1992 Orix BlueWave Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 61-64
Finished 3rd in the JPPL
Manager: Shozo Doi (61-64)
Location: Kobe, Japan
Ballpark: Kobe Sports Park Baseball Stadium

1992 Orix BlueWave Roster

The Orix BlueWave of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1992 season with a record of 61 wins and 64 losses, finishing third in the JPPL.

The BlueWave scored 540 runs and surrendered 503 runs. Satoshi Takahashi led Orix with 29 home runs, and Kazuhiko Ishimine walloped 15 or more also. Satoshi Takahashi recorded 78 runs batted in. Kelvin Torve paced batters with significant playing time with a .305 average. Nobuyuki Hoshino topped the squad with 13 wins, while Yoshinori Sato registered a 3.21 earned run average, best among hurlers with significant time on the mound.

Shigetoshi Hasegawa, Kelvin Torve, Carmelo Martínez, Don Schulze, So Taguchi, Takahito Nomura and Ichiro Suzuki were all players from the 1992 Orix BlueWave who played in the Majors during their careers.

Shozo Doi 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	13	9	.591	3.62	27	25	1	16	5	0	196.7	188	81	79	17	66	1	175	3	0	9	826
Tsutomu Sakai	10	11	.476	3.29	22	21	1	9	1	0	156.0	140	59	57	16	52	2	105	7	1	1	649
Yoshinori Sato	9	5	.643	3.21	21	13	7	5	1	3	115.0	100	44	41	17	35	0	86	4	0	3	472
Atsunori Ito	8	8	.500	3.80	26	25	0	10	2	0	191.7	192	84	81	19	52	1	93	7	2	1	808
Shigetoshi Hasegawa	6	8	.429	3.27	24	19	4	4	0	1	143.3	138	60	52	12	51	1	86	3	0	5	602
Yasuhiro Kawabata	5	6	.455	4.50	32	0	19	0	0	4	62.0	56	33	31	7	20	3	35	1	0	1	255
Yukihiko Yamaoki	4	3	.571	3.65	8	8	0	3	0	0	56.7	58	23	23	5	9	0	25	1	0	2	232
Don Schulze	3	5	.375	3.49	13	13	0	3	0	0	85.0	84	40	33	10	51	0	56	2	1	0	383
Takahide Ito	2	4	.333	2.98	29	2	21	0	0	6	57.3	55	23	19	4	20	0	54	4	1	4	249
Takahito Nomura	1	2	.333	2.53	27	3	12	0	0	5	46.3	51	15	13	2	15	0	35	0	0	2	195
Yuichi Kohama	0	0		0.00	2	0	2	0	0	0	2.0	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	8
Yoshihiro Yamauchi	0	0		3.38	9	0	4	0	0	0	13.3	13	7	5	2	9	0	7	1	0	0	62
Hiroshi Motohigashi	0	0		10.12	3	0	0	0	0	0	2.7	4	4	3	0	3	0	2	1	0	0	15
Koji Mori	0	0		12.46	4	0	2	0	0	0	4.3	9	7	6	1	0	0	1	2	0	0	24
Minoru Yano	0	0		15.43	3	0	2	0	0	0	2.3	3	4	4	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	13
Yuichi Kiyohara	0	0		18.90	3	0	1	0	0	0	3.3	6	7	7	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	18
Katsuyuki Furumizo	0	3	.000	3.43	11	1	4	0	0	0	21.0	25	12	8	3	7	0	12	2	0	1	96
Totals	61	64	.488	3.59	264	130	80	50	9	19	1159.0	1124	503	462	115	397	8	774	38	5	29	4907

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
Hiromi Matsunaga	118	540	473	72	141	34	4	3	39	15	6	62	70	.298	.379	.406	.785	192	3	1	2	2	7
Satoshi Takahashi	127	520	465	84	138	30	7	29	78	3	0	45	118	.297	.360	.578	.938	269	11	3	3	4	3
Kazuhiko Ishimine	130	549	506	56	135	17	0	18	68	2	2	37	66	.267	.321	.407	.728	206	17	4	0	2	2
Junichi Fukura	114	492	409	57	116	16	4	3	37	13	5	50	52	.284	.368	.364	.732	149	5	6	24	3	1
Kelvin Torve	96	403	367	42	112	19	1	11	58	3	1	29	70	.305	.353	.452	.806	166	9	1	1	5	0
Hirofumi Ogawa	103	396	344	39	100	23	1	3	38	3	1	20	54	.291	.331	.390	.720	134	8	3	24	5	1
Satoshi Nakajima	115	408	342	44	85	13	0	6	33	5	4	37	68	.249	.332	.339	.671	116	15	8	16	5	2
Minoru Shibahara	104	275	244	24	62	14	3	4	26	6	4	20	39	.254	.315	.385	.700	94	2	3	5	3	2
Atsuhiro Motonishi	95	232	203	22	48	3	6	0	19	5	2	14	34	.236	.284	.310	.594	63	6	1	10	4	0
Makoto Takada	56	155	132	8	36	8	1	0	18	0	0	12	14	.273	.331	.348	.680	46	3	1	7	3	0
Carmelo Martínez	42	181	150	21	34	5	1	6	23	0	1	30	33	.227	.359	.393	.752	59	6	1	0	0	0
So Taguchi	47	141	123	12	33	10	0	1	7	5	0	8	26	.268	.318	.374	.692	46	1	1	9	0	0
Shinichi Murakami	55	119	109	12	30	6	1	2	17	1	1	7	25	.275	.328	.404	.731	44	1	2	0	1	0
Ichiro Suzuki	40	99	95	9	24	5	0	0	5	3	2	3	11	.253	.276	.305	.581	29	0	0	1	0	0
Masafumi Yamamori	89	119	107	7	22	3	1	0	8	3	0	4	17	.206	.239	.252	.491	27	2	1	6	1	0
Yasuo Fujii	20	73	67	3	18	5	0	0	8	0	0	5	9	.269	.315	.343	.658	23	2	0	0	1	0
Shinji Watanabe	33	44	41	1	15	3	0	0	7	0	1	2	9	.366	.386	.439	.825	18	0	0	0	1	0
Hironori Suguro	22	43	40	3	11	1	0	0	4	3	0	3	3	.275	.326	.300	.626	12	0	0	0	0	0
Yoshihiro Yamakoshi	47	48	40	12	10	1	0	0	1	1	2	1	11	.250	.318	.275	.593	11	1	3	4	0	0
Tomiji Iizuka	23	32	30	5	7	1	2	1	6	0	0	2	12	.233	.281	.500	.781	15	1	0	0	0	0
Hideaki Matsuyama	9	24	20	5	6	2	1	1	2	0	0	3	3	.300	.391	.650	1.041	13	1	0	1	0	0
Kazuhiro Sato	35	43	37	2	6	0	0	0	4	0	0	3	2	.162	.233	.162	.395	6	1	1	0	2	0
Mineo Fukuhara	26	17	17	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	.059	.059	.059	.118	1	0	0	0	0	0
Naoyuki Kazaoka	15	25	19	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	6	.053	.100	.105	.205	2	0	0	5	0	0
Toru Takashima	2	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Taro Hamuro	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Totals	1564	4982	4384	540	1191	220	33	88	507	72	32	398	758	.272	.335	.397	.732	1741	96	40	118	42	18

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Kelvin Torve	1B	96					.000
Carmelo Martínez	1B	37					.000
Yoshihiro Yamakoshi	1B	17					.000
Satoshi Takahashi	1B	1					.000
Junichi Fukura	2B	111					.000
Mineo Fukuhara	2B	19					.000
Hirofumi Ogawa	2B	10					.000
Naoyuki Kazaoka	2B	7					.000
Hironori Suguro	2B	5					.000
Hideaki Matsuyama	2B	4					.000
Yoshihiro Yamakoshi	2B	2					.000
Hiromi Matsunaga	3B	117					.000
Yoshihiro Yamakoshi	3B	7					.000
Atsuhiro Motonishi	3B	7					.000
Hideaki Matsuyama	3B	5					.000
Mineo Fukuhara	3B	5					.000
So Taguchi	3B	2					.000
Hironori Suguro	3B	2					.000
Naoyuki Kazaoka	3B	1					.000
Satoshi Nakajima	C	104					.000
Makoto Takada	C	47					.000
Toru Takashima	C	1					.000
Satoshi Takahashi	OF	127					.000
Minoru Shibahara	OF	95					.000
Atsuhiro Motonishi	OF	89					.000
Masafumi Yamamori	OF	88					.000
Ichiro Suzuki	OF	34					.000
Shinichi Murakami	OF	24					.000
Kazuhiko Ishimine	OF	23					.000
Tomiji Iizuka	OF	22					.000
Yasuo Fujii	OF	18					.000
Carmelo Martínez	OF	9					.000
Kazuhiro Sato	OF	7					.000
Yoshihiro Yamakoshi	OF	3					.000
Yasuhiro Kawabata	P	32					.000
Takahide Ito	P	29					.000
Takahito Nomura	P	27					.000
Nobuyuki Hoshino	P	27					.000
Atsunori Ito	P	26					.000
Shigetoshi Hasegawa	P	24					.000
Tsutomu Sakai	P	22					.000
Yoshinori Sato	P	21					.000
Don Schulze	P	13					.000
Katsuyuki Furumizo	P	11					.000
Yoshihiro Yamauchi	P	9					.000
Yukihiko Yamaoki	P	8					.000
Koji Mori	P	4					.000
Minoru Yano	P	3					.000
Hiroshi Motohigashi	P	3					.000
Yuichi Kiyohara	P	3					.000
Yuichi Kohama	P	2					.000
Hirofumi Ogawa	SS	92					.000
So Taguchi	SS	36					.000
Hironori Suguro	SS	12					.000
Naoyuki Kazaoka	SS	10					.000
Yoshihiro Yamakoshi	SS	6					.000
Mineo Fukuhara	SS	1					.000
Totals		1567	0	0	0	0	.000

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