1963 Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 74-73
Finished 4th in the JPPL
Manager: Kaoru Betto (74-73)
Location: Osaka, Japan
Ballpark: Nippon Life Stadium, Fujiidera Stadium

1963 Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes Roster

The Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1963 season with a record of 74 wins and 73 losses, finishing fourth in the JPPL.

The Kintetsu Buffaloes scored 562 runs and surrendered 614 runs. Hachiro Yamamoto led Osaka with 22 home runs Masahiro Doi drove in 74 runs. Jack Bloomfield paced batters with significant playing time by hitting .335. Toshiaki Tokuhisa topped the squad with 20 wins, while Yukihiro Kubo, too added 15 or more wins, too Yukihiro Kubo recorded a 2.36 ERA, best among regular hurlers.

Glenn Mickens played in Major League Baseball during his career, the only member of the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes to do so.

Kaoru Betto 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
Toshiaki Tokuhisa	20	15	.571	2.93	66	33	14	10	4		270.0	223	100	88	33	51	1	150	2	1	2	1071
Yukihiro Kubo	19	12	.613	2.36	62	19	29	9	2		251.7	218	82	66	15	48	2	94	4	0	1	993
Shigemasa Yamamoto	9	17	.346	3.64	57	35	6	3	0		212.7	198	104	86	29	85	1	168	9	0	4	911
Glenn Mickens	8	8	.500	3.47	29	11	8	0	0		85.7	89	42	33	5	24	1	44	5	0	4	362
Satomi Bando	4	1	.800	3.84	33	5	13	0	0		58.7	59	29	25	7	15	0	19	1	0	0	238
Koichiro Sasaki	4	5	.444	3.09	41	11	14	1	0		116.3	105	46	40	18	29	3	81	7	0	0	482
Noboru Makino	3	4	.429	3.95	34	9	5	1	0		79.7	88	44	35	6	25	0	24	3	0	0	344
Yukio Ito	2	1	.667	4.19	19	6	4	1	1		43.0	33	23	20	7	9	0	35	2	0	1	176
Hiroyuki Osada	2	1	.667	4.28	17	5	2	0	0		27.3	32	17	13	5	5	0	9	0	0	0	123
Mamoru Otsu	1	0	1.000	10.95	9	0	2	0	0		12.3	22	17	15	3	6	0	5	0	0	0	62
Katsumi Inoue	1	2	.333	4.58	22	3	7	0	0		35.3	37	22	18	3	14	0	17	0	1	2	153
Koritsu Iwagami	1	2	.333	4.62	21	1	7	0	0		39.0	43	25	20	7	14	0	16	2	0	0	167
Katsuhiko Yoshida	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0		3.0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	10
Osamu Tanabe	0	0		3.00	5	1	2	0	0		6.0	6	4	2	0	2	0	4	0	0	0	27
Masaru Fukuhara	0	0		4.26	5	1	3	0	0		12.7	16	6	6	1	2	0	6	0	0	0	55
Bill Griffin	0	2	.000	3.86	20	4	3	0	0		30.3	31	20	13	2	13	0	12	0	0	0	132
Tsutomu Kuroda	0	3	.000	5.40	23	6	6	0	0		48.3	59	33	29	9	15	0	20	1	0	0	215
Totals	74	73	.503	3.44	464	150	125	25	7	0	1332.0	1260	614	509	150	358	8	704	36	2	14	5521

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
Akitoshi Kodama	145	583	539	70	165	30	3	8	57	13	7	33	43	.306	.347	.417	.764	225	18	3	3	5	1
Masahiro Doi	150	600	566	59	156	33	2	13	74	6	7	24	74	.276	.305	.410	.715	232	15	2	3	5	1
Junzo Sekine	144	578	506	73	150	26	1	12	66	6	4	61	34	.296	.376	.423	.799	214	12	5	4	2	1
Jack Bloomfield	121	486	439	62	147	31	6	9	62	3	3	38	50	.335	.396	.494	.890	217	5	7	1	1	7
Hachiro Yamamoto	139	551	508	73	142	28	3	22	59	21	17	28	71	.280	.319	.476	.795	242	11	2	12	1	2
Kunimitsu Yanoura	123	477	429	59	117	21	3	6	34	16	15	36	75	.273	.335	.378	.712	162	5	5	5	2	2
Takeo Yoshizawa	140	440	393	31	78	12	0	8	38	2	1	26	58	.198	.259	.290	.549	114	12	7	12	2	0
Koji Shimada	106	308	270	23	70	8	4	4	38	0	2	28	40	.259	.323	.363	.686	98	4	0	5	5	0
Katsuo Kimura	109	187	178	15	43	8	0	2	8	1	1	4	31	.242	.257	.320	.577	57	2	0	4	1	0
Gunji Kimura	100	195	180	20	38	6	3	5	14	5	1	12	47	.211	.272	.361	.633	65	3	3	0	0	0
Kosei Komori	83	175	162	16	37	6	3	3	17	3	1	8	29	.228	.269	.358	.627	58	4	1	4	0	1
Teruo Iko	109	169	156	9	32	4	1	2	14	1	1	9	21	.205	.266	.282	.548	44	5	4	0	0	0
Takashi Takagi	39	69	65	4	14	4	1	0	6	0	0	3	8	.215	.250	.308	.558	20	2	0	1	0	0
Shigeo Hasegawa	69	95	82	11	14	3	0	2	10	3	1	10	18	.171	.263	.280	.544	23	3	1	0	2	0
Yukihiro Kubo	62	91	79	1	11	0	0	0	3	0	0	4	22	.139	.181	.139	.320	11	0	0	8	0	0
Shigemasa Yamamoto	59	72	63	4	10	0	0	0	1	0	0	6	26	.159	.232	.159	.391	10	0	0	3	0	0
Hiroyoshi Kodama	60	53	50	6	9	4	0	0	2	1	0	2	17	.180	.226	.260	.486	13	0	1	0	0	0
Tomonori Yasui	40	36	35	8	8	2	0	0	5	1	2	0	8	.229	.229	.286	.514	10	0	0	1	0	0
Mitsuo Takeshita	35	37	34	0	7	1	0	0	4	0	0	2	14	.206	.243	.235	.479	8	2	0	0	1	0
Koritsu Iwagami	23	11	11	1	5	0	0	1	3	0	0	0	1	.455	.455	.727	1.182	8	0	0	0	0	0
Glenn Mickens	29	27	25	1	5	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.200	.259	.280	.539	7	1	1	0	0	0
Masaaki Suzaki	26	29	27	4	5	0	1	1	2	2	0	1	2	.185	.214	.370	.585	10	1	0	1	0	0
Toshiaki Tokuhisa	66	87	79	3	5	1	0	0	2	0	0	5	57	.063	.129	.076	.205	6	1	1	2	0	0
Hiroyuki Osada	18	8	7	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	.286	.375	.286	.661	2	0	0	0	0	0
Osamu Tanabe	6	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Masaru Fukuhara	5	4	4	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.250	.250	.500	.750	2	0	0	0	0	0
Katsumi Inoue	22	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	.200	.200	.200	.400	1	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Griffin	20	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	0	0	0
Yukio Ito	19	7	7	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.143	.143	.286	.429	2	0	0	0	0	0
Masatoshi Kato	6	7	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.143	.143	.143	.286	1	0	0	0	0	0
Tsutomu Kuroda	23	12	11	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.091	.091	.091	.182	1	0	0	1	0	0
Noboru Makino	35	21	19	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	.053	.053	.053	.105	1	2	0	2	0	0
Koichiro Sasaki	41	27	23	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	15	.043	.154	.043	.197	1	0	0	1	0	0
Satomi Bando	33	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Koichi Murata	4	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yoshihiro Kawaratani	11	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.167	.000	.167	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mamoru Otsu	9	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kazuo Okubo	4	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Katsukuni Yamada	7	6	6	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Katsumi Aoyama	3	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Shojiro Kikukawa	3	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2246	5482	4992	562	1279	232	31	98	520	84	64	346	801	.256	.308	.374	.682	1867	108	43	74	27	15

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Jack Bloomfield	1B	85					.000
Koji Shimada	1B	48					.000
Takashi Takagi	1B	23					.000
Kosei Komori	1B	17					.000
Hachiro Yamamoto	1B	15					.000
Akitoshi Kodama	1B	8					.000
Mitsuo Takeshita	1B	3					.000
Tomonori Yasui	1B	1					.000
Osamu Tanabe	1B	1					.000
Noboru Makino	1B	1					.000
Katsuo Kimura	1B	1					.000
Katsumi Aoyama	1B	1					.000
Katsuo Kimura	2B	71					.000
Jack Bloomfield	2B	53					.000
Koji Shimada	2B	38					.000
Kosei Komori	2B	36					.000
Tomonori Yasui	2B	27					.000
Gunji Kimura	2B	14					.000
Kunimitsu Yanoura	2B	11					.000
Akitoshi Kodama	2B	3					.000
Katsumi Aoyama	2B	1					.000
Akitoshi Kodama	3B	134					.000
Katsuo Kimura	3B	18					.000
Gunji Kimura	3B	18					.000
Kosei Komori	3B	7					.000
Kunimitsu Yanoura	3B	5					.000
Koji Shimada	3B	2					.000
Tomonori Yasui	3B	1					.000
Takeo Yoshizawa	C	140					.000
Hiroyoshi Kodama	C	53					.000
Yoshihiro Kawaratani	C	10					.000
Koichi Murata	C	4					.000
Kazuo Okubo	C	3					.000
Hachiro Yamamoto	C	1					.000
Masatoshi Kato	C	1					.000
Masahiro Doi	OF	150					.000
Junzo Sekine	OF	139					.000
Hachiro Yamamoto	OF	134					.000
Teruo Iko	OF	44					.000
Shigeo Hasegawa	OF	26					.000
Masaaki Suzaki	OF	17					.000
Katsukuni Yamada	OF	6					.000
Katsuo Kimura	OF	3					.000
Gunji Kimura	OF	3					.000
Masatoshi Kato	OF	3					.000
Shigemasa Yamamoto	OF	2					.000
Mitsuo Takeshita	OF	1					.000
Hiroyuki Osada	OF	1					.000
Yoshihiro Kawaratani	OF	1					.000
Tatsuo Edo	OF	1					.000
Toshiaki Tokuhisa	P	66					.000
Yukihiro Kubo	P	62					.000
Shigemasa Yamamoto	P	57					.000
Koichiro Sasaki	P	41					.000
Noboru Makino	P	34					.000
Satomi Bando	P	33					.000
Glenn Mickens	P	29					.000
Tsutomu Kuroda	P	23					.000
Katsumi Inoue	P	22					.000
Koritsu Iwagami	P	21					.000
Bill Griffin	P	20					.000
Yukio Ito	P	19					.000
Hiroyuki Osada	P	17					.000
Mamoru Otsu	P	9					.000
Osamu Tanabe	P	5					.000
Masaru Fukuhara	P	5					.000
Katsuhiko Yoshida	P	1					.000
Kunimitsu Yanoura	SS	110					.000
Gunji Kimura	SS	59					.000
Kosei Komori	SS	9					.000
Katsuo Kimura	SS	9					.000
Tomonori Yasui	SS	3					.000
Koji Shimada	SS	1					.000
Akitoshi Kodama	SS	1					.000
Totals		2042	0	0	0	0	.000

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