1999 Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 54-77
Finished 6th in the JPPL
Manager: Kyosuke Sasaki (54-77)
Location: Osaka, Japan
Ballpark: Fujiidera Stadium

1999 Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes Roster

The Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes of the Japan Pacific League ended the 1999 season with a record of 54 wins and 77 losses, finishing sixth in the JPPL.

The Kintetsu Buffaloes scored 595 runs and allowed 662 runs, most in the circuit. Karl Rhodes walloped 40 home runs for Osaka, while Phil Clark and Norihiro Nakamura swatted 15 or more, too. Karl Rhodes drove in 101 runs and topped batters with significant playing time by hitting .301. Akira Okamoto paced the team with 9 wins, and Hideo Koike recorded a 4.05 ERA, tops among pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.

Players from the 1999 Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes who spent time in the Majors during their careers included Carlos Valdez, Phil Leftwich, Phil Clark, Karl Rhodes, Akinori Otsuka 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
Akira Okamoto	9	12	.429	4.79	27	27	0	5	1	0	159.7	187	92	85	19	50	2	88	10	1	3	708
Hideo Koike	6	11	.353	4.05	23	23	0	2	0	0	149.0	135	69	67	19	69	0	96	3	0	7	638
Yuki Tanaka	5	3	.625	3.91	16	10	3	0	0	0	71.3	69	34	31	5	41	0	54	3	0	2	311
Isao Koda	5	4	.556	2.44	55	0	19	0	0	8	99.7	98	33	27	4	18	5	67	3	0	1	408
Rob Mattson	5	4	.556	4.70	20	11	6	2	0	0	84.3	87	44	44	10	43	2	59	9	2	3	374
Phil Leftwich	4	6	.400	5.25	15	13	1	1	0	0	70.3	73	45	41	12	32	1	52	4	1	1	314
Carlos Valdez	3	3	.500	4.84	48	0	28	0	0	8	57.7	51	35	31	6	32	2	35	1	1	3	249
Hiroshi Takamura	3	6	.333	4.24	16	16	0	0	0	0	91.3	94	49	43	11	50	2	48	6	1	2	408
Masaki Maki	3	6	.333	6.89	16	12	0	0	0	0	64.0	80	51	49	8	44	0	32	2	0	4	309
Shigeki Sano	3	8	.273	5.47	28	8	6	1	1	1	72.3	85	46	44	13	27	1	26	5	1	1	325
Motoyuki Akahori	2	0	1.000	3.38	2	2	0	0	0	0	13.3	13	5	5	1	8	0	6	2	0	0	60
Kat Maekawa	2	1	.667	5.13	15	3	2	1	0	0	33.3	27	21	19	1	28	1	27	1	0	2	154
Shinji Udaka	2	2	.500	4.81	12	4	3	0	0	0	33.7	36	21	18	3	13	0	16	4	0	1	150
Ayahito Shinada	1	3	.250	6.60	17	3	4	0	0	0	30.0	36	23	22	6	23	1	12	1	0	0	144
Akinori Otsuka	1	4	.200	2.73	25	0	21	0	0	6	29.7	24	12	9	1	10	2	32	2	0	0	125
Koki Morita	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.3	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	2
Hiroki Sakai	0	0		0.00	2	0	2	0	0	0	2.3	2	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	9
Hiroshi Nishioka	0	0		2.70	13	0	2	0	0	0	6.7	8	2	2	0	6	0	4	1	0	0	34
Shinichi Nishikawa	0	0		3.42	22	0	1	0	0	0	26.3	27	10	10	2	16	1	16	0	0	1	117
Kazuya Shibata	0	0		4.02	36	0	2	0	0	0	15.7	9	7	7	2	9	1	7	3	0	1	64
Koichi Taniguchi	0	0		5.40	4	0	1	0	0	0	3.3	3	2	2	0	4	0	4	0	0	1	16
Ryuji Nakagawa	0	0		5.59	6	0	3	0	0	0	9.7	11	6	6	2	5	0	5	0	0	1	44
Tetsuji Mende	0	0		8.03	9	0	5	0	0	0	12.3	13	11	11	2	17	1	11	0	2	2	66
Masaki Yachi	0	0		9.82	7	0	1	0	0	0	3.7	6	4	4	1	3	0	5	0	0	1	18
Fernando De La Cruz	0	1	.000	4.50	1	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	4	2	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	10
Hironori Fujisaki	0	1	.000	9.00	4	2	1	0	0	0	10.0	12	11	10	2	9	0	5	1	0	1	50
Hiroshi Ishige	0	2	.000	4.09	28	1	12	0	0	0	50.7	48	27	23	4	32	2	50	0	0	5	232
Totals	54	77	.412	4.57	468	135	123	12	2	23	1202.7	1238	662	611	134	592	24	762	61	9	43	5339

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
Karl Rhodes	131	565	491	94	148	38	1	40	101	5	2	69	115	.301	.388	.627	1.015	308	7	2	0	3	7
Phil Clark	134	573	509	79	146	32	0	29	84	4	3	52	64	.287	.354	.521	.875	265	20	5	0	7	6
Norihiro Nakamura	135	601	514	83	134	23	0	31	95	3	0	79	116	.261	.362	.486	.848	250	21	4	1	3	0
Naoyuki Omura	132	533	494	54	128	19	3	2	36	7	9	17	40	.259	.286	.322	.608	159	6	2	19	1	2
Yuji Yoshioka	131	486	420	56	116	28	1	13	57	12	6	50	86	.276	.361	.440	.801	185	9	6	9	1	3
Takashi Muto	100	332	279	34	78	6	3	1	19	7	6	25	24	.280	.342	.333	.675	93	3	2	25	1	0
Koichi Isobe	130	384	336	42	78	20	0	4	27	1	0	26	24	.232	.293	.327	.621	110	11	4	16	2	0
Tetsuya Matoyama	117	363	307	37	72	16	1	8	39	7	1	31	75	.235	.307	.371	.678	114	5	2	21	2	0
Yosuke Takasu	116	380	316	33	71	14	3	2	33	10	5	34	55	.225	.309	.307	.616	97	7	5	24	1	0
Takashi Yoshida	90	276	238	26	56	12	1	0	17	12	0	25	52	.235	.307	.294	.601	70	2	0	12	1	0
Kenshi Kawaguchi	52	123	115	12	27	3	0	6	12	1	0	5	16	.235	.270	.417	.688	48	1	1	1	1	0
Takahisa Suzuki	73	113	101	6	22	2	0	4	16	0	0	8	10	.218	.286	.356	.642	36	7	2	1	1	1
Hideaki Okubo	56	68	59	5	18	2	0	2	10	1	0	7	10	.305	.397	.441	.838	26	2	2	0	0	0
Eiji Mizuguchi	30	76	61	9	16	2	0	2	3	1	0	11	4	.262	.378	.393	.772	24	2	1	2	1	0
Kenji Furukubo	51	91	80	7	15	3	0	3	10	0	1	10	27	.188	.278	.338	.615	27	2	0	1	0	0
Takayuki Murakami	25	61	54	3	9	1	0	1	6	1	1	4	14	.167	.220	.241	.461	13	1	0	2	1	0
Toru Takashima	18	30	28	2	6	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	2	.214	.233	.393	.626	11	2	1	0	1	0
Akihito Fujii	15	21	19	4	5	1	1	0	1	0	0	2	5	.263	.333	.421	.754	8	0	0	0	0	0
Osamu Abe	17	21	21	2	5	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	6	.238	.238	.238	.476	5	2	0	0	0	0
Jiro Fujitate	9	21	17	1	3	1	0	1	2	0	0	3	3	.176	.300	.412	.712	7	3	0	1	0	0
Kazunori Yamamoto	1	4	4	1	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	1.250	1.750	5	0	0	0	0	0
Hiroyuki Sato	19	14	10	3	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	3	.100	.091	.100	.191	1	0	0	3	1	0
Hironori Suguro	21	14	13	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	.077	.143	.154	.297	2	0	0	0	0	0
Yoshiyuki Fuchiwaki	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Masahiro Takumi	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yukio Kinugawa	3	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1610	5161	4497	595	1157	224	15	151	573	73	35	459	762	.257	.329	.414	.744	1864	113	39	138	28	19

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Yuji Yoshioka	1B	124					.000
Toru Takashima	1B	10					.000
Takayuki Murakami	1B	10					.000
Norihiro Nakamura	1B	7					.000
Phil Clark	1B	7					.000
Osamu Abe	1B	5					.000
Yukio Kinugawa	1B	2					.000
Hironori Suguro	1B	1					.000
Yosuke Takasu	2B	114					.000
Takashi Muto	2B	31					.000
Eiji Mizuguchi	2B	17					.000
Takashi Yoshida	2B	7					.000
Hironori Suguro	2B	2					.000
Hiroyuki Sato	2B	1					.000
Koichi Isobe	2B	1					.000
Yoshiyuki Fuchiwaki	2B	1					.000
Norihiro Nakamura	3B	135					.000
Takashi Muto	3B	72					.000
Hironori Suguro	3B	5					.000
Takashi Yoshida	3B	4					.000
Hiroyuki Sato	3B	1					.000
Eiji Mizuguchi	3B	1					.000
Kenji Furukubo	C	51					.000
Akihito Fujii	C	14					.000
Toru Takashima	C	3					.000
Karl Rhodes	OF	131					.000
Naoyuki Omura	OF	130					.000
Koichi Isobe	OF	114					.000
Kenshi Kawaguchi	OF	39					.000
Takahisa Suzuki	OF	36					.000
Yuji Yoshioka	OF	17					.000
Tetsuya Matoyama	OF	16					.000
Jiro Fujitate	OF	8					.000
Takayuki Murakami	OF	5					.000
Takashi Yoshida	OF	4					.000
Hideaki Okubo	OF	4					.000
Isao Koda	P	55					.000
Carlos Valdez	P	48					.000
Kazuya Shibata	P	36					.000
Shigeki Sano	P	28					.000
Hiroshi Ishige	P	28					.000
Akira Okamoto	P	27					.000
Akinori Otsuka	P	25					.000
Hideo Koike	P	23					.000
Shinichi Nishikawa	P	22					.000
Rob Mattson	P	20					.000
Ayahito Shinada	P	17					.000
Yuki Tanaka	P	16					.000
Hiroshi Takamura	P	16					.000
Masaki Maki	P	16					.000
Kat Maekawa	P	15					.000
Phil Leftwich	P	15					.000
Hiroshi Nishioka	P	13					.000
Shinji Udaka	P	12					.000
Tetsuji Mende	P	9					.000
Masaki Yachi	P	7					.000
Ryuji Nakagawa	P	6					.000
Koichi Taniguchi	P	4					.000
Hironori Fujisaki	P	4					.000
Hiroki Sakai	P	2					.000
Motoyuki Akahori	P	2					.000
Koki Morita	P	1					.000
Fernando De La Cruz	P	1					.000
Takashi Yoshida	SS	79					.000
Hironori Suguro	SS	15					.000
Eiji Mizuguchi	SS	14					.000
Hiroyuki Sato	SS	12					.000
Takayuki Murakami	SS	10					.000
Yosuke Takasu	SS	1					.000
Totals		1729	0	0	0	0	.000

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