2003 Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 74-64
Finished 3rd in the JPPL
Manager: Masataka Nashida (74-64)
Location: Osaka, Japan
Ballpark: Fujiidera Stadium

2003 Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes Roster

The Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes of the Japan Pacific League ended the 2003 season with a record of 74 wins and 64 losses, finishing third in the JPPL.

The Kintetsu Buffaloes plated 718 runs and allowed 632 runs. Karl Rhodes crushed 51 homers for Osaka, while Norihiro Nakamura, Naoyuki Omura and Yuji Yoshioka each walloped 15 or more, too. Karl Rhodes drove in 117 runs. Yuji Yoshioka and Naoyuki Omura led hitters with significant playing time by hitting .300. Hisashi Iwakuma topped the team with 15 wins and a team-best 3.46 earned run average, leading regular hurlers.

Nerio Rodríguez, Jeremy Powell, Hisashi Iwakuma, Kevin Beirne, Norihiro Nakamura, Karl Rhodes and Brian Mallette were all players from the 2003 Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes who played in the Majors 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
Hisashi Iwakuma	15	10	.600	3.45	27	27	0	11	0	0	195.7	201	85	75	19	48	2	149	3	0	2	809
Jeremy Powell	14	12	.538	4.13	28	28	0	4	1	0	196.0	192	92	90	22	63	2	165	10	2	1	822
Kevin Beirne	8	7	.533	4.37	30	20	7	2	1	0	129.7	109	63	63	16	48	1	107	9	1	2	534
Hiroshi Takamura	6	4	.600	4.15	39	9	23	0	0	9	80.3	87	39	37	10	34	2	65	1	0	4	358
Ken Kadokura	6	4	.600	4.21	20	16	1	0	0	0	98.3	102	47	46	12	44	3	103	5	0	5	432
Shinichi Kato	6	6	.500	4.28	16	16	0	0	0	0	82.0	98	46	39	10	21	1	23	5	0	1	355
Kat Maekawa	4	2	.667	7.38	16	4	3	0	0	0	42.7	55	35	35	2	30	2	39	5	0	5	213
Nerio Rodríguez	3	2	.600	6.61	7	7	0	0	0	0	32.7	42	27	24	9	14	0	13	0	0	1	153
Toyohiko Yoshida	3	3	.500	2.33	60	0	20	0	0	8	58.0	48	16	15	3	25	6	66	1	1	1	247
Kenta Abe	2	0	1.000	2.16	5	3	1	1	0	0	25.0	22	6	6	3	6	0	23	0	0	1	100
Hisashi Aikyo	2	0	1.000	4.15	38	0	12	0	0	1	34.7	30	16	16	5	9	2	15	2	0	0	140
Koishi Misawa	2	2	.500	3.38	48	0	5	0	0	0	42.7	44	20	16	8	18	2	26	0	0	2	186
Hideo Koike	1	1	.500	3.78	65	0	3	0	0	0	52.3	33	23	22	3	27	2	57	3	0	0	212
Akira Okamoto	1	3	.250	4.76	45	0	19	0	0	2	34.0	43	19	18	6	8	2	24	2	1	0	152
Hiroki Yamamura	1	3	.250	5.15	7	5	1	0	0	0	36.7	43	22	21	6	14	0	18	2	0	0	163
Iori Sekiguchi	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3
Hideki Asai	0	0		0.00	2	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	8
Kazuhiro Sato	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	7
Kazuki Kondoh	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	3.0	3	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	2	13
Tomokazu Teramura	0	0		5.79	3	0	2	0	0	0	4.7	5	4	3	1	5	0	4	0	0	0	23
Katsunari Yoshikawa	0	0		6.35	4	0	1	0	0	0	5.7	8	4	4	1	2	0	4	0	0	0	25
Motoyuki Akahori	0	0		9.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	2	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	6
Takuya Matsumoto	0	0		9.00	2	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	1	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	5
Daisuke Miyamoto	0	0		9.64	4	0	2	0	0	0	4.7	6	5	5	2	3	0	2	0	0	1	23
Brian Mallette	0	0		14.40	4	0	2	0	0	0	5.0	11	8	8	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	27
Naoya Shimada	0	0		21.60	3	0	1	0	0	0	1.7	6	4	4	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	13
Hironori Fujisaki	0	1	.000	4.70	5	0	5	0	0	0	7.7	11	4	4	1	0	0	2	1	0	0	32
Shogo Yamamoto	0	1	.000	5.49	25	4	7	0	0	0	41.0	55	25	25	7	10	0	28	0	0	0	178
Kanehisa Arime	0	3	.000	7.83	18	1	4	0	0	0	23.0	31	20	20	7	15	1	26	1	0	0	111
Totals	74	64	.536	4.33	525	140	122	18	2	20	1244.0	1289	632	598	157	456	28	965	50	6	30	5350

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
Naoyuki Omura	136	615	550	94	165	34	7	16	61	27	10	40	77	.300	.354	.475	.828	261	7	10	7	8	1
Karl Rhodes	138	614	508	94	140	16	0	51	117	7	1	98	137	.276	.391	.608	.999	309	10	2	0	6	11
Yuji Yoshioka	126	479	433	63	130	25	1	18	60	3	5	39	91	.300	.361	.487	.848	211	10	3	2	2	3
Koichi Isobe	135	516	444	56	128	26	3	12	72	9	5	55	60	.288	.368	.441	.810	196	17	4	8	5	3
Masahiro Abe	111	447	398	58	116	28	1	6	43	6	0	33	37	.291	.344	.412	.756	164	7	1	11	4	0
Hirotoshi Kitagawa	99	359	317	57	98	23	1	13	50	5	0	37	38	.309	.380	.511	.891	162	7	1	1	3	0
Norihiro Nakamura	117	456	381	54	90	14	1	23	67	1	1	72	96	.236	.357	.459	.817	175	18	1	0	2	4
Osamu Hoshino	111	370	325	43	89	10	2	12	51	10	1	36	49	.274	.351	.428	.778	139	3	3	5	1	0
Eiji Mizuguchi	96	350	304	36	88	9	2	5	38	0	0	25	41	.289	.344	.382	.726	116	5	1	19	1	0
Kenshi Kawaguchi	93	289	252	41	71	20	2	9	37	1	2	31	53	.282	.362	.484	.846	122	5	2	2	2	2
Tetsuya Matoyama	94	253	200	23	40	8	0	5	26	0	1	24	43	.200	.283	.315	.598	63	4	1	23	5	0
Akihito Fujii	73	190	166	13	32	4	2	1	13	2	1	7	24	.193	.233	.259	.492	43	2	2	14	1	0
Daisuke Masuda	77	109	94	24	26	4	0	7	19	2	1	15	27	.277	.376	.543	.919	51	2	0	0	0	0
Shinji Shimoyama	35	72	63	11	19	7	0	3	9	2	1	6	22	.302	.380	.556	.936	35	0	2	1	0	0
Fumitoshi Takano	40	84	74	16	17	4	0	5	11	0	0	8	19	.230	.321	.486	.808	36	2	2	0	0	0
Katsumi Yamashita	24	62	57	4	15	5	0	0	5	2	0	5	13	.263	.323	.351	.673	20	2	0	0	0	0
Tadatoki Maeda	95	80	68	14	15	3	0	0	3	2	1	4	9	.221	.274	.265	.539	18	2	1	7	0	0
Yasuo Nagaike	34	47	39	9	11	3	1	0	6	0	0	6	7	.282	.378	.410	.788	16	2	0	2	0	0
Masashi Miki	2	8	8	0	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.375	.375	.500	.875	4	0	0	0	0	0
Akihito Moritani	13	18	15	3	3	0	0	0	0	4	1	2	3	.200	.333	.200	.533	3	0	1	0	0	0
Yosuke Takasu	17	29	24	3	3	2	0	0	3	0	0	3	4	.125	.222	.208	.431	5	0	0	2	0	0
Akihito Igarashi	2	2	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	.500	2.000	2.500	2	0	0	0	1	0
Tomotaka Sakaguchi	1	6	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	.200	.333	.200	.533	1	0	0	0	0	0
Fumihiro Suzuki	12	10	10	1	1	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	3	.100	.100	.400	.500	4	0	0	0	0	0
Hiroaki Onishi	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Kenji Nagasaka	3	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.200	.000	.200	0	1	1	0	0	0
Koji Yamasaki	1	5	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1686	5478	4748	718	1302	247	23	187	695	83	32	547	861	.274	.351	.454	.805	2156	107	38	104	41	24

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Yuji Yoshioka	1B	91					.000
Hirotoshi Kitagawa	1B	58					.000
Osamu Hoshino	1B	6					.000
Katsumi Yamashita	1B	2					.000
Kenshi Kawaguchi	1B	2					.000
Eiji Mizuguchi	2B	95					.000
Masahiro Abe	2B	63					.000
Osamu Hoshino	2B	51					.000
Yosuke Takasu	2B	13					.000
Katsumi Yamashita	2B	9					.000
Yasuo Nagaike	2B	9					.000
Akihito Igarashi	2B	2					.000
Koji Yamasaki	2B	1					.000
Norihiro Nakamura	3B	87					.000
Osamu Hoshino	3B	34					.000
Yasuo Nagaike	3B	21					.000
Yuji Yoshioka	3B	13					.000
Katsumi Yamashita	3B	7					.000
Masashi Miki	3B	2					.000
Tadatoki Maeda	3B	2					.000
Masahiro Abe	C	111					.000
Akihito Fujii	C	72					.000
Hisashi Iwakuma	C	27					.000
Hirotoshi Kitagawa	C	15					.000
Fumihiro Suzuki	C	12					.000
Kenji Nagasaka	C	2					.000
Karl Rhodes	OF	136					.000
Naoyuki Omura	OF	135					.000
Koichi Isobe	OF	131					.000
Tetsuya Matoyama	OF	94					.000
Shinji Shimoyama	OF	29					.000
Daisuke Masuda	OF	21					.000
Fumitoshi Takano	OF	10					.000
Akihito Moritani	OF	8					.000
Kenshi Kawaguchi	OF	2					.000
Tomotaka Sakaguchi	OF	1					.000
Hiroaki Onishi	OF	1					.000
Hideo Koike	P	65					.000
Toyohiko Yoshida	P	60					.000
Koishi Misawa	P	48					.000
Akira Okamoto	P	45					.000
Hiroshi Takamura	P	39					.000
Hisashi Aikyo	P	38					.000
Kevin Beirne	P	30					.000
Jeremy Powell	P	28					.000
Hisashi Iwakuma	P	27					.000
Shogo Yamamoto	P	25					.000
Ken Kadokura	P	20					.000
Kanehisa Arime	P	18					.000
Kat Maekawa	P	16					.000
Shinichi Kato	P	16					.000
Hiroki Yamamura	P	7					.000
Nerio Rodríguez	P	7					.000
Hironori Fujisaki	P	5					.000
Kenta Abe	P	5					.000
Katsunari Yoshikawa	P	4					.000
Daisuke Miyamoto	P	4					.000
Brian Mallette	P	4					.000
Tomokazu Teramura	P	3					.000
Naoya Shimada	P	3					.000
Takuya Matsumoto	P	2					.000
Hideki Asai	P	2					.000
Iori Sekiguchi	P	1					.000
Kazuhiro Sato	P	1					.000
Kazuki Kondoh	P	1					.000
Motoyuki Akahori	P	1					.000
Tadatoki Maeda	SS	89					.000
Osamu Hoshino	SS	18					.000
Katsumi Yamashita	SS	3					.000
Yosuke Takasu	SS	3					.000
Eiji Mizuguchi	SS	1					.000
Totals		2014	0	0	0	0	.000

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