1997 Orix BlueWave Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 71-61
Finished 2nd in the JPPL
Manager: Akira Ogi (71-61)
Location: Kobe, Japan
Ballpark: Kobe Sports Park Baseball Stadium, Kyocera Dome Osaka

1997 Orix BlueWave Roster

The Orix BlueWave of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1997 season with a record of 71 wins and 61 losses, finishing second in the JPPL.

The BlueWave led the league with just 544 runs allowed. Orix scored 582 runs. Troy Neel paced the squad with 25 home runs, while Yasuo Fujii, Chris Donnels and Ichiro Suzuki each walloped 15 or more also. Troy Neel recorded 98 runs batted in. Ichiro Suzuki topped all qualifying hitters on the roster with a .345 average. Nobuyuki Hoshino paced the team with 14 wins and a team-best 3.25 earned run average, best among qualifying pitchers.

Troy Neel, Willie Fraser, Doug Jennings, Chris Donnels, So Taguchi, Takahito Nomura and Ichiro Suzuki were all players from the 1997 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	14	10	.583	3.24	29	29	0	9	2	0	202.7	194	87	73	16	54	1	121	2	0	3	845
Takahide Ito	10	7	.588	3.46	26	22	0	1	1	0	135.3	132	56	52	11	51	1	105	6	0	4	580
Willie Fraser	10	9	.526	4.39	24	21	3	1	1	0	121.0	118	62	59	17	46	0	65	4	0	0	519
Hiroshi Kobayashi	7	3	.700	2.56	53	0	31	0	0	15	81.0	56	25	23	8	23	2	47	2	0	2	312
Koji Noda	7	5	.583	3.29	24	24	0	0	0	0	150.3	143	61	55	18	63	1	99	4	1	5	642
Yoshinori Sato	4	3	.571	4.36	10	9	1	0	0	0	43.3	50	23	21	5	22	1	22	0	0	1	197
Takahito Nomura	4	5	.444	3.60	52	0	20	0	0	8	65.0	60	30	26	4	31	4	76	1	0	4	282
Yu Sugimoto	3	3	.500	3.35	8	7	0	0	0	0	45.7	37	19	17	5	17	0	31	1	0	3	189
Taira Suzuki	3	5	.375	3.83	42	0	13	0	0	6	47.0	44	25	20	2	30	0	29	8	0	3	217
Koichi Takahashi	2	0	1.000	2.97	13	4	4	0	0	0	30.3	32	14	10	2	13	0	15	1	0	1	135
Masafumi Hirai	2	1	.667	3.98	17	9	3	0	0	0	54.3	68	29	24	5	18	0	27	5	0	1	249
Eiji Maruo	1	0	1.000	3.12	3	3	0	0	0	0	17.3	16	6	6	0	6	0	8	0	0	1	71
Hisashi Ogura	1	0	1.000	4.45	22	0	8	0	0	0	32.3	36	16	16	2	8	0	24	1	0	1	137
Yoshitaka Mizuo	1	2	.333	2.26	68	0	8	0	0	2	51.7	46	14	13	2	21	2	33	0	0	2	219
Rui Makino	1	2	.333	7.63	11	0	5	0	0	0	15.3	19	13	13	6	4	0	21	0	0	3	69
Masahiko Kaneda	1	3	.250	3.98	7	5	1	0	0	0	20.3	23	10	9	0	9	0	5	0	0	1	85
Nobuyuki Ebisu	0	0		4.50	2	0	1	0	0	0	2.0	4	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	10
Yuichi Kiyohara	0	0		5.19	10	0	3	0	0	0	8.7	14	8	5	2	2	0	4	1	0	1	41
Toshihiro Kase	0	0		9.00	2	0	1	0	0	0	3.0	4	3	3	1	3	0	3	0	0	0	15
Takashi Watabe	0	0		27.00	2	0	0	0	0	0	1.3	2	4	4	1	2	0	2	0	0	0	8
Jiro Toyoda	0	1	.000	4.21	29	2	16	0	0	1	51.3	47	25	24	9	14	0	34	2	0	0	207
Nobuhiko Watanabe	0	2	.000	3.29	23	0	6	0	0	0	27.3	27	13	10	3	10	0	16	1	0	0	115
Totals	71	61	.538	3.61	477	135	124	11	4	32	1206.7	1172	544	484	120	447	12	788	39	1	36	5144

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	135	607	536	94	185	31	4	17	91	39	4	62	36	.345	.414	.513	.927	275	10	4	0	5	14
So Taguchi	135	643	572	92	168	32	4	10	56	7	1	49	74	.294	.351	.416	.767	238	4	3	16	3	1
Troy Neel	131	562	472	59	125	14	0	25	98	1	0	82	137	.265	.377	.453	.831	214	11	5	0	3	5
Chris Donnels	112	478	384	55	116	25	1	17	67	0	1	84	80	.302	.423	.505	.928	194	10	2	0	8	2
Koichi Oshima	127	463	372	50	89	23	2	1	27	2	2	51	58	.239	.337	.320	.657	119	3	5	33	2	0
Hirofumi Ogawa	120	407	372	40	87	11	2	11	38	4	1	24	73	.234	.280	.363	.643	135	8	1	7	3	0
Yoshitomo Tani	101	341	309	36	84	21	4	1	33	5	4	25	45	.272	.326	.375	.702	116	5	1	4	2	0
Yasuo Fujii	98	294	254	36	61	8	2	18	57	1	1	36	84	.240	.333	.500	.833	127	4	1	0	3	2
Takashi Miwa	86	259	219	17	47	8	0	1	18	0	2	11	35	.215	.257	.265	.522	58	8	3	22	4	1
Makoto Shiozaki	104	215	181	25	44	10	0	0	6	5	1	10	28	.243	.296	.298	.594	54	2	4	19	1	0
Manabu Satake	80	191	163	13	42	2	1	0	7	1	2	14	36	.258	.320	.282	.603	46	6	2	10	2	1
Satoshi Nakajima	73	195	169	15	37	6	0	2	14	2	2	14	44	.219	.290	.290	.580	49	4	3	9	0	0
Satoshi Takahashi	65	175	153	13	32	5	1	5	17	0	0	18	38	.209	.309	.353	.662	54	4	4	0	0	3
Junichi Fukura	66	175	144	14	31	4	0	0	8	0	1	22	18	.215	.320	.243	.563	35	7	1	6	2	0
Makoto Takada	42	53	46	4	12	2	0	0	3	0	0	5	13	.261	.333	.304	.638	14	0	0	2	0	0
Atsuhiro Motonishi	27	46	43	5	11	2	0	0	1	0	0	1	7	.256	.304	.302	.607	13	1	2	0	0	0
Doug Jennings	9	31	25	2	6	1	0	1	3	1	0	5	6	.240	.387	.400	.787	10	0	1	0	0	0
Toshifumi Baba	18	32	29	1	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	.172	.250	.172	.422	5	4	1	0	0	0
Hiroki Fukutome	15	27	27	2	4	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	7	.148	.148	.333	.481	9	0	0	0	0	0
Hideaki Matsuyama	15	7	7	4	2	1	0	0	0	2	1	0	2	.286	.286	.429	.714	3	0	0	0	0	0
Yasutaka Hironaga	8	11	9	1	2	0	0	1	1	0	1	1	3	.222	.364	.556	.919	5	0	1	0	0	0
Toshihiro Kase	14	19	13	2	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	4	6	.077	.316	.077	.393	1	0	1	0	1	0
Jun Hagiwara	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Jim Bonnici	3	10	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	6	.000	.200	.000	.200	0	1	0	0	0	0
Minoru Yojo	17	15	13	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	.000	.071	.000	.071	0	0	0	1	0	0
Totals	1602	5258	4521	582	1191	208	21	111	548	70	24	523	848	.263	.343	.392	.735	1774	92	45	130	39	29

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Chris Donnels	1B	85					.000
Yasuo Fujii	1B	66					.000
Minoru Yojo	1B	13					.000
Satoshi Takahashi	1B	13					.000
Junichi Fukura	1B	13					.000
Doug Jennings	1B	9					.000
Troy Neel	1B	3					.000
Jim Bonnici	1B	3					.000
Hirofumi Ogawa	1B	2					.000
Hideaki Matsuyama	1B	2					.000
Toshihiro Kase	1B	2					.000
Jun Hagiwara	1B	1					.000
Koichi Oshima	2B	124					.000
Hirofumi Ogawa	2B	21					.000
Junichi Fukura	2B	16					.000
Hiroki Fukutome	2B	10					.000
Manabu Satake	2B	9					.000
Hideaki Matsuyama	2B	1					.000
Manabu Satake	3B	72					.000
Chris Donnels	3B	66					.000
Junichi Fukura	3B	34					.000
Toshifumi Baba	3B	18					.000
Makoto Shiozaki	3B	9					.000
Atsuhiro Motonishi	3B	2					.000
Hideaki Matsuyama	3B	1					.000
Hiroki Fukutome	3B	1					.000
Takashi Miwa	C	86					.000
Satoshi Nakajima	C	66					.000
Makoto Takada	C	37					.000
So Taguchi	OF	135					.000
Ichiro Suzuki	OF	135					.000
Yoshitomo Tani	OF	96					.000
Satoshi Takahashi	OF	34					.000
Atsuhiro Motonishi	OF	26					.000
Yasuo Fujii	OF	24					.000
Toshihiro Kase	OF	6					.000
Yasutaka Hironaga	OF	5					.000
Yoshitaka Mizuo	P	68					.000
Hiroshi Kobayashi	P	53					.000
Takahito Nomura	P	52					.000
Taira Suzuki	P	42					.000
Jiro Toyoda	P	29					.000
Nobuyuki Hoshino	P	29					.000
Takahide Ito	P	26					.000
Koji Noda	P	24					.000
Willie Fraser	P	24					.000
Nobuhiko Watanabe	P	23					.000
Hisashi Ogura	P	22					.000
Masafumi Hirai	P	17					.000
Koichi Takahashi	P	13					.000
Rui Makino	P	11					.000
Yoshinori Sato	P	10					.000
Yuichi Kiyohara	P	10					.000
Yu Sugimoto	P	8					.000
Masahiko Kaneda	P	7					.000
Eiji Maruo	P	3					.000
Takashi Watabe	P	2					.000
Toshihiro Kase	P	2					.000
Nobuyuki Ebisu	P	2					.000
Hirofumi Ogawa	SS	100					.000
Makoto Shiozaki	SS	97					.000
Hiroki Fukutome	SS	4					.000
Koichi Oshima	SS	1					.000
Naoyuki Kazaoka	SS	1					.000
Totals		1926	0	0	0	0	.000

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