1959 Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes Statistics
Team Record: 39-91
Finished 6th in the JPPL
Manager: Shigeru Chiba (0-0), Giichi Hayashi (0-0)
Location: Osaka, Japan
Ballpark: Nippon Life Stadium, Fujiidera Stadium
The Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1959 season with a record of 39 wins and 91 losses, finishing sixth in the JPPL.
The Kintetsu Buffaloes scored 381 runs, worst in the league, and conceded 578 runs, most in the circuit. Akitoshi Kodama led Osaka with 12 home runs and accounted for 47 RBI, while leading all regular batters by hitting .293. Glenn Mickens and Mamoru Otsu topped the squad with 11 wins each, and Glenn Mickens recorded a 2.42 ERA, best among pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.
Glenn Mickens played in Major League Baseball during his career, the only member of the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes to do so.
Shigeru Chiba and Giichi Hayashi served as manager.Click on column headings to sort.
Pitching:
Player | W | L | W% | ERA | G | GS | GF | CG | SHO | SV | IP | H | R | ER | HR | BB | IBB | SO | HBP | BK | WP | BF |
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Glenn Mickens | 11 | 13 | .458 | 2.42 | 38 | 27 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 234.7 | 189 | 79 | 63 | 13 | 47 | 2 | 119 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 918 | |
Mamoru Otsu | 11 | 20 | .355 | 3.17 | 45 | 32 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 227.0 | 240 | 106 | 80 | 14 | 68 | 6 | 79 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 965 | |
Yukio Tsuta | 5 | 17 | .227 | 3.69 | 50 | 13 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 146.3 | 140 | 70 | 60 | 11 | 42 | 3 | 82 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 608 | |
Osamu Goto | 3 | 2 | .600 | 3.99 | 25 | 6 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 65.3 | 64 | 30 | 29 | 5 | 29 | 0 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 279 | |
Hiroyuki Osada | 3 | 6 | .333 | 3.45 | 28 | 8 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 86.0 | 87 | 37 | 33 | 6 | 27 | 1 | 60 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 362 | |
Noboru Yamashita | 2 | 3 | .400 | 5.31 | 20 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 40.7 | 44 | 26 | 24 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 182 | |
Mitsuo Osaki | 2 | 8 | .200 | 3.51 | 26 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 84.7 | 91 | 44 | 33 | 6 | 16 | 1 | 46 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 365 | |
Fumio Takechi | 2 | 11 | .154 | 3.78 | 23 | 20 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 104.7 | 119 | 48 | 44 | 10 | 21 | 4 | 39 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 438 | |
Mitsuaki Kondo | 0 | 0 | 8.53 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6.3 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | ||
Toshiaki Fukita | 0 | 2 | .000 | 4.85 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 26.0 | 37 | 19 | 14 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 124 | |
Shiro Ito | 0 | 2 | .000 | 5.57 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 32.3 | 32 | 22 | 20 | 4 | 15 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 144 | |
Masaru Fukuhara | 0 | 2 | .000 | 5.91 | 16 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 32.0 | 42 | 27 | 21 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 145 | |
Tsutomu Kuroda | 0 | 5 | .000 | 5.38 | 31 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 87.0 | 104 | 64 | 52 | 9 | 28 | 0 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 385 | |
Totals | 39 | 91 | .300 | 3.68 | 329 | 133 | 112 | 21 | 3 | 0 | 1173.0 | 1197 | 578 | 479 | 95 | 325 | 19 | 593 | 19 | 1 | 16 | 4942 |
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 |
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Akitoshi Kodama | 131 | 522 | 482 | 54 | 141 | 23 | 2 | 12 | 47 | 12 | 6 | 37 | 38 | .293 | .342 | .423 | .766 | 204 | 23 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
Junzo Sekine | 116 | 451 | 412 | 49 | 120 | 17 | 9 | 5 | 38 | 4 | 3 | 30 | 32 | .291 | .345 | .413 | .758 | 170 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
Takeshi Suzuki | 121 | 399 | 380 | 26 | 91 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 23 | 15 | 4 | 8 | 41 | .239 | .259 | .279 | .538 | 106 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
Ron Bottler | 103 | 377 | 346 | 31 | 81 | 15 | 0 | 8 | 45 | 2 | 2 | 28 | 58 | .234 | .289 | .347 | .636 | 120 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
Masaharu Sekimori | 107 | 361 | 331 | 32 | 68 | 10 | 1 | 8 | 33 | 5 | 4 | 25 | 87 | .205 | .261 | .314 | .575 | 104 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
Hirofumi Naito | 67 | 273 | 248 | 33 | 62 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 40 | .250 | .314 | .327 | .640 | 81 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Masatoshi Kato | 91 | 291 | 269 | 18 | 60 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 43 | .223 | .274 | .305 | .579 | 82 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Teruo Iko | 94 | 284 | 257 | 28 | 57 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 23 | 29 | .222 | .293 | .288 | .581 | 74 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Tadatoshi Saida | 81 | 248 | 217 | 27 | 56 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 21 | 2 | 5 | 26 | 38 | .258 | .346 | .364 | .710 | 79 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Hiroyuki Watanabe | 98 | 266 | 248 | 12 | 53 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 30 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 36 | .214 | .257 | .270 | .527 | 67 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
Koji Shimada | 83 | 214 | 194 | 17 | 36 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 17 | 43 | .186 | .251 | .232 | .483 | 45 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
Takatsugu Toguchi | 71 | 130 | 121 | 7 | 27 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 23 | .223 | .277 | .322 | .599 | 39 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Yukio Tomoto | 58 | 118 | 110 | 6 | 20 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 31 | .182 | .217 | .227 | .445 | 25 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Akitada Tsukuda | 45 | 76 | 72 | 5 | 16 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 22 | .222 | .263 | .278 | .541 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Glenn Mickens | 38 | 84 | 74 | 2 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | .216 | .237 | .243 | .480 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
Masaaki Oishi | 47 | 77 | 70 | 4 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 17 | .200 | .243 | .243 | .486 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Koichi Murata | 26 | 85 | 76 | 4 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 18 | .171 | .247 | .197 | .444 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Mamoru Otsu | 45 | 77 | 72 | 4 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | .167 | .167 | .181 | .347 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
Yasuo Kono | 37 | 58 | 53 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 10 | .170 | .228 | .302 | .530 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Michinobu Goto | 30 | 48 | 40 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 7 | .175 | .292 | .175 | .467 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Akiro Kato | 38 | 60 | 55 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | .127 | .200 | .127 | .327 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Yoshinobu Kawakami | 22 | 40 | 39 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | .154 | .175 | .231 | .406 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Chusuke Kizuka | 13 | 23 | 21 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | .238 | .273 | .286 | .558 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Osamu Goto | 28 | 23 | 22 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | .227 | .261 | .318 | .579 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Yukio Tsuta | 50 | 42 | 40 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | .100 | .100 | .100 | .200 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Tsutomu Kuroda | 31 | 22 | 20 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | .150 | .190 | .200 | .390 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Masaru Fukuhara | 16 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .500 | .500 | .500 | 1.000 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Noboru Yamashita | 20 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .200 | .273 | .300 | .573 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mitsuo Osaki | 26 | 23 | 21 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | .095 | .095 | .095 | .190 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Fumio Takechi | 23 | 29 | 25 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | .080 | .080 | .080 | .160 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Mitsuaki Kondo | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .500 | .500 | .500 | 1.000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Shiro Ito | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .167 | .167 | .167 | .333 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Katsuhiko Hara | 9 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .167 | .167 | .167 | .333 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Katsuo Kimura | 9 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .125 | .125 | .125 | .250 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Hiroyuki Osada | 28 | 20 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | .071 | .133 | .071 | .205 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
Teruo Kishi | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Toshiaki Fukita | 12 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Yoshihiro Kawaratani | 16 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 1846 | 4777 | 4384 | 381 | 1002 | 145 | 31 | 48 | 338 | 64 | 39 | 292 | 728 | .229 | .280 | .309 | .589 | 1353 | 106 | 26 | 63 | 12 | 14 |
Fielding:
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