1996 Orix BlueWave Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 74-50
Finished 1st in the JPPL
Manager: Akira Ogi (74-50)
Location: Kobe, Japan
Ballpark: Kobe Sports Park Baseball Stadium

1996 Orix BlueWave Roster

Japan Series - Orix BlueWave 4 games, Yomiuri Giants 1

The Orix BlueWave of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1996 season with a record of 74 wins and 50 losses, finishing first in the JPPL.

The BlueWave plated 607 runs, tops in the circuit. Orix gave up 529 runs. Troy Neel walloped 32 home runs for the team, while Doug Jennings, Yasuo Fujii and Ichiro Suzuki each swatted 15 or more also. Troy Neel recorded 111 runs batted in. Ichiro Suzuki led hitters with significant playing time with a .356 average. Nobuyuki Hoshino topped the squad with 13 wins and a team-best 3.06 earned run average, leading hurlers with significant time on the mound.

Takahito Nomura, Ichiro Suzuki, So Taguchi, Doug Jennings, Shigetoshi Hasegawa, Troy Neel and Willie Fraser were all players from the 1996 Orix BlueWave who played in the Majors during their careers.

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
Nobuyuki Hoshino	13	5	.722	3.05	22	22	0	6	3	0	144.7	137	54	49	9	38	1	85	1	0	2	594
Willie Fraser	10	2	.833	3.07	18	15	1	1	1	0	99.7	88	36	34	9	37	3	51	2	1	0	411
Koji Noda	8	7	.533	3.14	27	27	0	7	2	0	180.3	170	70	63	18	70	3	144	7	0	10	772
Hiroshi Kobayashi	8	7	.533	4.08	37	12	6	2	0	0	121.3	124	61	55	7	66	2	68	4	0	6	542
Taira Suzuki	7	2	.778	2.43	55	0	33	0	0	19	74.0	55	21	20	5	30	2	58	3	0	1	304
Masahiko Kaneda	6	8	.429	4.23	29	19	3	2	0	0	121.3	128	66	57	9	45	0	83	2	0	1	527
Masafumi Hirai	5	3	.625	2.50	34	0	16	0	0	6	50.3	34	16	14	3	19	1	50	1	0	1	202
Takahito Nomura	4	1	.800	2.86	54	0	16	0	0	5	69.3	55	28	22	2	28	2	84	1	0	5	287
Shigetoshi Hasegawa	4	6	.400	5.34	18	16	2	2	0	1	87.7	109	60	52	12	40	1	55	2	0	0	406
Nobuhiko Watanabe	3	1	.750	2.84	29	0	7	0	0	1	38.0	28	13	12	2	14	0	32	0	0	0	152
Jiro Toyoda	2	1	.667	3.40	12	5	2	1	0	0	42.3	43	19	16	3	14	0	29	2	0	1	181
Rui Makino	2	1	.667	3.74	7	3	0	0	0	0	21.7	19	10	9	3	13	2	14	1	1	0	98
Hisanori Iwasaki	1	0	1.000	3.57	16	0	9	0	0	0	22.7	16	13	9	1	13	1	15	2	0	3	94
Yoshinori Sato	1	2	.333	5.58	10	6	2	0	0	0	30.7	39	21	19	3	21	0	21	2	0	4	151
Yoshitaka Mizuo	0	0			1	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Takashi Watabe	0	0		4.10	19	0	8	0	0	0	26.3	24	12	12	3	8	0	15	0	0	1	109
Yuichi Kiyohara	0	0		4.26	12	0	1	0	0	0	12.7	12	6	6	2	1	0	9	0	0	0	48
Takahide Ito	0	2	.000	4.42	3	3	0	0	0	0	18.3	13	9	9	2	6	0	18	1	0	2	75
Koichi Takahashi	0	2	.000	4.88	8	2	3	0	0	0	24.0	25	14	13	2	8	0	16	1	0	0	104
Totals	74	50	.597	3.58	411	130	109	21	6	32	1185.3	1120	529	471	95	471	18	847	32	2	37	5058

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	611	542	104	193	24	4	16	84	35	3	56	57	.356	.422	.504	.926	273	8	9	0	4	13
So Taguchi	128	569	509	74	142	24	1	7	44	10	4	29	61	.279	.321	.371	.692	189	15	4	23	4	4
Troy Neel	124	514	430	77	118	24	0	32	111	1	2	74	143	.274	.389	.553	.943	238	5	8	0	2	3
Koichi Oshima	125	485	397	62	101	11	3	4	37	8	2	50	59	.254	.342	.327	.670	130	3	5	29	4	0
Hirofumi Ogawa	110	351	313	42	90	14	0	9	38	1	2	26	55	.288	.342	.419	.761	131	9	1	9	2	3
Yasuo Fujii	109	361	310	44	85	18	0	20	61	1	4	47	73	.274	.366	.526	.891	163	6	0	0	4	2
Junichi Fukura	92	348	289	25	82	7	2	0	26	0	0	28	38	.284	.350	.322	.671	93	5	4	22	5	0
Satoshi Takahashi	85	260	236	31	68	14	0	9	30	0	1	23	47	.288	.350	.462	.812	109	7	0	0	1	3
Toshifumi Baba	111	288	263	25	67	8	2	6	27	1	0	9	43	.255	.285	.369	.653	97	7	2	14	0	0
Satoshi Nakajima	98	292	257	17	57	6	1	1	24	1	0	18	59	.222	.275	.265	.540	68	4	2	12	3	0
Atsuhiro Motonishi	103	237	206	23	54	4	2	1	19	3	0	18	37	.262	.325	.316	.640	65	11	2	9	2	2
Doug Jennings	91	278	241	29	53	7	1	15	47	1	1	32	74	.220	.320	.444	.764	107	5	4	0	1	0
Minoru Yojo	108	176	157	17	41	6	1	0	8	0	1	16	38	.261	.331	.312	.644	49	4	1	1	1	1
Makoto Takada	72	176	150	17	33	4	1	3	14	0	1	19	24	.220	.312	.320	.632	48	1	1	6	0	0
Hironori Suguro	62	81	67	7	13	3	0	1	7	1	0	8	18	.194	.280	.284	.564	19	0	0	6	0	1
Toshihiro Kase	17	25	22	4	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	6	.227	.320	.273	.593	6	0	0	0	0	0
Takashi Miwa	29	47	40	3	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	7	.125	.205	.125	.330	5	0	0	3	0	0
Minoru Shibahara	12	12	12	1	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.250	.250	.333	.583	4	0	0	0	0	0
Hidemitsu Saito	28	11	11	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.182	.182	.182	.364	2	0	0	0	0	0
Hideaki Matsuyama	6	2	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Jun Hagiwara	4	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0	0	0
Kazuyuki Shirai	13	26	25	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	3	.040	.077	.080	.157	2	0	0	0	0	0
Naoyuki Kazaoka	11	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1668	5155	4484	607	1215	177	18	124	580	63	21	461	851	.271	.342	.401	.744	1800	90	43	134	33	32

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Minoru Yojo	1B	88					.000
Yasuo Fujii	1B	55					.000
Doug Jennings	1B	47					.000
Junichi Fukura	1B	19					.000
Satoshi Takahashi	1B	6					.000
Hirofumi Ogawa	1B	6					.000
Troy Neel	1B	6					.000
Makoto Takada	1B	3					.000
Koichi Oshima	2B	107					.000
Junichi Fukura	2B	47					.000
Kazuyuki Shirai	2B	8					.000
So Taguchi	2B	7					.000
Naoyuki Kazaoka	2B	5					.000
Hirofumi Ogawa	2B	4					.000
Toshifumi Baba	2B	1					.000
Toshifumi Baba	3B	108					.000
Atsuhiro Motonishi	3B	44					.000
Junichi Fukura	3B	42					.000
Koichi Oshima	3B	3					.000
Jun Hagiwara	3B	3					.000
Makoto Takada	3B	1					.000
Satoshi Nakajima	C	97					.000
Makoto Takada	C	66					.000
Takashi Miwa	C	24					.000
Ichiro Suzuki	OF	130					.000
So Taguchi	OF	128					.000
Atsuhiro Motonishi	OF	73					.000
Satoshi Takahashi	OF	58					.000
Yasuo Fujii	OF	48					.000
Doug Jennings	OF	30					.000
Toshihiro Kase	OF	12					.000
Koichi Oshima	OF	4					.000
Minoru Yojo	OF	2					.000
Minoru Shibahara	OF	2					.000
Taira Suzuki	P	55					.000
Takahito Nomura	P	54					.000
Hiroshi Kobayashi	P	37					.000
Masafumi Hirai	P	34					.000
Nobuhiko Watanabe	P	29					.000
Masahiko Kaneda	P	29					.000
Koji Noda	P	27					.000
Nobuyuki Hoshino	P	22					.000
Takashi Watabe	P	19					.000
Shigetoshi Hasegawa	P	18					.000
Willie Fraser	P	18					.000
Hisanori Iwasaki	P	16					.000
Jiro Toyoda	P	12					.000
Yuichi Kiyohara	P	12					.000
Yoshinori Sato	P	10					.000
Koichi Takahashi	P	8					.000
Rui Makino	P	7					.000
Takahide Ito	P	3					.000
Yoshitaka Mizuo	P	1					.000
Hirofumi Ogawa	SS	101					.000
Hironori Suguro	SS	59					.000
Koichi Oshima	SS	34					.000
Hidemitsu Saito	SS	26					.000
Totals		1915	0	0	0	0	.000

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