BASEBALL ASSOCIATION OF NIPPON
POSITIONAL STRENGTH OVERVIEW BY POSITIONS
01/20/1975
 
CATCHERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Denki Dynamics Kenji Ihara 1st Masahiro Inoue 2nd(tied) 1st
Kinboshi Kites Korenaga Kurosawa 2nd 12th 12th
Kobe Bulls Kouyuu Kira 3rd Osamu Nagata 2nd(tied) 2nd
Kyoto Owls Hiroshi Yamashita 4th Tadashi Kimura 10th 9th
Hosho Reliables Yorihiko Kawata 5th Kentaro Matsuo 2nd(tied) 3rd
Yokohama Kingfishers Kunisada Kimura 6th Takeshi Matsumoto 2nd(tied) 5th
Rakisuta Rams Kuranosuke Imakake 7th Motoyasu Nakata 2nd(tied) 6th
Fukuoka Falcons Kazunari Suzuki 8th Tetsukazu Shoda 1st 4th
Nagasaki Stars Botan Wada 9th Yoshio Masuda 11th 11th
Sapporo Bears Sukeyasu Arakawa 10th Masato Shimada 2nd(tied) 7th
Osaka Sailors Kojiro Urushihara 11th Tatsuo Ogawa 2nd(tied) 8th
Vesutan Bees Razan Mikami 12th Kiyoji Ikeda 9th 10th
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 7th 1st
Denki Dynamics Kinnojo Hirao 3rd Hiroshi Yamada 6th 3rd
Osaka Sailors Tomohito Takahashi 4th Takashi Morikawa 4th 2nd
Vesutan Bees Shougo Iwai 5th Heita Yasuda 9th 5th
Sapporo Bears Yoshinari Akamine 6th Kazuhiko Nishida 2nd 4th
Kyoto Owls Bungo Arai 7th 10th(tied) 11th
Nagasaki Stars Binya Nishi 8th (tied) Ryusuke Hirata 3rd 8th
Rakisuta Rams Motokuni Nakamura 8th (tied) Hiromori Yanada 8th 10th
Yokohama Kingfishers Thoki Kaneshige 10th Hideaki Kinoshita 5th 9th
Fukuoka Falcons Yasuhiko Kawasaki 11th Haruhiko Yamamoto 1st 6th
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 Takeshi Endo 6th 1st
Denki Dynamics Jin Kaji 2nd Yoshisada Fujii 3rd 4th
Kinboshi Kites Hideyuki Kitamura 3rd Shigeta Arakaki 2nd 3rd
Nagasaki Stars Shozo Sakata 4th Masaaki Fujino 9th 8th
Kyoto Owls Tamotsu Endo 5th Masaru Abe 5th 5th
Yokohama Kingfishers Katsuki Kagawa 6th Kazuo Hoshino 7th 7th
Hosho Reliables Micho Nakajima 7th 10th(tied) 10th
Osaka Sailors Jiro Koda 8th Satoshi Furuta 4th 6th
Rakisuta Rams Glen McCauley 9th 10th(tied) 11th
Sapporo Bears Gunji Nakashima 10th Seiesnsui Takahashi 8th 9th
Fukuoka Falcons Shoshichi Hanzawa 11th 10th(tied) 12th
Vesutan Bees Tokugawa Ito 12th Kazunori Nishimura 1st 2nd
THIRD BASEMEN
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Rakisuta Rams Shouta Fukushima 1st Koji Miyahara 1st 1st
Vesutan Bees Taiji Miyakawa 2nd 5th(tied) 5th
Kinboshi Kites Fumisato Muramoto 3rd 5th(tied) 6th
Denki Dynamics Tsutomu Takahashi 4th 5th(tied) 7th
Fukuoka Falcons Toshifumi Shibuya 5th 5th(tied) 8th
Nagasaki Stars Sakan Inoue 6th 5th(tied) 9th
Hosho Reliables Billy McCullough 7th 5th(tied) 10th
Sapporo Bears Kai Yoneda 8th Gus Davis 2nd 2nd
Kyoto Owls Tensui Kato 9th 5th(tied) 11th
Osaka Sailors Ryuji Tamura 10th Jun Suzuki 4th 3rd
Yokohama Kingfishers Buncho Fukuhara 11th 5th(tied) 12th
Kobe Bulls Masu Osaki 12th Yoriyoshi Tanigawa 3rd 4th
SHORTSTOPS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Rakisuta Rams Hideharu Nomura 1st Yousui Akai 1st(tied) 1st
Hosho Reliables Tenmu Kurosawa 2nd Shukishi Omura 1st(tied) 2nd
Sapporo Bears Shikato Murata 3rd Kazuma Sato 4th 4th
Kyoto Owls Toyohiro Wada 4th 8th(tied) 8th
Fukuoka Falcons Itaru Nakamura 5th Shinsaku Okamoto 3rd 3rd
Nagasaki Stars Michiki Ichikawa 6th 8th(tied) 9th
Kinboshi Kites Akichika Goto 7th 8th(tied) 10th
Yokohama Kingfishers Kazuomi Hirata 8th 8th(tied) 11th
Denki Dynamics Shigeru Ishida 9th Shigeyasu Okamura 7th 7th
Kobe Bulls Takanori Ide 10th Rikyu Yamaguchi 5th 5th
Osaka Sailors Atsumi Kamai 11th Tetsuaki Kido 6th 6th
Vesutan Bees Yoringa Ueda 12th 8th(tied) 12th
LEFT FIELDERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Fukuoka Falcons Ayato Sugiura 1st Ippei Imai 1st 1st
Nagasaki Stars Isao Matsuda 2nd Godai Wada 2nd 2nd
Kobe Bulls Tango Kurokawa 3rd Toru Kawamoto 3rd 3rd
Vesutan Bees Kyozo Omori 4th 6th(tied) 6th
Denki Dynamics Ikuo Muramoto 5th 6th(tied) 7th
Rakisuta Rams Shigenobu Nakayama 6th Tetsuya Takemoto 4th 4th
Sapporo Bears Tomiyuki Kusumoto 7th 6th(tied) 8th
Kyoto Owls Shun Smith 8th 6th(tied) 9th
Osaka Sailors Shinpei Abe 9th Tsugunao Kimura 5th 5th
Kinboshi Kites Munemitsu Kawasaki 10th 6th(tied) 10th
Hosho Reliables Hank Dunham 11th 6th(tied) 11th
Yokohama Kingfishers Masanori Takagi 12th 6th(tied) 12th
CENTER FIELDERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Kobe Bulls Jouta Hayashida 1st Satoru Miyamoto 8th 6th
Fukuoka Falcons Hirobumi Takahashi 2nd Satsuya Utsumi 10th 9th
Vesutan Bees Ikku Kawase 3rd Shoji Muramoto 4th(tied) 1st
Denki Dynamics Sukeichi Jimbo 4th Tadashige Nakai 3rd 2nd
Kinboshi Kites Taira Kanazawa 5th Yasuhiro Mizuno 1st 3rd
Nagasaki Stars Ryunosuke Kodama 6th Toru Ono 9th 10th
Kyoto Owls Minehiro Smith 7th Mitsutsugu Fujimoto 2nd 4th
Yokohama Kingfishers Katsuaki Ishikawa 8th 11th(tied) 11th
Rakisuta Rams Taysuke Fujimoto 9th Taysuke Fujimoto 4th(tied) 5th
Hosho Reliables Akitoshi Yamane 10th Akikazu Yamano 4th(tied) 7th
Sapporo Bears Nobuyori Toyama 11th 11th(tied) 12th
Osaka Sailors Masahiko Yamamoto 12th Willie Quintana 4th(tied) 8th
RIGHT FIELDERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Fukuoka Falcons Tsuruo Akamine 1st Morihiko Fujii 3rd 2nd
Vesutan Bees Hidetsugu Ikegami 2nd Keiji Itoh 1st 1st
Yokohama Kingfishers Toyoji Iwamoto 3rd 4th(tied) 4th
Denki Dynamics Yuuichi Oki 4th 4th(tied) 5th
Kyoto Owls Kinmochi Yamamoto 5th 4th(tied) 6th
Hosho Reliables Toshimasa Ikeda 6th 4th(tied) 7th
Kobe Bulls Toshitake Amano 7th 4th(tied) 8th
Sapporo Bears Nampo Fukuda 8th 4th(tied) 9th
Osaka Sailors Sotatsu Sato 9th 4th(tied) 10th
Kinboshi Kites Kesanori Kikuchi 10th (tied) 4th(tied) 11th
Rakisuta Rams Seisuke Kamo 10th (tied) Kiyoyuki Matsumoto 2nd 3rd
Nagasaki Stars Tatsuhiko Ueda 12th 4th(tied) 12th
STARTING PITCHERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Kobe Bulls Tatsuharu Oto 1st 9th(tied) 5th
Fukuoka Falcons Rei Matsumura 2nd Shigetaka Kamei 3rd(tied) 1st
Rakisuta Rams Juro Esaki 3rd Bill Carpenter 8th 6th
Osaka Sailors Kinnosuke Shimabukuro 4th 9th(tied) 8th
Kinboshi Kites Saimei Hayashida 5th 9th(tied) 9th
Nagasaki Stars Akimasa Murakami 6th Yoshihiro Nakajima 6th(tied) 7th
Denki Dynamics Tekkan Mihara 7th Shizuma Komada 3rd(tied) 4th
Kyoto Owls Takamitsu Fujiwara 8th Kazuo Sugimoto 2nd 2nd
Hosho Reliables Kiyoharu Kawamoto 9th Kiyohiko Takara 1st 3rd
Yokohama Kingfishers Kiyoji Nakamura 10th Kakuro Watanabe 5th 10th
Vesutan Bees Masatoshi Sakai 11th Hideki Mizuno 6th(tied) 11th
Sapporo Bears Katsumasa Hashimoto 12th 9th(tied) 12th
RELIEVERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Kobe Bulls Shiroku Terada 1st Kiyohira Ikeda 8th 1st
Vesutan Bees Taku Doi 2nd An Ba 10th 3rd
Sapporo Bears Yukinobu Nobuhara 3rd Yoshifumi Kuramoto 7th 4th
Osaka Sailors Matsu Nakamoto 4th Matsu Nakamoto 2nd(tied) 2nd
Kyoto Owls Harry Caltagirone 5th Suzu Maehara 9th 6th
Denki Dynamics Atsumi Shibata 6th 12th 11th
Nagasaki Stars Natsuhisa Morinaga 7th Natsuhisa Morinaga 1st 5th
Yokohama Kingfishers Taishi Yoshimura 8th Zenzo Watanabe 6th 7th
Kinboshi Kites Toyoji Tsuda 9th Hideki Yamada 11th 10th
Hosho Reliables Junya Yamagata 10th Kiyohiko Takara 2nd(tied) 8th
Fukuoka Falcons Tatsuhito Watanabe 11th Tsugunosuke Ohashi 2nd(tied) 9th
Rakisuta Rams Koji Mizuno 12th Koji Mizuno 2nd(tied) 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 3rd(tied) 1st
Denki Dynamics Tatsunori Tanoue 3rd 12th 12th
Fukuoka Falcons Shinpo Yamasaki 4th Shigetaka Kamei 1st 2nd
Yokohama Kingfishers Yoisuke Nishizawa 5th Zenzo Watanabe 7th 7th
Sapporo Bears Shinichi Kanehara 6th Tadahiko Nakashima 8th 9th
Kyoto Owls Kenshin Kon 7th Suzu Maehara 10th 10th
Osaka Sailors Haruki Ogawa 8th Matsu Nakamoto 3rd(tied) 4th
Vesutan Bees Kiyoshi Inouye 9th An Ba 11th 11th
Rakisuta Rams Gunji Matsuda 10th Koji Mizuno 3rd(tied) 5th
Kinboshi Kites Matoba Miwa 11th Takayuki Ogawa 6th 8th
Nagasaki Stars Natsuhisa Morinaga 12th Natsuhisa Morinaga 2nd 6th
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