Masaichi Kaneda Correction

I never noticed it before, but I see that now. Yet, these numbers match what are in both the 1994 and 2004 Official Baseball Encyclopedias contain. The yearly Record Books put out by Baseball Magazine Sha also have instances where starts are less than complete games, such as Matuzaka in 2004: 23 games, 10 complete games, 1 close, and 9 starts. Considering that Matsuzaka is primarilly a starter, and I'm sure he started most of those 23 games, I think that complete games are not included under the starts field. If that is so, then Matsuzaka was used as a starter 19 out of 23 games played, which sounds about right.

The same goes with finishes. One generally finishes a complete game as well, yet the number of complete games is not included in the finishes column either.

The unusual thing about Kaneda that made this stand out was that he threw many more complete games than games where he started and did not complete.

I see that Baseball-Reference includes complete games with games started (see Candy Cummings as an example). But they do not include complete games with games finished (see Roy Halladay as an example).

Because I need to maintain the data according to Japanese reference sources, which all don't include complete games with starts, I'll make a note of it with the pitchers' stats. When I incorporate my data with that on Baseball-Reference, then I'll be sure to convert starts to include complete games.

Thanks for pointing this out. I hadn't realized that complete games weren't being included with starts before.

- I see that Baseball-Reference includes complete games with games started (see Candy Cummings as an example).

Though, Cummings pitched mostly before the establishment of the the NL in 1876, Cummings did pitch two years in the NL (1876 and '77). Before the establishment of the NL, mostly every team had only one or two pitchers who pitched every day. About a GF (Game Finished), MLB.com states it's to the last relief pitcher in the game and was not the starting pitcher. [MLB Abbriviations]

I checked 10 players. CG and Games are correct but GS are all incorrect.

                        GS
 Masaichi Kaneda       569
 Victor Starffin       449
 Keishi Suzuki         577
 Takehiko Bessho       483
 Masaaki Koyama        583
 Hisashi Yamada        447
 Tadashi Wakabayashi   327
 Tetusya Yoneda        626
 Jiro Noguchi          321
 Osamu Higashio        537

I think you misunderstood Japanese words.

CG means kantou - games finished by starters.
Koutai Kanryou - kanryou means GF.
Shiai tousho - tousho means game started but replaced in the middle of games.

So shiai tousho + kanto = GS. Please check stats again.