The Baseball Guru - Manager’s All-Stars by Jim Albright

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

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