1976 Chunichi Dragons Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 54-66
Finished 4th in the JPCL
Manager: Wally Yonamine (54-66)
Location: Nagoya, Japan
Ballpark: Nagoya Stadium

1976 Chunichi Dragons Roster

The Chunichi Dragons of the Japan Central League ended the 1976 season with a record of 54 wins and 66 losses, finishing fourth in the JPCL.

The Dragons tallied 519 runs and allowed 610 runs. Gene Martin walloped 40 home runs for Chunichi, while Morimichi Takagi and Kinji Shimatani swatted 15 or more also. Gene Martin drove in 104 runs. Kenichi Yazawa paced hitters with significant playing time by hitting .355. Yukitsura Matsumoto topped the team with 15 wins, and Takamasa Suzuki registered a 2.98 earned run average, leading pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.

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
Yukitsura Matsumoto	15	15	.500	3.95	42	36	4	4	0	0	223.3	229	111	98	36	58	4	62	7	0	0	933
Senichi Hoshino	10	6	.625	3.93	20	20	0	6	3	0	132.7	141	64	58	20	26	0	60	8	1	1	557
Jun Misawa	9	12	.429	5.35	43	33	4	1	1	1	176.7	229	110	105	34	54	10	74	12	2	2	797
Takamasa Suzuki	7	8	.467	2.97	60	3	53	1	0	26	148.3	116	54	49	24	27	6	118	2	1	2	589
Terashi Donoue	4	4	.500	3.33	27	12	6	1	0	1	97.3	89	38	36	13	29	4	22	2	0	0	394
Mitsuo Inaba	3	7	.300	5.78	32	10	4	0	0	0	81.0	93	56	52	16	40	4	56	0	0	2	373
Minoru Hayakawa	2	1	.667	4.21	20	0	7	0	0	1	25.7	25	13	12	5	11	2	17	0	0	0	110
Hisato Aoyama	2	7	.222	6.27	24	12	6	0	0	0	70.3	65	49	49	16	39	3	46	3	0	0	310
Tadashi Matsuura	1	0	1.000	3.86	15	0	8	0	0	0	25.7	24	11	11	3	9	1	19	1	0	0	108
Masao Sato	1	5	.167	3.71	50	3	7	0	0	0	80.0	79	36	33	9	26	1	37	1	1	4	339
Yoshinori Murakami	0	0		0.00	6	0	2	0	0	0	8.0	5	0	0	0	6	1	7	0	0	0	34
Sanshiro Nishioka	0	0		6.23	5	0	0	0	0	0	4.3	9	3	3	2	2	0	3	0	0	0	23
Tsukasa Watabe	0	0		7.36	2	0	2	0	0	0	3.7	6	3	3	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	17
Masakatsu Tsuchiya	0	0		8.49	8	0	3	0	0	0	11.7	19	11	11	3	7	0	6	0	0	0	56
Masayoshi Kanai	0	0		10.07	13	0	6	0	0	0	22.3	34	25	25	7	7	0	8	3	0	1	108
Masafumi Takeda	0	1	.000	8.23	25	1	5	0	0	0	27.3	42	26	25	9	16	1	15	1	1	0	132
Totals	54	66	.450	4.51	392	130	117	13	4	29	1138.3	1205	610	570	199	357	37	552	40	6	12	4880

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	127	547	496	66	176	36	1	11	52	4	3	37	51	.355	.400	.498	.898	247	9	4	4	6	0
Gene Martin	125	502	449	71	126	18	0	40	104	2	3	47	88	.281	.351	.588	.939	264	13	3	0	3	2
Kinji Shimatani	129	507	443	66	123	21	2	21	54	6	4	50	68	.278	.355	.476	.832	211	17	4	9	1	3
Tatsuhiko Kimata	121	430	397	37	120	22	0	14	40	1	1	25	47	.302	.347	.463	.810	184	11	4	0	4	3
Morimichi Takagi	98	417	392	50	104	14	1	17	44	7	6	12	35	.265	.289	.436	.725	171	11	2	8	3	0
Kyohei Taniki	116	341	316	40	90	16	2	2	15	9	7	16	38	.285	.322	.367	.689	116	4	2	6	1	0
Yasunori Oshima	123	280	251	33	63	12	1	11	33	2	2	26	68	.251	.321	.438	.760	110	7	1	0	2	1
Hiroaki Inoue	104	261	225	29	48	6	0	7	23	4	2	20	43	.213	.292	.333	.626	75	6	6	8	2	0
Yasushi Tao	67	183	166	19	46	6	3	3	21	0	3	16	27	.277	.344	.404	.748	67	3	1	0	0	0
Ron Woods	73	204	174	22	46	9	3	3	23	3	10	25	32	.264	.353	.402	.756	70	3	0	3	2	2
Shinji Masaoka	115	192	180	24	40	1	1	1	8	5	0	5	31	.222	.255	.256	.511	46	4	3	4	0	0
Yukio Fujinami	104	163	150	15	39	8	0	1	14	3	0	9	14	.260	.298	.333	.631	50	0	0	2	2	1
Kunizo Umeda	101	146	130	8	29	7	1	0	13	2	1	4	16	.223	.287	.292	.579	38	1	8	3	1	0
Hiroshi Shintaku	52	73	65	5	20	3	1	0	8	1	0	5	6	.308	.357	.385	.742	25	5	0	3	0	0
Toshio Tanokura	80	89	83	8	13	5	0	0	3	0	0	5	24	.157	.213	.217	.430	18	1	1	0	0	0
Yukitsura Matsumoto	42	79	73	1	12	1	0	0	5	0	0	0	14	.164	.164	.178	.342	13	5	0	6	0	0
Takao Kanto	26	40	38	2	11	2	1	0	6	0	0	2	12	.289	.325	.395	.720	15	0	0	0	0	0
Yasunori Ito	73	65	57	7	11	3	0	5	11	0	0	6	21	.193	.281	.509	.790	29	2	1	1	0	0
Senichi Hoshino	20	49	43	1	10	1	0	0	3	0	0	4	7	.233	.298	.256	.554	11	0	0	2	0	0
Jun Misawa	43	61	59	3	7	1	0	1	3	0	0	0	12	.119	.119	.186	.305	11	0	0	2	0	0
Takamasa Suzuki	60	36	32	0	6	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	8	.188	.212	.219	.431	7	0	0	3	0	0
Terashi Donoue	27	31	29	2	5	3	0	0	3	0	0	0	9	.172	.172	.276	.448	8	0	0	2	0	0
Yukio Iida	20	18	16	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	4	.250	.333	.250	.583	4	0	0	0	0	0
Takuji Kanayama	24	18	16	1	3	0	0	1	2	0	0	1	8	.188	.278	.375	.653	6	0	1	0	0	0
Yoshiyuki Suenaga	12	20	18	1	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	7	.167	.250	.222	.472	4	1	1	0	0	0
Mitsuo Inaba	33	20	19	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	.158	.158	.158	.316	3	1	0	1	0	0
Yoshiaki Katagai	6	8	8	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.250	.250	.250	.500	2	0	0	0	0	0
Takashi Ide	28	5	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	.250	.400	.250	.650	1	0	0	0	0	0
Masataka Shirataki	6	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.200	.200	.200	.400	1	0	0	0	0	0
Masato Osumi	7	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	0	0	0
Masao Sato	50	8	8	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	.125	.125	.250	.375	2	0	0	0	0	0
Masafumi Takeda	25	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shinichi Miyoshi	7	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tadashi Matsuura	15	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Masayoshi Kanai	13	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Masayuki Kamigaki	9	4	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shozo Eto	12	11	9	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.100	.000	.100	0	0	0	1	0	0
Hisato Aoyama	24	15	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	1	0	0
Yoshinori Murakami	6	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		1.000			0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2123	4842	4382	519	1164	198	17	138	492	50	43	322	715	.266	.320	.413	.733	1810	105	42	69	27	12

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Gene Martin	1B	123					.000
Yasunori Oshima	1B	35					.000
Yasunori Ito	1B	28					.000
Kenichi Yazawa	1B	2					.000
Masato Osumi	1B	1					.000
Morimichi Takagi	2B	96					.000
Shinji Masaoka	2B	35					.000
Kinji Shimatani	2B	12					.000
Takao Kanto	2B	7					.000
Yoshiyuki Suenaga	2B	3					.000
Masayuki Kamigaki	2B	3					.000
Shinichi Miyoshi	2B	2					.000
Yukio Iida	2B	2					.000
Yasunori Oshima	2B	1					.000
Kinji Shimatani	3B	121					.000
Yasunori Oshima	3B	20					.000
Yoshiyuki Suenaga	3B	10					.000
Yasunori Ito	3B	8					.000
Takao Kanto	3B	1					.000
Tatsuhiko Kimata	C	120					.000
Hiroshi Shintaku	C	43					.000
Takuji Kanayama	C	13					.000
Yoshiaki Katagai	C	4					.000
Kenichi Yazawa	OF	127					.000
Kyohei Taniki	OF	91					.000
Ron Woods	OF	61					.000
Hiroaki Inoue	OF	60					.000
Yasunori Oshima	OF	54					.000
Yasushi Tao	OF	47					.000
Yukio Fujinami	OF	38					.000
Takashi Ide	OF	21					.000
Kunizo Umeda	OF	2					.000
Masataka Shirataki	OF	1					.000
Shinichi Miyoshi	OF	1					.000
Yoshiaki Katagai	OF	1					.000
Mitsuo Inaba	OF	1					.000
Takamasa Suzuki	P	60					.000
Masao Sato	P	50					.000
Jun Misawa	P	43					.000
Yukitsura Matsumoto	P	42					.000
Mitsuo Inaba	P	32					.000
Terashi Donoue	P	27					.000
Masafumi Takeda	P	25					.000
Hisato Aoyama	P	24					.000
Senichi Hoshino	P	20					.000
Minoru Hayakawa	P	20					.000
Tadashi Matsuura	P	15					.000
Masayoshi Kanai	P	13					.000
Masakatsu Tsuchiya	P	8					.000
Yoshinori Murakami	P	6					.000
Sanshiro Nishioka	P	5					.000
Tsukasa Watabe	P	2					.000
Kunizo Umeda	SS	96					.000
Shinji Masaoka	SS	88					.000
Toshio Tanokura	SS	76					.000
Masayuki Kamigaki	SS	4					.000
Kinji Shimatani	SS	1					.000
Totals		1852	0	0	0	0	.000

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