1997 Seibu Lions Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 76-56
Finished 1st in the JPPL
Manager: Yutaka Sudo (0-0), Osamu Higashio (0-0)
Location: Tokorozawa, Japan
Ballpark: MetLife Dome

1997 Seibu Lions Roster

The Seibu Lions of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1997 season with a record of 76 wins and 56 losses, finishing first in the JPPL.

The Lions topped the league with 656 runs. Seibu surrendered 554 runs. Domingo Martínez walloped 31 home runs for the squad, while Ken Suzuki swatted 15 or more, too. Domingo Martínez recorded 108 runs batted in. Ken Suzuki led all regular batters with a .312 average. Fumiya Nishiguchi paced the team with 15 wins, and Tetsuya Shiozaki registered a 2.9 earned run average, tops among hurlers with significant time on the mound.

Players from the 1997 Seibu Lions who spent time in Major League Baseball during their careers included Domingo Martínez, Rudy Pemberton, Brian Givens and Kazuo Matsui.

Yutaka Sudo and Osamu Higashio 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
Fumiya Nishiguchi	15	5	.750	3.12	32	26	3	10	0	1	207.7	187	85	72	20	68	3	192	5	0	1	871
Tetsuya Shiozaki	12	7	.632	2.90	27	26	0	5	1	0	174.0	157	60	56	18	49	2	108	10	0	1	720
Kiyoshi Toyoda	10	6	.625	2.93	23	23	0	6	3	0	150.7	128	54	49	14	54	1	86	2	0	2	616
Takashi Ishii	10	8	.556	3.61	59	2	26	1	1	9	102.3	113	46	41	7	35	4	68	1	2	1	443
Shinji Mori	6	2	.750	3.28	38	3	27	0	0	9	57.7	61	24	21	4	20	3	61	0	0	3	251
Denney Tomori	4	0	1.000	3.38	31	0	6	0	0	0	34.7	34	14	13	3	9	2	32	6	0	1	152
Takehiro Ishii	4	5	.444	3.45	30	17	3	0	0	0	109.7	109	51	42	8	41	1	72	2	0	1	471
Brian Givens	4	6	.400	5.10	19	13	2	2	2	0	77.7	80	47	44	7	58	1	45	4	0	5	354
Bob Wishnevski	3	2	.600	4.22	34	1	23	0	0	6	53.3	56	28	25	4	18	0	37	1	0	2	229
Takehiro Hashimoto	2	1	.667	1.68	68	0	5	0	0	1	48.3	33	10	9	2	18	4	43	1	0	0	184
Hiroshi Shintani	2	2	.500	6.61	17	9	0	0	0	0	47.7	61	40	35	7	24	1	40	3	0	1	227
Jun Takeshita	1	1	.500	3.30	21	1	3	0	0	0	30.0	39	16	11	3	13	0	26	0	0	6	138
Shinji Taninaka	1	1	.500	4.68	14	0	7	0	0	0	25.0	29	13	13	2	10	1	11	1	0	1	112
Kento Sugiyama	1	1	.500	5.52	34	0	4	0	0	0	14.7	20	9	9	2	12	0	14	0	0	0	76
Yoshitaka Katori	1	1	.500	9.82	8	0	0	0	0	0	7.3	11	8	8	1	5	0	1	0	0	0	35
Taigen Kaku	0	0		0.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	0.3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Hisaki Tomioka	0	0		0.00	5	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	7
Hisanobu Watanabe	0	2	.000	4.15	12	7	0	0	0	0	43.3	42	25	20	4	25	0	37	2	0	1	193
Hisanori Yokota	0	6	.000	7.30	8	6	1	0	0	0	24.7	40	24	20	4	10	0	19	0	0	1	118
Totals	76	56	.576	3.63	481	135	111	24	7	26	1210.0	1203	554	488	110	471	23	892	38	2	27	5198

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
Kazuo Matsui	135	645	576	91	178	23	13	7	63	62	15	44	89	.309	.362	.431	.793	248	4	5	18	2	5
Domingo Martínez	130	558	488	63	149	24	1	31	108	3	0	61	103	.305	.384	.549	.933	268	18	4	0	5	9
Ken Suzuki	133	576	471	72	147	34	3	19	94	2	2	90	76	.312	.431	.518	.949	244	9	11	0	4	8
Taisei Takagi	130	532	474	75	140	27	4	7	64	24	7	47	62	.295	.357	.414	.771	196	11	1	6	4	2
Makoto Sasaki	121	480	450	56	137	26	1	13	57	5	3	25	77	.304	.342	.453	.795	204	7	1	3	1	5
Susumu Otomo	128	549	460	71	128	21	7	5	45	31	5	54	61	.278	.355	.387	.742	178	5	2	31	2	0
Tsutomu Ito	129	494	436	50	122	19	1	13	56	5	3	29	48	.280	.332	.417	.749	182	11	6	21	2	3
Hiroyuki Takagi	107	295	255	27	71	12	1	0	21	1	6	16	20	.278	.324	.333	.657	85	0	2	20	2	0
Yoshiaki Kanemura	73	152	124	13	38	10	1	3	26	3	0	22	28	.306	.421	.476	.897	59	6	4	0	2	0
Kazuya Harai	93	159	127	27	34	4	4	2	10	11	2	20	27	.268	.369	.409	.779	52	4	1	10	1	0
Tetsuya Kakiuchi	64	149	129	17	29	8	1	3	12	2	0	16	48	.225	.318	.372	.690	48	1	2	1	1	1
Norio Tanabe	63	136	122	9	26	2	0	3	13	3	0	6	21	.213	.252	.303	.555	37	2	1	5	2	0
Koji Otsuka	74	137	115	15	25	6	2	2	17	1	1	9	32	.217	.295	.357	.652	41	1	5	5	3	1
Hiroshi Narahara	94	100	89	20	17	1	2	0	3	13	6	6	17	.191	.242	.247	.489	22	1	0	5	0	0
Yusuke Kawada	69	93	79	16	16	3	1	0	4	13	2	10	19	.203	.289	.266	.555	21	0	0	3	1	0
Rudy Pemberton	25	70	63	3	11	5	0	1	5	2	1	6	17	.175	.257	.302	.559	19	2	1	0	0	0
Masaji Shimizu	92	78	64	14	10	2	0	0	2	13	2	8	11	.156	.250	.188	.438	12	1	0	6	0	0
Kazuhiro Wada	17	22	21	2	4	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	4	.190	.190	.238	.429	5	0	0	1	0	0
Seiji Tomashino	24	24	20	6	3	0	0	0	1	4	1	2	2	.150	.227	.150	.377	3	0	0	2	0	0
Jun Yamada	3	5	5	1	2	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	1	.400	.400	1.200	1.600	6	1	0	0	0	0
Nariyuki Imakurusu	14	8	7	3	2	1	0	0	1	2	0	1	3	.286	.375	.429	.804	3	0	0	0	0	0
Satoshi Kuroda	11	8	8	4	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.250	.250	.375	.625	3	0	0	0	0	0
Shinji Ando	4	4	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.333	.500	.333	.833	1	0	0	0	0	0
Katsuhiko Miyaji	6	8	7	0	1	0	1	0	3	0	0	1	1	.143	.250	.429	.679	3	0	0	0	0	0
Hiroaki Ueda	5	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1744	5284	4595	656	1293	231	43	110	610	200	56	474	772	.281	.352	.422	.774	1940	84	46	137	32	34

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Taisei Takagi	1B	107					.000
Ken Suzuki	1B	26					.000
Yoshiaki Kanemura	1B	18					.000
Domingo Martínez	1B	15					.000
Jun Yamada	1B	1					.000
Norio Tanabe	1B	1					.000
Hiroyuki Takagi	2B	92					.000
Hiroshi Narahara	2B	83					.000
Norio Tanabe	2B	35					.000
Kazuya Harai	2B	19					.000
Satoshi Kuroda	2B	2					.000
Hiroaki Ueda	2B	1					.000
Seiji Tomashino	2B	1					.000
Ken Suzuki	3B	129					.000
Hiroyuki Takagi	3B	28					.000
Norio Tanabe	3B	23					.000
Kazuya Harai	3B	8					.000
Satoshi Kuroda	3B	5					.000
Hiroaki Ueda	3B	3					.000
Yoshiaki Kanemura	3B	1					.000
Tsutomu Ito	C	129					.000
Kazuhiro Wada	C	14					.000
Nariyuki Imakurusu	C	13					.000
Taisei Takagi	C	4					.000
Susumu Otomo	OF	128					.000
Makoto Sasaki	OF	119					.000
Masaji Shimizu	OF	87					.000
Kazuya Harai	OF	66					.000
Koji Otsuka	OF	65					.000
Yusuke Kawada	OF	54					.000
Tetsuya Kakiuchi	OF	45					.000
Rudy Pemberton	OF	17					.000
Seiji Tomashino	OF	8					.000
Katsuhiko Miyaji	OF	5					.000
Taisei Takagi	OF	4					.000
Jun Yamada	OF	2					.000
Tatsuya Ozeki	OF	1					.000
Shinji Ando	OF	1					.000
Takehiro Hashimoto	P	68					.000
Takashi Ishii	P	59					.000
Shinji Mori	P	38					.000
Bob Wishnevski	P	34					.000
Kento Sugiyama	P	34					.000
Fumiya Nishiguchi	P	32					.000
Denney Tomori	P	31					.000
Takehiro Ishii	P	30					.000
Tetsuya Shiozaki	P	27					.000
Kiyoshi Toyoda	P	23					.000
Jun Takeshita	P	21					.000
Brian Givens	P	19					.000
Hiroshi Shintani	P	17					.000
Shinji Taninaka	P	14					.000
Hisanobu Watanabe	P	12					.000
Hisanori Yokota	P	8					.000
Yoshitaka Katori	P	8					.000
Hisaki Tomioka	P	5					.000
Taigen Kaku	P	1					.000
Kazuo Matsui	SS	135					.000
Totals		1976	0	0	0	0	.000

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