1998 Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 66-67
Finished 5th in the JPPL
Manager: Kyosuke Sasaki (66-67)
Location: Osaka, Japan
Ballpark: Fujiidera Stadium

1998 Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes Roster

The Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1998 season with a record of 66 wins and 67 losses, finishing fifth in the JPPL.

The Kintetsu Buffaloes scored 593 runs and gave up 629 runs, most in the circuit. Norihiro Nakamura walloped 32 home runs for Osaka, while Karl Rhodes and Phil Clark swatted 15 or more also. Phil Clark drove in 114 runs and topped all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .320. Rob Mattson paced the team with 9 wins and a team-best 3.57 ERA, best among pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.

Players from the 1998 Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes who spent time in the Majors during their careers included Brian Shouse, Phil Leftwich, Akinori Otsuka, Karl Rhodes, Phil Clark and Norihiro Nakamura.

Kyosuke Sasaki 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
Rob Mattson	9	7	.562	3.55	24	15	4	5	1	0	131.7	109	57	52	9	59	3	74	3	2	1	545
Akira Okamoto	8	13	.381	4.04	30	27	0	4	2	0	158.0	167	77	71	22	52	2	93	9	0	5	686
Hiroshi Takamura	8	14	.364	4.87	25	25	0	4	3	0	159.0	161	91	86	20	74	5	83	9	0	9	702
Hideo Koike	7	3	.700	6.81	18	17	0	1	1	0	78.0	99	60	59	21	51	0	54	2	0	2	374
Hiroki Sakai	6	1	.857	1.97	60	1	23	0	0	0	73.0	70	21	16	5	32	3	55	3	0	5	307
Masaki Maki	6	6	.500	3.89	24	16	1	1	1	0	106.3	103	52	46	11	51	2	79	6	0	1	466
Koki Morita	5	1	.833	2.91	32	0	8	0	0	1	34.0	30	13	11	3	20	2	19	2	0	1	149
Satoshi Iriki	4	3	.571	5.48	25	1	4	0	0	0	47.7	46	30	29	2	26	2	37	2	2	1	208
Isao Koda	4	5	.444	4.96	23	14	0	0	0	0	89.0	110	54	49	15	28	1	40	3	3	1	402
Akinori Otsuka	3	2	.600	2.11	49	0	44	0	0	35	55.3	43	19	13	5	25	4	74	3	2	5	235
Motoyuki Akahori	3	3	.500	4.21	24	4	8	1	1	0	66.3	70	34	31	3	27	2	31	6	0	0	291
Phil Leftwich	3	4	.429	4.81	19	8	2	0	0	0	67.3	64	41	36	5	32	2	38	5	0	5	292
Kat Maekawa	0	0			1	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	1	2	2	0	3	0	0	0	0	1	4
Hiroshi Nishioka	0	0		4.15	8	0	2	0	0	0	4.3	5	2	2	1	3	1	2	0	0	0	21
Kazuya Shibata	0	0		4.35	39	0	0	0	0	0	20.7	21	12	10	2	7	0	14	0	2	0	88
Ayahito Shinada	0	0		6.48	6	0	5	0	0	0	8.3	10	6	6	0	5	0	5	1	0	0	41
Shinichi Nishikawa	0	1	.000	2.87	61	0	9	0	0	0	47.0	34	16	15	2	23	1	26	3	0	1	194
Masaki Yachi	0	1	.000	4.76	7	0	1	0	0	0	11.3	13	6	6	0	5	1	7	0	0	1	50
Hiroshi Ishige	0	1	.000	7.23	8	4	2	0	0	0	18.7	24	16	15	1	19	0	9	0	0	2	97
Brian Shouse	0	2	.000	6.49	13	3	6	0	0	0	26.3	40	20	19	2	13	3	20	0	0	0	127
Totals	66	67	.496	4.30	496	135	119	16	9	36	1202.3	1220	629	574	129	555	34	760	57	11	41	5279

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
Phil Clark	135	587	531	68	170	48	2	31	114	0	1	45	75	.320	.378	.593	.971	315	19	7	0	4	10
Naoyuki Omura	133	584	522	61	162	19	7	4	40	23	7	38	40	.310	.359	.397	.755	207	6	2	21	1	0
Karl Rhodes	134	579	494	81	127	25	0	22	70	15	3	81	120	.257	.359	.441	.801	218	14	0	0	4	7
Norihiro Nakamura	132	564	481	74	125	14	1	32	90	1	1	74	114	.260	.363	.493	.856	237	12	5	2	2	3
Takashi Muto	127	470	392	53	98	20	3	0	32	16	9	34	36	.250	.315	.316	.631	124	1	4	38	2	0
Koichi Isobe	118	359	320	43	93	22	4	4	31	2	4	26	32	.291	.345	.422	.767	135	7	3	5	5	1
Eiji Mizuguchi	124	442	373	47	87	13	3	2	36	6	4	37	33	.233	.305	.300	.606	112	8	3	26	3	0
Takahisa Suzuki	108	307	278	23	76	16	0	5	36	4	0	21	38	.273	.325	.385	.709	107	8	2	2	4	0
Yuji Yoshioka	81	222	190	39	51	11	3	13	32	1	0	21	56	.268	.349	.563	.912	107	1	3	7	1	0
Tetsuya Matoyama	105	271	222	23	51	4	2	4	18	4	1	24	48	.230	.319	.320	.639	71	3	5	20	0	0
Takashi Yoshida	85	207	171	27	41	6	1	1	11	2	2	17	32	.240	.314	.304	.618	52	6	2	16	1	0
Osamu Abe	72	160	144	17	36	9	0	1	12	2	0	13	19	.250	.312	.333	.646	48	2	1	0	2	1
Kazunori Yamamoto	57	140	119	9	32	10	0	2	19	0	1	15	22	.269	.371	.403	.775	48	2	5	0	1	3
Takayuki Murakami	79	118	107	14	28	6	1	5	18	0	1	6	23	.262	.298	.477	.775	51	5	0	4	1	0
Hironori Suguro	40	46	40	2	5	1	0	0	0	1	0	6	6	.125	.239	.150	.389	6	0	0	0	0	0
Hideaki Okubo	22	34	29	7	4	0	1	0	1	1	0	2	3	.138	.242	.207	.449	6	1	2	1	0	0
Yukio Kinugawa	3	6	6	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.500	.500	.500	1.000	3	0	0	0	0	0
Yosuke Takasu	3	8	6	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.333	.286	.333	.619	2	0	0	1	1	0
Masahiro Takumi	8	12	9	1	2	0	0	0	1	2	0	2	0	.222	.417	.222	.639	2	1	1	0	0	0
Takeshi Omori	9	23	21	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	3	.095	.130	.095	.226	2	1	0	0	1	0
Kenji Furukubo	58	40	33	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	15	.061	.114	.061	.175	2	1	0	5	0	0
Makoto Hagiwara	4	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	1	0	0	0	0
Takenori Daita	6	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.500	.000	.500	0	0	0	1	0	0
Totals	1643	5188	4495	593	1198	224	28	126	564	80	34	466	721	.267	.339	.413	.752	1856	99	45	149	33	25

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Yuji Yoshioka	1B	50					.000
Takayuki Murakami	1B	48					.000
Phil Clark	1B	48					.000
Osamu Abe	1B	34					.000
Norihiro Nakamura	1B	14					.000
Takeshi Omori	1B	8					.000
Yukio Kinugawa	1B	2					.000
Makoto Hagiwara	1B	1					.000
Eiji Mizuguchi	2B	120					.000
Takashi Muto	2B	37					.000
Takashi Yoshida	2B	10					.000
Yosuke Takasu	2B	3					.000
Norihiro Nakamura	3B	128					.000
Takashi Muto	3B	103					.000
Takashi Yoshida	3B	19					.000
Hironori Suguro	3B	10					.000
Takayuki Murakami	3B	1					.000
Koichi Isobe	C	70					.000
Kenji Furukubo	C	58					.000
Yukio Kinugawa	C	1					.000
Karl Rhodes	OF	133					.000
Naoyuki Omura	OF	132					.000
Tetsuya Matoyama	OF	104					.000
Takahisa Suzuki	OF	90					.000
Koichi Isobe	OF	71					.000
Yuji Yoshioka	OF	31					.000
Takayuki Murakami	OF	17					.000
Masahiro Takumi	OF	5					.000
Osamu Abe	OF	5					.000
Takashi Yoshida	OF	3					.000
Takenori Daita	OF	3					.000
Hideaki Okubo	OF	1					.000
Shinichi Nishikawa	P	61					.000
Hiroki Sakai	P	60					.000
Akinori Otsuka	P	49					.000
Kazuya Shibata	P	39					.000
Koki Morita	P	32					.000
Akira Okamoto	P	30					.000
Hiroshi Takamura	P	25					.000
Satoshi Iriki	P	25					.000
Rob Mattson	P	24					.000
Masaki Maki	P	24					.000
Motoyuki Akahori	P	24					.000
Isao Koda	P	23					.000
Phil Leftwich	P	19					.000
Hideo Koike	P	18					.000
Brian Shouse	P	13					.000
Hiroshi Nishioka	P	8					.000
Hiroshi Ishige	P	8					.000
Masaki Yachi	P	7					.000
Ayahito Shinada	P	6					.000
Kat Maekawa	P	1					.000
Takashi Yoshida	SS	53					.000
Hironori Suguro	SS	20					.000
Yosuke Takasu	SS	1					.000
Totals		1930	0	0	0	0	.000

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