1989 Orix Braves Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 72-55
Finished 2nd in the JPPL
Manager: Toshiharu Ueda (72-55)
Location: Nishinomiya, Japan
Ballpark: Hankyu Nishinomiya Stadium, Kobe Sports Park Baseball Stadium

1989 Orix Braves Roster

The Orix Braves of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1989 season with a record of 72 wins and 55 losses, finishing second in the JPPL.

The Braves scored 665 runs, most in the league. Orix yielded 616 runs. Greg Wells walloped 40 home runs for the squad, while Hiromi Matsunaga, Yasuo Fujii, Kazuhiko Ishimine and Hiromitsu Kadota each swatted 15 or more as well. Greg Wells drove in 124 runs and topped batters with significant playing time with a .322 average. Nobuyuki Hoshino led the team with 15 wins, and Guy Hoffman recorded a 3.45 ERA, tops among hurlers with significant time on the mound.

Guy Hoffman and Greg Wells both played in Major League Baseball during their careers.

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
Nobuyuki Hoshino	15	6	.714	3.48	28	27	0	11	4	0	194.0	173	78	75	24	78	0	160	2	0	11	808
Yukihiko Yamaoki	11	6	.647	5.28	23	22	0	4	0	0	124.3	137	81	73	17	40	1	70	1	0	6	543
Guy Hoffman	9	6	.600	3.45	19	17	0	3	1	0	120.0	109	54	46	7	45	1	70	1	0	7	511
Tsutomu Sakai	9	7	.562	3.61	36	16	18	5	0	9	154.7	141	67	62	25	49	5	118	3	0	1	650
Yoshinori Sato	9	13	.409	5.00	28	25	3	7	1	0	165.7	195	106	92	21	71	4	105	2	0	1	749
Atsunori Ito	5	1	.833	3.44	24	4	5	1	0	0	55.0	57	22	21	6	20	1	30	3	0	0	234
Yutaro Imai	5	5	.500	4.24	28	11	7	1	0	2	80.7	96	46	38	13	14	0	34	7	0	1	352
Yoshihiro Yamauchi	4	1	.800	3.24	39	0	33	0	0	12	58.3	47	22	21	5	28	2	35	0	0	5	240
Takahide Ito	3	4	.429	4.46	34	5	12	0	0	2	82.7	84	48	41	10	36	2	53	6	1	4	372
Yuichi Kiyohara	1	1	.500	7.46	27	1	4	0	0	1	25.3	36	22	21	2	14	2	15	0	0	1	126
Koji Mori	1	2	.333	4.55	40	0	1	0	0	0	27.7	25	15	14	3	9	1	11	1	0	0	115
Kozo Mori	0	0		5.11	8	0	5	0	0	0	12.3	12	7	7	0	2	0	4	2	0	0	49
Ryoji Tani	0	0		9.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	2	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	5
Koji Takagi	0	0		12.54	6	0	2	0	0	0	9.3	15	13	13	5	8	1	4	0	0	2	50
Masami Ninomiya	0	0		13.50	2	0	1	0	0	0	2.7	6	4	4	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	16
Tomoyuki Sekiguchi	0	1	.000	4.06	35	0	3	0	0	0	37.7	32	20	17	4	22	0	15	1	0	2	162
Katsuyuki Furumizo	0	2	.000	7.36	8	2	4	0	0	0	11.0	14	10	9	4	8	2	4	1	0	1	56
Totals	72	55	.567	4.30	386	130	98	32	6	26	1162.3	1181	616	555	147	447	22	729	30	1	42	5038

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
Greg Wells	130	578	512	101	165	19	0	40	124	2	1	53	37	.322	.386	.594	.980	304	34	5	0	8	15
Hiromi Matsunaga	124	573	470	106	145	30	3	17	60	14	6	96	78	.309	.431	.494	.924	232	8	5	2	0	12
Kazuhiko Ishimine	130	534	487	55	135	29	1	20	77	1	1	42	69	.277	.335	.464	.799	226	13	2	0	3	5
Yasuo Fujii	121	498	432	66	126	27	3	30	90	3	5	54	72	.292	.371	.576	.947	249	10	4	2	6	4
Hiromitsu Kadota	116	489	406	70	124	17	1	33	93	0	2	78	103	.305	.417	.596	1.013	242	12	2	0	3	3
Junichi Fukura	115	498	394	61	102	16	0	8	47	8	7	62	39	.259	.369	.360	.729	142	9	9	29	4	0
Atsuhiro Motonishi	120	327	281	49	85	15	4	5	33	8	4	28	48	.302	.369	.438	.807	123	4	3	13	2	1
Hirofumi Ogawa	115	391	344	36	85	11	4	5	32	7	6	20	44	.247	.289	.346	.635	119	7	1	24	2	0
Satoshi Nakajima	121	373	320	31	75	9	2	5	26	2	2	35	67	.234	.313	.322	.635	103	6	2	15	1	0
Toyozo Minamimure	106	192	156	18	44	8	0	2	17	9	3	21	23	.282	.365	.372	.737	58	6	0	14	1	3
Terumitsu Kumano	71	147	123	15	29	1	0	2	9	4	0	20	21	.236	.343	.293	.635	36	2	0	4	0	1
Todd Brown	31	95	89	13	22	3	3	3	14	3	2	5	24	.247	.295	.449	.744	40	0	1	0	0	0
Hiromasa Fujita	58	96	90	7	18	4	1	0	6	0	0	3	10	.200	.226	.267	.492	24	5	0	3	0	0
Mineo Fukuhara	73	84	70	9	14	4	0	0	3	1	0	11	24	.200	.309	.257	.566	18	2	0	3	0	0
Masafumi Yamamori	50	49	45	8	13	2	0	0	3	0	1	3	8	.289	.333	.333	.667	15	3	0	1	0	1
Yoshihiro Yamakoshi	47	47	43	8	12	2	1	0	6	1	1	1	7	.279	.311	.372	.683	16	1	1	2	0	0
Shinji Watanabe	30	32	30	0	8	0	0	0	4	0	0	2	6	.267	.312	.267	.579	8	1	0	0	0	0
Satoshi Takahashi	17	13	12	1	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	.250	.308	.250	.558	3	2	0	0	0	0
Keijiro Yumioka	69	36	27	9	3	2	0	0	2	2	1	2	1	.111	.194	.185	.379	5	1	1	5	1	0
Toru Takashima	3	4	4	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0	0	0	0
Shinichi Murakami	14	14	12	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.083	.154	.167	.321	2	0	0	1	0	0
Minoru Shibahara	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tsutomu Sakai	39	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tomiji Iizuka	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Taro Hamuro	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kenji Yamanaka	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Totals	1709	5080	4356	665	1210	200	23	170	647	66	42	538	687	.278	.360	.451	.811	1966	127	36	119	31	45

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Greg Wells	1B	130					.000
Yoshihiro Yamakoshi	1B	10					.000
Satoshi Takahashi	1B	10					.000
Yasuo Fujii	1B	7					.000
Tomiji Iizuka	1B	2					.000
Shinichi Murakami	1B	1					.000
Toyozo Minamimure	1B	1					.000
Junichi Fukura	2B	114					.000
Mineo Fukuhara	2B	64					.000
Yoshihiro Yamakoshi	2B	5					.000
Kenji Yamanaka	2B	2					.000
Keijiro Yumioka	2B	1					.000
Hirofumi Ogawa	2B	1					.000
Atsuhiro Motonishi	2B	1					.000
Hiromi Matsunaga	3B	124					.000
Yoshihiro Yamakoshi	3B	11					.000
Atsuhiro Motonishi	3B	4					.000
Mineo Fukuhara	3B	4					.000
Keijiro Yumioka	3B	2					.000
Satoshi Nakajima	C	120					.000
Hiromasa Fujita	C	55					.000
Toru Takashima	C	3					.000
Taro Hamuro	C	1					.000
Yasuo Fujii	OF	119					.000
Atsuhiro Motonishi	OF	100					.000
Toyozo Minamimure	OF	95					.000
Kazuhiko Ishimine	OF	64					.000
Terumitsu Kumano	OF	54					.000
Hiromitsu Kadota	OF	51					.000
Masafumi Yamamori	OF	38					.000
Todd Brown	OF	27					.000
Minoru Shibahara	OF	2					.000
Satoshi Takahashi	OF	1					.000
Tomiji Iizuka	OF	1					.000
Koji Mori	P	40					.000
Yoshihiro Yamauchi	P	39					.000
Tsutomu Sakai	P	36					.000
Tomoyuki Sekiguchi	P	35					.000
Takahide Ito	P	34					.000
Yoshinori Sato	P	28					.000
Yutaro Imai	P	28					.000
Nobuyuki Hoshino	P	28					.000
Yuichi Kiyohara	P	27					.000
Atsunori Ito	P	24					.000
Yukihiko Yamaoki	P	23					.000
Guy Hoffman	P	19					.000
Kozo Mori	P	8					.000
Katsuyuki Furumizo	P	8					.000
Koji Takagi	P	6					.000
Masami Ninomiya	P	2					.000
Ryoji Tani	P	1					.000
Hirofumi Ogawa	SS	115					.000
Keijiro Yumioka	SS	46					.000
Yoshihiro Yamakoshi	SS	14					.000
Atsuhiro Motonishi	SS	4					.000
Mineo Fukuhara	SS	2					.000
Totals		1792	0	0	0	0	.000

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