Jim Albright
/
the
japanese insider
Ranked by "Excellence Plus Points" and Sorted by Position. Minimum 350 points
Description
of the ranking system
Notes: Players are assigned to the position I estimate they played the most defensive innings at.
| Pitcher | Third Base | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Player Name | Rank | Player Name |
| 5. | Masaichi Kaneda | 3. | Shigeo Nagashima |
| 6. | Victor Starffin | 18. | Fumio Fujimura |
| 9. | Kazuhisa Inao | 21. | Sachio Kinugasa |
| 11. | Takehiko Bessho | (tie) 30. | Masayuki Kakefu |
| 12. | Jiro Noguchi | (tie) 32. | Futoshi Nakanishi |
| 22. | Tadashi Wakabayashi | (tie) 32. | Michiyo Arito |
| 26. | Shigeru Sugishita | 36. | Tatsunori Hara |
| (tie) 30. | Hideo Fujimoto | 41. | Hiromichi Ishige |
| 38. | Masaaki Koyama | 49. | Hiromi Matsunaga |
| (tie) 53. | Yutaka Enatsu | 51. | Akira Eto |
| (tie) 55. | Hisashi Yamada | 63. | Kazuto Yamamoto |
| 62. | Ryohei Hasegawa | 81. | Norihiro Nakamura |
| 64. | Minoru Murayama | 95. | Akitoshi Kodama |
| (tie) 65. | Tadashi Sugiura | 101. | Takeshi Kuwata |
| 75. | Tetsuya Yoneda | (tie) 103. | Kinji Shimatani |
| 76. | Juzo Sanada | (tie) 111. | Atsushi Kataoka |
| 79. | Keishi Suzuki | ||
| 88. | Takao Kajimoto | Shortstop | |
| 90. | Mitsuo Minagawa | 15. | Yasumitsu Toyoda |
| 102. | Teruzo Nakao | 37. | Taira Fujita |
| (tie) 103. | Atsushi Aramaki | 42. | Kazuo Matsui |
| 109. | Takumi Otomo | 52. | Toshio Shiraishi |
| (tie) 55. | Yoshihiko Takahashi | ||
| Catcher | (tie) 65. | Takehiro Ikeyama | |
| 2. | Katsuya Nomura | 69. | Yoshio Yoshida |
| 23. | Koichi Tabuchi | 70. | Yukio Tanaka |
| 39. | Atsuya Furuta | (tie) 77. | Kenjiro Nomura |
| 46. | Tatsuhiko Kimata | (tie) 84. | Masaru Uno |
| 107. | Takeshi Doigaki | (tie) 86. | Takuro Ishii |
| 113. | Tsutomu Ito | ||
| Outfield | |||
| First Base | 4. | Isao Harimoto | |
| 1. | Sadaharu Oh | 8. | Kazuhiro Yamauchi |
| 7. | Hiromitsu Ochiai | 10. | Koji Yamamoto |
| 13. | Tetsuharu Kawakami | 14. | Yutaka Fukumoto |
| 17. | Kihachi Enomoto | 16. | Hiromitsu Kadota |
| 24. | Kazuhiro Kiyohara | (tie) 19. | Hideki Matsui |
| 25. | Katsuo Osugi | (tie) 19. | Masahiro Doi |
| 40. | Hideji Kato | (tie) 27. | Shinichi Eto |
| 43. | Kenichi Yazawa | (tie) 27. | Koji Akiyama |
| (tie) 53. | Michio Nishizawa | 29. | Ichiro Suzuki |
| (tie) 60. | Tokuji Iida | 35. | Tsutomu Wakamatsu |
| (tie) 72. | Roberto Petagine | 45. | Shosei Go |
| (tie) 77. | Makoto Matsubara | 50. | Makoto Kozuru |
| (tie) 96. | Katsumi Hirosawa | 57. | Yasunori Oshima |
| (tie) 96. | Norihiro Komada | 58. | Yoshinori Hirose |
| (tie) 19. | Boomer Wells | 59. | Tokuji Nagaike |
| 110. | Michihiro Ogasawara | (tie) 65. | Kenjiro Tamiya |
| (tie) 111. | Toru Ogawa | 68. | Isao Shibata |
| (tie) 114. | Tom O'Malley | 71. | Noburu Aota |
| (tie) 114. | Randy Bass | 74. | Tomoaki Kanemoto |
| 80. | Tuffy Rhodes | ||
| Second Base | 82. | Akinobu Mayumi | |
| 34. | Shigeru Chiba | (tie) 84. | Hiroshi Oshita |
| 44. | Hiroyuki Yamazaki | 89. | Shoichi Busujima |
| 47. | Morimichi Takagi | 91. | Wally Yonamine |
| 48. | Kazuyoshi Tatsunami | 92. | Kazuhiko Kondo |
| (tie) 60. | Bobby Rose | 94. | Toshio Naka |
| (tie) 72. | Mitsuo Motoi | 100. | Masayasu Kaneda |
| 83. | Yutaka Takagi | (tie) 103. | Kazuyoshi Yamamoto |
| (tie) 86. | Daijiro Oishi | (tie) 103. | LeRon Lee |
| 93. | Akinobu Okada | 108. | Toru Sugiura |
| (tie) 96. | Toshio Shinozuka |
