BASEBALL ASSOCIATION OF NIPPON
POSITIONAL STRENGTH OVERVIEW BY TEAMS
10/14/1975
 
DENKI DYNAMICS (INT) 10/14/1975
Position Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Catchers Kenji Ihara 3rd Natsuhisa Yamamoto 1st 2nd
First Basemen Kinnojo Hirao 3rd 8th 9th
Second Basemen Jin Kaji 3rd Yoshisada Fujii 4th 5th
Third Basemen Tsutomu Takahashi 5th 6th 8th
Shortstops Shigeru Ishida 4th Shigeyasu Okamura 6th 5th
Left Fielders Ikuo Muramoto 5th 4th 6th
Center Fielders Sukeichi Jimbo 5th Tadashige Nakai 9th 10th
Right Fielders Yuuichi Oki 4th Bokkai Sakaguchi 4th 4th
Starting Pitchers Tekkan Mihara 6th Sessue Saeki 5th 4th
Relievers Atsumi Shibata 5th Sessue Saeki 6th 5th
Closers Tatsunori Tanoue 3rd Sessue Saeki 8th 4th
FUKUOKA FALCONS (INT) 10/14/1975
Position Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Catchers Kazunari Suzuki 6th Youhei Kobuchii 9th 10th
First Basemen Yasuhiko Kawasaki 5th Haruhiko Yamamoto 2nd 2nd
Second Basemen Shoshichi Hanzawa 11th 8th 11th
Third Basemen Toshifumi Shibuya 7th Shuncho Okamoto 5th 4th
Shortstops Itaru Nakamura 6th 7th 9th
Left Fielders Ayato Sugiura 2nd Ippei Imai 3rd 2nd
Center Fielders Hirobumi Takahashi 3rd Ren Ito 7th 7th
Right Fielders Tsuruo Akamine 2nd Morihiko Fujii 5th 2nd
Starting Pitchers Rei Matsumura 1st Shigetaka Kamei 2nd 1st
Relievers Tatsuhito Watanabe 11th Yukinari Kitano 9th 11th
Closers Shinpo Yamasaki 4th Yukinari Kitano 10th 10th
HOSHO RELIABLES (INT) 10/14/1975
Position Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Catchers Yorihiko Kawata 5th Kentaro Matsuo 1st (tied) 3rd
First Basemen Yukio Watanabe 1st 8th (tied) 6th
Second Basemen Rkuemon Endo 10th Hisamitsu Araki 6th 8th
Third Basemen Billy McCullough 9th 6th (tied) 9th
Shortstops Tenmu Kurosawa 2nd Shukishi Omura 1st 1st
Left Fielders Hank Dunham 9th 4th (tied) 9th
Center Fielders Ryunosuke Kodama 7th Akikazu Yamano 2nd 3rd
Right Fielders Toshimasa Ikeda 6th Morimasa Ikeda 2nd 3rd
Starting Pitchers Shihei Saito 7th Nobuo Kimura 6th 6th
Relievers Junya Yamagata 9th Taizo Ito 10th 9th
Closers Motomu Taira 2nd Taizo Ito 11th 6th
KINBOSHI KITES (INT) 10/14/1975
Position Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Catchers Korenaga Kurosawa 2nd 12th 12th
First Basemen Fusao Tokunaga 2nd Takehiko Takei 7th 1st
Second Basemen Hideyuki Kitamura 6th 8th (tied) 10th
Third Basemen Fumisato Muramoto 3rd 6th (tied) 6th
Shortstops Akichika Goto 9th 7th (tied) 11th
Left Fielders Munemitsu Kawasaki 6th 4th (tied) 7th
Center Fielders Taira Kanazawa 6th Kiyomichi Maeda 2nd (tied) 2nd
Right Fielders Kesanori Kikuchi 12th 6th 12th
Starting Pitchers Saimei Hayashida 2nd Kuniyasu Fujii 1st 2nd
Relievers Toyoji Tsuda 10th Hideki Yamada 11th 10th
Closers Matoba Miwa 10th Takayuki Ogawa 5th 7th
KOBE BULLS (INT) 10/14/1975
Position Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Catchers Kouyuu Kira 1st Osamu Nagata 1st (tied) 1st
First Basemen Ryuichi Funakoshi 11th 8th (tied) 12th
Second Basemen Takaki Smith 1st 8th (tied) 6th
Third Basemen Yoriyoshi Tanigawa 12th Yoriyoshi Tanigawa 4th 10th
Shortstops Takanori Ide 10th Rikyu Yamaguchi 1st (tied) 3rd
Left Fielders Tango Kurokawa 3rd Toru Kawamoto 2nd 3rd
Center Fielders Jouta Hayashida 1st Satoru Miyamoto 2nd (tied) 1st
Right Fielders Toshitake Amano 7th 6th (tied) 8th
Starting Pitchers Tatsuharu Oto 3rd 10th 8th
Relievers Shiroku Terada 2nd Kiyohira Ikeda 7th 3rd
Closers Shinya Kawakami 1st Kiyohira Ikeda 9th 1st
KYOTO OWLS (INT) 10/14/1975
Position Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Catchers Hiroshi Yamashita 4th Tadashi Kimura 11th 9th
First Basemen Bungo Arai 7th 8th (tied) 10th
Second Basemen Tamotsu Endo 9th Takashi Anzai 1st 3rd
Third Basemen Tensui Kato 10th 6th (tied) 11th
Shortstops Toyohiro Wada 3rd 7th (tied) 7th
Left Fielders Shun Smith 10th 4th (tied) 10th
Center Fielders Mitsutsugu Fujimoto 11th Shinji Goto 1st 4th
Right Fielders Kinmochi Yamamoto 5th 6th (tied) 7th
Starting Pitchers Takamitsu Fujiwara 8th Kazuo Sugimoto 3rd 3rd
Relievers Harry Caltagirone 7th Suzu Maehara 8th 8th
Closers Kenshin Kon 7th Suzu Maehara 3rd 3rd
NAGASAKI STARS (INT) 10/14/1975
Position Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Catchers Botan Wada 10th Yoshio Masuda 10th 11th
First Basemen Yugo Hara 12th Yugo Hara 1st 3rd
Second Basemen Shozo Sakata 5th 8th (tied) 9th
Third Basemen Sakan Inoue 4th 6th (tied) 7th
Shortstops Michiki Ichikawa 8th 7th (tied) 10th
Left Fielders Isao Matsuda 1st 4th (tied) 4th
Center Fielders Ikku Kawase 4th Toru Ono 11th 9th
Right Fielders Kodai Takamatsu 9th 6th (tied) 10th
Starting Pitchers Akimasa Murakami 9th Yoshihiro Nakajima 9th 10th
Relievers Nishiki Teshima 4th Nobusuke Yamada 2nd 2nd
Closers Yoshiharu Fujitate 12th Nobusuke Yamada 3rd (tied) 8th
OSAKA SAILORS (INT) 10/14/1975
Position Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Catchers Kojiro Urushihara 11th Tatsuo Ogawa 1st (tied) 7th
First Basemen Zeshin Abe 10th Takashi Morikawa 5th 8th
Second Basemen Tomohito Takahashi 2nd Satoshi Furuta 5th 4th
Third Basemen Ryuji Tamura 11th 6th (tied) 12th
Shortstops Atsumi Kamai 11th Tetsuaki Kido 5th 6th
Left Fielders Satoshi Hino 11th 4th (tied) 11th
Center Fielders Masahiko Yamamoto 12th Willie Quintana 2nd (tied) 6th
Right Fielders Sotatsu Sato 11th 6th (tied) 11th
Starting Pitchers Kinnosuke Shimabukuro 4th 10th (tied) 9th
Relievers Matsu Nakamoto 1st Oda Ayukawa 1st 1st
Closers Yukinobu Nobuhara 5th Oda Ayukawa 2nd 2nd
RAKISUTA RAMS (INT) 10/14/1975
Position Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Catchers Kuranosuke Imakake 9th Motoyasu Nakata 1st (tied) 6th
First Basemen Shigenobu Nakayama 8th 8th (tied) 11th
Second Basemen Takanori Matsui 12th 8th (tied) 12th
Third Basemen Shouta Fukushima 1st Koji Miyahara 2nd 2nd
Shortstops Hideharu Nomura 1st Yousui Akai 4th 2nd
Left Fielders Go Yagi 8th Yasushi Ishibashi 1st 1st
Center Fielders Okahito Hayashi 10th Hiroshi Kobayashi 10th 11th
Right Fielders Seisuke Kamo 10th Kiyoyuki Matsumoto 3rd 5th
Starting Pitchers Juro Esaki 5th Ryuta Kai 7th 5th
Relievers Yoshimatsu Shiina 8th Masayoshi Murata 2nd (tied) 4th
Closers Gunji Matsuda 11th Masayoshi Murata 1st 5th
SAPPORO BEARS (INT) 10/14/1975
Position Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Catchers Yuuto Nakamura 8th Masato Shimada 1st (tied) 5th
First Basemen Yoshinari Akamine 6th Kazuhiko Nishida 3rd 4th
Second Basemen Joe Dow 4th Seiesnsui Takahashi 7th 7th
Third Basemen Kai Yoneda 8th Takehiko Yamanaka 1st 1st
Shortstops Shikato Murata 7th Kazuma Sato 3rd 4th
Left Fielders Tomiyuki Kusumoto 6th (tied) 4th (tied) 7th (tied)
Center Fielders Nobuyori Toyama 9th Matsusuke Hiraoka 2nd (tied) 5th
Right Fielders Nampo Fukuda 8th 6th (tied) 9th
Starting Pitchers Katsumasa Hashimoto 10th 10th (tied) 12th
Relievers Eisaku Yamaoka 6th Tadahiko Nakashima 5th 6th
Closers Shinichi Kanehara 6th Tadahiko Nakashima 7th 9th
VESUTAN BEES (INT) 10/14/1975
Position Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Catchers Razan Mikami 12th Tsutomu Smith 1st (tied) 8th
First Basemen Shougo Iwai 4th Heita Yasuda 6th 5th
Second Basemen Kohei Bai 8th Kazunori Nishimura 1st (tied) 2nd
Third Basemen Kichiro Okano 2nd 6th (tied) 5th
Shortstops Taiji Miyakawa 5th 7th (tied) 8th
Left Fielders Kyozo Omori 4th 4th (tied) 5th
Center Fielders Kazuo Kawano 2nd Sofu Tanaka 8th 8th
Right Fielders Hidetsugu Ikegami 1st Sueki Shimada 1st 1st
Starting Pitchers Masatoshi Sakai 12th Hideki Mizuno 8th 11th
Relievers Taku Doi 3rd 12th 7th
Closers Kiyoshi Inouye 8th 12th 12th
YOKOHAMA KINGFISHERS (INT) 10/14/1975
Position Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Catchers Kunisada Kimura 7th Takeshi Matsumoto 1st (tied) 4th
First Basemen Thoki Kaneshige 9th Hideaki Kinoshita 4th 7th
Second Basemen Kazuomi Hirata 7th Kobo Tsujinaka 1st (tied) 1st
Third Basemen Yodo Otsuki 6th Shichirobei Miyazawa 3rd 3rd
Shortstops Buncho Fukuhara 12th 7th (tied) 12th
Left Fielders Masanori Takagi 12th 4th (tied) 12th
Center Fielders Katsuaki Ishikawa 8th 12th 12th
Right Fielders Toyoji Iwamoto 3rd 6th (tied) 6th
Starting Pitchers Kiyoji Nakamura 11th Yasuhiro Saito 4th 7th
Relievers Wei-Tzu Otsuki 12th Seiji Ishida 4th 12th
Closers Zenzo Watanabe 9th Seiji Ishida 6th 11th
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