1974 Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 56-66
Finished 5th in the JPPL
Manager: Yukio Nishimoto (56-66)
Location: Osaka, Japan
Ballpark: Nippon Life Stadium, Fujiidera Stadium

1974 Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes Roster

The Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1974 season with a record of 56 wins and 66 losses, finishing fifth in the JPPL.

The Kintetsu Buffaloes scored 472 runs and surrendered 503 runs. Clarence Jones walloped 38 home runs for Osaka, and Masahiro Doi added 15 or more, too. Clarence Jones accounted for 90 RBI. Masahiro Doi led hitters with significant playing time by hitting .277. Keishi Suzuki and Toshio Kanbe topped the squad with 12 wins each, while Toshio Kanbe recorded a 2.38 ERA, best among qualifying pitchers.

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

Yukio Nishimoto 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
Toshio Kanbe	12	7	.632	2.38	28	21	7	8	4	1	151.0	129	43	40	14	48	4	74	1	1	4	611
Keishi Suzuki	12	15	.444	3.22	36	32	4	14	3	1	229.0	195	90	82	20	68	4	141	2	4	1	934
Satomi Bando	10	10	.500	3.55	36	22	9	6	0	3	162.3	148	66	64	16	40	3	64	3	0	5	656
Koji Ota	10	14	.417	4.63	43	26	7	2	0	2	163.3	156	95	84	21	76	2	77	8	0	3	714
Toshihiko Sei	5	6	.455	3.72	29	12	12	4	2	2	111.3	111	54	46	9	40	3	41	0	0	4	467
Kenji Tachibana	2	1	.667	4.04	31	2	9	0	0	0	62.3	49	28	28	8	21	0	33	4	0	1	246
Koichiro Sasaki	2	1	.667	6.23	15	5	4	1	0	0	34.7	47	27	24	6	7	1	10	4	0	1	161
Takashi Imoto	2	4	.333	3.86	35	6	9	1	0	2	72.3	71	37	31	9	19	0	23	2	2	0	300
Hideo Kato	1	4	.200	3.68	38	0	16	0	0	3	66.0	55	27	27	7	20	3	35	2	1	0	266
Fumio Arita	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	5
Hideo Igarashi	0	0		0.00	5	0	4	0	0	0	5.7	11	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	25
Takahiro Oba	0	0		3.52	11	0	4	0	0	0	15.3	13	6	6	1	10	0	7	0	1	1	68
Hidehiko Ichihashi	0	0		4.50	1	0	1	0	0	0	2.0	5	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	10
Masahiro Nakane	0	0		7.71	1	0	1	0	0	0	2.3	3	2	2	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	10
Hiroshi Mizutani	0	4	.000	3.79	29	4	6	0	0	0	57.0	58	27	24	8	11	1	26	2	0	0	235
Totals	56	66	.459	3.64	339	130	94	36	9	14	1135.7	1053	503	459	121	363	21	535	28	9	20	4708

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
Koichi Hada	130	541	501	54	124	12	0	14	55	9	3	29	68	.248	.288	.355	.643	178	22	2	3	6	1
Masahiro Doi	130	516	429	60	119	8	0	29	67	5	2	74	35	.277	.391	.499	.890	214	18	9	0	4	3
Toru Ogawa	119	474	392	59	108	5	2	7	32	20	13	65	26	.276	.392	.352	.744	138	6	11	5	1	0
Kyosuke Sasaki	118	402	362	40	95	25	0	13	39	7	8	29	49	.262	.320	.439	.759	159	5	3	5	3	0
Clarence Jones	130	515	411	66	93	12	1	38	90	5	1	96	112	.226	.373	.538	.911	221	7	3	0	5	9
Shunji Nishimura	107	274	246	24	56	9	2	3	19	7	5	18	40	.228	.284	.317	.601	78	4	2	6	2	2
Toshikazu Hattori	95	278	248	17	54	5	1	2	15	12	4	17	40	.218	.275	.270	.545	67	7	3	9	1	1
Masataka Nashida	115	280	247	14	48	10	0	2	18	2	4	22	41	.194	.274	.259	.533	64	1	5	6	0	2
Tomonori Yasui	78	201	185	19	44	4	2	1	16	8	3	8	20	.238	.272	.297	.569	55	5	1	6	1	0
Yozo Nagabuchi	94	185	158	22	39	2	0	7	13	12	6	25	17	.247	.350	.392	.742	62	1	0	2	0	3
Shigeru Ishiwata	95	206	179	20	32	4	1	2	12	13	4	24	30	.179	.278	.246	.524	44	5	1	1	1	0
Narihiro Abe	100	82	81	23	23	4	1	0	5	19	4	0	14	.284	.284	.358	.642	29	1	0	1	0	0
Takehide Sato	86	93	83	10	20	3	0	5	24	0	0	9	22	.241	.323	.458	.780	38	1	1	0	0	0
Takao Ise	74	92	81	11	15	2	0	4	10	0	0	9	18	.185	.272	.358	.630	29	1	1	0	1	1
Shigeru Kurihashi	55	79	73	5	13	4	0	1	4	1	2	4	21	.178	.241	.274	.514	20	2	2	0	0	0
Shuzo Arita	75	85	79	6	13	3	0	2	7	0	1	3	6	.165	.205	.278	.483	22	2	1	2	0	0
Toshio Kanbe	28	52	47	3	9	1	0	1	9	0	0	2	10	.191	.224	.277	.501	13	0	0	3	0	0
Keishi Suzuki	36	77	63	2	8	0	1	0	1	0	0	3	16	.127	.167	.159	.325	10	2	0	11	0	0
Mitsuyasu Hirano	70	35	32	7	6	1	0	0	2	5	2	3	9	.188	.257	.219	.476	7	0	0	0	0	0
Koichi Kitagawa	27	28	23	1	5	0	0	0	4	0	0	3	1	.217	.286	.217	.503	5	0	0	0	2	0
Koji Ota	43	50	41	4	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	2	.098	.159	.098	.257	4	1	0	6	0	0
Toshihiko Sei	29	28	25	0	3	0	0	0	3	0	1	1	8	.120	.154	.120	.274	3	2	0	2	0	0
Satomi Bando	36	48	42	1	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	16	.071	.093	.071	.164	3	0	0	5	0	0
Koji Kawamoto	1	2	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Kazuhide Ishiyama	3	6	6	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.167	.167	.333	.500	2	0	0	0	0	0
Yasuro Iwaki	30	13	11	1	1	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	2	.091	.083	.091	.174	1	0	0	1	1	0
Toshitaka Tameike	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kenji Tachibana	31	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shigeo Akiyama	4	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.500	.000	.500	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tomoo Sekine	20	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	.000	.500	.000	.500	0	0	0	0	0	1
Koichiro Sasaki	15	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hideo Kato	38	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Takahiro Oba	11	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Takashi Imoto	35	7	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	2	0	0
Masahiro Nakane	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hiroshi Mizutani	30	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Asakichi Yoda	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2091	4676	4076	472	937	115	11	131	449	128	63	450	639	.230	.311	.360	.671	1467	94	45	77	28	23

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Clarence Jones	1B	128					.000
Toru Ogawa	1B	11					.000
Takao Ise	1B	3					.000
Tomonori Yasui	1B	1					.000
Kyosuke Sasaki	1B	1					.000
Koichi Kitagawa	1B	1					.000
Tomonori Yasui	2B	64					.000
Shunji Nishimura	2B	16					.000
Tomoo Sekine	2B	10					.000
Shigeo Akiyama	2B	1					.000
Koichi Hada	3B	130					.000
Tomoo Sekine	3B	5					.000
Tomonori Yasui	3B	1					.000
Masataka Nashida	C	115					.000
Shuzo Arita	C	74					.000
Yasuro Iwaki	C	28					.000
Kazuhide Ishiyama	C	2					.000
Masahiro Doi	OF	129					.000
Toru Ogawa	OF	112					.000
Kyosuke Sasaki	OF	100					.000
Narihiro Abe	OF	80					.000
Mitsuyasu Hirano	OF	52					.000
Yozo Nagabuchi	OF	39					.000
Shigeru Kurihashi	OF	25					.000
Takao Ise	OF	12					.000
Takehide Sato	OF	6					.000
Koichi Kitagawa	OF	2					.000
Toshikazu Hattori	OF	2					.000
Koji Kawamoto	OF	1					.000
Koji Ota	P	43					.000
Hideo Kato	P	38					.000
Keishi Suzuki	P	36					.000
Satomi Bando	P	36					.000
Takashi Imoto	P	35					.000
Kenji Tachibana	P	31					.000
Toshihiko Sei	P	29					.000
Hiroshi Mizutani	P	29					.000
Toshio Kanbe	P	28					.000
Koichiro Sasaki	P	15					.000
Takahiro Oba	P	11					.000
Hideo Igarashi	P	5					.000
Masahiro Nakane	P	1					.000
Hidehiko Ichihashi	P	1					.000
Fumio Arita	P	1					.000
Shigeru Ishiwata	SS	91					.000
Shunji Nishimura	SS	89					.000
Tomonori Yasui	SS	7					.000
Tomoo Sekine	SS	1					.000
Totals		1678	0	0	0	0	.000

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