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He was not regarded as a crucial player at the beginning of the season, but ended up with 16 wins, tying teammate Masaki Saito for the most wins in the Central League.
In 2004, Masahiro Araki of the Chunichi Dragons and Greg LaRocca, then of the Hiroshima Carp, were tied for most votes for the Central League second baseman, the first time a tie had occurred since the current two-league system was adopted.
The Tigers won the Central League championship that year, and Bacque pitched in the sixth game of the Japan Series against Joe Stanka of the Nankai Hawks (the Hawks won, 4-0).
He advanced quickly in the field, working in the Central League in 1904 at age 22; in 1905 his excellent work was noted by scouts for NL president Harry Pulliam, and he was hired by the NL late in the 1906 season, becoming the youngest regular umpire in that league's history.
When Japan Professional Baseball League was on the big crisis because one team collapsed and the League was going to became just one league system from two leagues system, the central League and the pacific League in 2005, he criticized the President of Japan Professional Baseball Players' Association, Atsuya Furuta because of Furuta's struggles for maintaining two leagues ' system.