BASEBALL ASSOCIATION OF NIPPON
POSITIONAL STRENGTH OVERVIEW BY POSITIONS
10/14/1975
 
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 Natsuhisa Yamamoto 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 8th(tied) 6th
Kinboshi Kites Fusao Tokunaga 2nd Takehiko Takei 7th 1st
Denki Dynamics Kinnojo Hirao 3rd 8th(tied) 9th
Vesutan Bees Shougo Iwai 4th Heita Yasuda 6th 5th
Fukuoka Falcons Yasuhiko Kawasaki 5th Haruhiko Yamamoto 2nd 2nd
Sapporo Bears Yoshinari Akamine 6th Kazuhiko Nishida 3rd 4th
Kyoto Owls Bungo Arai 7th 8th(tied) 10th
Rakisuta Rams Shigenobu Nakayama 8th 8th(tied) 11th
Yokohama Kingfishers Thoki Kaneshige 9th Hideaki Kinoshita 4th 7th
Osaka Sailors Zeshin Abe 10th Takashi Morikawa 5th 8th
Kobe Bulls Ryuichi Funakoshi 11th 8th(tied) 12th
Nagasaki Stars Yugo Hara 12th Yugo Hara 1st 3rd
SECOND BASEMEN
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Kobe Bulls Takaki Smith 1st 8th(tied) 6th
Osaka Sailors Tomohito Takahashi 2nd Satoshi Furuta 5th 4th
Denki Dynamics Jin Kaji 3rd Yoshisada Fujii 4th 5th
Sapporo Bears Joe Dow 4th Seiesnsui Takahashi 7th 7th
Nagasaki Stars Shozo Sakata 5th 8th(tied) 9th
Kinboshi Kites Hideyuki Kitamura 6th 8th(tied) 10th
Yokohama Kingfishers Kazuomi Hirata 7th Kobo Tsujinaka 1st(tied) 1st
Vesutan Bees Kohei Bai 8th Kazunori Nishimura 1st(tied) 2nd
Kyoto Owls Tamotsu Endo 9th Takashi Anzai 1st(tied) 3rd
Hosho Reliables Rkuemon Endo 10th Hisamitsu Araki 6th 8th
Fukuoka Falcons Shoshichi Hanzawa 11th 8th(tied) 11th
Rakisuta Rams Takanori Matsui 12th 8th(tied) 12th
THIRD BASEMEN
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Rakisuta Rams Shouta Fukushima 1st Koji Miyahara 2nd 2nd
Vesutan Bees Kichiro Okano 2nd 6th(tied) 5th
Kinboshi Kites Fumisato Muramoto 3rd 6th(tied) 6th
Nagasaki Stars Sakan Inoue 4th 6th(tied) 7th
Denki Dynamics Tsutomu Takahashi 5th 6th(tied) 8th
Yokohama Kingfishers Yodo Otsuki 6th Shichirobei Miyazawa 3rd 3rd
Fukuoka Falcons Toshifumi Shibuya 7th Shuncho Okamoto 5th 4th
Sapporo Bears Kai Yoneda 8th Takehiko Yamanaka 1st 1st
Hosho Reliables Billy McCullough 9th 6th(tied) 9th
Kyoto Owls Tensui Kato 10th 6th(tied) 11th
Osaka Sailors Ryuji Tamura 11th 6th(tied) 12th
Kobe Bulls Yoriyoshi Tanigawa 12th Yoriyoshi Tanigawa 4th 10th
SHORTSTOPS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Rakisuta Rams Hideharu Nomura 1st Yousui Akai 4th 2nd
Hosho Reliables Tenmu Kurosawa 2nd Shukishi Omura 1st(tied) 1st
Kyoto Owls Toyohiro Wada 3rd 7th(tied) 7th
Denki Dynamics Shigeru Ishida 4th Shigeyasu Okamura 6th 5th
Vesutan Bees Taiji Miyakawa 5th 7th(tied) 8th
Fukuoka Falcons Itaru Nakamura 6th 7th(tied) 9th
Sapporo Bears Shikato Murata 7th Kazuma Sato 3rd 4th
Nagasaki Stars Michiki Ichikawa 8th 7th(tied) 10th
Kinboshi Kites Akichika Goto 9th 7th(tied) 11th
Kobe Bulls Takanori Ide 10th Rikyu Yamaguchi 1st(tied) 3rd
Osaka Sailors Atsumi Kamai 11th Tetsuaki Kido 5th 6th
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 3rd 2nd
Kobe Bulls Tango Kurokawa 3rd Toru Kawamoto 2nd 3rd
Vesutan Bees Kyozo Omori 4th 4th(tied) 5th
Denki Dynamics Ikuo Muramoto 5th 4th(tied) 6th
Kinboshi Kites Munemitsu Kawasaki 6th (tied) 4th(tied) 7th(tied)
Sapporo Bears Tomiyuki Kusumoto 6th (tied) 4th(tied) 7th(tied)
Rakisuta Rams Go Yagi 8th Yasushi Ishibashi 1st 1st
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
Vesutan Bees Kazuo Kawano 2nd Sofu Tanaka 8th 8th
Fukuoka Falcons Hirobumi Takahashi 3rd Ren Ito 7th 7th
Nagasaki Stars Ikku Kawase 4th Toru Ono 11th 9th
Denki Dynamics Sukeichi Jimbo 5th Tadashige Nakai 9th 10th
Kinboshi Kites Taira Kanazawa 6th Kiyomichi Maeda 2nd(tied) 2nd
Hosho Reliables Ryunosuke Kodama 7th Akikazu Yamano 2nd(tied) 3rd
Yokohama Kingfishers Katsuaki Ishikawa 8th 12th 12th
Sapporo Bears Nobuyori Toyama 9th Matsusuke Hiraoka 2nd(tied) 5th
Rakisuta Rams Okahito Hayashi 10th Hiroshi Kobayashi 10th 11th
Kyoto Owls Mitsutsugu Fujimoto 11th Shinji Goto 1st 4th
Osaka Sailors Masahiko Yamamoto 12th Willie Quintana 2nd(tied) 6th
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 Bokkai Sakaguchi 4th 4th
Kyoto Owls Kinmochi Yamamoto 5th 6th(tied) 7th
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 2nd 1st
Kinboshi Kites Saimei Hayashida 2nd Kuniyasu Fujii 1st 2nd
Kobe Bulls Tatsuharu Oto 3rd 10th(tied) 8th
Osaka Sailors Kinnosuke Shimabukuro 4th 10th(tied) 9th
Rakisuta Rams Juro Esaki 5th Ryuta Kai 7th 5th
Denki Dynamics Tekkan Mihara 6th Sessue Saeki 5th 4th
Hosho Reliables Shihei Saito 7th Nobuo Kimura 6th 6th
Kyoto Owls Takamitsu Fujiwara 8th Kazuo Sugimoto 3rd 3rd
Nagasaki Stars Akimasa Murakami 9th Yoshihiro Nakajima 9th 10th
Sapporo Bears Katsumasa Hashimoto 10th 10th(tied) 12th
Yokohama Kingfishers Kiyoji Nakamura 11th Yasuhiro Saito 4th 7th
Vesutan Bees Masatoshi Sakai 12th Hideki Mizuno 8th 11th
RELIEVERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Osaka Sailors Matsu Nakamoto 1st Oda Ayukawa 1st 1st
Kobe Bulls Shiroku Terada 2nd Kiyohira Ikeda 7th 3rd
Vesutan Bees Taku Doi 3rd 12th 7th
Nagasaki Stars Nishiki Teshima 4th Nobusuke Yamada 2nd(tied) 2nd
Denki Dynamics Atsumi Shibata 5th Sessue Saeki 6th 5th
Sapporo Bears Eisaku Yamaoka 6th Tadahiko Nakashima 5th 6th
Kyoto Owls Harry Caltagirone 7th Suzu Maehara 8th 8th
Rakisuta Rams Yoshimatsu Shiina 8th Masayoshi Murata 2nd(tied) 4th
Hosho Reliables Junya Yamagata 9th Taizo Ito 10th 9th
Kinboshi Kites Toyoji Tsuda 10th Hideki Yamada 11th 10th
Fukuoka Falcons Tatsuhito Watanabe 11th Yukinari Kitano 9th 11th
Yokohama Kingfishers Wei-Tzu Otsuki 12th Seiji Ishida 4th 12th
CLOSERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Kobe Bulls Shinya Kawakami 1st Kiyohira Ikeda 9th 1st
Hosho Reliables Motomu Taira 2nd Taizo Ito 11th 6th
Denki Dynamics Tatsunori Tanoue 3rd Sessue Saeki 8th 4th
Fukuoka Falcons Shinpo Yamasaki 4th Yukinari Kitano 10th 10th
Osaka Sailors Yukinobu Nobuhara 5th Oda Ayukawa 2nd 2nd
Sapporo Bears Shinichi Kanehara 6th Tadahiko Nakashima 7th 9th
Kyoto Owls Kenshin Kon 7th Suzu Maehara 3rd(tied) 3rd
Vesutan Bees Kiyoshi Inouye 8th 12th 12th
Yokohama Kingfishers Zenzo Watanabe 9th Seiji Ishida 6th 11th
Kinboshi Kites Matoba Miwa 10th Takayuki Ogawa 5th 7th
Rakisuta Rams Gunji Matsuda 11th Masayoshi Murata 1st 5th
Nagasaki Stars Yoshiharu Fujitate 12th Nobusuke Yamada 3rd(tied) 8th
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