Francis Agcaoili

Francis Agcaoili

• Bats Left, Throws Right
• Height 6' 1", Weight 187 lb.

• High School Kahuku High & Intermediate School

• Born March 29, 1939 in Oahu, HI USA

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Biographical Information

Francis Agcaoili played in Nippon Professional Baseball from 1962 to 1969.

He began his career with the Taiyo Whales, hitting .293/.322/.417 with 88 hits his first campaign, splitting third base with Takeshi Kuwata. His first NPB hit was off Genichi Murata and his first homer against Hiroshi Gondo. The Oahu native slipped to .253/.300/.347 in 1963, backing up Akihito Kondo at 2B and Kuwata at 3B. In 1964, he faded further, producing at a .201/.252/.291 clip as a backup 2B-OF. Taiyo let him go.

After a couple down years, he joined the Nishitetsu Lions for 1965, becoming a starter at 1B and hitting a career-high 24 home runs with 72 RBI in 115 games. He hit .282/.355/.519. He was 8th in the Pacific League in average (between Tony Roig and Motoaki Horigome), around 7th in OBP, 3rd or 4th in slugging (after Daryl Spencer, Katsuya Nomura and possibly Stan Palys - if Palys qualified), 3rd in OPS (behind only Spencer and Nomura), tied for 9th in runs (64) with Kihachi Enomoto and Kenji Koike, tied Masahiro Doi for fifth in homers (behind Nomura and three former major leaguers), tied Palys for 6th in RBI, tied Takashi Takagi for 9th in walks (46) and tied Isao Harimoto for the most sacrifice flies (7). He made his only All-Star Game. In 1965 NPB All-Star Game 1, he pinch-hit for Tadashi Sugiura and stayed in at 1B, replacing Takagi; he went 0 for 2. In game 2, he batted for Teruyuki Takakura and fanned against Sohachi Aniya. In game 3, he went 0 for 2 as the starter at 1B; Takagi replaced him. At year's end, Takagi made the Best Nine at 1B in the PL ahead of Agcaoili.

He slumped to 11 home runs and 30 RBI the next campaign. Back with Taiyo in 1967, he hit .258/.331/.386 as a backup outfielder.

Backing up Dick Stuart (1B) and Kondo (2B) in 1968, he hit double-digit home runs for the last time with 10 (his batting line was .259/.330/.416). He finished his career with the Hankyu Braves in 1969, producing at a .268/.347/.431 clip as a backup to Akira Ishii at 1B. He went 0 for 4 with a walk and a run off the bench in the 1969 Japan Series as Hankyu fell to the Yomiuri Giants.

Overall, he hit .261/.324/412 with 69 home runs and 238 RBI.

He later returned to Hawaii, where he played semipro ball.