2002 Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 73-65
Finished 2nd in the JPPL
Manager: Akinobu Mayumi (0-0), Masataka Nashida (0-0)
Location: Osaka, Japan
Ballpark: Fujiidera Stadium

2002 Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes Roster

The Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes of the Japan Pacific League ended the 2002 season with a record of 73 wins and 65 losses, finishing second in the JPPL.

The Kintetsu Buffaloes plated 598 runs and allowed 592 runs, most in the league. Karl Rhodes walloped 46 home runs for Osaka, while Yuji Yoshioka and Norihiro Nakamura added 15 or more also. Karl Rhodes drove in 117 runs. Norihiro Nakamura topped all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .294. Jeremy Powell led the team with 17 wins, and Hisashi Iwakuma registered a 3.7 earned run average, leading hurlers with significant time on the mound.

Hisashi Iwakuma, Jeremy Powell, Karl Rhodes, Akinori Otsuka, Nigel Wilson, Norihiro Nakamura, Sean Bergman and Mike Johnson were all players from the 2002 Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes who played in the Majors during their careers.

Akinobu Mayumi and 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
Jeremy Powell	17	10	.630	3.78	32	32	0	5	4	0	216.7	205	94	91	21	41	1	182	21	1	2	899
Hiroshi Takamura	9	10	.474	4.14	29	20	1	0	0	0	137.0	146	67	63	22	49	4	97	3	0	4	600
Hisashi Iwakuma	8	7	.533	3.69	23	23	0	2	0	0	141.3	132	62	58	10	42	2	131	8	1	4	594
Akira Okamoto	7	2	.778	1.82	65	0	34	0	0	18	69.3	57	14	14	6	12	3	41	2	0	0	276
Shogo Yamamoto	4	1	.800	2.52	56	0	8	0	0	0	39.3	36	11	11	2	11	3	34	1	1	1	160
Koishi Misawa	4	2	.667	4.22	53	0	10	0	0	0	59.7	62	29	28	7	14	2	43	2	0	0	251
Sean Bergman	4	6	.400	5.15	16	16	0	0	0	0	87.3	102	58	50	13	26	0	57	6	2	3	389
Kat Maekawa	4	11	.267	4.87	22	22	0	2	0	0	136.7	148	78	74	11	53	4	94	12	1	8	611
Hideo Koike	3	2	.600	5.94	14	8	1	0	0	0	50.0	61	36	33	9	17	2	42	0	0	1	225
Yasunari Takagi	3	3	.500	2.56	27	5	6	0	0	0	63.3	49	19	18	3	17	2	61	4	0	4	257
Akinori Otsuka	2	1	.667	1.28	41	0	30	0	0	22	42.3	22	7	6	4	3	0	54	0	0	1	153
Toyohiko Yoshida	2	1	.667	2.10	42	0	6	0	0	0	30.0	26	7	7	3	9	1	21	3	0	0	124
Daisuke Miyamoto	2	3	.400	3.92	35	5	13	0	0	1	64.3	64	34	28	8	34	4	62	1	0	3	291
Hironori Fujisaki	1	0	1.000	3.00	3	2	0	0	0	0	9.0	9	3	3	0	3	0	5	0	1	0	37
Hisashi Aikyo	1	0	1.000	3.65	18	0	3	0	0	0	12.3	21	8	5	1	3	0	12	0	0	0	60
Mike Johnson	1	0	1.000	6.65	9	3	3	0	0	0	21.7	25	17	16	4	12	1	8	2	0	0	101
Motoyuki Akahori	1	1	.500	6.57	11	0	4	0	0	0	12.3	18	9	9	1	4	2	3	0	0	1	59
Koki Morita	0	0		0.00	2	1	0	0	0	0	0.7	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	3
Takuya Matsumoto	0	0		0.00	3	0	1	0	0	0	6.0	4	0	0	0	1	0	6	0	0	0	23
Iori Sekiguchi	0	0		4.76	12	0	2	0	0	0	11.3	10	8	6	4	6	0	13	0	0	1	49
Hiroki Yamamura	0	0		7.71	3	0	1	0	0	0	4.7	7	4	4	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	24
Hiroshi Ishige	0	0		9.00	2	0	1	0	0	0	2.0	4	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	10
Katsunari Yoshikawa	0	0		16.20	3	0	2	0	0	0	1.7	5	5	3	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	12
Shinichi Kato	0	1	.000	9.82	2	2	0	0	0	0	7.3	14	8	8	2	3	0	4	1	0	1	40
Ken Kadokura	0	4	.000	3.68	16	1	5	0	0	0	29.3	25	12	12	4	12	3	32	0	0	0	124
Totals	73	65	.529	3.93	539	140	131	9	4	41	1255.7	1252	592	549	139	376	34	1004	67	7	34	5372

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
Norihiro Nakamura	140	602	511	87	150	27	1	42	115	2	1	86	136	.294	.400	.597	.997	305	10	5	0	0	10
Karl Rhodes	138	613	534	94	145	31	2	46	117	5	2	71	140	.272	.361	.596	.956	318	10	5	0	3	8
Naoyuki Omura	135	575	531	65	144	31	4	11	47	1	0	21	61	.271	.307	.407	.713	216	7	7	14	2	3
Yuji Yoshioka	140	569	520	66	140	40	3	26	72	4	2	36	126	.269	.324	.508	.832	264	20	7	4	2	1
Koichi Isobe	117	444	396	44	107	19	1	3	30	6	1	36	43	.270	.334	.346	.680	137	10	3	7	2	4
Kenshi Kawaguchi	119	398	351	46	101	18	0	13	46	1	2	40	70	.288	.367	.450	.817	158	10	5	0	2	2
Eiji Mizuguchi	94	363	314	48	80	12	0	5	23	0	1	20	43	.255	.303	.341	.643	107	2	2	26	1	0
Masahiro Abe	125	392	338	28	71	16	2	6	29	0	2	21	49	.210	.263	.322	.585	109	3	5	23	5	0
Fumitoshi Takano	77	180	161	20	51	7	1	6	20	0	2	12	33	.317	.383	.484	.868	78	5	6	0	1	0
Yosuke Takasu	69	215	192	17	49	14	2	2	16	3	1	6	34	.255	.280	.380	.660	73	5	1	15	1	1
Tetsuya Matoyama	91	227	192	17	40	8	0	3	14	3	2	14	39	.208	.275	.297	.572	57	3	4	16	1	0
Hirotoshi Kitagawa	43	99	94	7	25	7	1	1	8	0	0	4	16	.266	.303	.394	.697	37	2	1	0	0	0
Nigel Wilson	34	126	113	14	25	3	0	6	14	0	0	10	40	.221	.302	.407	.709	46	2	3	0	0	2
Tadatoki Maeda	67	102	92	11	20	3	2	1	6	0	1	2	9	.217	.234	.326	.560	30	2	0	8	0	0
Kenji Furukubo	45	127	114	9	20	3	0	3	10	0	0	2	34	.175	.190	.281	.470	32	0	0	11	0	0
Akihito Fujii	53	89	85	5	19	4	1	0	5	0	0	3	19	.224	.250	.294	.544	25	1	0	1	0	0
Akihito Moritani	42	58	53	12	12	2	0	2	2	6	2	1	8	.226	.255	.377	.632	20	0	1	3	0	0
Daisuke Masuda	45	55	53	3	11	2	0	0	1	0	1	2	12	.208	.236	.245	.482	13	1	0	0	0	1
Akihito Igarashi	27	52	50	3	7	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	11	.140	.157	.220	.377	11	0	1	1	0	0
Takashi Muto	18	23	21	1	4	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	.190	.190	.190	.381	4	0	0	2	0	0
Kenji Nagasaka	2	3	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0	0	0
Osamu Hoshino	9	13	12	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	.083	.154	.167	.321	2	1	0	0	0	0
Motohiro Yoshikawa	2	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.167	.000	.167	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1632	5331	4735	598	1223	249	20	177	579	32	20	389	930	.258	.321	.431	.752	2043	94	56	131	20	32

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Yuji Yoshioka	1B	138					.000
Kenshi Kawaguchi	1B	8					.000
Hirotoshi Kitagawa	1B	1					.000
Eiji Mizuguchi	2B	88					.000
Yosuke Takasu	2B	61					.000
Masahiro Abe	2B	28					.000
Akihito Igarashi	2B	15					.000
Takashi Muto	2B	8					.000
Osamu Hoshino	2B	3					.000
Tadatoki Maeda	2B	2					.000
Norihiro Nakamura	3B	138					.000
Yuji Yoshioka	3B	6					.000
Akihito Igarashi	3B	6					.000
Masahiro Abe	3B	2					.000
Eiji Mizuguchi	3B	1					.000
Masahiro Abe	C	118					.000
Akihito Fujii	C	52					.000
Kenji Furukubo	C	45					.000
Hisashi Iwakuma	C	23					.000
Hirotoshi Kitagawa	C	18					.000
Kenji Nagasaka	C	2					.000
Karl Rhodes	OF	135					.000
Naoyuki Omura	OF	135					.000
Koichi Isobe	OF	114					.000
Tetsuya Matoyama	OF	91					.000
Fumitoshi Takano	OF	37					.000
Akihito Moritani	OF	32					.000
Kenshi Kawaguchi	OF	17					.000
Daisuke Masuda	OF	9					.000
Motohiro Yoshikawa	OF	2					.000
Akira Okamoto	P	65					.000
Shogo Yamamoto	P	56					.000
Koishi Misawa	P	53					.000
Toyohiko Yoshida	P	42					.000
Akinori Otsuka	P	41					.000
Daisuke Miyamoto	P	35					.000
Jeremy Powell	P	32					.000
Hiroshi Takamura	P	29					.000
Yasunari Takagi	P	27					.000
Hisashi Iwakuma	P	23					.000
Kat Maekawa	P	22					.000
Hisashi Aikyo	P	18					.000
Ken Kadokura	P	16					.000
Sean Bergman	P	16					.000
Hideo Koike	P	14					.000
Iori Sekiguchi	P	12					.000
Motoyuki Akahori	P	11					.000
Mike Johnson	P	9					.000
Katsunari Yoshikawa	P	3					.000
Hiroki Yamamura	P	3					.000
Takuya Matsumoto	P	3					.000
Hironori Fujisaki	P	3					.000
Koki Morita	P	2					.000
Shinichi Kato	P	2					.000
Hiroshi Ishige	P	2					.000
Tadatoki Maeda	SS	63					.000
Norihiro Nakamura	SS	9					.000
Eiji Mizuguchi	SS	4					.000
Osamu Hoshino	SS	3					.000
Yosuke Takasu	SS	2					.000
Totals		1955	0	0	0	0	.000

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