1974 Chunichi Dragons Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 70-49
Finished 1st in the JPCL
Manager: Wally Yonamine (70-49)
Location: Nagoya, Japan
Ballpark: Nagoya Stadium

1974 Chunichi Dragons Roster

The Chunichi Dragons of the Japan Central League ended the 1974 season with a record of 70 wins and 49 losses, finishing first in the JPCL.

The Dragons scored 561 runs and conceded 537 runs. Gene Martin walloped 35 home runs for Chunichi, while Morimichi Takagi, Kenichi Yazawa, Tatsuhiko Kimata and Hiroaki Inoue each added 15 or more as well. Gene Martin drove in 87 runs. Tatsuhiko Kimata paced hitters with significant playing time by hitting .322. Yukitsura Matsumoto topped the squad with 20 wins, and Senichi Hoshino contributed 15 or more victories also Senichi Hoshino registered a 2.87 earned run average, best among qualifying pitchers.

Gene Martin 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
Yukitsura Matsumoto	20	9	.690	3.12	40	37	3	11	3	0	236.3	232	92	82	29	38	4	89	11	0	3	965
Senichi Hoshino	15	9	.625	2.87	49	17	28	7	1	10	188.0	149	67	60	19	50	8	137	7	0	3	758
Jun Misawa	11	9	.550	3.45	45	27	4	7	3	0	200.7	169	97	77	30	55	5	90	12	1	1	822
Masafumi Takeda	5	2	.714	3.24	29	0	8	0	0	3	41.7	29	17	15	6	22	0	21	2	0	1	167
Yukiharu Shibuya	5	5	.500	4.49	40	17	8	2	1	0	122.3	128	63	61	19	42	6	54	12	0	0	534
Takamasa Suzuki	4	2	.667	3.52	35	3	15	0	0	2	64.0	53	26	25	10	14	3	53	0	0	2	253
Hidetaka Hoshino	4	4	.500	4.63	37	7	8	1	1	0	70.0	77	39	36	3	22	2	41	3	0	3	305
Mitsuo Inaba	4	5	.444	3.93	30	17	3	3	0	0	110.0	97	54	48	15	41	3	75	5	0	3	459
Hisanobu Mizutani	1	1	.500	4.09	33	1	8	0	0	0	61.7	57	31	28	8	18	3	41	1	0	0	257
Yoshinori Murakami	1	1	.500	4.70	6	1	2	0	0	0	15.3	19	8	8	3	7	0	3	0	0	0	69
Terashi Donoue	0	0		6.00	2	0	1	0	0	0	3.0	4	2	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	13
Tsukasa Watabe	0	0		7.31	13	0	7	0	0	0	16.0	22	13	13	3	5	1	15	0	0	1	72
Naoya Okuda	0	0		9.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
Masao Sato	0	0		13.50	3	0	1	0	0	0	2.7	6	4	4	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	14
Tetsuya Fujisawa	0	0		40.50	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.7	2	3	3	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	5
Hisatoshi Ito	0	1	.000	7.64	9	2	3	0	0	0	17.7	27	16	15	1	7	1	10	0	0	0	85
Masayoshi Kanai	0	1	.000	10.80	1	1	0	0	0	0	3.3	3	4	4	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	16
Totals	70	49	.588	3.76	374	130	99	31	9	15	1154.3	1076	537	482	149	326	36	633	54	1	17	4798

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	123	480	438	49	141	25	1	18	50	3	3	39	68	.322	.379	.507	.886	222	18	1	2	0	1
Kenichi Yazawa	125	516	466	73	135	31	0	22	77	2	1	39	51	.290	.346	.498	.844	232	7	3	4	4	2
Hiroaki Inoue	128	510	435	65	126	18	1	18	58	15	5	50	63	.290	.375	.460	.835	200	11	13	6	6	1
Morimichi Takagi	121	501	456	71	126	22	2	15	47	14	11	29	42	.276	.320	.432	.752	197	11	2	10	4	2
Gene Martin	128	518	464	67	125	13	1	35	87	0	5	45	69	.269	.336	.528	.864	245	6	4	0	5	6
Kinji Shimatani	102	381	336	53	87	13	2	11	41	7	5	33	54	.259	.325	.408	.733	137	12	1	9	2	2
Yasunori Oshima	112	294	256	37	66	17	1	11	46	1	7	27	42	.258	.339	.461	.800	118	6	6	2	3	2
Osamu Hirose	125	284	266	19	61	6	0	5	26	2	1	10	34	.229	.258	.308	.566	82	10	1	5	2	0
Jimmy Williams	95	269	241	23	54	11	1	4	27	3	8	24	52	.224	.297	.328	.625	79	10	1	3	0	0
Kyohei Taniki	86	214	190	26	52	10	3	2	14	5	6	16	32	.274	.337	.389	.726	74	6	2	6	0	0
Yukio Fujinami	90	130	114	13	33	4	0	1	15	1	0	13	15	.289	.372	.351	.723	40	3	2	1	0	1
Shozo Eto	78	78	69	1	18	1	0	1	9	0	0	6	6	.261	.320	.319	.639	22	5	0	3	0	0
Senichi Hoshino	49	62	59	6	15	4	0	2	4	0	0	2	9	.254	.290	.424	.714	25	1	1	0	0	0
Toru Nishida	57	53	51	10	12	2	0	0	4	0	0	1	10	.235	.250	.275	.525	14	1	0	1	0	0
Shinji Masaoka	112	68	61	14	12	2	0	0	3	5	1	2	11	.197	.234	.230	.464	14	1	1	4	0	0
Hiroshi Shintaku	42	48	46	4	10	1	0	0	4	0	0	2	7	.217	.250	.239	.489	11	1	0	0	0	0
Yukio Iida	48	45	42	6	9	0	0	3	6	0	1	3	15	.214	.267	.429	.695	18	0	0	0	0	0
Jun Misawa	45	64	55	2	8	2	0	0	1	1	0	3	23	.145	.190	.182	.371	10	0	0	6	0	0
Yukitsura Matsumoto	40	82	70	4	8	0	0	0	5	0	0	2	12	.114	.137	.114	.251	8	5	0	9	1	0
Mitsuo Inaba	30	33	30	2	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	8	.233	.281	.233	.515	7	0	0	1	0	0
Hidetaka Hoshino	37	15	13	2	6	1	1	0	4	0	0	0	0	.462	.462	.692	1.154	9	0	0	2	0	0
Yukiharu Shibuya	40	32	29	0	6	2	0	0	3	0	0	0	9	.207	.207	.276	.483	8	1	0	3	0	0
Isao Hirono	35	37	34	1	6	0	0	1	1	0	0	3	12	.176	.243	.265	.508	9	0	0	0	0	0
Shinichi Miyoshi	9	5	5	3	3	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	.600	.600	1.200	1.800	6	0	0	0	0	0
Takashi Ide	84	20	20	4	3	1	0	0	1	1	3	0	2	.150	.150	.200	.350	4	0	0	0	0	0
Masato Osumi	12	9	9	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.222	.222	.222	.444	2	1	0	0	0	0
Yoshinori Murakami	6	2	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Takuji Kanayama	7	4	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.333	.500	.333	.833	1	0	0	0	0	0
Yoshiaki Katagai	7	5	4	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.250	.400	.250	.650	1	0	1	0	0	0
Hisanobu Mizutani	33	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	0	0	0
Masafumi Takeda	29	10	10	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	.100	.100	.100	.200	1	0	0	0	0	0
Yasunori Ito	13	15	12	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	7	.083	.267	.083	.350	1	0	1	0	0	0
Takamasa Suzuki	36	12	10	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	2	0	0
Masataka Shirataki	6	2	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Toshio Tanokura	4	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shinzaburo Tsuboi	2	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Masayoshi Kanai	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hisatoshi Ito	9	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	1	0	0
Totals	2106	4812	4310	561	1137	186	13	150	538	61	57	354	670	.264	.324	.417	.741	1799	116	40	81	27	17

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Kenichi Yazawa	1B	125					.000
Yasunori Oshima	1B	20					.000
Masato Osumi	1B	6					.000
Yasunori Ito	1B	3					.000
Toru Nishida	1B	2					.000
Isao Hirono	1B	1					.000
Morimichi Takagi	2B	120					.000
Toru Nishida	2B	23					.000
Kinji Shimatani	2B	12					.000
Shinzaburo Tsuboi	2B	2					.000
Shinji Masaoka	2B	2					.000
Shinichi Miyoshi	2B	1					.000
Kinji Shimatani	3B	99					.000
Yasunori Oshima	3B	51					.000
Yasunori Ito	3B	3					.000
Toru Nishida	3B	2					.000
Takamasa Suzuki	3B	1					.000
Shinji Masaoka	3B	1					.000
Hiroaki Inoue	3B	1					.000
Tatsuhiko Kimata	C	122					.000
Hiroshi Shintaku	C	34					.000
Yoshiaki Katagai	C	2					.000
Takuji Kanayama	C	1					.000
Gene Martin	OF	128					.000
Hiroaki Inoue	OF	124					.000
Takashi Ide	OF	76					.000
Kyohei Taniki	OF	65					.000
Jimmy Williams	OF	63					.000
Yasunori Oshima	OF	40					.000
Yukio Fujinami	OF	29					.000
Yukio Iida	OF	12					.000
Masataka Shirataki	OF	4					.000
Takuji Kanayama	OF	4					.000
Tsukasa Watabe	OF	2					.000
Masato Osumi	OF	2					.000
Shinichi Miyoshi	OF	2					.000
Senichi Hoshino	P	49					.000
Jun Misawa	P	45					.000
Yukiharu Shibuya	P	40					.000
Yukitsura Matsumoto	P	40					.000
Hidetaka Hoshino	P	37					.000
Takamasa Suzuki	P	35					.000
Hisanobu Mizutani	P	33					.000
Mitsuo Inaba	P	30					.000
Masafumi Takeda	P	29					.000
Tsukasa Watabe	P	13					.000
Hisatoshi Ito	P	9					.000
Yoshinori Murakami	P	6					.000
Masao Sato	P	3					.000
Terashi Donoue	P	2					.000
Naoya Okuda	P	1					.000
Masayoshi Kanai	P	1					.000
Tetsuya Fujisawa	P	1					.000
Osamu Hirose	SS	125					.000
Shinji Masaoka	SS	110					.000
Toru Nishida	SS	27					.000
Shinichi Miyoshi	SS	4					.000
Toshio Tanokura	SS	3					.000
Totals		1828	0	0	0	0	.000

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