115	20	6	28	1197.0	1228	625	577	151	499	20	761	46	7	35	5241

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
Michihiro Ogasawara	135	607	547	90	156	34	4	25	83	3	4	56	84	.285	.349	.499	.848	273	6	0	0	4	1
Yukio Tanaka	131	556	508	73	137	23	2	23	74	2	1	39	132	.270	.327	.459	.786	233	14	6	0	3	0
Atsushi Kataoka	115	489	423	59	116	19	4	15	63	1	1	61	90	.274	.364	.444	.808	188	8	1	0	4	1
Makoto Kaneko	135	473	416	56	114	17	3	3	29	4	6	38	65	.274	.336	.351	.687	146	11	1	18	0	0
Sherman Obando	94	392	346	49	106	23	0	20	62	0	1	41	65	.306	.385	.546	.931	189	14	4	0	1	0
Micah Franklin	131	521	428	67	102	23	0	30	80	2	0	69	125	.238	.361	.502	.863	215	11	17	0	7	10
Toshihiro Noguchi	130	420	391	33	94	22	1	7	46	5	4	13	75	.240	.269	.355	.624	139	11	3	11	2	2
Tsutomu Ishimoto	84	295	260	28	79	5	5	2	20	13	9	22	51	.304	.357	.385	.742	100	3	0	12	1	0
Ryuki Nemoto	71	171	164	12	47	7	1	3	20	2	1	7	23	.287	.316	.396	.712	65	4	0	0	0	0
Tatsuya Ide	60	211	179	34	46	8	2	7	26	8	2	21	27	.257	.332	.441	.773	79	2	0	9	2	0
Katsuhiro Nishiura	66	208	187	21	44	8	1	2	22	7	2	16	31	.235	.308	.321	.629	60	5	4	0	1	0
Atsuhiro Motonishi	94	195	152	22	36	7	1	0	12	5	2	25	35	.237	.363	.296	.659	45	2	5	13	0	1
Yoshinori Ueda	109	146	134	10	30	9	1	2	6	5	0	9	39	.224	.273	.351	.623	47	3	0	3	0	0
Seigo Fujishima	50	121	110	14	27	3	1	7	21	3	1	11	35	.245	.314	.482	.796	53	4	0	0	0	0
Hiroshi Narahara	88	121	103	17	18	5	0	0	6	6	1	9	18	.175	.241	.223	.464	23	1	0	9	0	0
Hideki Hashigami	38	37	28	9	6	2	0	1	3	0	1	8	7	.214	.389	.393	.782	11	0	0	1	0	0
Nobuaki Arai	10	13	11	3	4	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	.364	.462	.455	.916	5	0	1	0	0	0
Kazuteru Shimada	21	27	24	5	4	2	0	0	1	0	0	2	6	.167	.259	.250	.509	6	0	1	0	0	0
Masanori Taguchi	52	52	42	2	4	1	0	1	5	0	0	4	13	.095	.208	.190	.399	8	0	2	4	0	0
Yutaka Nakamura	13	19	17	1	3	1	0	0	4	0	0	1	4	.176	.211	.235	.446	4	1	0	0	1	0
Shunji Nishi	16	25	22	2	3	1	0	0	2	1	1	1	4	.136	.208	.182	.390	4	0	1	1	0	0
Nigel Wilson	6	24	22	1	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	3	.136	.208	.136	.345	3	0	2	0	0	0
Yasufumi Ogai	3	11	11	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.182	.182	.273	.455	3	0	0	0	0	0
Shinji Hata	17	19	16	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	.125	.263	.188	.451	3	0	0	0	0	1
Shigeyuki Furuki	10	10	10	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.100	.100	.100	.200	1	0	0	0	0	0
Kokichi Akune	7	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1686	5171	4559	614	1184	223	26	148	587	67	38	457	942	.260	.332	.417	.749	1903	100	48	81	26	16

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Michihiro Ogasawara	1B	135					.000
Katsuhiro Nishiura	1B	12					.000
Ryuki Nemoto	1B	1					.000
Makoto Kaneko	2B	129					.000
Hiroshi Narahara	2B	31					.000
Kokichi Akune	2B	3					.000
Shigeyuki Furuki	2B	1					.000
Atsushi Kataoka	3B	95					.000
Ryuki Nemoto	3B	23					.000
Hiroshi Narahara	3B	14					.000
Shunji Nishi	3B	10					.000
Makoto Kaneko	3B	10					.000
Seigo Fujishima	3B	8					.000
Atsuhiro Motonishi	3B	4					.000
Shigeyuki Furuki	3B	3					.000
Kokichi Akune	3B	1					.000
Toshihiro Noguchi	C	129					.000
Masanori Taguchi	C	51					.000
Nobuaki Arai	C	9					.000
Michihiro Ogasawara	C	1					.000
Micah Franklin	OF	96					.000
Yoshinori Ueda	OF	85					.000
Atsuhiro Motonishi	OF	83					.000
Tsutomu Ishimoto	OF	68					.000
Katsuhiro Nishiura	OF	61					.000
Tatsuya Ide	OF	56					.000
Sherman Obando	OF	33					.000
Seigo Fujishima	OF	33					.000
Hideki Hashigami	OF	32					.000
Ryuki Nemoto	OF	31					.000
Yutaka Nakamura	OF	11					.000
Yasufumi Ogai	OF	3					.000
Shinji Hata	OF	2					.000
Tsuyoshi Shimoyanagi	P	62					.000
Junji Kuroki	P	50					.000
Masaki Ikoma	P	30					.000
Noriyuki Takahashi	P	28					.000
Tsutomu Iwamoto	P	27					.000
Hiroshi Shibakusa	P	24					.000
Hiroyuki Sekine	P	24					.000
Kenji Harada	P	24					.000
Yoshinori Tateyama	P	22					.000
Naoyuki Tateishi	P	21					.000
Rafael Orellano	P	21					.000
Takehiro Ishii	P	20					.000
Shannon Withem	P	17					.000
Takeshi Ito	P	17					.000
Kazutoshi Yamahara	P	16					.000
Erik Schullstrom	P	14					.000
Katsuyuki Furumizo	P	12					.000
Satoru Kanemura	P	8					.000
Satoshi Yano	P	6					.000
Masaru Imazeki	P	6					.000
Keigo Imai	P	6					.000
Yukihiro Sakurai	P	4					.000
Hiroshi Numata	P	4					.000
Shoji Hiramatsu	P	3					.000
Kazuyuki Atsuzawa	P	3					.000
Tsuyoshi Yoda	P	1					.000
Yukio Tanaka	SS	120					.000
Hiroshi Narahara	SS	29					.000
Kazuteru Shimada	SS	17					.000
Makoto Kaneko	SS	5					.000
Seigo Fujishima	SS	4					.000
Shigeyuki Furuki	SS	2					.000
Totals		1911	0	0	0	0	.000

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