1996 Yakult Swallows Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 61-69
Finished 4th in the JPCL
Manager: Katsuya Nomura (61-69)
Ballpark: Meiji Jingu Stadium

1996 Yakult Swallows Roster

The Yakult Swallows of the Japan Central League ended the 1996 season with a record of 61 wins and 69 losses, finishing fourth in the JPCL.

The Swallows plated 536 runs and allowed 560 runs. Hensley Meulens paced Yakult with 25 home runs, and Tom O'Malley walloped 15 or more, too. Tom O'Malley drove in 97 runs. Hatsuhiko Tsuji topped batters with significant playing time by hitting .332. Kazuya Tabata led the squad with 12 wins, while Masato Yoshii recorded a 3.25 ERA, tops among qualifying pitchers.

Players from the 1996 Yakult Swallows who spent time in the Majors during their careers included Masato Yoshii, Kazuhisa Ishii, Tom O'Malley, Shingo Takatsu, Terry Bross and Hensley Meulens.

Katsuya Nomura 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
Kazuya Tabata	12	12	.500	3.51	33	25	1	4	2	1	177.0	154	72	69	22	60	5	109	4	0	5	736
Masato Yoshii	10	7	.588	3.24	25	24	1	9	1	0	180.3	177	69	65	20	47	3	145	4	0	4	749
Futoshi Yamabe	7	4	.636	4.00	20	20	0	2	1	0	123.7	111	62	55	23	56	3	98	1	0	4	527
Terry Bross	7	12	.368	3.61	23	21	1	2	1	0	137.0	115	61	55	16	43	1	97	3	0	5	571
Tatsuki Yamamoto	4	8	.333	4.53	37	18	5	3	2	1	113.3	107	58	57	10	51	1	104	6	0	8	491
Akimitsu Ito	3	2	.600	4.83	22	8	7	0	0	0	72.7	76	39	39	9	28	1	27	4	0	1	319
Fuminobu Kinoshita	3	2	.600	4.88	37	0	9	0	0	0	27.7	31	17	15	2	16	1	31	1	0	1	132
Shigeru Matsumoto	3	4	.429	3.20	49	0	12	0	0	0	78.7	80	34	28	7	36	7	46	4	1	4	340
Kenji Miyamoto	2	0	1.000	3.12	12	3	3	0	0	0	26.0	21	10	9	3	6	0	13	1	0	1	102
Daigo Matsuoka	2	1	.667	2.62	14	1	6	0	0	0	24.0	13	8	7	2	10	2	18	0	0	1	96
Tsutomu Yamada	2	1	.667	7.65	17	0	5	0	0	0	20.0	25	19	17	4	6	0	13	1	0	1	91
Shingo Takatsu	2	6	.250	3.24	39	0	36	0	0	21	50.0	56	18	18	7	16	4	35	1	0	1	215
Hirotoshi Ishii	1	0	1.000	3.38	13	1	4	0	0	0	8.0	6	3	3	0	13	0	9	0	0	1	41
Masayuki Masuda	1	2	.333	4.21	22	3	6	0	0	0	36.3	29	21	17	3	32	0	25	1	1	5	164
Tomohito Ito	1	2	.333	5.40	14	0	3	0	0	3	15.0	16	9	9	3	14	1	15	3	0	1	77
Kazuhisa Ishii	1	5	.167	5.23	8	5	1	0	0	0	31.0	28	19	18	6	22	0	26	2	0	1	142
Kenjiro Kawasaki	0	0		3.86	5	1	0	0	0	0	9.3	12	4	4	2	2	0	2	1	0	0	41
Tetsuya Kitagawa	0	0		12.41	9	0	6	0	0	0	12.3	24	17	17	4	3	0	8	0	0	1	64
Hisashi Ogura	0	0		13.50	2	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	3	3	3	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	10
Hiroto Kato	0	1	.000	7.63	22	0	4	0	0	0	15.3	24	17	13	3	8	0	15	3	0	0	81
Totals	61	69	.469	4.02	423	130	110	20	7	26	1159.7	1108	560	518	146	470	29	836	41	2	45	4989

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
Tom O'Malley	127	541	461	56	145	23	0	18	97	3	4	74	70	.315	.407	.482	.888	222	19	1	0	5	8
Atsunori Inaba	125	496	436	63	135	26	3	11	53	9	5	38	66	.310	.370	.459	.829	200	9	8	7	7	0
Hatsuhiko Tsuji	103	456	400	59	133	9	2	2	41	9	3	48	46	.332	.409	.380	.789	152	16	5	1	2	1
Tetsuya Iida	105	461	424	62	123	19	3	6	37	13	9	23	66	.290	.327	.392	.718	166	4	1	11	2	2
Atsuya Furuta	119	492	437	57	112	24	2	11	72	5	1	46	68	.256	.332	.396	.728	173	22	4	4	1	1
Hensley Meulens	128	495	439	47	108	14	3	25	67	1	3	44	140	.246	.318	.462	.780	203	25	5	1	6	5
Katsuyuki Dobashi	109	415	370	47	103	18	3	6	35	7	1	30	50	.278	.341	.392	.733	145	7	6	7	2	1
Shinya Miyamoto	68	270	238	27	65	8	2	1	13	6	0	19	39	.273	.336	.336	.672	80	3	4	8	1	1
Takahiro Ikeyama	53	205	183	20	49	11	0	7	29	3	2	21	40	.268	.341	.443	.784	81	8	0	0	1	0
Shinji Hata	80	164	141	16	34	4	0	6	17	1	0	20	27	.241	.348	.397	.745	56	2	3	0	0	1
Kenji Tomashino	56	95	83	16	25	0	1	1	6	7	3	5	20	.301	.348	.361	.710	30	2	1	6	0	0
Shinichi Sato	61	138	124	19	24	8	0	2	7	1	1	11	14	.194	.275	.306	.582	38	3	3	0	0	1
Toshihiro Takanashi	39	70	62	5	12	1	0	0	3	0	1	5	10	.194	.275	.210	.485	13	4	2	1	0	1
Yasutaka Hironaga	20	32	29	5	11	1	1	2	10	0	0	3	7	.379	.438	.690	1.127	20	0	0	0	0	1
Tomohiro Jo	42	59	49	7	9	1	0	0	2	0	1	2	9	.184	.231	.204	.435	10	1	1	7	0	0
Yuji Ono	47	42	36	5	8	1	0	4	10	0	0	6	10	.222	.333	.583	.917	21	3	0	0	0	1
Eiji Kanamori	46	46	45	3	8	1	0	0	6	0	0	1	1	.178	.196	.200	.396	9	2	0	0	0	0
Susumu Aoyagi	24	37	32	2	6	1	0	0	4	0	0	4	5	.188	.297	.219	.516	7	2	1	0	0	0
Masato Yoshii	26	74	62	3	6	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	31	.097	.111	.097	.208	6	1	0	11	0	0
Shigeyuki Yamaguchi	62	19	14	2	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	5	.286	.412	.286	.697	4	0	2	2	0	0
Hideki Hashigami	16	27	24	1	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	7	.167	.259	.208	.468	5	2	0	0	0	0
Toshihiro Noguchi	11	29	25	1	4	1	0	0	1	0	1	3	8	.160	.241	.200	.441	5	2	0	0	1	0
Tatsuki Yamamoto	38	38	34	1	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	15	.118	.211	.118	.328	4	0	0	0	0	0
Futoshi Yamabe	23	47	41	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	17	.098	.140	.098	.237	4	0	0	4	0	0
Mitsuru Manaka	7	10	9	1	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	.333	.400	.333	.733	3	0	0	0	0	0
Shuichiro Matsumoto	12	16	14	2	3	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	3	.214	.312	.214	.527	3	0	2	0	0	0
Terry Bross	23	45	41	2	3	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	29	.073	.073	.171	.244	7	0	0	4	0	0
Kazuya Tabata	37	61	55	2	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	31	.055	.088	.055	.142	3	0	0	4	0	0
Akimitsu Ito	22	23	20	1	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	10	.100	.143	.150	.293	3	1	0	2	0	0
Tomohito Ito	14	3	2	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	.500	.667	.500	1.167	1	0	0	0	0	0
Shigeru Matsumoto	49	7	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	1	0	0
Kenji Miyamoto	13	6	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	0	0	0
Shingo Takatsu	39	7	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	1	0	0
Kazuhisa Ishii	8	9	8	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.125	.125	.125	.250	1	0	0	1	0	0
Tsutomu Yamada	17	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Kiyoshi Arai	4	8	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	.000	.250	.000	.250	0	1	0	0	0	1
Hideki Samejima	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Daigo Matsuoka	15	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kenjiro Kawasaki	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Masayuki Masuda	22	5	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	2	0	0
Masahiro Koda	11	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	1	0	0
Totals	1829	4961	4376	536	1155	174	20	103	520	67	36	421	861	.264	.333	.383	.717	1678	140	49	87	28	25

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Tom O'Malley	1B	127					.000
Yuji Ono	1B	31					.000
Toshihiro Takanashi	1B	14					.000
Atsunori Inaba	1B	2					.000
Eiji Kanamori	1B	1					.000
Susumu Aoyagi	1B	1					.000
Hatsuhiko Tsuji	2B	103					.000
Kenji Tomashino	2B	28					.000
Masahiro Koda	2B	8					.000
Katsuyuki Dobashi	2B	8					.000
Shinya Miyamoto	2B	5					.000
Kiyoshi Arai	2B	3					.000
Tetsuya Iida	2B	2					.000
Shigeyuki Yamaguchi	2B	1					.000
Hensley Meulens	3B	128					.000
Shigeyuki Yamaguchi	3B	50					.000
Katsuyuki Dobashi	3B	4					.000
Takahiro Ikeyama	3B	2					.000
Kenji Tomashino	3B	1					.000
Tetsuya Iida	3B	1					.000
Atsuya Furuta	C	118					.000
Susumu Aoyagi	C	15					.000
Toshihiro Noguchi	C	10					.000
Hideki Samejima	C	2					.000
Atsunori Inaba	OF	122					.000
Tetsuya Iida	OF	102					.000
Katsuyuki Dobashi	OF	82					.000
Shinichi Sato	OF	54					.000
Shinji Hata	OF	37					.000
Tomohiro Jo	OF	25					.000
Toshihiro Takanashi	OF	21					.000
Hideki Hashigami	OF	12					.000
Shuichiro Matsumoto	OF	8					.000
Mitsuru Manaka	OF	7					.000
Yasutaka Hironaga	OF	6					.000
Kenji Tomashino	OF	2					.000
Shigeru Matsumoto	P	49					.000
Shingo Takatsu	P	39					.000
Tatsuki Yamamoto	P	37					.000
Fuminobu Kinoshita	P	37					.000
Kazuya Tabata	P	33					.000
Masato Yoshii	P	25					.000
Terry Bross	P	23					.000
Masayuki Masuda	P	22					.000
Hiroto Kato	P	22					.000
Akimitsu Ito	P	22					.000
Futoshi Yamabe	P	20					.000
Tsutomu Yamada	P	17					.000
Daigo Matsuoka	P	14					.000
Tomohito Ito	P	14					.000
Hirotoshi Ishii	P	13					.000
Kenji Miyamoto	P	12					.000
Tetsuya Kitagawa	P	9					.000
Kazuhisa Ishii	P	8					.000
Kenjiro Kawasaki	P	5					.000
Hisashi Ogura	P	2					.000
Shinya Miyamoto	SS	65					.000
Takahiro Ikeyama	SS	50					.000
Katsuyuki Dobashi	SS	19					.000
Shigeyuki Yamaguchi	SS	10					.000
Kenji Tomashino	SS	1					.000
Masahiro Koda	SS	1					.000
Totals		1712	0	0	0	0	.000

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