1988 Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 74-52
Finished 2nd in the JPPL
Manager: Akira Ogi (74-52)
Location: Osaka, Japan
Ballpark: Kobe Sports Park Baseball Stadium, Nippon Life Stadium, Fujiidera Stadium

1988 Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes Roster

The Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1988 season with a record of 74 wins and 52 losses, finishing second in the JPPL.

The Kintetsu Buffaloes topped the league with just 446 runs allowed. Osaka scored 515 runs. Ralph Bryant walloped 34 home runs for the team, while Takayuki Murakami, Takahisa Suzuki and Ben Oglivie each swatted 15 or more, too. Ralph Bryant drove in 73 runs. Ben Oglivie led all regular hitters by hitting .311. Hideyuki Awano paced the team with 14 wins, and Kazuyoshi Ono recorded a 2.59 ERA, tops among regular hurlers.

Players from the 1988 Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes who spent time in Major League Baseball during their careers included Masato Yoshii, Dick Davis, Ralph Bryant and Ben Oglivie.

Akira Ogi 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	WP	BF
Hideyuki Awano	14	12	.538	2.61	29	27	1	15	3	1	220.3	199	66	64	21	51	6	181	5	1	898
Shintaro Yamasaki	13	7	.650	3.10	25	23	1	4	1	0	168.3	146	63	58	15	67	2	100	8	3	701
Masato Yoshii	10	2	.833	2.69	50	0	41	0	0	24	80.3	76	27	24	3	27	2	44	6	0	344
Tatsumi Murata	10	3	.769	3.32	22	21	0	5	1	0	124.7	128	49	46	12	28	4	44	2	0	516
Kazuyoshi Ono	10	10	.500	2.59	30	30	0	10	4	0	208.7	194	69	60	14	60	3	144	2	5	851
Izumi Takayanagi	6	6	.500	3.44	22	14	7	2	1	0	104.7	96	41	40	10	17	3	61	2	1	414
Tetsuro Kato	3	3	.500	3.47	31	6	8	0	0	1	59.7	64	24	23	7	33	3	46	2	3	268
Yoshiaki Ishimoto	3	3	.500	3.79	32	3	11	0	0	2	54.7	59	25	23	6	25	2	25	1	2	242
Fuminobu Kinoshita	2	1	.667	3.48	32	0	8	0	0	0	44.0	34	18	17	5	26	1	38	0	1	187
Kazuya Sumitomo	1	0	1.000	4.50	11	0	3	0	0	0	14.0	14	8	7	2	6	0	4	0	1	63
Tatsuya Yamamura	1	0	1.000	12.41	5	1	2	0	0	0	12.3	23	17	17	4	4	1	5	0	0	63
Osamu Sasaki	1	4	.200	7.56	11	4	0	0	0	0	16.7	22	14	14	5	10	1	5	2	0	78
Hidenori Minami	0	0		2.45	2	0	1	0	0	0	3.7	5	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	15
Koji Tanizaki	0	0		2.76	11	0	6	0	0	0	16.3	13	7	5	2	4	3	9	2	0	69
Koichi Ikeue	0	0		3.68	8	0	5	0	0	0	7.3	8	6	3	0	8	0	4	1	0	40
Hiroaki Tani	0	0		5.40	1	0	0	0	0	0	3.3	5	2	2	1	1	0	2	0	0	14
Yasuo Kubo	0	0		12.00	2	0	0	0	0	0	3.0	3	4	4	0	3	0	1	0	0	14
Masao Koyama	0	1	.000	20.25	1	1	0	0	0	0	1.3	6	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	10
Totals	74	52	.587	3.24	325	130	94	36	10	28	1143.3	1095	446	411	107	370	31	713	33	17	4787

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
Hiromasa Arai	125	523	465	64	133	23	5	8	54	2	2	29	31	.286	.327	.409	.736	190	7	1	25	3	3
Daijiro Oishi	128	558	488	65	123	13	9	5	34	16	9	51	55	.252	.322	.346	.669	169	4	0	18	1	0
Ben Oglivie	114	450	392	61	122	22	1	22	65	1	2	54	39	.311	.391	.541	.932	212	13	0	0	4	9
Yoshiaki Kanemura	99	379	323	37	93	17	0	14	48	2	1	48	65	.288	.377	.471	.848	152	7	0	5	3	2
Takahisa Suzuki	123	428	378	41	93	11	1	20	54	1	0	34	71	.246	.309	.439	.748	166	13	3	7	6	2
Ralph Bryant	74	302	267	50	82	8	0	34	73	1	0	30	91	.307	.381	.719	1.100	192	5	3	0	2	3
Kazuhiko Yamashita	117	327	297	29	67	7	1	8	29	2	2	13	63	.226	.263	.337	.600	100	7	2	15	0	1
Takayuki Murakami	93	264	238	23	59	14	2	15	34	1	2	20	67	.248	.310	.513	.823	122	4	2	3	1	0
Kenji Awaguchi	90	234	216	22	47	12	0	5	18	1	0	16	25	.218	.272	.343	.614	74	4	0	2	0	3
Dick Davis	42	169	152	16	46	6	0	7	22	2	2	13	19	.303	.349	.480	.829	73	7	0	0	4	1
Koichi Hada	72	165	156	17	42	9	0	4	17	1	0	8	21	.269	.303	.404	.707	63	6	0	0	1	1
Yasunaga Makishi	112	246	221	26	42	11	1	3	14	3	1	12	39	.190	.232	.290	.521	64	1	0	13	0	0
Tokuichi Fukiishi	56	123	114	10	30	5	0	2	10	1	0	3	9	.263	.288	.360	.648	41	4	1	5	0	0
Shigeru Kurihashi	64	112	100	10	17	6	1	2	6	0	0	9	24	.170	.259	.310	.569	31	3	3	0	0	1
Masataka Nashida	52	71	65	4	14	2	0	2	8	1	1	6	13	.215	.282	.338	.620	22	2	0	0	0	0
Toshiya Adachi	65	84	78	10	12	1	1	1	1	3	0	1	14	.154	.185	.231	.416	18	1	2	3	0	0
Kenji Furukubo	29	50	48	2	8	3	0	1	5	0	0	1	16	.167	.184	.292	.475	14	0	0	1	0	0
Shinichi Tani	35	60	49	2	8	0	0	0	1	1	0	4	9	.163	.226	.163	.390	8	1	0	7	0	0
Masaki Kato	30	50	43	5	7	2	0	1	2	0	0	7	12	.163	.280	.279	.559	12	3	0	0	0	0
Takashi Yoshida	41	34	29	8	5	0	0	0	0	6	4	3	5	.172	.250	.172	.422	5	0	0	2	0	0
Akira Onoue	15	18	15	5	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	4	.267	.389	.267	.656	4	0	1	0	0	0
Hidekazu Mitsuyama	22	33	29	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	11	.069	.125	.069	.194	2	0	1	1	1	0
Nobuhiko Kanazawa	3	6	5	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.200	.333	.200	.533	1	0	0	0	0	0
Takahiro Yanagihara	8	9	8	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.125	.125	.250	.375	2	0	0	1	0	0
Junichi Sato	34	11	9	6	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	6	.000	.100	.000	.100	0	0	0	1	0	0
Tadami Nakatani	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1646	4709	4188	515	1058	173	22	154	497	46	27	367	714	.253	.314	.415	.729	1737	92	19	109	26	26

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Hiromasa Arai	1B	56					.000
Koichi Hada	1B	49					.000
Dick Davis	1B	42					.000
Tokuichi Fukiishi	1B	25					.000
Yoshiaki Kanemura	1B	6					.000
Takayuki Murakami	1B	5					.000
Kenji Awaguchi	1B	5					.000
Akira Onoue	1B	2					.000
Ben Oglivie	1B	1					.000
Daijiro Oishi	2B	128					.000
Toshiya Adachi	2B	6					.000
Shinichi Tani	2B	4					.000
Takashi Yoshida	2B	2					.000
Akira Onoue	2B	2					.000
Tokuichi Fukiishi	2B	1					.000
Yoshiaki Kanemura	3B	99					.000
Tokuichi Fukiishi	3B	33					.000
Yasunaga Makishi	3B	19					.000
Akira Onoue	3B	7					.000
Takashi Yoshida	3B	3					.000
Shinichi Tani	3B	3					.000
Koichi Hada	3B	2					.000
Takayuki Murakami	3B	1					.000
Kazuhiko Yamashita	C	117					.000
Kenji Furukubo	C	26					.000
Masataka Nashida	C	25					.000
Hidekazu Mitsuyama	C	21					.000
Takahisa Suzuki	OF	119					.000
Hiromasa Arai	OF	94					.000
Kenji Awaguchi	OF	76					.000
Takayuki Murakami	OF	74					.000
Ralph Bryant	OF	67					.000
Junichi Sato	OF	28					.000
Masaki Kato	OF	22					.000
Shigeru Kurihashi	OF	14					.000
Takashi Yoshida	OF	11					.000
Ben Oglivie	OF	9					.000
Takahiro Yanagihara	OF	4					.000
Tokuichi Fukiishi	OF	3					.000
Koichi Hada	OF	2					.000
Tadami Nakatani	OF	1					.000
Nobuhiko Kanazawa	OF	1					.000
Masato Yoshii	P	50					.000
Fuminobu Kinoshita	P	32					.000
Yoshiaki Ishimoto	P	32					.000
Tetsuro Kato	P	31					.000
Kazuyoshi Ono	P	30					.000
Hideyuki Awano	P	29					.000
Shintaro Yamasaki	P	25					.000
Izumi Takayanagi	P	22					.000
Tatsumi Murata	P	22					.000
Koji Tanizaki	P	11					.000
Kazuya Sumitomo	P	11					.000
Osamu Sasaki	P	11					.000
Koichi Ikeue	P	8					.000
Tatsuya Yamamura	P	5					.000
Hidenori Minami	P	2					.000
Yasuo Kubo	P	2					.000
Hiroaki Tani	P	1					.000
Masao Koyama	P	1					.000
Yasunaga Makishi	SS	104					.000
Toshiya Adachi	SS	52					.000
Shinichi Tani	SS	31					.000
Takashi Yoshida	SS	15					.000
Takayuki Murakami	SS	3					.000
Tokuichi Fukiishi	SS	2					.000
Akira Onoue	SS	1					.000
Totals		1748	0	0	0	0	.000

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