1981 Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 54-72
Finished 6th in the JPPL
Manager: Yukio Nishimoto (54-72)
Location: Osaka, Japan
Ballpark: Nippon Life Stadium, Fujiidera Stadium

1981 Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes Roster

The Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1981 season with a record of 54 wins and 72 losses, finishing sixth in the JPPL.

The Kintetsu Buffaloes plated 557 runs and yielded 576 runs. Vic Harris paced Osaka with 22 home runs, while Ike Hampton, Koichi Hada and Masataka Nashida each walloped 15 or more also. Vic Harris drove in 74 runs. Toru Ogawa led batters with significant playing time by hitting .295. Yutaka Yanagida topped the squad with 10 wins, and Tatsumi Murata registered a 3.36 earned run average, leading regular hurlers.

Ike Hampton and Vic Harris both played in Major League Baseball during their careers.

Yukio Nishimoto served as manager.

Click on column headings to sort.

Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	WP	BF
Yutaka Yanagida	10	13	.435	4.54	30	22	8	10	3	4	164.7	160	87	83	27	58	3	88	4	0	705
Yasuo Kubo	9	11	.450	4.08	42	17	19	5	1	8	165.3	166	78	75	23	71	1	78	4	1	713
Tatsumi Murata	7	7	.500	3.35	37	17	10	5	3	0	150.7	156	62	56	12	46	4	80	11	1	651
Kenji Tachibana	7	7	.500	3.46	32	14	10	2	1	1	130.0	129	55	50	18	29	1	50	9	2	538
Takashi Imoto	5	9	.357	4.21	20	18	2	4	2	0	115.3	124	64	54	19	40	2	55	4	1	505
Keishi Suzuki	5	11	.312	5.12	22	21	0	8	0	0	123.0	142	78	70	17	27	1	42	2	0	529
Tetsuji Yamaguchi	4	2	.667	3.43	29	6	14	3	1	3	99.7	116	47	38	8	22	2	40	6	0	430
Tatsuya Yamamura	2	0	1.000	1.00	2	2	0	2	0	0	18.0	13	2	2	1	3	0	7	0	0	68
Hiroaki Tani	2	7	.222	5.36	13	7	4	2	1	0	50.3	52	33	30	7	22	0	38	2	0	220
Yasuo Fukui	1	1	.500	3.20	18	0	11	0	0	1	56.3	51	21	20	8	4	0	26	1	0	216
Yoshiaki Ishimoto	1	1	.500	5.65	11	2	3	0	0	0	28.7	30	26	18	7	23	0	17	0	2	137
Yasuyuki Fujiwara	1	2	.333	6.23	6	3	2	0	0	0	17.3	14	12	12	5	10	0	7	0	0	74
Eiji Yoda	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	2.0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	8
Koji Tanizaki	0	0		6.10	6	0	5	0	0	0	10.3	13	7	7	3	3	0	13	1	0	47
Koji Ota	0	1	.000	9.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	2.0	3	4	2	1	2	0	2	0	0	12
Totals	54	72	.429	4.10	270	130	89	41	12	17	1133.7	1171	576	517	156	361	14	543	44	7	4853

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
Mitsuyasu Hirano	121	522	482	53	125	19	6	10	50	12	8	33	57	.259	.304	.386	.690	186	9	0	2	5	0
Vic Harris	124	494	447	58	120	17	4	22	74	13	7	43	44	.268	.337	.472	.809	211	10	3	1	0	0
Toru Ogawa	116	410	359	50	106	20	2	9	35	5	1	41	12	.295	.369	.437	.807	157	2	3	4	3	2
Masataka Nashida	106	411	374	44	102	16	0	17	48	5	3	29	47	.273	.327	.452	.779	169	12	3	1	4	0
Tokuichi Fukiishi	126	454	412	47	101	13	1	10	48	13	8	23	25	.245	.286	.354	.640	146	7	2	13	4	0
Shigeru Kurihashi	92	325	278	38	73	15	1	11	41	6	7	38	32	.263	.363	.442	.806	123	8	7	0	2	1
Koichi Hada	107	342	304	39	71	6	1	17	39	3	2	34	47	.234	.308	.428	.736	130	9	0	1	3	0
Kohei Shimamoto	101	283	256	36	69	10	0	11	34	5	3	19	38	.270	.332	.438	.770	112	5	6	0	2	1
Kyosuke Sasaki	91	288	253	31	66	7	1	4	21	14	3	21	17	.261	.329	.344	.672	87	3	6	5	3	0
Shuzo Arita	95	280	237	25	58	9	1	7	31	0	4	36	49	.245	.347	.380	.726	90	11	2	3	2	0
Ike Hampton	72	254	226	35	52	9	0	15	32	5	3	24	66	.230	.300	.469	.769	106	9	0	1	3	1
In-cheon Paek	84	214	194	19	44	11	0	4	23	2	2	14	12	.227	.292	.345	.638	67	6	4	2	0	0
Yasunori Nagao	67	128	121	8	26	3	0	3	12	3	2	4	8	.215	.240	.314	.554	38	1	0	3	0	0
Shigeru Ishiwata	59	144	131	16	25	4	1	2	13	6	0	11	14	.191	.259	.282	.541	37	3	1	1	0	0
Hiroshi Moriwaki	57	63	57	10	18	4	0	2	7	1	0	4	9	.316	.371	.491	.862	28	2	1	1	0	0
Craig Ryan	30	76	71	8	17	2	1	4	14	0	0	5	10	.239	.289	.465	.754	33	2	0	0	0	0
Shiro Fujise	85	60	52	15	7	0	0	0	1	15	2	3	8	.135	.193	.135	.328	7	1	1	3	1	0
Daijiro Oishi	77	20	19	14	6	0	0	0	0	11	5	0	4	.316	.350	.316	.666	6	0	1	0	0	0
Kazunori Yamamoto	23	28	21	4	4	1	0	0	3	0	0	4	3	.190	.393	.238	.631	5	2	3	0	0	0
Narihiro Abe	20	11	11	2	3	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	.273	.273	.273	.545	3	0	0	0	0	0
Masahiro Nakane	3	5	4	2	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	.500	.600	1.250	1.850	5	0	0	0	0	0
Motokuni Sano	6	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.143	.000	.143	0	0	1	0	0	0
Yasuaki Kanemitsu	18	13	9	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	4	1	.000	.308	.000	.308	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1680	4832	4324	557	1095	166	19	149	528	121	60	391	509	.253	.319	.404	.723	1746	102	44	41	32	5

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Toru Ogawa	1B	108					.000
Tokuichi Fukiishi	1B	44					.000
Ike Hampton	1B	17					.000
Koichi Hada	1B	6					.000
Craig Ryan	1B	2					.000
Shuzo Arita	1B	1					.000
Vic Harris	2B	115					.000
Daijiro Oishi	2B	36					.000
Yasunori Nagao	2B	30					.000
Hiroshi Moriwaki	2B	1					.000
Shigeru Ishiwata	2B	1					.000
Koichi Hada	3B	100					.000
Tokuichi Fukiishi	3B	44					.000
Yasunori Nagao	3B	30					.000
Hiroshi Moriwaki	3B	2					.000
Masataka Nashida	C	98					.000
Shuzo Arita	C	39					.000
Motokuni Sano	C	2					.000
Mitsuyasu Hirano	OF	121					.000
Kohei Shimamoto	OF	92					.000
Shiro Fujise	OF	72					.000
Kyosuke Sasaki	OF	70					.000
Shigeru Kurihashi	OF	67					.000
In-cheon Paek	OF	42					.000
Craig Ryan	OF	20					.000
Ike Hampton	OF	19					.000
Yasuaki Kanemitsu	OF	18					.000
Narihiro Abe	OF	16					.000
Kazunori Yamamoto	OF	8					.000
Yasuo Kubo	P	42					.000
Tatsumi Murata	P	37					.000
Kenji Tachibana	P	32					.000
Yutaka Yanagida	P	30					.000
Tetsuji Yamaguchi	P	29					.000
Keishi Suzuki	P	22					.000
Takashi Imoto	P	20					.000
Yasuo Fukui	P	18					.000
Hiroaki Tani	P	13					.000
Yoshiaki Ishimoto	P	11					.000
Koji Tanizaki	P	6					.000
Yasuyuki Fujiwara	P	6					.000
Tatsuya Yamamura	P	2					.000
Eiji Yoda	P	1					.000
Koji Ota	P	1					.000
Tokuichi Fukiishi	SS	88					.000
Shigeru Ishiwata	SS	58					.000
Hiroshi Moriwaki	SS	54					.000
Totals		1691	0	0	0	0	.000

Persons data from the Chadwick Baseball Bureau are Copyright Chadwick Baseball Bureau, and are made available under the Open Data Commons Attribution License.