BASEBALL ASSOCIATION OF NIPPON
POSITIONAL STRENGTH OVERVIEW BY POSITIONS
02/05/1951
 
CATCHERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Kobe Bulls Yakumo Nishi 1st Tadao Hasegawa 4th 3rd
Nagasaki Stars Yasushi Mori 2nd Kazue Ashida 6th 5th
Kyoto Owls Ikuhiko Murata 3rd 8th(tied) 8th
Sapporo Bears Michinao Okamoto 4th Eiji Nagao 5th 6th
Rakisuta Rams Hirofumi Kato 5th Teiljo Otani 1st(tied) 1st
Kinboshi Kites Michio Yamashita 6th Dick Shipman 7th 7th
Fukuoka Falcons Yoshimichi Miyata 7th 8th(tied) 9th
Hosho Reliables Mitsuhito Tanaka 8th 8th(tied) 10th
Osaka Sailors Ivan Rustoff 9th Kannon Yamamoto 1st(tied) 2nd
Denki Dynamics Motofumi Adachi 10th Ennosuke Miura 1st(tied) 4th
Yokohama Kingfishers Yoshito Komatsu 11th 8th(tied) 11th
Vesutan Bees Takechi Kinoshita 12th 8th(tied) 12th
FIRST BASEMEN
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Fukuoka Falcons Shinsei Hashimoto 1st 3rd(tied) 2nd
Yokohama Kingfishers Maro Kozuka 2nd 3rd(tied) 3rd
Kyoto Owls Jobu Tsuda 3rd 3rd(tied) 4th
Denki Dynamics Momota Matsuda 4th Kazutomo Aihara 1st 1st
Sapporo Bears Masujiro Takahashi 5th 3rd(tied) 5th
Nagasaki Stars Yasukatsu Arakawa 6th 3rd(tied) 6th
Kobe Bulls Yukiyoshi Goto 7th 3rd(tied) 8th
Hosho Reliables Sou Kumakubo 8th 3rd(tied) 9th
Kinboshi Kites Fumisaburo Tsukiyama 9th 3rd(tied) 10th
Rakisuta Rams Ieyasu Waki 10th 3rd(tied) 11th
Osaka Sailors Saburo Shibuya 11th Motomi Kamimura 2nd 7th
Vesutan Bees Takeshi Nishimura 12th 3rd(tied) 12th
SECOND BASEMEN
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Sapporo Bears Masuami Smith 1st 7th(tied) 1st
Fukuoka Falcons Nobu Ishihara 2nd 7th(tied) 4th
Vesutan Bees Toshihisa Yamamoto 3rd 7th(tied) 5th
Nagasaki Stars Teiljo Ishikawa 4th 7th(tied) 6th
Hosho Reliables Kouichi Inouye 5th Hakuseki Ide 6th 3rd
Kyoto Owls Zaijiro Oki 6th 7th(tied) 8th
Yokohama Kingfishers Tadami Ishii 7th Yoshiyasu Maeda 2nd 2nd
Kinboshi Kites Motoji Tanaka 8th Sueo Shimabukuro 3rd 7th
Denki Dynamics Masahiro Tomita 9th 7th(tied) 9th
Rakisuta Rams Takayuri Kitagawa 10th Pat Ponder 5th 10th
Kobe Bulls 11th (tied) Ken Kamai 4th 12th
Osaka Sailors 11th (tied) Kusuo Sato 1st 11th
THIRD BASEMEN
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Sapporo Bears Kuniyasu Ishii 1st 5th(tied) 3rd
Nagasaki Stars Hidetsugu Ninomiya 2nd 5th(tied) 5th
Kyoto Owls Noriyuki Okamoto 3rd 5th(tied) 6th
Fukuoka Falcons Masamichi Murakami 4th 5th(tied) 7th
Yokohama Kingfishers Teruhiko Iwahashi 5th 5th(tied) 8th
Vesutan Bees Yoshizumi Smith 6th Oda Smith 2nd 1st
Hosho Reliables Tomoyoshi Takeuchi 7th Chikao Tokunaga 1st 2nd
Kobe Bulls Hokuto Yamamoto 8th 5th(tied) 10th
Osaka Sailors Toshiharu Miura 9th Kikuichi Shirai 3rd 4th
Denki Dynamics Saburo Miyamoto 10th 5th(tied) 11th
Kinboshi Kites Yukio Kubo 11th Genichi Maeda 4th 9th
Rakisuta Rams Akihiko Murakami 12th 5th(tied) 12th
SHORTSTOPS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Kyoto Owls Shinji Kishida 1st 4th(tied) 4th
Sapporo Bears Honoo Fujioka 2nd 4th(tied) 5th
Vesutan Bees Hyuuga Kimura 3rd Kohsuke Takayama 3rd 3rd
Nagasaki Stars Yoshimi Suzuki 4th 4th(tied) 6th
Fukuoka Falcons Yuuwa Nagashima 5th 4th(tied) 7th
Kobe Bulls Tsuneyo Ota 6th Tsuguhiro Hashiguchi 1st(tied) 1st
Osaka Sailors Takuyou Koyama 7th 4th(tied) 8th
Kinboshi Kites Manzo Shimabukuro 8th Kitahachi Masuda 1st(tied) 2nd
Yokohama Kingfishers Tadahiko Sakaguchi 9th 4th(tied) 9th
Denki Dynamics Taku Tagami 10th 4th(tied) 10th
Hosho Reliables Waotaka Watari 11th 4th(tied) 11th
Rakisuta Rams Toshishige Ando 12th 4th(tied) 12th
LEFT FIELDERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Fukuoka Falcons Tadatoshi Sato 1st 3rd(tied) 1st
Hosho Reliables Ukon Kikuchi 2nd 3rd(tied) 2nd
Nagasaki Stars Kenji Tokuda 3rd 3rd(tied) 3rd
Kyoto Owls Terunobu Saito 4th 3rd(tied) 5th
Sapporo Bears Hirotada Nakagawa 5th 3rd(tied) 6th
Kinboshi Kites Tsutomu Fujimoto 6th 3rd(tied) 7th
Rakisuta Rams Takao Matsumoto 7th 3rd(tied) 8th
Osaka Sailors Akiho Sugimoto 8th Kaisei Muramoto 2nd 4th
Denki Dynamics Yauyuki Hayashida 9th 3rd(tied) 10th
Vesutan Bees Tom Hansen 10th 3rd(tied) 11th
Yokohama Kingfishers Shigegeki Nagao 11th Tomoya Okazaki 1st 9th
Kobe Bulls 12th 3rd(tied) 12th
CENTER FIELDERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Kinboshi Kites Sakan Hashizume 1st Korekiyo Saito 7th 2nd
Nagasaki Stars Teruhi Hirai 2nd 9th(tied) 8th
Vesutan Bees Kikuma Kanai 3rd Jim Norville 8th 4th
Rakisuta Rams Mikinori Sakaguchi 4th Fumiya Nakasone 3rd 1st
Sapporo Bears Hidetsugu Yoshida 5th 9th(tied) 10th
Hosho Reliables Oniji Miyaji 6th Shinji Fukuda 5th 6th
Yokohama Kingfishers Sawao Fukuda 7th Tokita Oishi 4th 7th
Kyoto Owls Takiji Hayashi 8th 9th(tied) 11th
Osaka Sailors Ayumu Kaneshiro 9th Washi Okazaki 6th 9th
Fukuoka Falcons Shou Okuda 10th 9th(tied) 12th
Denki Dynamics Hiroshi Ishikawa 11th Keita Yamanaka 2nd 3rd
Kobe Bulls Kensaku Dobashi 12th Washichi Usui 1st 5th
RIGHT FIELDERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Kyoto Owls Kimiyasu Aoki 1st Ikkou Miyata 6th 3rd
Kinboshi Kites Tomoya Nagao 2nd Shinichi Okamoto 4th 2nd
Sapporo Bears Koji Osawa 3rd Kazumitsu Arakawa 5th 6th
Hosho Reliables Yutaka Yoshida 4th Jimmy Paul 1st(tied) 1st
Fukuoka Falcons Ben Tamura 5th 7th(tied) 7th
Vesutan Bees Komimasa Takahashi 6th 7th(tied) 8th
Nagasaki Stars Kazu Morita 7th 7th(tied) 9th
Rakisuta Rams Gombei Okazaki 8th 7th(tied) 10th
Denki Dynamics Tomoharu Kanda 9th Yohsuke Takemoto 1st(tied) 4th
Kobe Bulls Mineto Akahoshi 10th Wei-Tzu Matsumoto 1st(tied) 5th
Yokohama Kingfishers Ikumasa Fujimoto 11th 7th(tied) 11th
Osaka Sailors 12th 7th(tied) 12th
STARTING PITCHERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Sapporo Bears Kinzo Yoshimura 1st 7th(tied) 5th
Kyoto Owls Dan Rivard 2nd 7th(tied) 7th
Kobe Bulls Sumiteru Yoshida 3rd Ienari Takagi 6th 6th
Fukuoka Falcons Norito Yamazaki 4th Tadaatsu Miki 2nd 1st
Rakisuta Rams Tetsuji Iwasaki 5th Sadato Hayakawa 3rd(tied) 3rd
Nagasaki Stars Ed Brown 6th Josuke Fujimori 5th 8th
Kinboshi Kites Kannon Kato 7th 7th(tied) 9th
Vesutan Bees Yoshitora Nakagawa 8th 7th(tied) 10th
Denki Dynamics Satoshi Smith 9th Tony Rice 3rd(tied) 4th
Yokohama Kingfishers Takuyuki Shimizu 10th Ryusuke Maeda 1st 2nd
Hosho Reliables Kiyohiro Okazaki 11th 7th(tied) 11th
Osaka Sailors Izo Tomita 12th 7th(tied) 12th
RELIEVERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Fukuoka Falcons Teruo Ono 1st Josuke Takahashi 1st 1st
Nagasaki Stars Hideyasu Hara 2nd Mitsuyoshi Kondo 5th 3rd
Kyoto Owls Ikuo Kanazawa 3rd (tied) 6th(tied) 5th
Sapporo Bears Washi Shibata 3rd (tied) Munehiro Toyama 2nd 2nd
Kinboshi Kites Gou Kida 5th Benkei Nakao 4th 4th
Vesutan Bees Kazuko Ryu 6th 6th(tied) 7th
Yokohama Kingfishers Ryuusei Sawai 7th 6th(tied) 8th
Denki Dynamics Doi Iwasaki 8th Tony Rice 3rd 6th
Rakisuta Rams Tatashi Mine 9th 6th(tied) 9th
Osaka Sailors Mugen Takada 10th 6th(tied) 10th
Hosho Reliables Masami Niinuma 11th 6th(tied) 11th
Kobe Bulls Nobukazu Nakamura 12th 6th(tied) 12th
CLOSERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Sapporo Bears Katsumi Sato 1st Munehiro Toyama 3rd 3rd
Nagasaki Stars Shiro Sawada 2nd Josuke Fujimori 1st(tied) 1st
Fukuoka Falcons Michiyuki Oki 3rd Josuke Takahashi 1st(tied) 2nd
Kobe Bulls Satonori Yamasaki 4th 6th(tied) 5th
Kyoto Owls Morihiro Matsumura 5th 6th(tied) 7th
Denki Dynamics Hidemi Kawamura 6th Tony Rice 4th 4th
Yokohama Kingfishers Ryuusei Sawai 7th 6th(tied) 8th
Kinboshi Kites Gou Kida 8th Benkei Nakao 5th 6th
Hosho Reliables Yoshii Mizuno 9th 6th(tied) 9th
Rakisuta Rams Hidemitsu Yoshinaga 10th 6th(tied) 10th
Vesutan Bees Kazuko Ryu 11th 6th(tied) 11th
Osaka Sailors Mugen Takada 12th 6th(tied) 12th
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