1971 Chunichi Dragons Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 65-60
Finished 2nd in the JPCL
Manager: Shigeru Mizuhara (65-60)
Location: Nagoya, Japan
Ballpark: Nagoya Stadium

1971 Chunichi Dragons Roster

The Chunichi Dragons of the Japan Central League ended the 1971 season with a record of 65 wins and 60 losses, finishing second in the JPCL.

The Dragons plated 437 runs and yielded 425 runs. John Miller paced Chunichi with 28 home runs, while Kinji Shimatani, Tatsuhiko Kimata and Kenichi Yazawa each walloped 15 or more, too. Tatsuhiko Kimata and John Miller each drove in 71 runs. Tatsuhiko Kimata topped all regular batters by hitting .280. Hisatoshi Ito led the squad with 12 wins and a team-best 2.41 ERA, leading regular hurlers.

Bart Shirley and John Miller both played in Major League Baseball during their careers.

Shigeru Mizuhara served as manager.

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Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Hisatoshi Ito	12	8	.600	2.41	44	28	9	8	2		209.3	188	64	56	14	44	7	115	3	0	0	842
Yukiharu Shibuya	10	14	.417	3.09	41	26	9	5	1		186.7	161	69	64	12	61	4	73	19	0	0	768
Senichi Hoshino	9	5	.643	3.47	35	6	24	0	0		103.7	99	46	40	11	20	2	72	1	0	0	419
Hisanobu Mizutani	9	11	.450	2.43	36	21	10	7	2		170.3	141	50	46	10	38	6	78	8	0	2	684
Yasuo Kawauchi	7	5	.583	2.99	43	10	19	2	0		132.3	102	49	44	20	41	3	65	2	1	0	526
Mitsuo Inaba	6	0	1.000	1.06	21	5	8	2	1		68.0	44	9	8	4	20	1	38	2	0	1	261
Yukitsura Matsumoto	5	5	.500	2.98	41	15	7	0	0		124.0	111	46	41	11	37	2	61	5	1	0	499
Tsukasa Watabe	3	3	.500	4.31	17	4	4	0	0		39.7	33	22	19	4	18	2	18	6	1	2	173
Osamu Tanabe	2	3	.400	4.62	14	8	3	0	0		39.0	52	22	20	3	17	0	17	2	0	0	180
Hiroshi Tsuchiya	1	1	.500	4.33	12	3	3	0	0		35.3	38	17	17	5	15	0	17	0	0	0	150
Kazuto Kawabata	1	3	.250	4.91	16	3	5	1	0		40.3	41	23	22	5	11	1	24	3	0	0	168
Masato Osumi	0	0		54.00	1	0	0	0	0		0.3	1	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	3
Hidetaka Hoshino	0	2	.000	3.18	8	1	4	0	0		17.0	12	6	6	2	5	0	12	1	0	1	65
Totals	65	60	.520	2.97	329	130	105	25	6	0	1166.0	1023	425	385	101	328	28	590	52	4	6	4738

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
Tatsuhiko Kimata	126	486	422	62	118	17	1	27	71	2	3	53	51	.280	.364	.517	.881	218	10	6	0	5	9
Kinji Shimatani	129	487	436	45	112	20	2	17	50	7	8	34	73	.257	.318	.429	.747	187	13	6	9	2	3
Kenichi Yazawa	123	463	423	47	110	12	3	16	41	7	6	30	61	.260	.313	.416	.729	176	10	3	6	1	5
John Miller	125	510	447	63	108	15	3	28	71	9	4	55	89	.242	.324	.477	.801	213	11	2	1	5	3
Morimichi Takagi	120	482	436	58	104	18	1	8	22	28	9	32	42	.239	.294	.339	.634	148	5	3	10	1	2
Toshio Naka	108	349	308	31	67	10	0	4	20	12	6	31	26	.218	.288	.289	.577	89	3	0	9	1	4
Bart Shirley	122	370	344	16	60	15	2	3	28	3	6	19	36	.174	.219	.256	.474	88	8	1	4	2	2
Akira Hishikawa	102	318	288	27	57	6	0	13	38	6	3	22	71	.198	.260	.354	.614	102	6	3	3	2	0
Yasunori Oshima	74	266	241	25	49	4	1	7	22	11	3	21	80	.203	.270	.315	.585	76	5	1	3	0	0
Takumi Ejima	102	180	158	14	31	9	0	2	16	1	3	12	37	.196	.270	.291	.561	46	8	4	6	0	1
Shuhei Ichieda	66	141	124	6	28	2	2	0	14	1	0	9	16	.226	.285	.274	.559	34	3	2	4	2	0
Shozo Eto	58	98	84	5	23	4	1	1	4	2	1	7	8	.274	.330	.381	.711	32	2	0	7	0	0
Hiroshi Shintaku	60	69	63	2	12	2	0	0	3	0	1	5	9	.190	.261	.222	.483	14	2	1	0	0	0
Hisatoshi Ito	44	73	69	1	12	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	14	.174	.186	.174	.360	12	0	0	3	0	0
Hisanobu Mizutani	36	55	53	3	11	2	0	0	4	0	0	0	9	.208	.208	.245	.453	13	0	0	2	0	0
Shinji Masaoka	35	51	45	5	10	1	0	0	3	2	1	4	8	.222	.294	.244	.539	11	1	1	0	1	0
Senichi Hoshino	35	30	29	2	8	3	0	0	2	0	0	0	5	.276	.276	.379	.655	11	1	0	1	0	0
Yukiharu Shibuya	42	61	59	0	8	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	10	.136	.150	.136	.286	8	0	0	1	0	0
Tsunemi Koizumi	44	45	42	0	7	1	0	0	2	0	0	2	6	.167	.222	.190	.413	8	0	1	0	0	1
Yasuo Kawauchi	43	37	32	5	5	2	0	0	1	0	0	4	11	.156	.250	.219	.469	7	0	0	1	0	0
Tsukasa Watabe	17	10	9	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.333	.333	.333	.667	3	0	0	1	0	0
Yozaburo Chihara	14	13	13	0	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	.231	.231	.308	.538	4	0	0	0	0	0
Susumu Sato	9	9	7	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	4	.286	.444	.429	.873	3	0	0	0	0	0
Yukitsura Matsumoto	43	35	31	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	15	.065	.121	.065	.186	2	1	0	2	0	0
Hidetaka Hoshino	8	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0	0	0	0
Hiroshi Tsuchiya	13	7	6	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.167	.286	.333	.619	2	0	0	0	0	0
Shigeru Hino	24	7	7	5	1	0	0	1	1	2	2	0	3	.143	.143	.571	.714	4	0	0	0	0	0
Mitsuo Inaba	24	17	15	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	8	.067	.176	.067	.243	1	0	0	0	0	0
Kazuto Kawabata	17	7	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.143	.000	.143	0	0	0	0	0	0
Masato Osumi	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hiroshi Takeuchi	7	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Osamu Tanabe	16	9	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.250	.000	.250	0	0	1	1	0	0
Shinzaburo Tsuboi	6	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shinichi Miyoshi	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Takashi Ide	8	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Yoshiya Morita	26	0	0	8	0	0	0	0	0	11	4	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1831	4700	4218	437	954	146	16	127	420	104	60	351	715	.226	.290	.359	.648	1513	89	35	74	22	30

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
John Miller	1B	125					.000
Yasunori Oshima	1B	8					.000
Tsunemi Koizumi	1B	2					.000
Morimichi Takagi	2B	113					.000
Shozo Eto	2B	20					.000
Shuhei Ichieda	2B	15					.000
Bart Shirley	2B	3					.000
Shigeru Hino	2B	2					.000
Hiroshi Tsuchiya	2B	1					.000
Kinji Shimatani	3B	129					.000
Shuhei Ichieda	3B	7					.000
Bart Shirley	3B	2					.000
Shinzaburo Tsuboi	3B	1					.000
Tokio Takagi	3B	1					.000
Tatsuhiko Kimata	C	119					.000
Hiroshi Shintaku	C	55					.000
Kenichi Yazawa	OF	119					.000
Toshio Naka	OF	98					.000
Takumi Ejima	OF	95					.000
Akira Hishikawa	OF	93					.000
Yasunori Oshima	OF	62					.000
Tokio Takagi	OF	25					.000
Morimichi Takagi	OF	13					.000
Tatsuhiko Kimata	OF	13					.000
Tsunemi Koizumi	OF	3					.000
Mitsuo Inaba	OF	3					.000
Osamu Tanabe	OF	2					.000
Yukitsura Matsumoto	OF	2					.000
Hiroshi Takeuchi	OF	1					.000
Yukiharu Shibuya	OF	1					.000
Kazuto Kawabata	OF	1					.000
Yozaburo Chihara	OF	1					.000
Hisatoshi Ito	P	44					.000
Yasuo Kawauchi	P	43					.000
Yukiharu Shibuya	P	41					.000
Yukitsura Matsumoto	P	41					.000
Hisanobu Mizutani	P	36					.000
Senichi Hoshino	P	35					.000
Mitsuo Inaba	P	21					.000
Tsukasa Watabe	P	17					.000
Kazuto Kawabata	P	16					.000
Osamu Tanabe	P	14					.000
Hiroshi Tsuchiya	P	12					.000
Hidetaka Hoshino	P	8					.000
Masato Osumi	P	1					.000
Bart Shirley	SS	119					.000
Shinji Masaoka	SS	33					.000
Shuhei Ichieda	SS	13					.000
Shigeru Hino	SS	4					.000
Tokio Takagi	SS	1					.000
Shinichi Miyoshi	SS	1					.000
Totals		1635	0	0	0	0	.000

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