1993 Orix BlueWave Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 70-56
Finished 3rd in the JPPL
Manager: Shozo Doi (70-56)
Location: Kobe, Japan
Ballpark: Kobe Sports Park Baseball Stadium

1993 Orix BlueWave Roster

The Orix BlueWave of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1993 season with a record of 70 wins and 56 losses, finishing third in the JPPL.

The BlueWave plated 516 runs and allowed 471 runs. Yasuo Fujii paced Orix with 28 home runs, while Ty Gainey and Kazuhiko Ishimine walloped 15 or more, too. Yasuo Fujii drove in 86 runs. Kazuhiko Ishimine topped all regular hitters with a .273 average. Koji Noda led the team with 17 wins and a team-best 2.56 ERA, tops among hurlers with significant time on the mound.

Players from the 1993 Orix BlueWave who spent time in the Majors during their careers included Shigetoshi Hasegawa, Kelvin Torve, So Taguchi, Ty Gainey, Ichiro Suzuki and Takahito Nomura.

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
Koji Noda	17	5	.773	2.56	26	26	0	17	4	0	225.0	187	68	64	23	62	0	209	1	0	4	901
Shigetoshi Hasegawa	12	6	.667	2.71	23	22	1	9	3	0	159.7	146	61	48	12	48	1	86	1	0	3	660
Nobuyuki Hoshino	10	12	.455	3.35	25	24	0	13	2	0	185.3	172	73	69	10	52	2	153	3	0	5	760
Yoshinori Sato	9	8	.529	3.55	21	21	0	6	2	0	142.0	123	62	56	10	55	0	99	2	0	3	597
Takashi Nishimoto	5	5	.500	4.41	13	12	1	1	0	0	65.3	83	39	32	2	14	1	39	2	1	0	284
Tsutomu Sakai	3	0	1.000	4.61	8	6	1	1	1	0	41.0	41	21	21	5	23	0	24	0	0	0	185
Takahito Nomura	3	3	.500	1.53	36	0	21	0	0	8	70.7	49	14	12	1	12	0	83	1	0	2	272
Atsunori Ito	3	4	.429	5.17	9	9	0	1	0	0	54.0	63	31	31	4	22	0	25	0	0	0	242
Masahiko Kaneda	2	2	.500	5.26	28	1	8	0	0	1	53.0	57	33	31	3	34	0	41	0	0	4	242
Yasuhiro Kawabata	2	4	.333	2.88	28	0	14	0	0	2	50.0	50	19	16	4	17	0	36	2	0	2	209
Katsuyuki Furumizo	1	0	1.000	0.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	7.0	5	0	0	0	2	0	4	0	0	0	27
Yukihiko Yamaoki	1	1	.500	1.88	5	5	0	0	0	0	28.7	23	7	6	1	8	0	14	0	1	0	114
Hiroshi Kobayashi	1	1	.500	3.97	9	1	3	0	0	0	22.7	34	11	10	1	5	0	19	0	0	1	104
Takahide Ito	1	3	.250	2.31	33	0	31	0	0	16	50.7	41	16	13	3	18	1	50	1	0	3	210
Yoshihiro Yamauchi	0	0		2.08	2	0	1	0	0	0	4.3	1	1	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	14
Yuichi Kohama	0	0		15.00	2	0	1	0	0	0	3.0	8	5	5	0	1	0	4	0	0	0	17
Rui Makino	0	2	.000	6.00	3	2	0	0	0	0	12.0	11	10	8	2	9	0	12	0	0	0	55
Totals	70	56	.556	3.24	272	130	82	48	12	27	1174.3	1094	471	423	82	383	5	899	13	2	27	4893

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
Kazuhiko Ishimine	130	549	495	56	135	21	2	24	77	4	1	48	65	.273	.339	.469	.807	232	15	3	0	3	3
Junichi Fukura	130	555	453	63	121	16	1	2	30	20	9	65	42	.267	.361	.320	.681	145	8	3	31	3	0
Yasuo Fujii	129	548	463	62	116	23	1	28	86	2	3	77	118	.251	.354	.486	.840	225	13	1	0	7	2
Hirofumi Ogawa	125	465	414	36	106	18	2	8	36	8	5	37	72	.256	.316	.367	.683	152	12	0	12	2	1
Satoshi Takahashi	97	414	370	42	93	19	3	11	48	6	2	41	86	.251	.326	.408	.734	151	10	1	0	2	3
Ty Gainey	98	374	310	58	90	14	1	23	43	9	6	63	102	.290	.412	.565	.976	175	4	1	0	0	5
Hironori Suguro	96	335	299	34	76	12	1	3	29	10	1	16	53	.254	.294	.331	.625	99	4	2	15	3	0
Kelvin Torve	96	364	327	27	76	16	0	9	35	5	3	35	64	.232	.308	.364	.672	119	14	1	0	1	0
Atsuhiro Motonishi	108	218	200	25	52	8	0	0	10	4	1	13	32	.260	.308	.300	.608	60	5	1	4	0	1
Minoru Shibahara	71	177	156	19	48	9	1	1	12	2	2	15	27	.308	.377	.397	.775	62	2	3	2	1	1
Makoto Takada	92	266	219	20	44	8	2	3	22	0	2	32	44	.201	.307	.297	.604	65	5	3	9	3	1
Tomiji Iizuka	57	122	105	12	25	5	0	5	18	2	0	14	40	.238	.322	.429	.751	45	1	0	1	2	0
So Taguchi	31	90	83	12	23	7	1	0	5	3	2	3	12	.277	.302	.386	.688	32	2	0	4	0	0
Satoshi Nakajima	55	174	148	7	22	3	0	0	4	1	1	16	41	.149	.241	.169	.410	25	5	2	8	0	0
Masafumi Yamamori	55	61	57	12	18	0	1	2	11	2	0	3	12	.316	.344	.456	.800	26	1	0	0	1	0
Ichiro Suzuki	43	67	64	4	12	2	0	1	3	0	2	2	7	.188	.212	.266	.478	17	2	0	1	0	0
Shinichi Murakami	9	22	19	5	9	6	0	2	7	0	0	2	2	.474	.545	1.105	1.651	21	0	1	0	0	0
Toru Takashima	35	51	46	3	9	0	0	0	4	0	0	2	5	.196	.235	.196	.431	9	1	1	0	2	0
Yoshihiro Yamakoshi	87	65	56	7	9	0	0	1	5	3	0	3	14	.161	.217	.214	.431	12	1	1	5	0	0
Shinji Watanabe	17	23	22	4	8	3	0	2	4	0	0	1	7	.364	.391	.773	1.164	17	1	0	0	0	0
Naoyuki Kazaoka	53	27	25	7	6	2	0	0	4	1	1	1	8	.240	.259	.320	.579	8	1	0	0	1	0
Taro Hamuro	4	7	7	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.286	.286	.286	.571	2	0	0	0	0	0
Hideaki Matsuyama	5	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	1	0	0
Kazuhiro Sato	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1626	4980	4343	516	1100	192	16	125	493	83	41	489	856	.253	.330	.391	.721	1699	108	24	93	31	17

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Kelvin Torve	1B	96					.000
Tomiji Iizuka	1B	30					.000
Yasuo Fujii	1B	25					.000
Yoshihiro Yamakoshi	1B	7					.000
Shinji Watanabe	1B	5					.000
Junichi Fukura	2B	129					.000
Naoyuki Kazaoka	2B	29					.000
Yoshihiro Yamakoshi	2B	3					.000
Hironori Suguro	2B	1					.000
Hirofumi Ogawa	2B	1					.000
Hirofumi Ogawa	3B	78					.000
Yoshihiro Yamakoshi	3B	75					.000
Atsuhiro Motonishi	3B	31					.000
Naoyuki Kazaoka	3B	17					.000
Tomiji Iizuka	3B	14					.000
Hironori Suguro	3B	2					.000
Hideaki Matsuyama	3B	2					.000
So Taguchi	3B	1					.000
Makoto Takada	C	84					.000
Satoshi Nakajima	C	55					.000
Toru Takashima	C	28					.000
Taro Hamuro	C	4					.000
Yasuo Fujii	OF	110					.000
Satoshi Takahashi	OF	97					.000
Atsuhiro Motonishi	OF	89					.000
Ty Gainey	OF	79					.000
Minoru Shibahara	OF	52					.000
Masafumi Yamamori	OF	50					.000
Ichiro Suzuki	OF	32					.000
So Taguchi	OF	21					.000
Kazuhiko Ishimine	OF	11					.000
Tomiji Iizuka	OF	9					.000
Shinichi Murakami	OF	2					.000
Yoshihiro Yamakoshi	OF	1					.000
Takahito Nomura	P	36					.000
Takahide Ito	P	33					.000
Yasuhiro Kawabata	P	28					.000
Masahiko Kaneda	P	28					.000
Koji Noda	P	26					.000
Nobuyuki Hoshino	P	25					.000
Shigetoshi Hasegawa	P	23					.000
Yoshinori Sato	P	21					.000
Takashi Nishimoto	P	13					.000
Hiroshi Kobayashi	P	9					.000
Atsunori Ito	P	9					.000
Tsutomu Sakai	P	8					.000
Yukihiko Yamaoki	P	5					.000
Rui Makino	P	3					.000
Yoshihiro Yamauchi	P	2					.000
Yuichi Kohama	P	2					.000
Katsuyuki Furumizo	P	1					.000
Hironori Suguro	SS	92					.000
Hirofumi Ogawa	SS	48					.000
Naoyuki Kazaoka	SS	2					.000
Totals		1684	0	0	0	0	.000

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