1998 Seibu Lions Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 70-61
Finished 1st in the JPPL
Manager: Osamu Higashio (70-61)
Location: Tokorozawa, Japan
Ballpark: MetLife Dome

1998 Seibu Lions Roster

The Seibu Lions of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1998 season with a record of 70 wins and 61 losses, finishing first in the JPPL.

The Lions gave up 559 runs, the lowest total in the circuit. Seibu plated 586 runs. Domingo Martínez walloped 30 home runs for the team, while Taisei Takagi and Ken Suzuki swatted 15 or more as well. Domingo Martínez recorded 95 runs batted in. Kazuo Matsui led all regular hitters with a .311 average. Fumiya Nishiguchi topped the squad with 13 wins, and Takashi Ishii recorded a 3.29 ERA, tops among hurlers with significant time on the mound.

Players from the 1998 Seibu Lions who spent time in the Majors during their careers included Domingo Martínez, Rudy Pemberton, Kazuo Matsui, Brian Raabe, Terry Bross and Giovanni Carrara.

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	13	12	.520	3.38	33	25	7	8	5	4	181.0	160	80	68	16	73	0	148	4	1	1	757
Takashi Ishii	9	3	.750	3.29	30	19	3	1	0	0	145.0	143	59	53	10	44	2	98	7	7	1	616
Shinji Mori	8	8	.500	3.81	52	9	27	1	0	5	111.0	112	53	47	9	55	3	110	0	0	8	490
Denney Tomori	7	4	.636	2.60	53	0	30	0	0	8	69.3	67	20	20	4	13	4	68	4	2	1	287
Tetsuya Shiozaki	7	5	.583	4.05	27	17	2	2	1	0	122.3	130	59	55	13	35	0	76	4	2	1	519
Hisanori Yokota	6	9	.400	3.35	21	21	0	2	1	0	129.0	113	56	48	19	47	1	95	1	0	2	542
Hiroshi Shintani	5	8	.385	3.67	23	16	2	2	1	0	110.3	113	49	45	11	27	2	72	8	1	5	469
Kiyoshi Toyoda	4	2	.667	4.35	7	7	0	0	0	0	39.3	34	19	19	4	9	0	31	0	0	1	158
Jun Takeshita	3	0	1.000	3.06	29	1	11	0	0	0	35.3	43	14	12	5	13	1	30	1	0	5	160
Terry Bross	2	3	.400	5.74	11	7	2	0	0	0	42.3	35	28	27	9	23	0	28	1	1	3	179
Yukihiro Nishizaki	1	0	1.000	0.00	4	1	1	0	0	0	7.0	2	0	0	0	2	0	8	0	0	0	24
Shinji Taninaka	1	0	1.000	2.87	6	1	1	0	0	0	15.7	15	5	5	3	5	0	9	0	0	0	65
Kazuhiro Shibasaki	1	0	1.000	3.67	13	1	5	0	0	1	27.0	27	13	11	2	9	0	19	2	1	0	115
Hirofumi Teramoto	1	1	.500	4.97	9	5	2	0	0	0	29.0	33	21	16	4	13	0	18	0	2	3	133
Giovanni Carrara	1	2	.333	4.91	33	5	11	0	0	1	73.3	68	44	40	8	40	2	50	4	1	4	325
Takehiro Hashimoto	1	4	.200	3.53	66	0	9	0	0	5	43.3	30	20	17	4	17	7	27	1	0	3	176
Kento Sugiyama	0	0		2.50	44	0	4	0	0	1	18.0	21	6	5	1	7	0	11	3	0	0	82
Kiyotaka Koishizawa	0	0		3.38	3	0	1	0	0	0	5.3	4	2	2	2	4	0	2	0	0	0	24
Sadaharu Hiranuma	0	0		6.75	6	0	1	0	0	0	9.3	9	7	7	2	6	0	2	0	0	0	42
Yoshihiro Doi	0	0		27.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.3	4	4	4	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	9
Totals	70	61	.534	3.71	471	135	119	16	8	25	1214.3	1163	559	501	127	444	22	903	40	18	38	5172

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	641	575	92	179	38	5	9	58	43	14	55	89	.311	.370	.442	.812	254	10	1	6	4	9
Domingo Martínez	133	563	491	65	139	16	1	30	95	4	4	59	101	.283	.361	.503	.864	247	21	5	0	8	6
Taisei Takagi	134	586	504	70	139	26	2	17	84	15	13	66	68	.276	.356	.437	.792	220	12	1	7	8	1
Ken Suzuki	135	580	488	65	134	23	1	22	65	1	2	80	58	.275	.376	.461	.837	225	16	4	0	8	4
Susumu Otomo	129	480	394	39	106	10	5	2	31	13	8	51	50	.269	.351	.335	.686	132	3	1	30	4	0
Tatsuya Ozeki	104	387	322	44	91	11	4	3	24	15	10	33	37	.283	.358	.370	.728	119	2	5	27	0	1
Tsutomu Ito	114	370	325	34	79	11	2	8	38	4	1	31	42	.243	.313	.363	.676	118	10	3	9	2	0
Makoto Sasaki	75	271	251	17	65	8	0	1	21	6	2	15	30	.259	.307	.303	.610	76	2	3	1	1	1
Hiroyuki Takagi	111	275	233	28	47	9	1	2	20	2	1	18	25	.202	.262	.275	.536	64	6	2	19	3	0
Norio Tanabe	79	185	168	9	42	4	2	4	30	0	0	11	23	.250	.291	.369	.660	62	7	0	3	3	1
Koji Otsuka	62	144	128	16	37	6	2	2	7	1	1	9	25	.289	.345	.414	.759	53	3	2	5	0	1
Masaji Shimizu	89	145	119	38	36	8	0	1	13	20	6	19	22	.303	.399	.395	.794	47	1	0	7	0	0
Satoshi Nakajima	60	124	106	8	25	4	1	2	7	0	3	7	24	.236	.314	.349	.663	37	4	5	6	0	0
Brian Raabe	37	97	83	7	23	2	0	2	12	1	0	9	5	.277	.365	.373	.738	31	2	3	1	1	0
Rudy Pemberton	38	82	69	10	19	0	0	5	15	2	0	10	16	.275	.378	.493	.871	34	0	2	0	1	1
Kazuhiro Wada	36	57	51	8	17	2	0	3	8	3	1	4	11	.333	.382	.549	.931	28	3	0	2	0	0
Yusuke Kawada	77	86	65	14	16	2	1	0	3	8	4	12	12	.246	.359	.308	.667	20	0	0	8	1	0
Yoshiaki Kanemura	41	52	38	2	10	2	0	1	7	0	1	10	11	.263	.404	.395	.799	15	0	1	0	3	0
Kazuya Harai	39	34	29	5	6	2	1	0	2	2	0	3	5	.207	.281	.345	.626	10	1	0	2	0	0
Tetsuya Kakiuchi	23	45	37	5	4	1	0	1	1	0	0	7	14	.108	.267	.216	.483	8	1	1	0	0	0
Hiroaki Ueda	72	9	7	10	2	0	0	0	1	5	1	0	2	.286	.286	.286	.571	2	0	0	2	0	0
Tsuyoshi Furuya	14	16	14	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	.071	.125	.071	.196	1	0	0	0	1	0
Katsuhiko Miyaji	7	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Takehiro Hashimoto	66	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fumiya Nishiguchi	33	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1843	5237	4505	586	1217	185	28	115	543	145	73	510	678	.270	.346	.400	.746	1803	104	39	135	48	25

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Taisei Takagi	1B	133					.000
Ken Suzuki	1B	4					.000
Yoshiaki Kanemura	1B	4					.000
Domingo Martínez	1B	1					.000
Hiroyuki Takagi	2B	104					.000
Norio Tanabe	2B	46					.000
Hiroaki Ueda	2B	37					.000
Brian Raabe	2B	25					.000
Kazuya Harai	2B	13					.000
Tsuyoshi Furuya	2B	8					.000
Ken Suzuki	3B	134					.000
Hiroaki Ueda	3B	38					.000
Norio Tanabe	3B	11					.000
Hiroyuki Takagi	3B	9					.000
Yoshiaki Kanemura	3B	2					.000
Kazuya Harai	3B	1					.000
Tsutomu Ito	C	110					.000
Satoshi Nakajima	C	54					.000
Kazuhiro Wada	C	18					.000
Taisei Takagi	C	1					.000
Susumu Otomo	OF	128					.000
Tatsuya Ozeki	OF	103					.000
Masaji Shimizu	OF	80					.000
Makoto Sasaki	OF	69					.000
Yusuke Kawada	OF	69					.000
Koji Otsuka	OF	53					.000
Kazuya Harai	OF	29					.000
Rudy Pemberton	OF	22					.000
Kazuhiro Wada	OF	13					.000
Tetsuya Kakiuchi	OF	12					.000
Hiroyuki Takagi	OF	5					.000
Tsuyoshi Furuya	OF	5					.000
Katsuhiko Miyaji	OF	4					.000
Takehiro Hashimoto	P	66					.000
Denney Tomori	P	53					.000
Shinji Mori	P	52					.000
Kento Sugiyama	P	44					.000
Fumiya Nishiguchi	P	33					.000
Giovanni Carrara	P	33					.000
Takashi Ishii	P	30					.000
Jun Takeshita	P	29					.000
Tetsuya Shiozaki	P	27					.000
Hiroshi Shintani	P	23					.000
Hisanori Yokota	P	21					.000
Kazuhiro Shibasaki	P	13					.000
Terry Bross	P	11					.000
Hirofumi Teramoto	P	9					.000
Kiyoshi Toyoda	P	7					.000
Shinji Taninaka	P	6					.000
Sadaharu Hiranuma	P	6					.000
Yukihiro Nishizaki	P	4					.000
Kiyotaka Koishizawa	P	3					.000
Yoshihiro Doi	P	1					.000
Kazuo Matsui	SS	135					.000
Hiroaki Ueda	SS	1					.000
Totals		1952	0	0	0	0	.000

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