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MANAGER'S ALL-STARS


By Jim Albright


All successful managers have stars on their teams, because it is those stars who fuel the success of those teams. Managers sometimes develop the stars, sometimes they get the most out of those stars, and sometimes they just join with them in creating success. Either way, the relationship is there. This article tries to identify all the players who could reasonably be callled stars for more than one season for the most successful managers in Japanese baseball history.

Managers were selected as among the most successful in Japanese baseball history if they met one of two criteria:

     1) achieved 20 or more success points in the manager's success point system (see here for details of the system).

     2) are in the Japanese Hall of Fame and achieved 15 points or more in the manager's success point system.


Players were considered stars if they either:

     1) are in the Japanese Hall of Fame and had at least two seasons for the manager in question which were representative of his overall play. This rule is necessary for players who predate consistent awards of Best Nines and Sawamuras. It is also the only rule which has any subjective element.

     2) Meets one or more of the following criteria in at least two seasons playing for the manager in question:

          a) Won a Best Nine Award;
          b) Won a Sawamura Award;
          c) Won a MVP Award;
          d) scored at least five points in the triple crown categories (avg, RBI and HR for hitters; ERA, strikeouts, and wins for pitchers) calculated on the basis of 4 points for best in the league among qualifying players in the category, 3 for second best, 2 for third best, and 1 for fourth best, and 0 for everyone else.
          e) Had 20 or more Estimated Win Shares. For more on the calculation of this, please see this article.

If you want to know which teams the manager led during his career, see this spreadsheet or this page.

Without further ado, here are the selections:


Qualifying Managers List
Kaoru Betto Sadayoshi Fujimoto   Motoshi Fujita Tatsuro Hirooka
Senichi Hoshino Tetsuharu Kawakami   Takeshi Koba Osamu Mihara
Shigeru Mizuhara   Masaaki Mori Shigeo Nagashima   Yukio Nishimoto  
Katsuya Nomura Akira Ogi Sadaharu Oh Kazuto Tsuruoka
Toshiharu Ueda      

Kaoru Betto's Stars            Top of List

Pos   Name Pos   Name Pos   Name
P Atsushi Aramaki 2B Jack Bloomfield   1B Kihachi Enomoto
P Masaji Hiramatsu   3B-SS   Takao Katsuragi 3B Akitoshi Kodama
C Charlie Lewis 2B Mitsuo Motoi   P Shoichi Ono  
OF Kazuhiro Yamauchi          

Sadayoshi Fujimoto's Stars            Top of List

Pos   Name Pos   Name Pos   Name
2B Shigeru Chiba OF Shosei Go OF Shigeya Iijima
1B Tetsuharu Kawakami   3B Shigeru Mizuhara P Minoru Murayama
OF Haruyasu Nakajima P Teruzo Nakao P Juzo Sanada
P Eiji Sawamura SS Toshio Shiraishi P Victor Starffin
1B Goro Toi   OF Kazuhiro Yamauchi   SS Yoshio Yoshida
C Masaki Yoshihara          

Motoshi Fujita's Stars            Top of List

Pos   Name Pos   Name Pos   Name
P Suguru Egawa   OF-3B   Tatsunori Hara   1B Norihiro Komada
P Masumi Kuwata P Masaki Saito 2B Toshio Shinozuka  
C Kazuhiro Yamakura          

Tatsuro Hirooka's Stars            Top of List

Pos   Name Pos   Name Pos   Name
P Osamu Higashio   SS Hiromichi Ishige   OF Chuck Manuel
3B Steve Ontiveros OF Tsutomu Wakamatsu      

Senichi Hoshino's Stars            Top of List

Pos   Name Pos   Name Pos   Name
3B Leo Gomez   2B Makoto Imaoka   P Genji Kaku
1B-3B   Hiromitsu Ochiai   2B Kazuyoshi Tatsunami      

Tetsuharu Kawakami's Stars            Top of List

Pos   Name Pos   Name Pos   Name
2B Shozo Doi P Tsuneo Horiuchi P Kunio Jonouchi
C Masaaki Mori   3B Shigeo Nagashima   1B Sadaharu Oh
OF Isao Shibata OF Shigeru Takada P Kazumi Takahashi  

Takeshi Koba's Stars            Top of List

Pos   Name Pos   Name Pos   Name
3B-1B   Sachio Kinugasa   P Manabu Kitabeppu SS Toshiyuki Mimura
OF Carlos Ponce SS Yoshihiko Takahashi   OF Koji Yamamoto
OF Ryuzo Yamasaki        

Osamu Mihara's Stars            Top of List

Pos   Name Pos   Name Pos   Name
P Noburu Akiyama 2B Shigeru Chiba OF Masahiro Doi
P Kazuhisa Inao 1B Tetsuharu Kawakami   P Hisafumi Kawamura
P Tokuji Kawasaki OF-1B   Kazuhiko Kondo   3B Takeshi Kuwata
OF Yozo Nagabuchi 3B Futoshi Nakanishi   OF Hiroshi Oshita
P Mamoru Otsu OF Seiji Sekiguchi P Keishi Suzuki
SS Yasumitsu Toyoda   OF Tsutomu Wakamatsu    

Shigeru Mizuhara's Stars            Top of List

Pos   Name Pos   Name Pos   Name
OF Noburu Aota P Akira Bessho 2B Shigeru Chiba
P Hideo Fujimoto C Shigeru Fujio P Motoshi Fujita
OF Isao Harimoto SS Masaaki Hirai C Jun Hirota
1B Tetsuharu Kawakami   C Tatsuhiko Kimata OF Futoshi Minamibuchi  
OF Toshio Miyamoto 3B Shigeo Nagashima   1B Katsuo Osugi
P Takumi Otomo OF Wally Yonamine    

Masaaki Mori's Stars            Top of List

Pos   Name Pos   Name Pos   Name
OF Koji Akiyama   DH Orestes Destrade 3B-SS   Hiromichi Ishige
C Tsutomu Ito 1B Kazuhiro Kiyohara   P Kimiyasu Kudo
SS Norio Tanabe 2B Hatsuhiko Tsuji P Hisanobu Watanabe

Shigeru Nagashima's Stars            Top of List

Pos   Name Pos   Name Pos   Name
3B Akira Eto OF Isao Harimoto   P Shigeru Kobayashi  
OF Hideki Matsui   P Hisao Niura 1B Sadaharu Oh
P Masaki Saito        

Yukio Nishimoto's Stars            Top of List

Pos   Name Pos   Name Pos   Name
OF Yutaka Fukumoto   SS Shigeru Ishiwata 1B Clarence Jones
1B Hideji Kato OF Shigeru Kurihashi DH Chuck Manuel
OF Yozo Nagabuchi OF Tokuji Nagaike C Masataka Nashida
SS Yutaka Ohashi SS Toshizo Sakamoto   OF Kyosuke Sasaki
2B Daryl Spencer P Keishi Suzuki P Hisashi Yamada
P Tetsuya Yoneda        

Katsuya Nomura's Stars            Top of List

Pos   Name Pos   Name Pos   Name
C Atsuya Furuta 1B-OF   Katsumi Hirosawa   3B Jack Howell
SS Takahiro Ikeyama 1B Clarence Jones OF Hiromitsu Kadota  
C Katsuya Nomura 1B Tom O'Malley    

Akira Ogi's Stars            Top of List

Pos   Name Pos   Name Pos   Name
OF Ralph Bryant P Hideo Nomo 2B Koichi Oshima
OF Ichiro Suzuki   OF Yoshitomo Tani      

Sadaharu Oh's Stars            Top of List

Pos   Name Pos   Name Pos   Name
OF Warren Cromartie   3B Tatsunori Hara 2B Tadahito Iguchi
C Kenji Jojima 3B-2B   Hiroki Kokubo 1B Nobuhiko Matsunaka  
OF Hiroshi Shibahara   2B Toshio Shinozuka   OF Sadaaki Yoshimura  
C-DH   Koichiro Yoshinaga          

Kazuto Tsuruoka's Stars            Top of List

Pos   Name Pos   Name Pos   Name
P Akira Bessho   2B Don Blasingame OF Yoshinori Hirose
1B-OF   Tokuji Iida 3B Kazuo Kageyama SS Chusuke Kizuka
SS Kenji Koike 2B-3B   Yasuhiro Kunisada   P Mitsuo Minagawa
C Katsuya Nomura 2B Isami Okamoto P Tadashi Sugiura
1B-OF   Kohei Sugiyama 2B-3B   Kazuto Yamamoto   P Susumu Yuki

Toshiharu Ueda's Stars            Top of List

Pos   Name Pos   Name Pos   Name
OF Yasuo Fujii OF Yutaka Fukumoto   DH Kazuhiko Ishimine
3B Atsushi Kataoka 1B Hideji Kato 2B Bobby Marcano
3B Hiromi Matsunaga   OF Koji Minoda C Shinji Nakazawa
SS Yutaka Ohashi P Yoshinori Sato 3B Kinji Shimatani
SS Yukio Tanaka 1B Boomer Wells P Hisashi Yamada  

Complete list of Japanese managers - Download Spreadsheet Listed Alphabetically - View alphabetical list on screen 

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