2001 Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 78-60
Finished 1st in the JPPL
Manager: Masataka Nashida (78-60)
Location: Osaka, Japan
Ballpark: Fujiidera Stadium

2001 Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes Roster

The Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes of the Japan Pacific League ended the 2001 season with a record of 78 wins and 60 losses, finishing first in the JPPL.

The Kintetsu Buffaloes led the league with 770 runs, powered by 211 home runs. Osaka yielded 745 runs, most in the circuit. Karl Rhodes crushed 55 homers for the squad, while Norihiro Nakamura, Yuji Yoshioka, Naoyuki Omura, Koichi Isobe and Kenshi Kawaguchi each walloped 15 or more, too. Norihiro Nakamura recorded 132 runs batted in. Karl Rhodes paced all regular hitters by hitting .327. Kat Maekawa topped the squad with 12 wins and a team-best 5.91 ERA, best among qualifying pitchers.

Norihiro Nakamura, Sean Bergman, Akinori Otsuka, Karl Rhodes, Hisashi Iwakuma, Narciso Elvira, Shawn Gilbert, Jeremy Powell and Freddy García were all players from the 2001 Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes who played in the Major Leagues during their careers.

Masataka Nashida 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
Kat Maekawa	12	9	.571	5.89	28	24	1	5	0	0	140.7	140	95	92	19	85	0	84	14	0	13	633
Sean Bergman	10	4	.714	4.18	18	18	0	2	0	0	107.7	117	53	50	11	28	2	59	2	0	3	460
Ken Kadokura	8	5	.615	6.49	32	21	2	0	0	0	123.3	136	92	89	27	51	1	122	0	0	4	552
Koishi Misawa	7	0	1.000	4.01	21	0	1	0	0	0	33.7	31	17	15	4	9	0	25	0	0	0	143
Hiroki Yamamura	7	6	.538	5.83	23	16	2	2	0	0	92.7	99	63	60	18	47	2	42	4	0	4	420
Hiroshi Takamura	5	9	.357	4.92	21	21	0	2	0	0	93.3	107	58	51	18	50	2	68	4	0	6	431
Hisashi Iwakuma	4	2	.667	4.53	9	8	0	1	1	0	43.7	46	28	22	3	13	0	25	3	0	1	192
Akira Okamoto	4	4	.500	2.73	61	1	18	0	0	8	102.3	86	33	31	8	33	6	73	3	0	3	423
Jeremy Powell	4	5	.444	4.95	14	14	0	0	0	0	80.0	84	51	44	10	40	0	52	6	1	0	365
Hiroshi Ishige	3	1	.750	5.04	25	0	11	0	0	2	30.3	27	17	17	8	13	0	28	1	0	0	129
Hisashi Aikyo	2	0	1.000	1.67	30	0	6	0	0	0	32.3	27	6	6	2	11	0	15	1	0	0	130
Koki Morita	2	0	1.000	7.06	34	0	6	0	0	0	21.7	25	18	17	3	11	1	14	5	1	0	104
Isao Koda	2	3	.400	3.97	36	0	13	0	0	1	47.7	41	24	21	10	7	0	24	1	0	0	188
Akinori Otsuka	2	5	.286	4.02	48	0	43	0	0	26	56.0	42	25	25	7	15	2	82	0	1	5	228
Toshiro Yufune	1	0	1.000	5.35	37	1	2	0	0	0	33.7	37	20	20	3	23	0	14	1	0	1	158
Yasunari Takagi	1	0	1.000	14.21	5	1	2	0	0	0	6.3	12	10	10	1	4	0	6	0	0	1	35
Kazuharu Yamazaki	1	1	.500	4.95	11	1	2	0	0	0	20.0	25	14	11	1	8	0	11	2	0	0	94
Narciso Elvira	1	1	.500	5.47	6	6	0	0	0	0	24.7	27	16	15	5	11	0	16	0	0	0	111
Hiroto Kato	1	1	.500	8.44	12	0	2	0	0	0	5.3	13	6	5	1	6	0	3	1	0	0	34
Motoyuki Akahori	1	3	.250	5.36	9	8	0	0	0	0	48.7	61	31	29	6	18	1	27	0	0	1	223
Takuya Matsumoto	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3
Katsunari Yoshikawa	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4
Shinji Udaka	0	0		0.79	11	0	2	0	0	0	11.3	8	4	1	0	6	0	5	1	0	0	48
Kazuya Shibata	0	0		4.35	42	0	3	0	0	1	20.7	23	10	10	5	4	1	11	0	0	0	86
Masaki Maki	0	0		4.91	3	0	2	0	0	0	3.7	2	2	2	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	16
Masashi Nara	0	0		6.00	2	0	2	0	0	0	3.0	3	2	2	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	12
Hironori Fujisaki	0	0		6.14	7	0	3	0	0	0	14.7	20	10	10	0	6	0	7	2	0	0	70
Takuichi Koike	0	0		8.59	4	0	0	0	0	0	7.3	11	8	7	3	4	0	7	1	0	1	37
Daisuke Miyamoto	0	0		9.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
Shogo Yamamoto	0	0		17.47	7	0	0	0	0	0	5.7	12	11	11	4	3	0	8	1	0	0	32
Bill Flynt	0	0		27.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.3	2	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	4
Iori Sekiguchi	0	1	.000	4.33	53	0	5	0	0	0	35.3	37	19	17	3	25	2	29	0	0	4	166
Totals	78	60	.565	4.99	613	140	128	12	1	38	1249.0	1303	745	692	182	537	21	860	53	3	47	5535

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
Karl Rhodes	140	643	550	137	180	19	0	55	131	9	2	83	140	.327	.421	.662	1.083	364	14	8	0	2	2
Koichi Isobe	140	604	537	82	172	42	4	17	95	7	7	52	59	.320	.381	.508	.890	273	19	4	6	5	1
Norihiro Nakamura	140	636	525	109	168	25	0	46	132	3	2	104	106	.320	.434	.630	1.064	331	26	4	0	3	8
Naoyuki Omura	136	651	590	82	160	34	2	16	53	5	1	31	74	.271	.318	.417	.735	246	8	11	15	4	0
Yuji Yoshioka	127	537	456	76	121	22	1	26	85	2	0	66	114	.265	.358	.489	.847	223	6	2	9	4	4
Eiji Mizuguchi	110	502	403	68	117	10	0	3	30	1	2	60	45	.290	.384	.337	.721	136	10	1	38	0	0
Kenshi Kawaguchi	124	421	358	45	113	21	3	21	72	0	1	55	61	.316	.412	.567	.979	203	7	5	1	2	4
Shawn Gilbert	76	292	255	32	68	18	1	6	24	3	1	28	64	.267	.347	.416	.763	106	7	5	1	3	0
Hirotoshi Kitagawa	81	229	200	27	54	14	1	6	35	2	0	25	29	.270	.355	.440	.795	88	13	2	1	1	0
Tetsuya Matoyama	101	269	232	24	41	9	0	5	25	1	1	18	51	.177	.237	.280	.517	65	4	1	16	2	0
Fumitoshi Takano	68	135	108	24	33	4	0	6	20	0	0	17	24	.306	.440	.509	.950	55	4	9	1	0	1
Tadatoki Maeda	113	204	170	20	31	6	2	1	8	0	2	12	31	.182	.236	.259	.495	44	6	0	22	0	0
Masahiro Abe	44	103	93	6	18	3	0	0	11	1	0	6	10	.194	.240	.226	.466	21	5	0	3	1	0
Daisuke Masuda	55	56	47	7	16	0	0	2	10	1	0	8	13	.340	.446	.468	.915	22	1	1	0	0	0
Kenji Furukubo	53	121	100	6	14	1	2	0	8	0	0	6	32	.140	.193	.190	.383	19	1	1	12	2	0
Freddy García	29	96	85	8	13	3	0	1	5	0	1	10	20	.153	.240	.224	.463	19	4	0	0	1	0
Shoya Shinzato	23	44	39	10	9	3	0	0	3	0	0	4	10	.231	.302	.308	.610	12	0	0	1	0	0
Jeremy Powell	14	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Akihito Fujii	1	3	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.667	.500	1.167	1	0	1	0	0	0
Hiroyuki Nakahama	2	3	3	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.667	1.000	2	0	0	0	0	0
Makoto Hagiwara	5	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.400	1	0	0	0	0	0
Kei Ichihara	29	10	6	7	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	1	.000	.300	.000	.300	0	1	1	0	1	0
Katsumi Yamashita	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		1.000			0	0	1	0	0	0
Totals	1613	5566	4765	770	1332	235	16	211	748	35	20	587	885	.280	.363	.468	.832	2232	136	57	126	31	20

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Yuji Yoshioka	1B	126					.000
Hirotoshi Kitagawa	1B	16					.000
Shawn Gilbert	1B	3					.000
Freddy García	1B	2					.000
Eiji Mizuguchi	2B	110					.000
Shawn Gilbert	2B	35					.000
Kei Ichihara	2B	19					.000
Masahiro Abe	2B	16					.000
Shoya Shinzato	2B	11					.000
Tadatoki Maeda	2B	3					.000
Katsumi Yamashita	2B	1					.000
Norihiro Nakamura	3B	139					.000
Freddy García	3B	5					.000
Shoya Shinzato	3B	2					.000
Makoto Hagiwara	3B	1					.000
Hirotoshi Kitagawa	C	55					.000
Kenji Furukubo	C	51					.000
Masahiro Abe	C	30					.000
Hisashi Iwakuma	C	9					.000
Akihito Fujii	C	1					.000
Karl Rhodes	OF	140					.000
Koichi Isobe	OF	140					.000
Naoyuki Omura	OF	136					.000
Tetsuya Matoyama	OF	101					.000
Daisuke Masuda	OF	22					.000
Fumitoshi Takano	OF	9					.000
Kenshi Kawaguchi	OF	7					.000
Makoto Hagiwara	OF	2					.000
Hiroyuki Nakahama	OF	1					.000
Akira Okamoto	P	61					.000
Iori Sekiguchi	P	53					.000
Akinori Otsuka	P	48					.000
Kazuya Shibata	P	42					.000
Toshiro Yufune	P	37					.000
Isao Koda	P	36					.000
Koki Morita	P	34					.000
Ken Kadokura	P	32					.000
Hisashi Aikyo	P	30					.000
Kat Maekawa	P	28					.000
Hiroshi Ishige	P	25					.000
Hiroki Yamamura	P	23					.000
Hiroshi Takamura	P	21					.000
Koishi Misawa	P	21					.000
Sean Bergman	P	18					.000
Jeremy Powell	P	14					.000
Hiroto Kato	P	12					.000
Kazuharu Yamazaki	P	11					.000
Shinji Udaka	P	11					.000
Hisashi Iwakuma	P	9					.000
Motoyuki Akahori	P	9					.000
Shogo Yamamoto	P	7					.000
Hironori Fujisaki	P	7					.000
Narciso Elvira	P	6					.000
Yasunari Takagi	P	5					.000
Takuichi Koike	P	4					.000
Masaki Maki	P	3					.000
Masashi Nara	P	2					.000
Katsunari Yoshikawa	P	1					.000
Daisuke Miyamoto	P	1					.000
Takuya Matsumoto	P	1					.000
Bill Flynt	P	1					.000
Tadatoki Maeda	SS	112					.000
Shawn Gilbert	SS	62					.000
Shoya Shinzato	SS	12					.000
Norihiro Nakamura	SS	6					.000
Kei Ichihara	SS	3					.000
Totals		2001	0	0	0	0	.000

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