2001 Orix BlueWave Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 70-66
Finished 4th in the JPPL
Manager: Akira Ogi (70-66)
Location: Kobe, Japan
Ballpark: Kobe Sports Park Baseball Stadium, Kyocera Dome Osaka

2001 Orix BlueWave Roster

The Orix BlueWave of the Japan Pacific League ended the 2001 season with a record of 70 wins and 66 losses, finishing fourth in the JPPL.

The BlueWave scored 651 runs and surrendered 634 runs. George Arias walloped 38 home runs for Orix, while Joe Vitiello and Yasuo Fujii added 15 or more as well. George Arias drove in 97 runs. Yoshitomo Tani paced all qualifying hitters on the roster with a .325 average. Shinichi Kato topped the squad with 11 wins, and Hisashi Ogura recorded a 3.62 ERA, best among qualifying pitchers.

Ed Yarnall, So Taguchi, Masao Kida, Carlos Pulido, Dae-Sung Koo, George Arias and Joe Vitiello were all players from the 2001 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
Shinichi Kato	11	7	.611	3.69	27	26	0	2	0	0	168.3	175	78	69	27	45	1	92	3	1	1	703
Hisashi Ogura	10	7	.588	3.62	26	26	0	4	2	0	164.0	156	70	66	27	26	1	128	1	0	1	659
Masahiko Kaneda	8	5	.615	4.94	19	18	0	0	0	0	89.3	100	53	49	9	28	0	58	3	0	2	387
Masanobu Okubo	7	5	.583	2.68	53	0	27	0	0	14	94.0	68	30	28	8	32	0	93	0	0	3	375
Dae-Sung Koo	7	9	.438	4.06	51	9	32	1	0	10	126.3	96	58	57	14	71	3	143	4	0	3	544
Kazuo Yamaguchi	5	6	.455	3.42	32	0	10	0	0	2	47.3	50	25	18	7	26	1	37	3	0	1	220
Nobuyuki Ebisu	5	9	.357	3.68	20	19	0	2	2	0	117.3	124	56	48	14	44	0	63	5	0	1	511
Ed Yarnall	4	3	.571	3.93	15	14	1	1	0	0	73.3	52	35	32	7	47	0	82	3	0	3	316
Shintaro Yamasaki	3	0	1.000	5.44	47	0	8	0	0	0	49.7	58	32	30	7	29	1	27	4	0	1	239
Toshihiro Kase	2	0	1.000	3.21	70	0	6	0	0	0	53.3	47	19	19	4	26	1	29	2	0	1	227
Masao Kida	2	1	.667	3.72	13	0	8	0	0	1	19.3	15	9	8	4	9	0	18	0	0	4	80
Hisashi Tokano	2	4	.333	4.06	43	7	9	0	0	0	68.7	49	35	31	9	37	1	76	3	1	2	293
Rui Makino	1	0	1.000	2.70	3	0	0	0	0	0	3.3	3	2	1	1	1	0	5	0	0	0	15
Fumiaki Imamura	1	0	1.000	3.80	12	0	8	0	0	0	23.7	22	10	10	6	10	0	11	0	0	0	98
Carlos Pulido	1	3	.250	8.35	11	4	0	0	0	0	18.3	25	18	17	4	12	1	16	1	0	1	91
Hidetaka Kawagoe	1	5	.167	6.07	14	14	0	1	0	0	69.7	92	53	47	10	27	1	46	0	0	3	320
Shuichi Iwashita	0	0		0.00	3	0	1	0	0	0	1.7	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4
Jun Hagiwara	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	4
Masahiro Kimura	0	0		6.75	5	0	3	0	0	0	10.7	15	8	8	5	13	1	11	0	0	1	57
Satoshi Tokumoto	0	0		6.75	4	0	3	0	0	0	8.0	11	6	6	1	2	0	6	1	0	0	35
Masafumi Hirai	0	0		8.38	6	0	4	0	0	0	9.7	11	9	9	3	5	0	13	1	0	0	46
Takatoshi Kishikawa	0	0		16.62	2	0	2	0	0	0	4.3	11	8	8	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	26
Tomonori Kitagawa	0	1	.000	3.66	7	3	3	0	0	0	19.7	19	9	8	3	6	0	9	0	0	0	81
Tsutomu Tamura	0	1	.000	4.74	39	0	3	0	0	0	19.0	21	11	10	1	7	1	14	1	0	1	86
Totals	70	66	.515	4.14	523	140	129	11	4	27	1260.0	1220	634	579	173	506	13	980	35	2	29	5417

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
Yoshitomo Tani	136	619	547	99	178	52	3	13	79	27	7	65	49	.325	.398	.503	.901	275	15	3	1	3	2
George Arias	139	603	543	70	142	19	1	38	97	3	1	49	104	.262	.323	.510	.834	277	14	4	0	7	3
So Taguchi	134	524	453	70	127	21	6	8	42	6	6	43	88	.280	.343	.406	.750	184	7	1	26	1	2
Makoto Shiozaki	132	518	439	58	115	17	3	4	45	10	3	54	91	.262	.346	.342	.688	150	8	4	18	3	0
Joe Vitiello	126	462	407	52	112	21	0	22	83	0	0	36	125	.275	.351	.489	.840	199	8	14	0	5	2
Ikuro Katsuragi	130	469	418	67	112	24	2	14	53	1	4	43	91	.268	.343	.435	.779	182	8	6	0	2	0
Koichi Oshima	122	524	414	67	109	19	0	1	31	4	0	75	52	.263	.377	.316	.693	131	3	2	30	3	0
Takeshi Hidaka	129	420	376	33	93	15	3	8	37	1	2	22	63	.247	.295	.367	.662	138	6	4	16	2	0
Tatsuya Shindo	115	342	302	40	73	17	0	9	40	0	2	35	65	.242	.322	.387	.709	117	4	1	3	1	1
Yasuo Fujii	88	213	189	23	37	6	0	15	45	1	0	19	43	.196	.268	.466	.733	88	5	1	0	4	0
Yuji Goshima	60	130	120	9	31	3	0	1	13	0	0	10	29	.258	.315	.308	.624	37	4	0	0	0	0
Akihito Igarashi	75	152	132	19	27	5	2	2	8	1	0	14	20	.205	.279	.318	.597	42	3	0	5	1	2
Ryota Aikawa	62	115	106	11	26	4	0	4	14	4	1	4	26	.245	.279	.396	.676	42	0	1	4	0	0
Hiroki Fukutome	54	108	94	9	21	2	0	2	10	0	1	8	21	.223	.282	.309	.590	29	2	0	5	1	0
Jiro Fujitate	54	84	70	4	16	0	1	2	16	0	0	13	13	.229	.345	.343	.688	24	9	0	0	1	1
Takashi Miwa	31	67	63	6	12	1	0	0	3	0	0	1	7	.190	.203	.206	.409	13	1	0	3	0	0
Manabu Satake	24	43	38	4	11	1	0	0	1	0	0	5	10	.289	.372	.316	.688	12	0	0	0	0	1
Kosuke Yoshihara	23	30	26	3	6	1	0	0	2	1	0	1	6	.231	.259	.269	.528	7	2	0	3	0	0
Masaoki Tanaka	23	10	10	7	2	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	.200	.200	.300	.500	3	0	0	0	0	0
Mitsuhiro Kubo	4	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Shuichiro Matsumoto	9	6	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.200	.333	.200	.533	1	0	0	0	0	0
Koji Takamizawa	6	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Yoshifumi Kawasaki	6	7	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	4	.000	.333	.000	.333	0	0	0	1	0	0
Kiyoshi Arai	4	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.200	.000	.200	0	0	0	0	0	0
Daisuke Shoji	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		1.000			0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1687	5461	4768	651	1252	229	21	143	619	60	29	502	913	.263	.336	.409	.745	1952	99	41	116	34	14

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
George Arias	1B	74					.000
Yuji Goshima	1B	42					.000
Akihito Igarashi	1B	39					.000
Yasuo Fujii	1B	30					.000
Hiroki Fukutome	1B	21					.000
Manabu Satake	1B	16					.000
Ikuro Katsuragi	1B	8					.000
Joe Vitiello	1B	6					.000
Tatsuya Shindo	1B	1					.000
Ryota Aikawa	1B	1					.000
Koichi Oshima	2B	122					.000
Tatsuya Shindo	2B	21					.000
Hiroki Fukutome	2B	19					.000
Akihito Igarashi	2B	8					.000
George Arias	2B	1					.000
George Arias	3B	112					.000
Tatsuya Shindo	3B	81					.000
Manabu Satake	3B	1					.000
Akihito Igarashi	3B	1					.000
Takeshi Hidaka	C	127					.000
Takashi Miwa	C	31					.000
Kosuke Yoshihara	C	19					.000
Mitsuhiro Kubo	C	2					.000
Akihito Igarashi	C	1					.000
Yoshitomo Tani	OF	136					.000
So Taguchi	OF	128					.000
Ikuro Katsuragi	OF	124					.000
Ryota Aikawa	OF	55					.000
Jiro Fujitate	OF	21					.000
Hiroki Fukutome	OF	14					.000
Akihito Igarashi	OF	11					.000
Masaoki Tanaka	OF	10					.000
Shuichiro Matsumoto	OF	8					.000
Koji Takamizawa	OF	5					.000
Manabu Satake	OF	1					.000
Kiyoshi Arai	OF	1					.000
Toshihiro Kase	P	70					.000
Masanobu Okubo	P	53					.000
Dae-Sung Koo	P	51					.000
Shintaro Yamasaki	P	47					.000
Hisashi Tokano	P	43					.000
Tsutomu Tamura	P	39					.000
Kazuo Yamaguchi	P	32					.000
Shinichi Kato	P	27					.000
Hisashi Ogura	P	26					.000
Nobuyuki Ebisu	P	20					.000
Masahiko Kaneda	P	19					.000
Ed Yarnall	P	15					.000
Hidetaka Kawagoe	P	14					.000
Masao Kida	P	13					.000
Fumiaki Imamura	P	12					.000
Carlos Pulido	P	11					.000
Tomonori Kitagawa	P	7					.000
Masafumi Hirai	P	6					.000
Masahiro Kimura	P	5					.000
Satoshi Tokumoto	P	4					.000
Rui Makino	P	3					.000
Shuichi Iwashita	P	3					.000
Takatoshi Kishikawa	P	2					.000
Jun Hagiwara	P	1					.000
Makoto Shiozaki	SS	131					.000
Tatsuya Shindo	SS	42					.000
Akihito Igarashi	SS	1					.000
Hiroki Fukutome	SS	1					.000
Kiyoshi Arai	SS	1					.000
Totals		1997	0	0	0	0	.000

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