1995 Orix BlueWave Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 82-47
Finished 1st in the JPPL
Manager: Akira Ogi (82-47)
Location: Kobe, Japan
Ballpark: Kobe Sports Park Baseball Stadium

1995 Orix BlueWave Roster

The Orix BlueWave of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1995 season with a record of 82 wins and 47 losses, finishing first in the JPPL.

The BlueWave scored 571 runs, best in the league. Orix conceded 428 runs. Troy Neel led the team with 27 home runs, while Ichiro Suzuki and Doug Jennings walloped 15 or more, too. Ichiro Suzuki drove in 80 runs and topped all qualifying hitters on the roster with a .342 average. Masafumi Hirai paced the squad with 15 wins, and Koichi Takahashi registered a 2.68 earned run average, best among hurlers with significant time on the mound.

Players from the 1995 Orix BlueWave who spent time in the Majors during their careers included Takahito Nomura, Ichiro Suzuki, Shigetoshi Hasegawa, Troy Neel, Doug Jennings and So Taguchi.

Akira Ogi 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
Masafumi Hirai	15	5	.750	2.32	53	0	52	0	0	27	85.3	77	25	22	1	14	1	82	2	0	3	343
Shigetoshi Hasegawa	12	7	.632	2.89	24	23	0	9	4	0	171.0	167	62	55	16	51	0	91	2	0	3	700
Nobuyuki Hoshino	11	8	.579	3.39	24	24	0	3	0	0	156.7	133	65	59	15	51	1	112	1	0	4	647
Koji Noda	10	7	.588	3.08	26	25	1	6	1	0	184.3	145	67	63	21	69	2	208	4	0	13	763
Hiroshi Kobayashi	8	3	.727	2.68	15	13	0	3	1	0	87.3	71	29	26	4	27	0	56	5	0	2	352
Koichi Takahashi	7	6	.538	2.67	18	15	0	4	1	0	104.7	100	39	31	7	41	1	68	3	0	2	449
Takahide Ito	6	2	.750	2.96	18	13	0	1	1	0	85.0	88	34	28	4	31	0	65	1	0	2	365
Yoshinori Sato	4	2	.667	3.86	16	15	0	2	1	0	86.3	82	39	37	7	29	0	57	4	0	2	365
Takahito Nomura	3	1	.750	0.98	37	0	3	0	0	2	36.7	21	5	4	0	11	2	43	0	0	1	138
Taira Suzuki	2	4	.333	1.83	50	0	8	0	0	3	59.0	42	15	12	1	22	3	53	2	0	1	239
Yoshitaka Mizuo	1	0	1.000	1.50	1	1	0	0	0	0	6.0	5	1	1	1	0	0	8	0	0	0	23
Takashi Watabe	1	0	1.000	1.72	24	1	7	0	0	0	31.3	26	8	6	1	16	0	16	0	0	2	127
Yuichi Kiyohara	1	0	1.000	2.50	43	0	8	0	0	1	36.0	26	12	10	2	9	2	22	0	0	1	142
Nobuhiko Watanabe	1	2	.333	2.97	32	0	19	0	0	1	36.3	30	14	12	5	20	2	41	1	1	1	158
Masahiko Kaneda	0	0		3.86	3	0	0	0	0	0	2.3	3	1	1	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	11
Eiji Maruo	0	0		7.04	4	0	2	0	0	0	7.7	13	6	6	1	3	0	10	0	0	0	38
Nobuyuki Ebisu	0	0		9.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	5
Rui Makino	0	0		16.88	2	0	1	0	0	0	2.7	6	5	5	1	1	0	4	0	0	0	15
Totals	82	47	.636	2.89	391	130	102	28	9	34	1179.7	1036	428	379	87	398	14	938	25	1	37	4880

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
Ichiro Suzuki	130	613	524	104	179	23	4	25	80	49	9	68	52	.342	.432	.544	.976	285	7	18	0	3	17
So Taguchi	130	574	495	76	122	24	2	9	61	14	7	43	80	.246	.308	.358	.665	177	7	4	25	7	0
Hirofumi Ogawa	120	422	379	44	103	20	3	6	38	0	3	30	66	.272	.324	.388	.711	147	12	0	11	2	0
Troy Neel	122	504	418	55	102	20	1	27	70	1	4	74	130	.244	.369	.490	.859	205	11	10	0	2	5
Toshifumi Baba	115	404	344	25	90	14	3	1	33	4	2	28	51	.262	.320	.328	.648	113	4	2	29	1	0
Doug Jennings	107	372	335	44	89	22	1	16	60	2	1	27	104	.266	.323	.481	.803	161	7	4	0	6	2
Satoshi Nakajima	101	345	303	33	81	13	1	3	33	0	1	33	61	.267	.337	.347	.684	105	8	0	7	2	1
Yasuo Fujii	116	403	334	50	79	14	1	14	49	0	1	65	82	.237	.360	.410	.770	137	8	1	0	3	7
Hironori Suguro	117	313	267	28	60	13	0	1	21	2	0	18	66	.225	.273	.285	.557	76	4	0	27	1	2
Atsuhiro Motonishi	113	245	214	24	50	6	3	1	24	2	0	17	39	.234	.295	.304	.599	65	4	2	11	1	0
Junichi Fukura	53	201	162	24	45	3	0	4	19	0	1	23	14	.278	.379	.370	.749	60	4	4	11	1	0
Satoshi Takahashi	50	147	126	17	33	7	1	5	14	1	0	20	31	.262	.367	.452	.820	57	1	1	0	0	1
Takashi Miwa	49	134	114	15	28	8	1	1	17	0	1	12	19	.246	.315	.360	.675	41	2	1	4	3	0
Makoto Takada	49	91	82	6	16	1	1	0	4	0	1	4	21	.195	.233	.232	.464	19	2	0	5	0	0
Minoru Shibahara	24	41	35	2	10	1	0	1	4	0	0	4	9	.286	.359	.400	.759	14	0	0	2	0	0
Hideaki Matsuyama	46	42	38	16	9	1	0	1	4	4	2	2	5	.237	.293	.342	.635	13	1	1	1	0	0
Toru Takashima	25	41	36	0	7	1	0	0	3	0	0	3	5	.194	.275	.222	.497	8	1	1	1	0	0
Akinobu Okada	32	46	39	3	7	0	0	0	2	0	0	7	9	.179	.304	.179	.484	7	1	0	0	0	0
Naoyuki Kazaoka	64	51	39	3	4	0	0	0	2	3	1	4	8	.103	.239	.103	.342	4	1	3	5	0	0
Kenji Horie	2	6	4	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	2	0	0	0	1	0
Naofumi Sugimoto	2	5	5	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.400	.400	.600	1.000	3	0	0	0	0	0
Katsuhiro Hiratsuka	7	8	8	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Minoru Yojo	9	9	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1583	5017	4310	571	1118	192	22	115	539	82	34	483	859	.259	.339	.394	.733	1699	85	52	139	33	35

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Doug Jennings	1B	87					.000
Yasuo Fujii	1B	72					.000
Toru Takashima	1B	12					.000
Makoto Takada	1B	8					.000
Akinobu Okada	1B	7					.000
Minoru Yojo	1B	6					.000
Hirofumi Ogawa	1B	4					.000
Troy Neel	1B	4					.000
Satoshi Takahashi	1B	2					.000
Minoru Shibahara	1B	1					.000
Hirofumi Ogawa	2B	73					.000
Junichi Fukura	2B	51					.000
Naoyuki Kazaoka	2B	45					.000
Hideaki Matsuyama	2B	20					.000
Toshifumi Baba	2B	13					.000
So Taguchi	2B	3					.000
Kenji Horie	2B	2					.000
Akinobu Okada	2B	1					.000
Toshifumi Baba	3B	111					.000
Atsuhiro Motonishi	3B	45					.000
Hirofumi Ogawa	3B	6					.000
Akinobu Okada	3B	5					.000
Hideaki Matsuyama	3B	5					.000
Naoyuki Kazaoka	3B	4					.000
Hironori Suguro	3B	2					.000
Kenji Horie	3B	2					.000
Katsuhiro Hiratsuka	3B	1					.000
Satoshi Nakajima	C	96					.000
Takashi Miwa	C	47					.000
Makoto Takada	C	22					.000
Toru Takashima	C	3					.000
Naofumi Sugimoto	C	2					.000
Ichiro Suzuki	OF	130					.000
So Taguchi	OF	129					.000
Atsuhiro Motonishi	OF	83					.000
Yasuo Fujii	OF	75					.000
Satoshi Takahashi	OF	44					.000
Doug Jennings	OF	10					.000
Minoru Shibahara	OF	9					.000
Minoru Yojo	OF	2					.000
Katsuhiro Hiratsuka	OF	2					.000
Masafumi Hirai	P	53					.000
Taira Suzuki	P	50					.000
Yuichi Kiyohara	P	43					.000
Takahito Nomura	P	37					.000
Nobuhiko Watanabe	P	32					.000
Koji Noda	P	26					.000
Takashi Watabe	P	24					.000
Nobuyuki Hoshino	P	24					.000
Shigetoshi Hasegawa	P	24					.000
Koichi Takahashi	P	18					.000
Takahide Ito	P	18					.000
Yoshinori Sato	P	16					.000
Hiroshi Kobayashi	P	15					.000
Eiji Maruo	P	4					.000
Masahiko Kaneda	P	3					.000
Rui Makino	P	2					.000
Yoshitaka Mizuo	P	1					.000
Nobuyuki Ebisu	P	1					.000
Hironori Suguro	SS	115					.000
Hirofumi Ogawa	SS	57					.000
Naoyuki Kazaoka	SS	17					.000
So Taguchi	SS	1					.000
Atsuhiro Motonishi	SS	1					.000
Totals		1828	0	0	0	0	.000

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