1973 Chunichi Dragons Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 64-61
Finished 3rd in the JPCL
Manager: Wally Yonamine (64-61)
Location: Nagoya, Japan
Ballpark: Nagoya Stadium

1973 Chunichi Dragons Roster

The Chunichi Dragons of the Japan Central League ended the 1973 season with a record of 64 wins and 61 losses, finishing third in the JPCL.

The Dragons scored 441 runs and surrendered 433 runs. Kinji Shimatani led Chunichi with 21 home runs, while Hiroaki Inoue walloped 15 or more, too. Kinji Shimatani accounted for 58 RBI. Kenichi Yazawa paced all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .295. Senichi Hoshino topped the team with 16 wins, and Yukitsura Matsumoto earned a 2.38 ERA, best among pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.

Bob Taylor played in Major League Baseball during his career, the only member of the Chunichi Dragons to do so.

Wally Yonamine 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
Senichi Hoshino	16	11	.593	3.04	44	15	21	7	1		166.0	134	57	56	16	55	9	96	3	1	2	676
Yukitsura Matsumoto	14	11	.560	2.38	39	32	2	13	4		234.0	201	70	62	18	51	4	90	6	1	2	938
Yukiharu Shibuya	11	12	.478	2.86	38	28	5	9	6		198.3	175	65	63	26	42	4	67	12	1	1	805
Jun Misawa	10	8	.556	2.56	45	9	21	4	1		137.0	103	45	39	13	34	3	87	6	1	0	531
Hisanobu Mizutani	6	6	.500	3.54	33	16	5	3	1		140.0	119	65	55	16	42	4	59	5	0	0	574
Mitsuo Inaba	6	12	.333	3.53	33	21	6	8	2		160.7	141	72	63	13	66	7	94	1	0	1	673
Hisatoshi Ito	1	1	.500	3.43	29	9	8	1	0		76.0	71	31	29	6	23	3	34	2	0	2	320
Takamasa Suzuki	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0		1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Norihiro Mizutani	0	0		0.00	3	0	2	0	0		4.0	6	7	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	21
Naoya Okuda	0	0		2.35	5	0	1	0	0		7.7	5	2	2	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	31
Masao Sato	0	0		2.79	8	0	5	0	0		9.7	8	5	3	0	4	0	3	0	0	0	38
Hidetaka Hoshino	0	0		3.21	13	0	6	0	0		14.0	14	5	5	2	7	0	11	0	0	0	58
Masafumi Takeda	0	0		4.76	8	0	2	0	0		5.7	7	4	3	2	5	0	2	0	0	0	28
Tsukasa Watabe	0	0		6.43	4	0	0	0	0		7.0	7	5	5	0	6	0	2	2	0	1	34
Totals	64	61	.512	2.98	303	130	85	45	15	0	1161.0	991	433	385	115	337	34	546	37	4	9	4730

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
Kenichi Yazawa	126	518	454	47	134	26	0	10	45	0	2	53	35	.295	.376	.419	.794	190	13	7	2	2	1
Morimichi Takagi	122	527	480	68	131	20	3	5	31	28	9	30	21	.273	.319	.358	.678	172	10	5	7	5	3
Jimmy Williams	118	457	413	41	109	19	4	10	38	14	15	30	95	.264	.319	.402	.721	166	9	5	6	3	2
Kinji Shimatani	119	432	374	41	99	16	1	21	58	8	4	41	54	.265	.339	.481	.820	180	14	3	10	4	4
Tatsuhiko Kimata	117	415	363	40	91	15	0	9	32	1	0	46	67	.251	.340	.366	.706	133	17	4	0	2	9
Hiroaki Inoue	103	361	317	41	86	12	2	16	57	6	5	26	45	.271	.344	.473	.817	150	9	10	6	2	1
Yasunori Oshima	117	368	316	42	76	11	0	13	42	10	10	43	72	.241	.332	.399	.731	126	5	1	7	1	1
Bob Taylor	105	337	311	27	69	7	0	7	27	3	2	23	29	.222	.279	.312	.591	97	10	2	0	1	1
Osamu Hirose	87	277	252	18	49	5	0	3	13	4	2	14	38	.194	.236	.250	.486	63	4	0	10	1	0
Shozo Eto	84	139	127	6	35	5	0	3	19	0	0	7	16	.276	.324	.386	.709	49	7	2	3	0	0
Masato Osumi	79	109	101	7	24	6	0	2	15	0	0	6	12	.238	.275	.356	.632	36	6	0	0	2	0
Yukio Iida	68	94	82	16	22	3	0	4	11	0	1	9	19	.268	.341	.451	.792	37	2	0	3	0	0
Hiroshi Shintaku	51	87	76	2	14	2	0	0	4	0	0	9	14	.184	.267	.211	.478	16	3	0	1	1	0
Yukiharu Shibuya	38	67	65	2	12	2	0	0	7	0	0	1	15	.185	.197	.215	.412	14	3	0	1	0	0
Yukitsura Matsumoto	39	80	66	1	10	0	0	0	4	0	0	6	14	.152	.219	.152	.371	10	1	0	7	1	0
Hisanobu Mizutani	34	48	46	0	9	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	9	.196	.213	.196	.408	9	0	1	1	0	0
Kyohei Taniki	44	76	69	10	9	0	0	1	3	5	2	7	10	.130	.211	.174	.384	12	0	0	0	0	1
Toru Nishida	48	46	40	7	8	0	0	2	3	1	3	3	4	.200	.273	.350	.623	14	3	1	2	0	0
Shinji Masaoka	81	79	72	5	8	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	9	.111	.147	.111	.258	8	0	1	4	0	0
Jun Misawa	45	41	38	3	7	2	0	0	1	0	0	1	10	.184	.205	.237	.442	9	0	0	2	0	0
Senichi Hoshino	44	52	45	3	6	1	0	1	5	0	0	2	16	.133	.188	.222	.410	10	2	1	4	0	0
Katsumi Kaneko	29	26	25	4	5	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	5	.200	.192	.200	.392	5	0	0	0	1	0
Takashi Ide	83	21	19	5	3	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	6	.158	.200	.316	.516	6	1	0	1	0	0
Yasunori Ito	3	5	5	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.400	.400	.400	.800	2	0	0	0	0	0
Shinichi Miyoshi	26	17	16	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	.125	.176	.125	.301	2	1	1	0	0	0
Hisatoshi Ito	30	19	17	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.118	.167	.118	.284	2	0	0	1	0	0
Mitsuo Inaba	34	49	42	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	17	.048	.130	.048	.178	2	0	0	3	0	0
Masataka Shirataki	6	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Tetsuya Tsuji	4	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0	0	0
Shinzaburo Tsuboi	10	10	8	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.125	.125	.125	.250	1	0	0	2	0	0
Toshio Tanokura	2	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Naoya Okuda	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yoshiya Morita	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1903	4766	4248	441	1027	152	10	108	419	82	59	365	645	.242	.307	.359	.665	1523	120	44	83	26	23

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Kenichi Yazawa	1B	108					.000
Shozo Eto	1B	20					.000
Masato Osumi	1B	16					.000
Yasunori Oshima	1B	5					.000
Masafumi Takeda	1B	1					.000
Tokio Takagi	1B	1					.000
Naoya Okuda	1B	1					.000
Morimichi Takagi	2B	122					.000
Shinji Masaoka	2B	14					.000
Katsumi Kaneko	2B	8					.000
Toru Nishida	2B	5					.000
Shinichi Miyoshi	2B	5					.000
Kinji Shimatani	2B	1					.000
Kinji Shimatani	3B	113					.000
Hiroaki Inoue	3B	39					.000
Yasunori Ito	3B	2					.000
Shinzaburo Tsuboi	3B	1					.000
Tatsuhiko Kimata	C	116					.000
Hiroshi Shintaku	C	48					.000
Yasunori Oshima	OF	108					.000
Jimmy Williams	OF	105					.000
Bob Taylor	OF	89					.000
Takashi Ide	OF	81					.000
Hiroaki Inoue	OF	69					.000
Yukio Iida	OF	27					.000
Kyohei Taniki	OF	20					.000
Kenichi Yazawa	OF	19					.000
Masato Osumi	OF	19					.000
Tokio Takagi	OF	12					.000
Masataka Shirataki	OF	5					.000
Masafumi Takeda	OF	1					.000
Yukitsura Matsumoto	OF	1					.000
Takuji Kanayama	OF	1					.000
Yasunori Ito	OF	1					.000
Hisatoshi Ito	OF	1					.000
Osamu Hirose	OF	1					.000
Jun Misawa	P	45					.000
Senichi Hoshino	P	44					.000
Yukitsura Matsumoto	P	39					.000
Yukiharu Shibuya	P	38					.000
Hisanobu Mizutani	P	33					.000
Mitsuo Inaba	P	33					.000
Hisatoshi Ito	P	29					.000
Hidetaka Hoshino	P	13					.000
Masafumi Takeda	P	8					.000
Masao Sato	P	8					.000
Naoya Okuda	P	5					.000
Tsukasa Watabe	P	4					.000
Norihiro Mizutani	P	3					.000
Takamasa Suzuki	P	1					.000
Osamu Hirose	SS	86					.000
Shinji Masaoka	SS	65					.000
Toru Nishida	SS	30					.000
Kinji Shimatani	SS	18					.000
Shinichi Miyoshi	SS	14					.000
Toshio Tanokura	SS	2					.000
Katsumi Kaneko	SS	1					.000
Totals		1705	0	0	0	0	.000

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