2000 Orix BlueWave Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 64-67
Finished 4th in the JPPL
Manager: Akira Ogi (64-67)
Location: Kobe, Japan
Ballpark: Kobe Sports Park Baseball Stadium, Kyocera Dome Osaka

2000 Orix BlueWave Roster

The Orix BlueWave of the Japan Pacific League ended the 2000 season with a record of 64 wins and 67 losses, finishing fourth in the JPPL.

The BlueWave plated 638 runs and allowed 672 runs. George Arias paced Orix with 26 home runs, and Yasuo Fujii walloped 15 or more, too. Ichiro Suzuki and Yoshitomo Tani each drove in 73 runs. Ichiro Suzuki led all qualifying hitters on the roster with a .387 average. Hisashi Ogura topped the team with 9 wins and a team-best 2.99 ERA, leading regular hurlers.

Carlos Pulido, Terry Burrows, Masao Kida, So Taguchi, Orlando Merced, Jon Nunnally, Troy Neel, Ichiro Suzuki and George Arias were all players from the 2000 Orix BlueWave who played in the Major Leagues 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
Hisashi Ogura	9	5	.643	2.98	48	3	29	0	0	10	105.7	87	36	35	11	22	3	72	1	0	1	419
Nobuyuki Ebisu	8	2	.800	3.27	21	17	4	8	1	0	135.0	119	59	49	10	32	1	73	8	0	3	552
Hidetaka Kawagoe	8	6	.571	3.79	15	15	0	2	1	0	92.7	100	43	39	5	31	0	71	0	0	3	400
Carlos Pulido	7	4	.636	5.26	42	13	8	1	0	4	104.3	108	64	61	12	51	1	80	2	0	1	468
Masahiko Kaneda	6	6	.500	3.51	18	16	2	3	1	0	97.3	95	41	38	8	36	0	57	4	0	1	419
Terry Burrows	5	4	.556	5.40	14	10	1	1	0	0	68.3	74	48	41	7	40	0	45	3	6	1	309
Hiroshi Kobayashi	5	9	.357	6.75	19	17	1	2	2	0	93.3	116	70	70	14	45	0	47	3	0	4	432
Yu Sugimoto	4	8	.333	5.73	19	14	2	2	0	0	77.0	79	53	49	11	40	0	65	4	0	2	349
Masao Kida	3	3	.500	5.66	24	0	12	0	0	3	41.3	55	29	26	7	18	1	31	1	0	1	196
Shinichi Kato	3	6	.333	4.98	24	14	3	4	0	0	94.0	103	57	52	15	23	0	42	2	3	1	402
Koichi Takahashi	2	2	.500	4.97	49	1	7	0	0	0	58.0	53	33	32	10	37	2	42	0	0	6	258
Rui Makino	2	3	.400	3.14	34	0	6	0	0	2	48.7	36	19	17	8	33	0	44	1	0	2	212
Shuichi Iwashita	1	0	1.000	3.86	44	0	9	0	0	0	30.3	19	15	13	1	25	2	31	2	0	2	134
Toshihiro Kase	1	4	.200	5.10	21	5	0	0	0	0	54.7	55	33	31	10	23	0	47	0	0	4	237
Akihito Igarashi	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
Satoshi Tokumoto	0	0		1.50	4	0	2	0	0	0	6.0	8	4	1	0	2	0	2	1	0	0	29
Kazuo Yamaguchi	0	0		2.40	9	2	2	0	0	1	15.0	14	4	4	0	13	0	10	0	0	1	69
Yoshitaka Mizuo	0	1	.000	5.19	9	2	4	0	0	0	17.3	20	12	10	1	8	0	13	0	0	0	80
Takatoshi Kishikawa	0	1	.000	7.27	17	4	4	0	0	0	26.0	43	23	21	6	14	0	19	1	1	3	132
Masafumi Hirai	0	1	.000	7.36	5	0	3	0	0	0	3.7	3	3	3	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	16
Satoshi Kuriyama	0	1	.000	9.15	16	1	9	0	0	0	20.7	37	22	21	6	11	0	13	0	0	5	108
Masahiro Kimura	0	1	.000	15.43	5	1	3	0	0	0	2.3	1	4	4	0	7	0	2	1	0	0	16
Totals	64	67	.489	4.66	458	135	112	23	5	20	1192.7	1226	672	617	144	514	10	806	34	10	41	5241

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	105	459	395	73	153	22	1	12	73	21	1	54	36	.387	.460	.539	.999	213	3	4	0	6	16
Yoshitomo Tani	134	584	529	78	150	26	3	9	73	23	9	43	71	.284	.338	.395	.733	209	14	4	1	7	0
So Taguchi	129	578	509	77	142	26	3	8	49	8	2	55	80	.279	.353	.389	.742	198	12	3	11	0	1
Koichi Oshima	119	509	382	64	108	17	1	1	33	1	1	90	46	.283	.418	.340	.758	130	4	0	35	2	0
Makoto Shiozaki	130	462	393	45	103	17	6	1	35	5	7	41	69	.262	.335	.344	.678	135	7	4	20	4	0
George Arias	116	461	412	66	103	21	0	26	61	2	0	43	110	.250	.323	.490	.814	202	6	3	0	3	4
Yasuo Fujii	112	324	280	36	64	15	2	18	54	0	0	36	62	.229	.315	.489	.804	137	2	2	0	6	2
Hirofumi Ogawa	101	269	241	28	63	10	0	5	45	3	1	24	66	.261	.325	.365	.690	88	4	0	1	3	1
Takeshi Hidaka	101	307	256	31	52	9	0	6	34	1	1	35	34	.203	.304	.309	.613	79	6	3	11	2	0
Akihito Igarashi	112	221	180	30	43	8	0	4	26	0	1	30	24	.239	.344	.350	.694	63	4	0	9	2	1
Troy Neel	55	185	156	21	35	6	0	7	28	0	0	25	47	.224	.341	.397	.738	62	5	3	0	1	0
Yuji Goshima	45	134	122	13	32	6	0	2	16	0	1	12	25	.262	.328	.361	.689	44	4	0	0	0	0
Jiro Fujitate	71	123	109	7	29	7	0	3	23	0	1	13	24	.266	.341	.413	.754	45	4	0	0	1	0
Takashi Miwa	74	170	143	11	26	4	0	2	7	1	0	11	23	.182	.248	.252	.500	36	5	2	13	1	0
Jon Nunnally	42	134	115	18	19	7	0	5	15	2	0	19	44	.165	.284	.357	.640	41	3	0	0	0	1
Orlando Merced	23	85	80	9	18	2	1	2	15	0	0	4	14	.225	.259	.350	.609	28	0	0	0	1	0
Manabu Satake	55	83	75	14	16	6	1	2	10	1	2	5	22	.213	.268	.400	.668	30	1	1	1	1	0
Shuichiro Matsumoto	38	55	42	5	7	1	0	0	4	0	3	9	11	.167	.314	.190	.504	8	0	0	4	0	0
Ikuro Katsuragi	12	30	26	4	5	2	0	2	3	1	0	3	10	.192	.300	.500	.800	13	0	1	0	0	0
Tokitaka Minamibuchi	8	9	7	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	.286	.444	.286	.730	2	0	0	0	0	0
Hidemitsu Saito	58	25	22	5	2	0	0	0	2	2	0	3	9	.091	.200	.091	.291	2	0	0	0	0	0
Naofumi Sugimoto	11	3	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	1	0	0
Nobuo Takahashi	9	7	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.143	.143	.143	.286	1	1	0	0	0	0
Ryo Kawano	7	10	9	1	1	0	0	1	3	0	0	0	3	.111	.200	.444	.644	4	0	1	0	0	0
Hiroki Fukutome	15	21	19	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	6	.053	.095	.053	.148	1	1	0	0	1	0
Toshihiro Kase	27	5	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.200	.000	.200	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yuichi Yanagisawa	9	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Totals	1718	5256	4517	638	1176	212	18	116	610	71	30	559	844	.260	.343	.392	.735	1772	86	31	108	41	26

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Yasuo Fujii	1B	61					.000
Akihito Igarashi	1B	46					.000
Hirofumi Ogawa	1B	39					.000
Yoshitomo Tani	1B	26					.000
Yuji Goshima	1B	26					.000
Manabu Satake	1B	18					.000
Orlando Merced	1B	5					.000
Ryo Kawano	1B	4					.000
Toshihiro Kase	1B	1					.000
Koichi Oshima	2B	117					.000
Hidemitsu Saito	2B	26					.000
Hirofumi Ogawa	2B	17					.000
Hiroki Fukutome	2B	13					.000
Akihito Igarashi	2B	10					.000
George Arias	3B	109					.000
Akihito Igarashi	3B	28					.000
Manabu Satake	3B	13					.000
Hidemitsu Saito	3B	7					.000
Hirofumi Ogawa	3B	5					.000
Yuji Goshima	3B	3					.000
Tokitaka Minamibuchi	3B	2					.000
Hiroki Fukutome	3B	1					.000
Takeshi Hidaka	C	101					.000
Takashi Miwa	C	72					.000
Naofumi Sugimoto	C	10					.000
Yuichi Yanagisawa	C	7					.000
Nobuo Takahashi	C	3					.000
So Taguchi	OF	129					.000
Yoshitomo Tani	OF	123					.000
Ichiro Suzuki	OF	105					.000
Jon Nunnally	OF	36					.000
Shuichiro Matsumoto	OF	22					.000
Akihito Igarashi	OF	12					.000
Jiro Fujitate	OF	10					.000
Ikuro Katsuragi	OF	8					.000
Toshihiro Kase	OF	4					.000
Orlando Merced	OF	1					.000
Koichi Takahashi	P	49					.000
Hisashi Ogura	P	48					.000
Shuichi Iwashita	P	44					.000
Carlos Pulido	P	42					.000
Rui Makino	P	34					.000
Masao Kida	P	24					.000
Shinichi Kato	P	24					.000
Toshihiro Kase	P	21					.000
Nobuyuki Ebisu	P	21					.000
Yu Sugimoto	P	19					.000
Hiroshi Kobayashi	P	19					.000
Masahiko Kaneda	P	18					.000
Takatoshi Kishikawa	P	17					.000
Satoshi Kuriyama	P	16					.000
Hidetaka Kawagoe	P	15					.000
Terry Burrows	P	14					.000
Kazuo Yamaguchi	P	9					.000
Yoshitaka Mizuo	P	9					.000
Masahiro Kimura	P	5					.000
Masafumi Hirai	P	5					.000
Satoshi Tokumoto	P	4					.000
Akihito Igarashi	P	1					.000
Makoto Shiozaki	SS	127					.000
Hidemitsu Saito	SS	20					.000
Hirofumi Ogawa	SS	17					.000
Akihito Igarashi	SS	11					.000
Totals		1853	0	0	0	0	.000

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