BASEBALL ASSOCIATION OF NIPPON
POSITIONAL STRENGTH OVERVIEW BY POSITIONS
06/30/1975
 
CATCHERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Kobe Bulls Kouyuu Kira 1st Osamu Nagata 1st(tied) 1st
Kinboshi Kites Korenaga Kurosawa 2nd 12th 12th
Denki Dynamics Kenji Ihara 3rd Naonobu Ichimura 1st(tied) 2nd
Kyoto Owls Hiroshi Yamashita 4th Tadashi Kimura 11th 9th
Hosho Reliables Yorihiko Kawata 5th Kentaro Matsuo 1st(tied) 3rd
Fukuoka Falcons Kazunari Suzuki 6th Youhei Kobuchii 9th 10th
Yokohama Kingfishers Kunisada Kimura 7th Takeshi Matsumoto 1st(tied) 4th
Sapporo Bears Yuuto Nakamura 8th Masato Shimada 1st(tied) 5th
Rakisuta Rams Kuranosuke Imakake 9th Motoyasu Nakata 1st(tied) 6th
Nagasaki Stars Botan Wada 10th Yoshio Masuda 10th 11th
Osaka Sailors Kojiro Urushihara 11th Tatsuo Ogawa 1st(tied) 7th
Vesutan Bees Razan Mikami 12th Tsutomu Smith 1st(tied) 8th
FIRST BASEMEN
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Hosho Reliables Yukio Watanabe 1st 10th(tied) 7th
Kinboshi Kites Fusao Tokunaga 2nd Takehiko Takei 8th 1st
Osaka Sailors Tomohito Takahashi 3rd Takashi Morikawa 5th 2nd
Kyoto Owls Toyohiro Wada 4th 10th(tied) 11th
Denki Dynamics Kinnojo Hirao 5th Hiroshi Yamada 7th 4th
Vesutan Bees Shougo Iwai 6th Heita Yasuda 9th 6th
Sapporo Bears Yoshinari Akamine 7th Kazuhiko Nishida 2nd 5th
Fukuoka Falcons Yasuhiko Kawasaki 8th Haruhiko Yamamoto 1st 3rd
Rakisuta Rams Motokuni Nakamura 9th Hiromori Yanada 6th 8th
Nagasaki Stars Binya Nishi 10th Ryusuke Hirata 3rd 9th
Yokohama Kingfishers Thoki Kaneshige 11th Hideaki Kinoshita 4th 10th
Kobe Bulls Ryuichi Funakoshi 12th 10th(tied) 12th
SECOND BASEMEN
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Kobe Bulls Takaki Smith 1st 11th(tied) 7th
Hosho Reliables Tenmu Kurosawa 2nd Hisamitsu Araki 8th 4th
Denki Dynamics Jin Kaji 3rd Yoshisada Fujii 6th 5th
Nagasaki Stars Shozo Sakata 4th Masaaki Fujino 10th 8th
Kinboshi Kites Hideyuki Kitamura 5th Shigeta Arakaki 4th 6th
Yokohama Kingfishers Kazuomi Hirata 6th Kobo Tsujinaka 3rd 1st
Kyoto Owls Tamotsu Endo 7th Fuugo Fujiwara 1st 2nd
Osaka Sailors Jiro Koda 8th Satoshi Furuta 7th 9th
Sapporo Bears Gunji Nakashima 9th Seiesnsui Takahashi 9th 11th
Fukuoka Falcons Shoshichi Hanzawa 10th 11th(tied) 12th
Vesutan Bees Tokugawa Ito 11th Kazunori Nishimura 2nd 3rd
Rakisuta Rams Glen McCauley 12th Shiro Nishioka 5th 10th
THIRD BASEMEN
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Rakisuta Rams Shouta Fukushima 1st Koji Miyahara 3rd 2nd
Vesutan Bees Kichiro Okano 2nd 7th(tied) 6th
Kinboshi Kites Fumisato Muramoto 3rd 7th(tied) 8th
Nagasaki Stars Sakan Inoue 4th Yugo Hara 2nd 3rd
Denki Dynamics Tsutomu Takahashi 5th 7th(tied) 9th
Fukuoka Falcons Toshifumi Shibuya 6th Shuncho Okamoto 6th 5th
Yokohama Kingfishers Yodo Otsuki 7th Shichirobei Miyazawa 4th 4th
Sapporo Bears Kai Yoneda 8th Takehiko Yamanaka 1st 1st
Hosho Reliables Billy McCullough 9th 7th(tied) 10th
Kyoto Owls Tensui Kato 10th 7th(tied) 11th
Osaka Sailors Ryuji Tamura 11th 7th(tied) 12th
Kobe Bulls Masu Osaki 12th Yoriyoshi Tanigawa 5th 7th
SHORTSTOPS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Rakisuta Rams Hideharu Nomura 1st Yousui Akai 1st(tied) 1st
Hosho Reliables Daijiro Nakamura 2nd Shukishi Omura 1st(tied) 2nd
Kyoto Owls Bungo Arai 3rd 7th(tied) 7th
Denki Dynamics Shigeru Ishida 4th Shigeyasu Okamura 6th 5th
Fukuoka Falcons Itaru Nakamura 5th 7th(tied) 8th
Sapporo Bears Shikato Murata 6th Kazuma Sato 4th 4th
Nagasaki Stars Michiki Ichikawa 7th 7th(tied) 9th
Kinboshi Kites Akichika Goto 8th 7th(tied) 10th
Kobe Bulls Takanori Ide 9th Rikyu Yamaguchi 1st(tied) 3rd
Osaka Sailors Atsumi Kamai 10th Tetsuaki Kido 5th 6th
Vesutan Bees Yoringa Ueda 11th 7th(tied) 11th
Yokohama Kingfishers Buncho Fukuhara 12th 7th(tied) 12th
LEFT FIELDERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Nagasaki Stars Isao Matsuda 1st 4th(tied) 4th
Fukuoka Falcons Ayato Sugiura 2nd Ippei Imai 2nd 1st
Kobe Bulls Tango Kurokawa 3rd Toru Kawamoto 1st 2nd
Vesutan Bees Kyozo Omori 4th 4th(tied) 5th
Denki Dynamics Ikuo Muramoto 5th 4th(tied) 6th
Rakisuta Rams Shigenobu Nakayama 6th Tetsuya Takemoto 3rd 3rd
Sapporo Bears Tomiyuki Kusumoto 7th 4th(tied) 7th
Kinboshi Kites Munemitsu Kawasaki 8th 4th(tied) 8th
Hosho Reliables Hank Dunham 9th 4th(tied) 9th
Kyoto Owls Shun Smith 10th 4th(tied) 10th
Osaka Sailors Satoshi Hino 11th 4th(tied) 11th
Yokohama Kingfishers Masanori Takagi 12th 4th(tied) 12th
CENTER FIELDERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Kobe Bulls Jouta Hayashida 1st Satoru Miyamoto 2nd(tied) 1st
Fukuoka Falcons Hirobumi Takahashi 2nd Ren Ito 9th 9th
Vesutan Bees Kazuo Kawano 3rd Sofu Tanaka 2nd(tied) 2nd
Denki Dynamics Sukeichi Jimbo 4th Tadashige Nakai 2nd(tied) 3rd
Kinboshi Kites Taira Kanazawa 5th Kiyomichi Maeda 2nd(tied) 4th
Hosho Reliables Ryunosuke Kodama 6th Akikazu Yamano 2nd(tied) 5th
Nagasaki Stars Taysuke Fujimoto 7th Toru Ono 11th 10th
Yokohama Kingfishers Katsuaki Ishikawa 8th 12th 12th
Kyoto Owls Minehiro Smith 9th Shinji Goto 1st 6th
Sapporo Bears Nobuyori Toyama 10th Matsusuke Hiraoka 2nd(tied) 7th
Rakisuta Rams Ryunosuke Onishi 11th Hiroshi Kobayashi 10th 11th
Osaka Sailors Masahiko Yamamoto 12th Willie Quintana 2nd(tied) 8th
RIGHT FIELDERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Vesutan Bees Hidetsugu Ikegami 1st Sueki Shimada 1st 1st
Fukuoka Falcons Tsuruo Akamine 2nd Morihiko Fujii 5th 2nd
Yokohama Kingfishers Toyoji Iwamoto 3rd 6th(tied) 6th
Denki Dynamics Yuuichi Oki 4th 6th(tied) 7th
Kyoto Owls Kinmochi Yamamoto 5th Mitsutsugu Fujimoto 4th 4th
Hosho Reliables Toshimasa Ikeda 6th Morimasa Ikeda 2nd 3rd
Kobe Bulls Toshitake Amano 7th 6th(tied) 8th
Sapporo Bears Nampo Fukuda 8th 6th(tied) 9th
Nagasaki Stars Kodai Takamatsu 9th 6th(tied) 10th
Rakisuta Rams Seisuke Kamo 10th Kiyoyuki Matsumoto 3rd 5th
Osaka Sailors Sotatsu Sato 11th 6th(tied) 11th
Kinboshi Kites Kesanori Kikuchi 12th 6th(tied) 12th
STARTING PITCHERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Fukuoka Falcons Rei Matsumura 1st Shigetaka Kamei 1st 1st
Kobe Bulls Tatsuharu Oto 2nd 11th(tied) 7th
Kinboshi Kites Saimei Hayashida 3rd Kakuei Tanaka 2nd 2nd
Osaka Sailors Kinnosuke Shimabukuro 4th Genpaku Matsumoto 7th 6th
Denki Dynamics Tekkan Mihara 5th Shizuma Komada 4th(tied) 4th
Rakisuta Rams Juro Esaki 6th 11th(tied) 11th
Hosho Reliables Shihei Saito 7th Kiyohiko Takara 4th(tied) 5th
Kyoto Owls Takamitsu Fujiwara 8th Kazuo Sugimoto 3rd 3rd
Nagasaki Stars Akimasa Murakami 9th Yoshihiro Nakajima 10th 9th
Sapporo Bears Katsumasa Hashimoto 10th Yoshifumi Kuramoto 8th 10th
Yokohama Kingfishers Kiyoji Nakamura 11th Yasuhiro Saito 4th(tied) 8th
Vesutan Bees Masatoshi Sakai 12th Hideki Mizuno 9th 12th
RELIEVERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Vesutan Bees Taku Doi 1st 11th(tied) 3rd
Kobe Bulls Shiroku Terada 2nd Kiyohira Ikeda 6th 5th
Sapporo Bears Yukinobu Nobuhara 3rd Tadahiko Nakashima 5th 4th
Nagasaki Stars Nishiki Teshima 4th Nobusuke Yamada 1st 1st
Osaka Sailors Matsu Nakamoto 5th Oda Ayukawa 3rd 2nd
Yokohama Kingfishers Zenzo Watanabe 6th Zenzo Watanabe 4th 6th
Fukuoka Falcons Tatsuhito Watanabe 7th Yukinari Kitano 8th 8th
Denki Dynamics Atsumi Shibata 8th 11th(tied) 10th
Kyoto Owls Harry Caltagirone 9th Suzu Maehara 7th 9th
Hosho Reliables Junya Yamagata 10th Taizo Ito 9th 11th
Rakisuta Rams Koji Fujimoto 11th Masayoshi Murata 2nd 7th
Kinboshi Kites Toyoji Tsuda 12th Hideki Yamada 10th 12th
CLOSERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Kobe Bulls Shinya Kawakami 1st Kiyohira Ikeda 9th 3rd
Hosho Reliables Motomu Taira 2nd Kiyohiko Takara 5th(tied) 1st
Denki Dynamics Tatsunori Tanoue 3rd 11th(tied) 11th
Fukuoka Falcons Shinpo Yamasaki 4th Shigetaka Kamei 1st 2nd
Sapporo Bears Shinichi Kanehara 5th Tadahiko Nakashima 8th 9th
Yokohama Kingfishers Yoisuke Nishizawa 6th Zenzo Watanabe 5th(tied) 4th
Kyoto Owls Kenshin Kon 7th Suzu Maehara 10th 10th
Vesutan Bees Kiyoshi Inouye 8th 11th(tied) 12th
Osaka Sailors Haruki Ogawa 9th Oda Ayukawa 4th 5th
Kinboshi Kites Matoba Miwa 10th Takayuki Ogawa 7th 7th
Rakisuta Rams Gunji Matsuda 11th Masayoshi Murata 3rd 6th
Nagasaki Stars Yoshiharu Fujitate 12th Nobusuke Yamada 2nd 8th
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