1998 Yomiuri Giants Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 73-62
Finished 3rd in the JPCL
Manager: Shigeo Nagashima (73-62)
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Ballpark: Tokyo Dome

1998 Yomiuri Giants Roster

The Yomiuri Giants of the Japan Central League ended the 1998 season with a record of 73 wins and 62 losses, finishing third in the JPCL.

The Giants scored 632 runs and allowed 551 runs. Hideki Matsui walloped 34 home runs for Yomiuri, while Kazuhiro Kiyohara and Yoshinobu Takahashi swatted 15 or more, too. Hideki Matsui drove in 100 runs. Takayuki Shimizu paced all regular batters by hitting .301. Masumi Kuwata topped the team with 16 wins, and Masaki Saito recorded a 3.08 ERA, best among qualifying pitchers.

Hideki Matsui, Mariano Duncan, Balvino Gálvez, Takashi Kashiwada, Hideki Okajima, Masumi Kuwata and Takahito Nomura were all players from the 1998 Yomiuri Giants who played in the Majors during their careers.

Shigeo Nagashima 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
Masumi Kuwata	16	5	.762	4.08	27	27	0	7	1	0	181.0	197	88	82	17	46	0	116	6	1	4	779
Masaki Saito	10	7	.588	3.08	23	22	0	4	1	0	146.3	132	56	50	13	40	2	93	4	0	2	594
Balvino Gálvez	9	7	.562	3.21	18	18	0	7	0	0	137.3	136	57	49	10	39	2	85	9	1	1	588
Yusaku Iriki	7	2	.778	3.58	30	11	7	1	0	0	98.0	70	39	39	9	38	1	99	2	0	1	397
Seong-Min Cho	7	6	.538	2.75	15	15	0	6	3	0	104.7	96	36	32	4	34	0	83	4	2	2	433
Hiromi Makihara	6	4	.600	3.98	36	9	24	1	1	18	81.3	67	39	36	12	23	0	77	2	3	0	332
Kazutaka Nishiyama	4	3	.571	2.48	49	2	17	0	0	4	80.0	75	24	22	4	20	2	67	4	2	1	324
Hirofumi Kono	3	0	1.000	2.42	27	0	5	0	0	1	26.0	15	10	7	2	15	1	20	4	0	0	112
Koishi Misawa	3	5	.375	3.84	43	7	11	0	0	3	82.0	87	43	35	7	37	3	53	2	0	2	358
Hideki Okajima	3	6	.333	4.33	14	12	2	0	0	0	62.3	61	31	30	7	32	2	54	2	1	3	273
Hitoshi Ono	2	7	.222	5.19	15	11	2	0	0	0	59.0	66	35	34	7	29	0	40	3	0	4	265
Yasuhiro Enoki	1	0	1.000	19.29	5	0	2	0	0	0	4.7	9	10	10	1	3	0	0	2	0	0	27
Hirokazu Okada	1	2	.333	3.89	35	0	7	0	0	0	39.3	37	19	17	6	14	3	35	1	1	0	166
Takahito Nomura	1	4	.200	5.03	24	0	9	0	0	4	19.7	19	11	11	2	18	3	23	0	3	1	95
Takashi Kashiwada	0	0		0.00	2	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6
Kazuhisa Kawaguchi	0	0		4.61	17	0	3	0	0	0	13.7	15	8	7	1	9	1	9	0	1	1	62
Shinichiro Minami	0	0		5.23	9	0	6	0	0	0	10.3	14	6	6	2	5	0	5	0	1	1	48
Ryuji Kimura	0	0		9.00	2	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	3	2	2	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	9
Makoto Sato	0	0		13.50	2	0	1	0	0	0	2.0	3	3	3	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	10
Kazuhiro Hiramatsu	0	2	.000	4.81	29	1	9	0	0	0	33.7	35	19	18	4	16	0	32	1	0	2	146
Akihito Kaneishi	0	2	.000	5.68	13	0	4	0	0	2	12.7	20	15	8	2	6	0	6	0	0	1	63
Totals	73	62	.541	3.74	435	135	109	26	6	32	1198.0	1158	551	498	111	426	20	902	46	16	26	5087

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
Takayuki Shimizu	129	535	492	79	148	17	2	13	52	16	6	22	64	.301	.338	.423	.761	208	9	8	9	4	1
Hideki Matsui	135	603	487	103	142	24	3	34	100	3	5	104	101	.292	.421	.563	.984	274	7	8	0	4	2
Yoshinobu Takahashi	126	515	466	65	140	32	1	19	75	3	2	36	85	.300	.356	.496	.852	231	5	7	1	5	1
Daisuke Motoki	114	456	397	49	118	18	3	9	55	3	2	45	56	.297	.373	.426	.799	169	18	5	6	3	0
Toshihisa Nishi	106	479	424	76	116	15	1	11	33	17	10	45	65	.274	.345	.392	.736	166	6	2	6	2	1
Kazuhiro Kiyohara	116	470	384	67	103	14	0	23	80	1	0	67	76	.268	.379	.484	.863	186	13	8	0	11	1
Shinichi Murata	107	339	298	26	80	9	1	7	47	0	0	29	60	.268	.332	.376	.708	112	11	2	5	5	8
Masahiro Kawai	93	300	266	27	68	14	1	1	16	2	1	17	36	.256	.301	.327	.628	87	8	1	14	2	1
Katsumi Hirosawa	73	192	163	25	49	7	1	9	25	1	2	25	48	.301	.393	.521	.914	85	1	1	1	2	1
Mariano Duncan	63	221	207	24	48	7	0	10	34	1	1	11	58	.232	.276	.411	.687	85	6	2	0	1	1
Koji Goto	104	204	178	28	44	7	1	2	11	3	1	19	33	.247	.322	.331	.653	59	2	1	5	1	0
Hiro Ishii	74	184	154	16	39	5	1	4	27	0	0	23	21	.253	.353	.377	.730	58	3	3	0	4	0
Sadaaki Yoshimura	71	76	65	2	17	2	0	1	10	0	0	11	12	.262	.368	.338	.707	22	1	0	0	0	2
Kosuke Yoshihara	35	68	62	8	15	1	0	1	4	0	0	4	10	.242	.284	.306	.590	19	2	0	1	1	1
Seong-Min Cho	16	38	37	2	12	2	0	0	4	0	0	0	17	.324	.316	.378	.694	14	1	0	0	1	0
Naoki Sugiyama	37	93	84	4	12	0	0	2	8	0	0	7	26	.143	.207	.214	.421	18	3	0	1	1	2
Masumi Kuwata	27	74	56	4	11	1	0	0	6	0	0	5	13	.196	.258	.214	.472	12	0	0	12	1	0
Masaki Saito	25	57	49	4	9	2	0	1	7	0	0	3	11	.184	.231	.286	.516	14	1	0	5	0	0
Yasuo Nagaike	65	34	31	6	7	0	1	0	1	0	1	2	4	.226	.273	.290	.563	9	1	0	1	0	0
Hideki Okajima	14	22	20	3	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	8	.250	.286	.250	.536	5	0	0	1	0	0
Akihito Fukuo	32	36	29	3	5	3	0	0	2	0	0	6	9	.172	.333	.276	.609	8	0	1	0	0	0
Balvino Gálvez	19	54	49	2	5	0	0	1	4	0	0	0	16	.102	.102	.163	.265	8	0	0	5	0	0
Yusaku Iriki	30	31	24	2	4	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	12	.167	.167	.167	.333	4	0	0	7	0	0
Ichiro Horita	19	10	8	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	1	.250	.333	.250	.583	2	1	0	1	0	0
Kazutaka Nishiyama	49	12	9	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	.222	.364	.222	.586	2	0	0	1	0	0
Yuichi Yanagisawa	8	12	11	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	.182	.250	.182	.432	2	0	1	0	0	0
Koishi Misawa	43	19	17	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	9	.118	.167	.176	.343	3	0	0	1	0	0
Hiromi Makihara	36	20	19	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	10	.053	.100	.053	.153	1	0	0	0	0	0
Takayuki Saito	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yudai Deguchi	6	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hitoshi Ono	15	18	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	.000	.062	.000	.062	0	0	0	2	0	0
Hirokazu Okada	35	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Kohei Oda	2	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Takahito Nomura	24	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Yoshinori Murata	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kazuhiro Hiramatsu	29	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Akihito Kaneishi	13	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mototsugu Kawanaka	3	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1897	5193	4520	632	1206	181	16	148	605	54	33	488	885	.267	.342	.412	.754	1863	99	50	87	48	22

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Kazuhiro Kiyohara	1B	110					.000
Katsumi Hirosawa	1B	22					.000
Hiro Ishii	1B	15					.000
Koji Goto	1B	15					.000
Sadaaki Yoshimura	1B	2					.000
Toshihisa Nishi	2B	85					.000
Mariano Duncan	2B	47					.000
Daisuke Motoki	2B	15					.000
Akihito Fukuo	2B	6					.000
Yasuo Nagaike	2B	2					.000
Daisuke Motoki	3B	60					.000
Koji Goto	3B	55					.000
Toshihisa Nishi	3B	27					.000
Yasuo Nagaike	3B	25					.000
Hiro Ishii	3B	24					.000
Katsumi Hirosawa	3B	13					.000
Akihito Fukuo	3B	1					.000
Mariano Duncan	3B	1					.000
Shinichi Murata	C	106					.000
Naoki Sugiyama	C	36					.000
Kosuke Yoshihara	C	25					.000
Yuichi Yanagisawa	C	8					.000
Kohei Oda	C	2					.000
Yoshinori Murata	C	2					.000
Hideki Matsui	OF	135					.000
Takayuki Shimizu	OF	126					.000
Yoshinobu Takahashi	OF	124					.000
Koji Goto	OF	22					.000
Katsumi Hirosawa	OF	20					.000
Ichiro Horita	OF	13					.000
Yudai Deguchi	OF	3					.000
Kazutaka Nishiyama	P	49					.000
Koishi Misawa	P	43					.000
Hiromi Makihara	P	36					.000
Hirokazu Okada	P	35					.000
Yusaku Iriki	P	30					.000
Kazuhiro Hiramatsu	P	29					.000
Masumi Kuwata	P	27					.000
Hirofumi Kono	P	27					.000
Takahito Nomura	P	24					.000
Masaki Saito	P	23					.000
Balvino Gálvez	P	18					.000
Kazuhisa Kawaguchi	P	17					.000
Hitoshi Ono	P	15					.000
Seong-Min Cho	P	15					.000
Hideki Okajima	P	14					.000
Akihito Kaneishi	P	13					.000
Shinichiro Minami	P	9					.000
Yasuhiro Enoki	P	5					.000
Makoto Sato	P	2					.000
Ryuji Kimura	P	2					.000
Takashi Kashiwada	P	2					.000
Masahiro Kawai	SS	89					.000
Daisuke Motoki	SS	51					.000
Yasuo Nagaike	SS	21					.000
Mariano Duncan	SS	7					.000
Akihito Fukuo	SS	2					.000
Toshihisa Nishi	SS	1					.000
Totals		1753	0	0	0	0	.000

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