1970 Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 65-59
Finished 3rd in the JPPL
Manager: Osamu Mihara (65-59)
Location: Osaka, Japan
Ballpark: Nippon Life Stadium, Fujiidera Stadium

1970 Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes Roster

The Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1970 season with a record of 65 wins and 59 losses, finishing third in the JPPL.

The Kintetsu Buffaloes paced the league with just 442 runs allowed. Osaka scored 424 runs. Yoshinori Tsuji led the team with 19 home runs Toru Ogawa and Yoshinori Tsuji each drove in 49 runs. Yozo Nagabuchi topped all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .295. Keishi Suzuki paced the squad with 21 wins, while Koichiro Sasaki added 15 or more victories also Koichiro Sasaki registered a 2.05 earned run average, tops among qualifying pitchers. Osamu Mihara 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
Keishi Suzuki	21	14	.600	2.75	45	36	7	22	3		313.7	261	105	96	36	77	4	247	3	0	2	1256
Koichiro Sasaki	17	5	.773	2.05	43	27	6	10	6		219.0	181	59	50	15	44	5	102	5	0	0	865
Toshihiko Sei	14	16	.467	3.29	46	25	13	12	1		227.0	187	97	83	22	63	3	138	8	0	0	916
Toshio Kanbe	8	7	.533	3.24	38	13	10	1	1		133.3	110	55	48	10	51	2	74	8	1	0	559
Satomi Bando	3	5	.375	3.23	39	10	13	1	0		103.0	82	43	37	14	15	3	64	3	0	1	398
Koji Ota	1	4	.200	3.83	25	7	12	0	0		56.3	62	26	24	5	18	0	37	2	0	0	236
Minoru Handa	1	5	.167	4.42	24	8	6	1	0		57.0	57	30	28	4	30	0	24	0	0	1	248
Yasuo Kawauchi	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0		1.0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	5
Hideo Igarashi	0	0		2.53	6	0	4	0	0		10.7	9	6	3	1	3	0	4	0	0	0	43
Kiyoshi Onozaka	0	0		4.50	13	0	3	0	0		14.0	11	7	7	4	2	0	5	0	0	1	52
Takashi Hashimoto	0	0		18.00	1	0	1	0	0		1.0	4	5	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	9
Hiroshi Mizutani	0	1	.000	9.00	1	1	0	0	0		1.0	0	2	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	6
Mitsuo Okada	0	2	.000	2.10	17	3	8	0	0		25.7	19	7	6	1	6	0	4	2	0	1	103
Totals	65	59	.524	2.98	299	130	83	47	11	0	1162.7	985	442	385	112	314	17	700	31	1	6	4696

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
Yozo Nagabuchi	128	519	461	59	136	29	3	14	47	25	9	48	40	.295	.367	.462	.829	213	1	5	4	1	6
Toru Ogawa	127	508	445	63	120	15	5	14	49	24	10	46	40	.270	.347	.420	.767	187	4	8	6	3	7
Tomonori Yasui	129	484	437	35	95	13	1	5	30	23	9	16	41	.217	.247	.286	.533	125	7	2	27	2	0
Yukio Iida	125	437	393	34	93	22	3	7	37	19	9	35	70	.237	.299	.361	.661	142	11	1	6	2	1
Masahiro Doi	73	296	264	29	74	5	0	11	41	2	4	28	22	.280	.358	.424	.782	112	7	4	0	0	5
Toshikazu Hattori	100	301	279	32	67	10	2	6	14	15	6	9	52	.240	.263	.355	.618	99	1	0	12	1	0
Takao Ise	100	291	269	19	64	13	2	4	26	5	1	12	50	.238	.272	.346	.618	93	4	1	8	1	0
Katsukuni Yamada	106	303	259	39	61	11	0	13	30	15	10	29	55	.236	.332	.429	.761	111	2	9	5	1	2
Yoshinori Tsuji	107	291	267	26	52	7	0	19	49	3	1	14	70	.195	.239	.434	.674	116	5	2	7	1	1
Keishi Suzuki	47	127	119	10	33	5	1	3	11	0	0	3	24	.277	.293	.412	.704	49	3	0	4	1	0
Koichi Kitagawa	78	123	103	3	29	3	1	0	17	0	0	11	7	.282	.342	.330	.672	34	4	0	6	3	1
Junro Anan	97	171	154	8	28	1	0	0	7	6	3	11	16	.182	.235	.188	.423	29	3	0	5	1	0
Susumu Aikawa	57	147	140	17	27	2	0	5	16	1	1	5	33	.193	.224	.314	.539	44	2	1	0	1	0
Hiroyoshi Kodama	58	96	85	6	19	1	1	1	5	1	1	9	14	.224	.312	.294	.607	25	0	2	0	0	1
Toshihiko Sei	47	76	68	6	16	3	0	0	2	0	0	4	18	.235	.278	.279	.557	19	3	0	4	0	0
Shunji Nishimura	53	88	82	7	15	4	0	1	3	2	0	2	19	.183	.212	.268	.480	22	2	1	3	0	0
Yasuro Iwaki	48	93	80	2	14	2	0	0	3	1	0	8	18	.175	.253	.200	.453	16	1	1	2	2	1
Yoshiaki Matsubara	47	81	72	2	10	1	0	0	6	0	0	5	10	.139	.188	.153	.340	11	1	0	1	3	0
Juan Tejada	38	66	60	2	9	2	0	2	6	1	1	4	15	.150	.200	.283	.483	17	1	0	1	1	0
Koichiro Sasaki	45	72	65	2	9	1	0	1	3	0	0	2	20	.138	.164	.200	.364	13	0	0	5	0	0
Takaomi Kimura	29	28	27	3	5	1	1	1	5	0	0	1	7	.185	.214	.407	.622	11	0	0	0	0	0
Toshio Kanbe	38	46	40	2	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	5	11	.100	.200	.125	.325	5	0	0	1	0	0
Shigeo Akiyama	14	19	18	2	3	1	0	1	1	1	0	1	8	.167	.211	.389	.599	7	1	0	0	0	0
Narihide Sugi	38	11	10	14	2	0	0	0	0	8	1	1	2	.200	.273	.200	.473	2	0	0	0	0	0
Koji Ota	27	7	7	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.143	.143	.286	.429	2	0	0	0	0	0
Satomi Bando	39	23	18	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	12	.056	.227	.056	.283	1	0	0	1	0	0
Minoru Handa	27	9	9	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mitsuo Okada	17	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Totals	1839	4716	4233	424	987	154	20	108	408	152	66	313	681	.233	.290	.356	.646	1505	63	37	109	24	25

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Takao Ise	1B	89					.000
Toru Ogawa	1B	80					.000
Juan Tejada	1B	22					.000
Takaomi Kimura	1B	2					.000
Yasuro Iwaki	1B	2					.000
Masashi Ino	1B	2					.000
Toshihiko Sei	1B	1					.000
Kiyoshi Onozaka	1B	1					.000
Shunji Nishimura	1B	1					.000
Hiroshi Mizutani	1B	1					.000
Yukio Iida	2B	124					.000
Narihide Sugi	2B	14					.000
Susumu Aikawa	2B	14					.000
Shunji Nishimura	2B	8					.000
Junro Anan	2B	3					.000
Shigeo Akiyama	2B	3					.000
Takao Ise	2B	1					.000
Junro Anan	3B	94					.000
Toshikazu Hattori	3B	56					.000
Susumu Aikawa	3B	45					.000
Shunji Nishimura	3B	13					.000
Shigeo Akiyama	3B	4					.000
Takao Ise	3B	3					.000
Masashi Ino	3B	1					.000
Yoshinori Tsuji	C	107					.000
Hiroyoshi Kodama	C	44					.000
Yasuro Iwaki	C	43					.000
Takaomi Kimura	C	4					.000
Yozo Nagabuchi	OF	128					.000
Katsukuni Yamada	OF	103					.000
Toru Ogawa	OF	90					.000
Masahiro Doi	OF	73					.000
Toshikazu Hattori	OF	51					.000
Koichi Kitagawa	OF	35					.000
Yoshiaki Matsubara	OF	13					.000
Takashi Hashimoto	OF	4					.000
Masashi Ino	OF	3					.000
Minoru Handa	OF	3					.000
Juan Tejada	OF	2					.000
Narihide Sugi	OF	2					.000
Koichiro Sasaki	OF	2					.000
Kiyoshi Onozaka	OF	2					.000
Takaomi Kimura	OF	2					.000
Koji Ota	OF	1					.000
Yukio Iida	OF	1					.000
Hideo Igarashi	OF	1					.000
Toshihiko Sei	P	46					.000
Keishi Suzuki	P	45					.000
Koichiro Sasaki	P	43					.000
Satomi Bando	P	39					.000
Toshio Kanbe	P	38					.000
Koji Ota	P	25					.000
Minoru Handa	P	24					.000
Mitsuo Okada	P	17					.000
Kiyoshi Onozaka	P	13					.000
Hideo Igarashi	P	6					.000
Hiroshi Mizutani	P	1					.000
Yasuo Kawauchi	P	1					.000
Takashi Hashimoto	P	1					.000
Tomonori Yasui	SS	129					.000
Shunji Nishimura	SS	22					.000
Narihide Sugi	SS	4					.000
Shigeo Akiyama	SS	3					.000
Junro Anan	SS	2					.000
Susumu Aikawa	SS	1					.000
Totals		1758	0	0	0	0	.000

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