1998 Yakult Swallows Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 66-69
Finished 4th in the JPCL
Manager: Katsuya Nomura (66-69)
Ballpark: Meiji Jingu Stadium

1998 Yakult Swallows Roster

The Yakult Swallows of the Japan Central League ended the 1998 season with a record of 66 wins and 69 losses, finishing fourth in the JPCL.

The Swallows scored 493 runs and conceded 548 runs. Takahiro Ikeyama led Yakult with 18 home runs Atsuya Furuta drove in 63 runs. Takahiro Ikeyama, Mitsuru Manaka and Atsuya Furuta paced all regular batters by hitting .275. Kenjiro Kawasaki topped the team with 17 wins, while Tomohito Ito recorded a 2.73 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Kazuhisa Ishii, Akinori Iwamura, Lyle Mouton, Travis Driskill, Mark Acre, Shingo Takatsu, Dwayne Hosey and Eric Anthony were all players from the 1998 Yakult Swallows who played in the Majors during their careers.

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
Kenjiro Kawasaki	17	10	.630	3.04	29	28	1	9	3	0	204.3	195	79	69	22	55	4	94	3	0	4	845
Kazuhisa Ishii	14	6	.700	3.30	28	27	0	6	0	0	196.3	149	78	72	12	105	4	241	8	0	20	834
Tatsuki Yamamoto	7	2	.778	2.03	35	0	14	0	0	3	48.7	35	13	11	3	19	1	41	1	1	3	201
Tomohito Ito	6	11	.353	2.72	29	22	6	6	1	3	158.7	114	53	48	14	57	3	154	9	3	8	648
Hiroaki Hirota	4	2	.667	2.56	52	0	17	0	0	7	56.3	53	19	16	2	12	0	22	2	3	2	230
Tetsuya Kitagawa	4	4	.500	3.82	23	11	4	1	0	1	80.0	85	35	34	7	28	1	44	3	0	4	351
Akimitsu Ito	3	2	.600	3.88	31	1	14	0	0	0	46.3	54	26	20	7	19	1	21	2	0	2	204
Kazuya Tabata	3	7	.300	5.62	12	12	0	1	0	0	64.0	76	44	40	14	27	0	39	0	0	0	291
Futoshi Yamabe	3	8	.273	4.57	29	8	6	0	0	0	63.0	62	33	32	7	36	2	62	2	0	11	284
Shingo Takatsu	2	3	.400	5.56	42	0	23	0	0	3	45.3	54	29	28	6	26	3	32	2	0	1	212
Ryuji Miyade	1	0	1.000	4.50	3	1	1	0	0	0	8.0	5	4	4	0	14	1	10	0	0	1	41
Hiroto Kato	1	1	.500	8.44	16	0	3	0	0	0	10.7	15	10	10	2	6	0	3	1	0	2	52
Hisanobu Watanabe	1	5	.167	4.23	19	9	4	1	0	1	61.7	56	30	29	9	36	3	49	2	0	1	267
Kenichi Oshio	0	0		4.50	2	0	2	0	0	0	2.0	1	1	1	1	4	0	3	0	0	0	11
Tetsuhiro Nonaka	0	0		8.53	16	0	7	0	0	0	19.0	34	21	18	4	8	1	19	1	0	2	99
Travis Driskill	0	1	.000	4.80	7	3	0	0	0	0	15.0	21	9	8	2	6	1	7	2	0	0	71
Mark Acre	0	2	.000	2.34	12	11	0	0	0	0	69.3	47	20	18	6	34	0	58	3	0	1	288
Shinji Matsuda	0	2	.000	4.14	34	0	8	0	0	0	41.3	40	21	19	2	22	1	28	4	1	2	188
Koji Takagi	0	3	.000	8.31	24	2	1	0	0	0	21.7	21	23	20	1	15	2	15	4	0	1	103
Totals	66	69	.489	3.69	443	135	111	24	4	18	1211.7	1117	548	497	121	529	28	942	49	8	65	5220

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
Mitsuru Manaka	133	559	495	57	136	20	8	5	27	12	8	29	56	.275	.319	.378	.697	187	2	4	30	1	0
Atsuya Furuta	132	552	491	58	135	19	1	9	63	5	4	46	62	.275	.344	.373	.717	183	14	8	3	4	4
Takahiro Ikeyama	118	455	400	63	110	20	0	18	59	3	5	48	79	.275	.358	.460	.818	184	9	4	2	1	1
Katsuyuki Dobashi	117	456	397	48	103	14	0	9	52	2	0	41	42	.259	.331	.363	.694	144	16	5	6	7	1
Shinya Miyamoto	114	402	368	28	95	10	1	1	25	5	3	24	51	.258	.308	.299	.607	110	4	3	6	1	4
Tetsuya Iida	96	317	286	41	81	11	1	1	28	9	4	21	35	.283	.335	.339	.675	97	6	2	7	1	1
Kota Soejima	107	337	301	32	80	12	2	8	38	2	1	27	57	.266	.329	.399	.728	120	10	2	6	1	1
Dwayne Hosey	107	364	317	35	74	12	1	13	42	4	3	34	84	.233	.320	.401	.721	127	6	8	2	3	3
Atsunori Inaba	88	280	258	29	72	17	2	5	23	4	2	13	42	.279	.327	.419	.746	108	2	6	2	1	1
Hirobumi Watarai	85	227	205	26	54	9	0	4	12	1	1	12	32	.263	.306	.366	.672	75	4	1	8	1	2
Hatsuhiko Tsuji	61	182	168	20	51	5	0	3	18	6	1	8	17	.304	.346	.387	.733	65	0	4	0	2	0
Eric Anthony	44	169	151	20	37	6	0	12	31	0	1	18	53	.245	.325	.523	.849	79	5	0	0	0	0
Lyle Mouton	30	97	87	7	21	8	0	3	12	0	1	9	27	.241	.309	.437	.746	38	4	0	0	1	0
Kazuhisa Ishii	36	76	73	5	14	1	0	0	11	0	0	1	32	.192	.203	.205	.408	15	2	0	2	0	0
Takehiko Kobayakawa	62	93	81	6	14	4	0	3	8	0	1	12	12	.173	.280	.333	.613	27	6	0	0	0	0
Noriyuki Shiroishi	44	50	45	3	13	1	0	2	4	1	1	3	11	.289	.333	.444	.778	20	0	0	2	0	0
Kenjiro Kawasaki	31	78	57	1	9	1	0	0	7	0	0	4	20	.158	.210	.175	.385	10	1	0	16	1	0
Toshifumi Baba	71	56	45	4	8	0	0	0	4	0	1	4	7	.178	.260	.178	.438	8	0	1	6	0	0
Shinji Hata	49	52	48	1	8	3	1	0	4	1	0	2	10	.167	.196	.271	.467	13	2	0	1	1	0
Tomohito Ito	31	52	43	3	5	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	14	.116	.156	.140	.295	6	0	0	7	0	0
Shinichi Sato	30	24	21	2	4	1	0	1	4	0	1	3	5	.190	.292	.381	.673	8	2	0	0	0	0
Katsunori Nomura	25	24	23	0	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	7	.174	.208	.174	.382	4	0	0	0	0	0
Tetsuya Kitagawa	24	21	20	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	.150	.150	.150	.300	3	1	0	1	0	0
Akimitsu Ito	31	3	3	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.667	.667	.667	1.333	2	0	0	0	0	0
Hisanobu Watanabe	19	15	14	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	7	.143	.200	.214	.414	3	0	0	0	0	0
Susumu Aoyagi	19	23	23	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	.087	.087	.130	.217	3	1	0	0	0	0
Ryuji Miyade	4	3	3	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.667	1.000	2	0	0	0	0	0
Tatsuki Yamamoto	35	8	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.200	.200	.200	.400	1	0	0	3	0	0
Kazuya Tabata	13	22	19	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	.053	.053	.053	.105	1	0	0	3	0	0
Mark Acre	12	21	19	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	.053	.053	.105	.158	2	0	0	2	0	0
Shingo Takatsu	42	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Futoshi Yamabe	35	12	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hiroaki Hirota	52	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.000	.143	.000	.143	0	0	0	0	0	0
Travis Driskill	7	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Akinori Iwamura	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Koji Takagi	24	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Tomohiro Jo	4	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Hiroto Kato	17	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yuji Ono	2	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shinji Matsuda	34	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Hajime Miki	4	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1990	5060	4504	493	1141	179	17	97	475	56	39	364	817	.253	.314	.365	.679	1645	97	48	118	26	18

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Hirobumi Watarai	1B	48					.000
Eric Anthony	1B	42					.000
Kota Soejima	1B	39					.000
Takehiko Kobayakawa	1B	25					.000
Atsunori Inaba	1B	20					.000
Lyle Mouton	1B	19					.000
Hatsuhiko Tsuji	1B	4					.000
Katsuyuki Dobashi	2B	103					.000
Hatsuhiko Tsuji	2B	40					.000
Noriyuki Shiroishi	2B	23					.000
Tetsuya Iida	2B	5					.000
Toshifumi Baba	2B	2					.000
Takahiro Ikeyama	3B	104					.000
Toshifumi Baba	3B	65					.000
Hirobumi Watarai	3B	28					.000
Kota Soejima	3B	15					.000
Akinori Iwamura	3B	1					.000
Atsuya Furuta	C	132					.000
Katsunori Nomura	C	12					.000
Susumu Aoyagi	C	8					.000
Mitsuru Manaka	OF	133					.000
Tetsuya Iida	OF	95					.000
Dwayne Hosey	OF	95					.000
Atsunori Inaba	OF	70					.000
Kota Soejima	OF	61					.000
Shinichi Sato	OF	28					.000
Hirobumi Watarai	OF	10					.000
Lyle Mouton	OF	7					.000
Katsuyuki Dobashi	OF	4					.000
Tomohiro Jo	OF	3					.000
Shinji Hata	OF	2					.000
Eric Anthony	OF	1					.000
Hiroaki Hirota	P	52					.000
Shingo Takatsu	P	42					.000
Tatsuki Yamamoto	P	35					.000
Shinji Matsuda	P	34					.000
Akimitsu Ito	P	31					.000
Futoshi Yamabe	P	29					.000
Kenjiro Kawasaki	P	29					.000
Tomohito Ito	P	29					.000
Kazuhisa Ishii	P	28					.000
Koji Takagi	P	24					.000
Tetsuya Kitagawa	P	23					.000
Hisanobu Watanabe	P	19					.000
Tetsuhiro Nonaka	P	16					.000
Hiroto Kato	P	16					.000
Kazuya Tabata	P	12					.000
Mark Acre	P	12					.000
Travis Driskill	P	7					.000
Ryuji Miyade	P	3					.000
Kenichi Oshio	P	2					.000
Shinya Miyamoto	SS	114					.000
Noriyuki Shiroishi	SS	21					.000
Takahiro Ikeyama	SS	18					.000
Katsuyuki Dobashi	SS	6					.000
Totals		1846	0	0	0	0	.000

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