1975 Chunichi Dragons Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 69-53
Finished 2nd in the JPCL
Manager: Wally Yonamine (69-53)
Location: Nagoya, Japan
Ballpark: Nagoya Stadium

1975 Chunichi Dragons Roster

The Chunichi Dragons of the Japan Central League ended the 1975 season with a record of 69 wins and 53 losses, finishing second in the JPCL.

The Dragons scored 521 runs, best in the league. Chunichi yielded 466 runs. Gene Martin led the squad with 22 home runs, while Morimichi Takagi, Kenichi Yazawa, Kinji Shimatani, Ron Woods and Hiroaki Inoue each walloped 15 or more as well. Kinji Shimatani accounted for 76 RBI. Hiroaki Inoue paced all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .318. Senichi Hoshino and Yukitsura Matsumoto topped the team with 17 wins each, and Yukitsura Matsumoto earned a 2.41 ERA, best among regular hurlers.

Ron Woods and Gene Martin both played in Major League Baseball during their careers.

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	17	5	.773	2.77	40	26	13	6	3	4	217.7	208	71	67	20	48	9	112	11	0	2	883
Yukitsura Matsumoto	17	15	.531	2.41	37	37	0	9	2	0	250.0	217	86	67	30	40	9	98	12	0	0	991
Jun Misawa	13	7	.650	3.21	38	30	1	3	2	0	185.0	163	74	66	18	44	5	89	9	1	0	748
Takamasa Suzuki	9	8	.529	2.97	67	7	47	1	0	21	148.3	113	53	49	15	25	10	117	6	0	0	583
Mitsuo Inaba	7	5	.583	2.76	34	17	4	5	1	0	130.3	104	42	40	14	37	1	76	4	0	0	518
Masafumi Takeda	5	3	.625	3.70	57	1	10	0	0	2	80.3	66	35	33	15	41	3	59	1	0	3	339
Hidetaka Hoshino	1	4	.200	9.13	17	4	9	0	0	0	23.7	26	25	24	5	14	2	16	1	0	0	108
Masayoshi Kanai	0	0		4.97	8	1	4	0	0	0	12.7	16	9	7	2	5	0	5	1	0	1	57
Terashi Donoue	0	1	.000	3.80	18	0	6	0	0	0	23.7	23	13	10	2	7	0	14	1	1	2	101
Masakatsu Tsuchiya	0	1	.000	4.31	14	6	4	0	0	0	39.7	44	22	19	8	15	0	22	2	0	0	179
Yukiharu Shibuya	0	1	.000	10.29	14	0	3	0	0	0	14.0	20	18	16	6	5	2	11	4	0	0	70
Tadashi Matsuura	0	1	.000	13.50	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.7	4	4	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	8
Masao Sato	0	2	.000	3.71	20	1	5	0	0	1	26.7	31	14	11	4	5	3	16	1	0	0	115
Totals	69	53	.566	3.20	365	130	106	24	8	28	1152.7	1035	466	410	139	287	44	636	53	2	8	4700

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
Hiroaki Inoue	130	537	468	80	149	20	0	18	65	11	6	46	40	.318	.392	.476	.869	223	15	13	7	3	6
Morimichi Takagi	116	495	463	60	138	20	2	17	51	16	7	18	31	.298	.329	.460	.789	213	14	4	8	2	2
Kenichi Yazawa	129	527	470	57	138	20	0	17	71	2	6	46	46	.294	.359	.445	.803	209	9	4	3	4	4
Kinji Shimatani	130	498	432	60	121	27	2	20	76	9	8	47	73	.280	.359	.491	.850	212	11	8	8	3	3
Ron Woods	119	493	434	69	114	19	7	16	45	20	10	47	78	.263	.335	.449	.785	195	6	1	10	1	2
Tatsuhiko Kimata	119	417	387	24	108	17	0	3	43	1	2	22	40	.279	.320	.346	.667	134	13	3	2	3	6
Gene Martin	119	417	376	52	97	14	0	22	62	3	2	33	60	.258	.321	.471	.792	177	12	4	0	4	3
Shinji Masaoka	113	204	191	18	51	6	3	0	9	5	5	8	25	.267	.303	.330	.633	63	8	2	3	0	1
Osamu Hirose	104	224	212	15	51	7	1	5	13	1	1	10	22	.241	.274	.354	.627	75	4	0	1	1	4
Yasunori Oshima	91	183	162	22	45	8	1	4	23	1	2	17	45	.278	.343	.414	.756	67	2	0	2	2	1
Kyohei Taniki	96	132	114	20	29	5	1	3	8	4	5	14	24	.254	.341	.395	.736	45	1	1	3	0	1
Yukio Fujinami	81	97	87	6	21	4	0	0	11	0	1	7	8	.241	.302	.287	.589	25	1	1	1	1	1
Shozo Eto	70	72	61	4	17	1	0	2	6	0	0	8	8	.279	.357	.393	.751	24	0	0	2	1	1
Hiroshi Shintaku	54	73	64	1	16	2	0	1	8	2	0	7	12	.250	.319	.328	.648	21	3	0	1	1	1
Senichi Hoshino	40	81	74	7	16	4	0	4	10	0	0	3	16	.216	.256	.432	.689	32	3	1	3	0	0
Yukitsura Matsumoto	37	89	76	4	15	0	0	0	2	0	0	4	16	.197	.238	.197	.435	15	1	0	9	0	0
Yukio Iida	45	49	47	1	12	0	0	0	4	0	0	2	13	.255	.286	.255	.541	12	0	0	0	0	0
Mitsuo Inaba	34	43	40	0	10	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	15	.250	.286	.250	.536	10	1	0	1	0	0
Jun Misawa	39	63	57	4	8	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	14	.140	.140	.158	.298	9	0	0	6	0	0
Masafumi Takeda	57	13	12	2	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.417	.462	.417	.878	5	0	0	0	0	0
Toshio Tanokura	21	19	18	2	5	0	0	0	2	0	3	1	7	.278	.316	.278	.594	5	0	0	0	0	0
Takamasa Suzuki	67	36	34	1	5	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	10	.147	.147	.235	.382	8	1	0	2	0	0
Masakatsu Tsuchiya	15	10	10	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.200	.200	.300	.500	3	0	0	0	0	0
Masayuki Kamigaki	16	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Masayoshi Kanai	10	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yasunori Ito	4	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hidetaka Hoshino	19	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Yukiharu Shibuya	15	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Masao Sato	22	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Takuji Kanayama	10	10	9	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.000	.100	.000	.100	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shinichi Miyoshi	19	3	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Takashi Ide	68	3	3	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Katsumi Kaneko	2	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	.000	.333	.000	.333	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2011	4809	4324	521	1173	176	17	133	511	76	60	345	625	.271	.329	.412	.741	1782	106	42	72	26	36

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Kenichi Yazawa	1B	129					.000
Yasunori Oshima	1B	11					.000
Shozo Eto	1B	2					.000
Yukio Iida	1B	1					.000
Morimichi Takagi	2B	116					.000
Shinji Masaoka	2B	29					.000
Kinji Shimatani	2B	9					.000
Yukio Iida	2B	6					.000
Masayuki Kamigaki	2B	5					.000
Shinichi Miyoshi	2B	3					.000
Osamu Hirose	2B	1					.000
Kinji Shimatani	3B	128					.000
Yasunori Oshima	3B	16					.000
Shinji Masaoka	3B	2					.000
Masayuki Kamigaki	3B	1					.000
Tatsuhiko Kimata	C	117					.000
Hiroshi Shintaku	C	53					.000
Takuji Kanayama	C	6					.000
Hiroaki Inoue	OF	128					.000
Ron Woods	OF	118					.000
Gene Martin	OF	107					.000
Takashi Ide	OF	57					.000
Kyohei Taniki	OF	55					.000
Yasunori Oshima	OF	52					.000
Yukio Fujinami	OF	20					.000
Masao Sato	OF	2					.000
Takuji Kanayama	OF	2					.000
Masayoshi Kanai	OF	2					.000
Hidetaka Hoshino	OF	2					.000
Kenichi Yazawa	OF	1					.000
Masakatsu Tsuchiya	OF	1					.000
Toshio Tanokura	OF	1					.000
Yukiharu Shibuya	OF	1					.000
Shinichi Miyoshi	OF	1					.000
Jun Misawa	OF	1					.000
Katsumi Kaneko	OF	1					.000
Takamasa Suzuki	P	67					.000
Masafumi Takeda	P	57					.000
Senichi Hoshino	P	40					.000
Jun Misawa	P	38					.000
Yukitsura Matsumoto	P	37					.000
Mitsuo Inaba	P	34					.000
Masao Sato	P	20					.000
Terashi Donoue	P	18					.000
Hidetaka Hoshino	P	17					.000
Masakatsu Tsuchiya	P	14					.000
Yukiharu Shibuya	P	14					.000
Masayoshi Kanai	P	8					.000
Tadashi Matsuura	P	1					.000
Osamu Hirose	SS	102					.000
Shinji Masaoka	SS	95					.000
Toshio Tanokura	SS	17					.000
Shinichi Miyoshi	SS	10					.000
Masayuki Kamigaki	SS	6					.000
Totals		1782	0	0	0	0	.000

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