1992 Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 74-50
Finished 2nd in the JPPL
Manager: Akira Ogi (74-50)
Location: Osaka, Japan
Ballpark: Nippon Life Stadium, Fujiidera Stadium

1992 Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes Roster

The Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1992 season with a record of 74 wins and 50 losses, finishing second in the JPPL.

The Kintetsu Buffaloes scored 580 runs and yielded 515 runs. Ralph Bryant walloped 38 home runs for Osaka, while Hiro Ishii and Takayuki Murakami added 15 or more, too. Ralph Bryant drove in 96 runs. Hiro Ishii led all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .290. Hideo Nomo topped the team with 18 wins, and Motoyuki Akahori registered a 1.8 earned run average, best among hurlers with significant time on the mound.

Jessie Reid, Ralph Bryant, Hideo Nomo, Masato Yoshii, Alvin Davis, Norihiro Nakamura and Bill Bean were all players from the 1992 Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes who played in the Majors during their careers.

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
Hideo Nomo	18	8	.692	2.66	30	29	1	17	5	0	216.7	150	73	64	13	117	0	228	1	4	900
Hiroshi Takamura	13	9	.591	3.15	28	28	0	3	1	0	180.0	156	69	63	26	71	0	153	9	4	765
Motoyuki Akahori	11	4	.733	1.80	50	2	44	1	1	22	130.0	91	29	26	5	29	3	88	5	2	499
Izumi Takayanagi	8	8	.500	3.93	24	21	0	6	3	0	139.7	142	65	61	19	42	2	76	2	2	587
Hideyuki Awano	6	6	.500	3.36	19	16	0	2	0	0	93.7	95	38	35	5	38	1	77	4	2	408
Masaaki Esaka	4	1	.800	4.68	23	7	7	0	0	0	65.3	74	35	34	9	18	0	47	1	2	286
Shigeki Sano	4	2	.667	4.19	31	1	10	0	0	1	62.3	67	30	29	6	24	2	44	4	2	273
Satoshi Iriki	4	3	.571	6.75	15	8	3	1	0	1	53.3	66	41	40	8	19	0	38	3	3	245
Eiji Kiyokawa	2	2	.500	3.07	36	0	9	0	0	5	44.0	32	18	15	7	10	0	49	0	1	172
Shintaro Yamasaki	2	2	.500	3.50	29	2	12	0	0	2	54.0	61	24	21	4	25	1	46	3	2	241
Masato Yoshii	1	0	1.000	2.31	9	0	3	0	0	0	11.7	10	3	3	1	2	0	4	0	1	45
Osamu Sasaki	1	1	.500	4.10	19	10	5	0	0	0	63.7	81	29	29	7	16	1	20	3	0	278
Masami Yamada	0	0		5.68	2	0	1	0	0	0	6.3	7	4	4	0	1	0	7	0	0	28
Tetsuro Kato	0	0		8.00	4	0	1	0	0	0	9.0	14	9	8	0	1	0	4	2	0	44
Ayahito Shinada	0	0		30.86	2	0	2	0	0	0	4.7	14	17	16	2	8	0	3	1	1	36
Fuminobu Kinoshita	0	1	.000	5.40	4	0	2	0	0	0	6.7	6	4	4	2	3	0	4	1	0	29
Kazuyoshi Ono	0	3	.000	9.24	6	6	0	0	0	0	25.3	35	27	26	6	17	1	9	1	0	126
Totals	74	50	.597	3.69	331	130	100	30	10	31	1166.3	1101	515	478	120	441	11	897	40	26	4962

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
Hiro Ishii	128	540	473	68	137	27	1	29	89	4	3	58	59	.290	.370	.535	.905	253	16	5	0	4	4
Daijiro Oishi	130	576	487	76	131	24	6	6	47	39	13	62	56	.269	.354	.380	.734	185	4	3	23	1	1
Ralph Bryant	119	501	448	78	109	17	2	38	96	6	3	45	176	.243	.319	.545	.864	244	4	6	0	2	6
Takayuki Murakami	116	443	388	63	97	20	3	20	59	15	5	44	106	.250	.324	.472	.796	183	4	0	8	3	0
Yoshiaki Kanemura	102	390	335	50	87	11	3	13	44	5	3	48	66	.260	.355	.427	.782	143	7	2	4	1	4
Takashi Yoshida	109	334	296	43	76	6	3	3	30	27	6	21	58	.257	.308	.328	.636	97	5	2	13	2	0
Hiromasa Arai	106	341	295	38	65	12	4	3	25	2	1	29	32	.220	.294	.319	.613	94	6	3	11	3	0
Jessie Reid	77	296	246	33	57	10	1	10	37	0	0	47	66	.232	.355	.402	.757	99	5	1	0	2	0
Hidekazu Mitsuyama	74	176	161	22	43	6	2	8	22	1	3	5	21	.267	.312	.478	.790	77	10	6	3	1	0
Alvin Davis	40	147	131	10	36	3	0	5	12	1	1	14	19	.275	.347	.412	.759	54	3	1	0	1	0
Kenji Furukubo	78	204	174	19	36	6	2	4	17	0	2	17	49	.207	.277	.333	.611	58	1	0	13	0	0
Jiro Fujitate	71	136	121	16	34	8	1	3	10	2	2	8	25	.281	.331	.438	.769	53	1	1	6	0	0
Toshiya Adachi	79	152	136	16	34	7	2	1	13	2	3	11	25	.250	.313	.353	.666	48	0	2	2	1	0
Takahisa Suzuki	61	195	167	16	31	6	0	9	26	3	1	22	42	.186	.289	.383	.672	64	5	3	1	2	1
Kazuhiko Yamashita	54	93	82	3	17	1	0	0	4	0	0	5	22	.207	.278	.220	.497	18	2	3	3	0	0
Tadami Nakatani	47	56	52	3	16	4	0	0	10	0	0	4	12	.308	.357	.385	.742	20	4	0	0	0	0
Hitoshi Nakane	52	94	81	8	12	4	0	1	5	2	0	6	21	.148	.207	.235	.441	19	0	0	7	0	0
Eiji Mizuguchi	53	48	43	4	9	1	0	0	2	3	0	3	10	.209	.261	.233	.493	10	1	0	2	0	0
Masaki Kato	18	27	26	3	7	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	.269	.269	.308	.577	8	0	0	1	0	0
Shingo Matsukubo	20	50	44	3	7	3	0	0	1	0	0	6	14	.159	.260	.227	.487	10	3	0	0	0	1
Norihiro Nakamura	11	27	27	4	6	1	0	2	5	0	0	0	8	.222	.222	.481	.704	13	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Bean	7	26	24	2	5	2	0	0	2	0	0	1	5	.208	.231	.292	.522	7	0	0	0	1	0
Kunji Yonesaki	5	9	9	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.222	.222	.222	.444	2	0	0	0	0	0
Ryoji Nakamura	3	4	4	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.500	.750	2	0	0	0	0	0
Masahiko Goseki	7	10	10	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.100	.100	.100	.200	1	0	0	0	0	0
Shunji Hatayama	10	12	11	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.091	.167	.091	.258	1	0	0	0	0	0
Eiji Kiyokawa	36	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1613	4888	4272	580	1057	181	30	155	557	112	46	457	903	.247	.324	.413	.737	1763	81	38	97	24	17

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Hiro Ishii	1B	94					.000
Takayuki Murakami	1B	32					.000
Alvin Davis	1B	13					.000
Eiji Kiyokawa	1B	1					.000
Masahiko Goseki	1B	1					.000
Hiromasa Arai	1B	1					.000
Daijiro Oishi	2B	130					.000
Toshiya Adachi	2B	17					.000
Takashi Yoshida	2B	3					.000
Kunji Yonesaki	2B	1					.000
Yoshiaki Kanemura	3B	92					.000
Hiro Ishii	3B	35					.000
Toshiya Adachi	3B	12					.000
Norihiro Nakamura	3B	10					.000
Takashi Yoshida	3B	2					.000
Kenji Furukubo	C	78					.000
Hidekazu Mitsuyama	C	64					.000
Kazuhiko Yamashita	C	52					.000
Hiromasa Arai	OF	96					.000
Takayuki Murakami	OF	82					.000
Jiro Fujitate	OF	65					.000
Takahisa Suzuki	OF	58					.000
Jessie Reid	OF	58					.000
Ralph Bryant	OF	52					.000
Hitoshi Nakane	OF	49					.000
Shingo Matsukubo	OF	16					.000
Masaki Kato	OF	15					.000
Toshiya Adachi	OF	12					.000
Tadami Nakatani	OF	9					.000
Bill Bean	OF	7					.000
Shunji Hatayama	OF	6					.000
Masahiko Goseki	OF	3					.000
Hiro Ishii	OF	2					.000
Ryoji Nakamura	OF	1					.000
Motoyuki Akahori	P	50					.000
Eiji Kiyokawa	P	36					.000
Shigeki Sano	P	31					.000
Hideo Nomo	P	30					.000
Shintaro Yamasaki	P	29					.000
Hiroshi Takamura	P	28					.000
Izumi Takayanagi	P	24					.000
Masaaki Esaka	P	23					.000
Osamu Sasaki	P	19					.000
Hideyuki Awano	P	19					.000
Satoshi Iriki	P	15					.000
Masato Yoshii	P	9					.000
Kazuyoshi Ono	P	6					.000
Fuminobu Kinoshita	P	4					.000
Tetsuro Kato	P	4					.000
Masami Yamada	P	2					.000
Ayahito Shinada	P	2					.000
Takashi Yoshida	SS	104					.000
Eiji Mizuguchi	SS	46					.000
Toshiya Adachi	SS	34					.000
Kunji Yonesaki	SS	3					.000
Totals		1687	0	0	0	0	.000

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