2000 Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes Statistics

Japan Pacific League (JPPL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 58-75
Finished 6th in the JPPL
Manager: Masataka Nashida (58-75)
Location: Osaka, Japan
Ballpark: Fujiidera Stadium

2000 Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes Roster

The Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes of the Japan Pacific League ended the 2000 season with a record of 58 wins and 75 losses, finishing sixth in the JPPL.

The Kintetsu Buffaloes scored 612 runs, worst in the league, and conceded 687 runs. Norihiro Nakamura walloped 39 home runs for Osaka, while Yuji Yoshioka and Karl Rhodes added 15 or more as well. Norihiro Nakamura recorded 110 runs batted in. Takashi Muto led all regular batters by hitting .311. Kat Maekawa topped the team with 8 wins, and Ken Kadokura recorded a 3.92 ERA, best among hurlers with significant time on the mound.

Andy Abad, Phil Clark, Narciso Elvira, Norihiro Nakamura, Akinori Otsuka, Karl Rhodes and Bob Wolcott were all players from the 2000 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
Kat Maekawa	8	13	.381	4.16	33	27	1	8	1	0	173.0	161	99	80	9	96	5	105	4	0	7	764
Ken Kadokura	7	9	.438	3.91	23	18	0	4	1	0	117.3	108	54	51	13	46	0	109	4	0	2	501
Isao Koda	6	2	.750	4.06	28	0	8	0	0	0	37.7	43	19	17	2	9	2	21	1	0	1	166
Narciso Elvira	6	7	.462	4.64	27	21	1	2	2	0	110.7	97	60	57	9	53	2	73	3	1	2	481
Hiroki Yamamura	6	9	.400	5.01	27	24	0	3	1	0	138.3	146	86	77	17	48	0	71	7	1	1	598
Kazuya Shibata	3	0	1.000	1.82	50	0	3	0	0	0	29.7	26	7	6	0	11	2	16	1	1	1	123
Hiroaki Hirota	3	4	.429	5.75	20	0	5	0	0	0	20.3	25	18	13	0	13	2	3	0	0	1	99
Bob Wolcott	3	4	.429	6.09	17	7	4	0	0	0	44.3	50	30	30	7	21	0	26	1	2	1	198
Kazuya Tabata	3	4	.429	6.79	10	10	0	0	0	0	53.0	67	42	40	11	30	0	27	3	0	2	258
Hiroshi Takamura	3	5	.375	4.87	17	12	2	0	0	0	68.3	65	38	37	6	35	1	41	2	0	4	301
Masaki Maki	2	2	.500	3.32	15	5	3	1	1	0	38.0	35	14	14	2	26	0	27	2	0	0	171
Yuki Tanaka	2	3	.400	6.29	12	5	3	1	0	0	44.3	62	37	31	9	24	0	29	0	1	2	217
Hiroshi Ishige	2	4	.333	3.61	46	0	7	0	0	1	62.3	48	28	25	6	36	3	74	3	0	3	274
Hiroki Sakai	1	0	1.000	6.23	6	0	1	0	0	0	8.7	7	6	6	1	8	0	7	0	0	0	41
Shinichi Nishikawa	1	0	1.000	7.71	11	0	1	0	0	0	7.0	10	8	6	2	7	0	5	1	0	1	39
Masashi Nara	1	1	.500	4.00	33	0	8	0	0	0	36.0	30	17	16	1	22	0	16	6	0	0	162
Akinori Otsuka	1	3	.250	2.38	39	0	36	0	0	24	41.7	31	11	11	3	13	1	49	0	0	4	166
Brad Tweedlie	0	0			1	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	4	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	5
Shinji Udaka	0	0		2.38	8	0	5	0	0	0	11.3	11	7	3	2	5	1	6	0	0	0	50
Eiji Maruo	0	0		3.58	19	0	9	0	0	0	37.7	41	18	15	4	11	2	28	2	0	1	165
Takuya Matsumoto	0	0		5.06	5	0	2	0	0	0	5.3	5	3	3	0	6	0	9	0	0	0	27
Takuichi Koike	0	0		5.11	8	0	4	0	0	0	12.3	11	7	7	2	9	0	12	0	0	1	58
Hironori Fujisaki	0	0		5.40	3	0	0	0	0	0	3.3	4	3	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	15
Kotaro Azuse	0	0		6.00	7	0	1	0	0	0	6.0	4	4	4	0	12	0	6	2	0	3	36
Katsunari Yoshikawa	0	0		6.23	3	0	2	0	0	0	4.3	7	3	3	0	4	0	6	0	0	0	24
Koki Morita	0	0		18.00	3	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	3	4	4	1	3	0	3	2	0	0	14
Motoyuki Akahori	0	1	.000	5.00	3	1	0	0	0	0	9.0	6	5	5	1	7	0	5	1	0	1	40
Kento Sugiyama	0	1	.000	6.14	27	0	3	0	0	0	22.0	28	16	15	6	15	2	12	1	0	0	104
Tetsuji Mende	0	1	.000	7.17	20	2	4	0	0	1	21.3	20	17	17	4	27	0	11	1	0	0	110
Akira Okamoto	0	2	.000	7.56	9	3	2	1	0	0	25.0	35	21	21	5	10	2	10	1	0	1	119
Totals	58	75	.436	4.70	530	135	115	20	6	26	1190.3	1190	687	621	123	609	25	808	48	6	40	5326

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	135	589	525	85	143	25	2	25	89	6	6	58	134	.272	.345	.470	.815	247	10	2	0	4	5
Norihiro Nakamura	127	564	476	82	132	26	0	39	110	1	1	80	112	.277	.381	.578	.959	275	17	3	0	5	5
Yuji Yoshioka	115	481	434	58	126	27	4	18	65	2	3	41	93	.290	.351	.495	.846	215	9	1	2	3	3
Eiji Mizuguchi	129	548	462	57	116	16	1	3	39	1	4	59	54	.251	.333	.310	.643	143	3	1	20	6	0
Takashi Muto	119	436	366	62	114	20	6	1	41	20	9	46	31	.311	.394	.407	.801	149	3	6	15	3	0
Koichi Isobe	94	359	318	41	99	18	5	6	33	6	0	26	26	.311	.367	.456	.823	145	9	3	10	2	2
Naoyuki Omura	124	420	366	45	93	17	5	3	44	7	8	24	38	.254	.299	.352	.651	129	6	1	25	4	0
Kenshi Kawaguchi	96	295	263	24	66	13	1	5	28	3	3	29	43	.251	.328	.365	.693	96	5	1	2	0	1
Phil Clark	66	274	252	31	65	9	2	10	33	0	1	14	27	.258	.314	.429	.742	108	13	7	0	1	1
Fumitoshi Takano	86	225	186	30	55	10	2	6	31	2	2	27	40	.296	.418	.468	.886	87	4	12	0	0	3
Koji Hirashita	76	231	200	34	51	6	4	1	18	8	1	13	42	.255	.306	.340	.646	68	0	2	15	1	0
Tadatoki Maeda	100	165	143	13	28	2	1	0	9	6	1	11	32	.196	.263	.224	.487	32	2	2	9	0	0
Tetsuya Matoyama	87	185	151	18	26	3	0	3	16	3	1	18	32	.172	.257	.252	.509	38	1	0	14	2	1
Katsumi Yamashita	67	126	107	8	16	4	0	1	5	0	2	10	26	.150	.227	.215	.442	23	3	1	7	1	0
Andy Abad	32	102	92	7	15	1	0	4	13	0	0	9	17	.163	.235	.304	.540	28	1	0	0	1	0
Masahiro Takumi	52	74	64	8	14	1	1	0	4	1	2	7	10	.219	.306	.266	.571	17	0	1	2	0	0
Takashi Yoshida	7	14	12	1	5	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	.417	.462	.500	.962	6	0	0	1	0	0
Makoto Hagiwara	11	17	15	2	4	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	6	.267	.353	.267	.620	4	0	0	0	0	0
Akihito Fujii	21	15	11	3	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	4	.273	.467	.364	.830	4	1	0	0	0	0
Toru Takashima	9	12	12	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.167	.167	.167	.333	2	0	0	0	0	0
Takahisa Suzuki	11	20	20	1	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	6	.100	.100	.100	.200	2	1	0	0	0	0
Kei Ichihara	4	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Akinori Otsuka	39	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hideaki Okubo	5	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Yosuke Takasu	5	5	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.200	.000	.200	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kenji Furukubo	5	8	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.125	.000	.125	0	1	0	0	0	0
Akihito Moritani	6	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1628	5175	4496	612	1176	200	34	125	583	68	45	481	782	.262	.336	.405	.741	1819	90	43	122	33	21

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Yuji Yoshioka	1B	98					.000
Katsumi Yamashita	1B	37					.000
Andy Abad	1B	19					.000
Phil Clark	1B	5					.000
Makoto Hagiwara	1B	2					.000
Tetsuya Matoyama	1B	1					.000
Eiji Mizuguchi	2B	118					.000
Takashi Muto	2B	47					.000
Katsumi Yamashita	2B	11					.000
Tadatoki Maeda	2B	5					.000
Yosuke Takasu	2B	4					.000
Kei Ichihara	2B	1					.000
Norihiro Nakamura	3B	127					.000
Takashi Muto	3B	81					.000
Katsumi Yamashita	3B	19					.000
Tadatoki Maeda	3B	2					.000
Makoto Hagiwara	3B	2					.000
Yuji Yoshioka	3B	1					.000
Takashi Yoshida	3B	1					.000
Koichi Isobe	C	87					.000
Akihito Fujii	C	18					.000
Kenji Furukubo	C	4					.000
Toru Takashima	C	2					.000
Karl Rhodes	OF	135					.000
Naoyuki Omura	OF	120					.000
Tetsuya Matoyama	OF	84					.000
Koji Hirashita	OF	65					.000
Fumitoshi Takano	OF	61					.000
Kenshi Kawaguchi	OF	60					.000
Masahiro Takumi	OF	37					.000
Koichi Isobe	OF	34					.000
Yuji Yoshioka	OF	7					.000
Takahisa Suzuki	OF	6					.000
Akihito Moritani	OF	3					.000
Makoto Hagiwara	OF	1					.000
Kazuya Shibata	P	50					.000
Hiroshi Ishige	P	46					.000
Akinori Otsuka	P	39					.000
Masashi Nara	P	33					.000
Kat Maekawa	P	33					.000
Isao Koda	P	28					.000
Hiroki Yamamura	P	27					.000
Kento Sugiyama	P	27					.000
Narciso Elvira	P	27					.000
Ken Kadokura	P	23					.000
Tetsuji Mende	P	20					.000
Hiroaki Hirota	P	20					.000
Eiji Maruo	P	19					.000
Bob Wolcott	P	17					.000
Hiroshi Takamura	P	17					.000
Masaki Maki	P	15					.000
Yuki Tanaka	P	12					.000
Shinichi Nishikawa	P	11					.000
Kazuya Tabata	P	10					.000
Akira Okamoto	P	9					.000
Shinji Udaka	P	8					.000
Takuichi Koike	P	8					.000
Kotaro Azuse	P	7					.000
Hiroki Sakai	P	6					.000
Takuya Matsumoto	P	5					.000
Katsunari Yoshikawa	P	3					.000
Koki Morita	P	3					.000
Hironori Fujisaki	P	3					.000
Motoyuki Akahori	P	3					.000
Brad Tweedlie	P	1					.000
Tadatoki Maeda	SS	98					.000
Eiji Mizuguchi	SS	14					.000
Norihiro Nakamura	SS	9					.000
Takashi Yoshida	SS	4					.000
Katsumi Yamashita	SS	2					.000
Kei Ichihara	SS	2					.000
Totals		1964	0	0	0	0	.000

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