2002 Nippon Ham Fighters Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 61-76
Finished 5th in the JPPL
Manager: Nobuhiro Takashiro (0-0), Yasunori Oshima (0-0)
Location: Tokyo, Japan

2002 Nippon Ham Fighters Roster

The Nippon Ham Fighters of the Japan Pacific League ended the 2002 season with a record of 61 wins and 76 losses, finishing fifth in the JPPL.

The Ham Fighters plated 506 runs and allowed 570 runs. Michihiro Ogasawara walloped 32 home runs for Nippon, while Yukio Tanaka, Sherman Obando and D. T. Cromer each swatted 15 or more also. Michihiro Ogasawara recorded 81 runs batted in and topped all qualifying hitters on the roster by connecting at a .340 clip. Satoru Kanemura led the squad with 10 wins and a team-best 3.18 earned run average, tops among pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.

Players from the 2002 Nippon Ham Fighters who spent time in the Majors during their careers included D. T. Cromer, Chris Seelbach, Yoshinori Tateyama, Sherman Obando and Kensuke Tanaka.

Nobuhiro Takashiro and Yasunori Oshima 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
Satoru Kanemura	10	6	.625	3.17	32	23	0	2	1	0	167.7	153	65	59	19	53	1	143	3	0	4	693
Carlos Mirabal	9	6	.600	3.37	18	18	0	4	1	0	125.7	111	52	47	19	42	3	77	2	0	0	529
Itsuki Shoda	9	11	.450	3.45	23	23	0	5	2	0	156.7	145	66	60	12	37	0	90	6	3	6	639
Chris Seelbach	8	7	.533	3.60	22	22	0	2	0	0	140.0	138	61	56	9	66	0	75	13	1	3	620
Hayato Nakamura	7	11	.389	4.26	21	21	0	1	0	0	135.3	132	68	64	13	48	2	84	4	0	3	570
Hiroshi Shibakusa	4	3	.571	3.58	55	0	30	0	0	11	60.3	62	26	24	10	13	1	50	5	1	1	252
Yoshinori Tateyama	3	2	.600	2.29	45	0	18	0	0	4	59.0	40	16	15	7	13	2	41	4	0	1	231
Hiroyuki Sekine	3	4	.429	3.94	12	10	1	1	1	0	61.7	51	27	27	12	16	0	55	1	0	4	250
Akio Shimizu	2	4	.333	4.28	18	7	4	2	1	1	48.3	47	27	23	7	11	0	32	6	0	2	204
Kiyoshi Sasaki	2	4	.333	5.14	39	0	13	0	0	1	42.0	32	24	24	8	28	1	44	2	0	12	183
Tsuyoshi Shimoyanagi	2	7	.222	5.75	17	9	2	0	0	0	51.7	49	34	33	10	25	0	44	4	0	2	228
Tomokazu Iba	1	2	.333	3.77	45	0	29	0	0	11	45.3	37	20	19	10	11	0	60	1	0	2	183
Tsutomu Iwamoto	1	2	.333	6.88	4	4	0	0	0	0	17.0	25	14	13	4	10	1	12	0	1	1	85
Masaru Yoshizaki	0	0		0.00	2	0	2	0	0	0	2.0	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	8
Yukihiro Sakurai	0	0		1.42	6	0	5	0	0	0	6.3	4	1	1	0	5	0	4	0	0	1	26
Pat Flury	0	0		3.46	10	0	1	0	0	0	13.0	9	5	5	2	5	1	19	0	0	0	53
Takeshi Ito	0	0		3.52	3	0	0	0	0	0	7.7	10	3	3	2	4	0	3	0	0	1	36
Noriyuki Takahashi	0	0		4.15	9	0	3	0	0	0	4.3	7	2	2	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	21
Kosuke Yamaguchi	0	0		4.50	2	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	2	1	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	8
Shintaro Ejiri	0	0		5.40	2	0	1	0	0	0	1.7	2	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	6
Satoshi Yano	0	0		13.50	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.3	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6
Kazuya Shibata	0	0		16.88	3	0	1	0	0	0	2.7	5	5	5	1	1	0	3	1	0	0	15
Junichiro Muto	0	1	.000	4.62	25	0	5	0	0	0	39.0	41	20	20	5	18	3	39	3	1	1	174
Naoyuki Tateishi	0	2	.000	6.30	8	0	3	0	0	0	10.0	12	7	7	3	1	0	10	1	0	0	44
Tatsuhito Kato	0	4	.000	4.89	33	3	3	1	0	0	38.7	44	23	21	8	12	0	29	1	0	0	170
Totals	61	76	.445	3.86	455	140	122	18	6	28	1239.3	1164	570	532	163	421	15	921	57	7	44	5234

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	574	486	77	165	27	2	32	81	8	1	76	77	.340	.430	.601	1.031	292	6	6	0	6	14
Yukio Tanaka	132	514	467	57	130	31	4	17	53	0	2	37	102	.278	.334	.471	.805	220	13	3	5	2	3
D. T. Cromer	131	520	478	49	117	27	3	20	54	5	5	35	134	.245	.300	.439	.739	210	6	4	0	3	2
Sherman Obando	118	490	441	49	116	18	1	26	68	3	2	43	95	.263	.335	.485	.820	214	11	5	0	1	5
Makoto Kaneko	104	434	393	46	112	19	3	6	29	9	4	19	44	.285	.324	.394	.718	155	2	4	17	1	1
Tatsuya Ide	120	421	376	44	85	22	1	13	38	5	3	30	94	.226	.290	.394	.684	148	6	6	4	5	3
Toshihiro Noguchi	103	320	291	28	66	9	2	5	31	3	1	14	65	.227	.264	.323	.587	94	4	2	9	4	2
Hiroshi Narahara	116	364	320	22	65	6	0	1	19	13	4	21	49	.203	.251	.231	.482	74	1	0	21	2	0
Kuniyuki Kimoto	87	266	244	21	59	11	1	7	26	1	0	14	56	.242	.295	.381	.677	93	8	5	2	1	2
Takaya Hayashi	66	179	163	18	41	6	1	6	28	0	0	11	40	.252	.299	.411	.710	67	2	1	2	2	1
Kensuke Tanaka	60	177	158	18	40	7	4	0	10	3	2	9	36	.253	.298	.348	.646	55	2	1	9	0	0
Seigo Fujishima	47	140	127	15	29	3	0	5	23	3	0	8	38	.228	.268	.370	.638	47	3	0	2	3	1
Tsutomu Ishimoto	35	116	100	14	24	2	2	2	6	10	3	4	25	.240	.283	.360	.643	36	0	2	10	0	0
Yutaka Nakamura	81	133	116	7	22	9	0	1	5	1	0	7	24	.190	.240	.293	.533	34	2	1	8	1	0
Kazunari Sanematsu	82	200	170	8	22	5	0	1	2	0	2	14	64	.129	.200	.176	.376	30	1	1	15	0	0
Kokichi Akune	30	57	53	6	12	1	0	2	3	0	0	1	19	.226	.241	.358	.599	19	2	0	3	0	0
Hichori Morimoto	66	66	60	6	10	3	0	1	5	5	1	1	16	.167	.215	.267	.482	16	0	3	1	1	0
Kazuteru Shimada	18	56	44	5	9	3	0	0	1	0	2	5	8	.205	.314	.273	.586	12	4	2	5	0	0
Katsuhiro Nishiura	14	37	35	2	8	0	0	1	2	0	0	1	12	.229	.250	.314	.564	11	1	0	1	0	0
Shigeyuki Furuki	62	62	57	10	8	1	0	0	0	3	2	1	15	.140	.155	.158	.313	9	0	0	4	0	0
Shinji Takahashi	8	12	12	0	3	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	4	.250	.250	.333	.583	4	0	0	0	0	0
Nobuaki Arai	15	13	13	1	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.231	.231	.308	.538	4	1	0	0	0	0
Shingo Nonaka	5	6	5	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.200	.200	.400	.600	2	0	0	1	0	0
Tomoyuki Oda	5	7	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.143	.143	.143	.286	1	1	0	0	0	0
Yoshinori Ueda	25	31	28	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	8	.036	.100	.036	.136	1	1	0	1	0	0
Masahiko Harada	3	8	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	3	0	0
Yasufumi Ogai	4	3	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Masanori Taguchi	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1676	5207	4653	506	1149	213	24	146	486	72	34	353	1037	.247	.304	.397	.702	1848	77	46	123	32	34

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Michihiro Ogasawara	1B	135					.000
Takaya Hayashi	1B	17					.000
Yukio Tanaka	1B	1					.000
Hiroshi Narahara	2B	65					.000
Kensuke Tanaka	2B	42					.000
Kuniyuki Kimoto	2B	42					.000
Makoto Kaneko	2B	23					.000
Kokichi Akune	2B	20					.000
Shigeyuki Furuki	2B	12					.000
Takaya Hayashi	2B	6					.000
Yukio Tanaka	3B	86					.000
Takaya Hayashi	3B	33					.000
Kuniyuki Kimoto	3B	31					.000
Shigeyuki Furuki	3B	27					.000
Kokichi Akune	3B	13					.000
Tomoyuki Oda	3B	4					.000
Hiroshi Narahara	3B	4					.000
Toshihiro Noguchi	C	91					.000
Kazunari Sanematsu	C	82					.000
Shinji Takahashi	C	6					.000
Nobuaki Arai	C	6					.000
Masanori Taguchi	C	4					.000
Tatsuya Ide	OF	119					.000
D. T. Cromer	OF	103					.000
Yutaka Nakamura	OF	74					.000
Hichori Morimoto	OF	62					.000
Yukio Tanaka	OF	52					.000
Seigo Fujishima	OF	43					.000
Tsutomu Ishimoto	OF	31					.000
Yoshinori Ueda	OF	19					.000
Sherman Obando	OF	17					.000
Katsuhiro Nishiura	OF	13					.000
Toshihiro Noguchi	OF	11					.000
Nobuaki Arai	OF	3					.000
Yasufumi Ogai	OF	2					.000
Masahiko Harada	OF	2					.000
Kokichi Akune	OF	1					.000
Hiroshi Shibakusa	P	55					.000
Yoshinori Tateyama	P	45					.000
Tomokazu Iba	P	45					.000
Kiyoshi Sasaki	P	39					.000
Tatsuhito Kato	P	33					.000
Satoru Kanemura	P	32					.000
Junichiro Muto	P	25					.000
Itsuki Shoda	P	23					.000
Chris Seelbach	P	22					.000
Hayato Nakamura	P	21					.000
Akio Shimizu	P	18					.000
Carlos Mirabal	P	18					.000
Tsuyoshi Shimoyanagi	P	17					.000
Hiroyuki Sekine	P	12					.000
Pat Flury	P	10					.000
Noriyuki Takahashi	P	9					.000
Naoyuki Tateishi	P	8					.000
Yukihiro Sakurai	P	6					.000
Tsutomu Iwamoto	P	4					.000
Kazuya Shibata	P	3					.000
Takeshi Ito	P	3					.000
Masaru Yoshizaki	P	2					.000
Kosuke Yamaguchi	P	2					.000
Shintaro Ejiri	P	2					.000
Satoshi Yano	P	1					.000
Makoto Kaneko	SS	83					.000
Hiroshi Narahara	SS	52					.000
Shigeyuki Furuki	SS	24					.000
Kazuteru Shimada	SS	15					.000
Kensuke Tanaka	SS	12					.000
Shingo Nonaka	SS	4					.000
Totals		1947	0	0	0	0	.000

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