1977 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

1977 Chunichi Dragons Roster

The Chunichi Dragons of the Japan Central League ended the 1977 season with a record of 64 wins and 61 losses, finishing third in the JPCL.

The Dragons scored 575 runs and surrendered 614 runs. Gene Martin walloped 31 home runs for Chunichi, while Hiroaki Inoue, Willie Davis, Morimichi Takagi and Yasunori Oshima each swatted 15 or more also. Gene Martin drove in 78 runs. Yasunori Oshima paced all regular batters by hitting .333. Senichi Hoshino and Takamasa Suzuki topped the team with 18 wins each, and Senichi Hoshino registered a 3.53 earned run average, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Gene Martin and Willie Davis 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
Takamasa Suzuki	18	9	.667	3.76	57	8	37	2	0	9	170.0	156	76	71	33	35	5	131	4	1	3	701
Senichi Hoshino	18	13	.581	3.52	42	30	10	13	3	5	245.3	245	105	96	26	71	2	125	12	0	4	1029
Hisato Aoyama	6	4	.600	4.24	44	14	17	2	2	2	116.7	105	59	55	20	45	4	91	10	2	0	497
Yoshinori Toda	6	7	.462	4.64	26	22	2	1	0	0	118.3	125	64	61	21	55	3	77	4	0	0	527
Terashi Donoue	5	8	.385	4.30	43	21	4	3	1	1	148.7	150	85	71	20	50	1	51	7	0	0	639
Jun Misawa	4	4	.500	5.15	25	9	9	0	0	1	64.7	64	38	37	16	22	0	49	5	0	0	282
Yukitsura Matsumoto	4	8	.333	5.37	36	20	3	2	1	2	120.7	143	75	72	22	44	5	26	2	0	0	518
Masao Sato	2	4	.333	4.45	52	0	4	0	0	0	62.7	65	37	31	13	14	1	45	5	0	0	270
Hiroaki Shibaike	1	0	1.000	4.39	14	1	6	0	0	0	26.7	28	18	13	8	10	0	16	1	0	1	116
Katsuhiko Takamoto	0	0		4.50	1	0	1	0	0	0	2.0	1	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	7
Minoru Hayakawa	0	0		4.76	6	0	2	0	0	0	5.7	9	3	3	2	1	0	2	0	0	0	24
Shigeru Matsubayashi	0	0		6.75	4	0	3	0	0	1	6.7	4	5	5	1	6	2	4	1	0	0	31
Yoshinori Murakami	0	0		8.53	6	0	3	0	0	0	6.3	11	6	6	2	3	0	3	1	0	0	31
Tadashi Matsuura	0	0		9.00	2	0	1	0	0	0	3.0	3	3	3	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	13
Masakatsu Tsuchiya	0	1	.000	5.31	9	2	3	0	0	0	20.3	23	14	12	2	2	0	7	0	0	0	82
Yataro Oishi	0	3	.000	7.30	12	3	2	0	0	0	24.7	37	25	20	7	11	2	13	1	0	1	124
Totals	64	61	.512	4.39	379	130	107	23	7	21	1142.3	1169	614	557	195	370	25	642	53	3	9	4891

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	130	554	493	65	154	29	4	14	55	5	1	53	51	.312	.381	.473	.853	233	15	2	5	1	3
Yasunori Oshima	126	491	433	64	144	15	1	27	71	6	11	52	74	.333	.407	.559	.966	242	12	3	2	1	3
Morimichi Takagi	121	504	468	74	136	18	3	20	52	10	3	18	49	.291	.323	.470	.793	220	10	5	11	2	0
Tatsuhiko Kimata	123	417	384	32	119	16	0	13	51	1	2	25	41	.310	.355	.453	.808	174	12	3	3	2	2
Gene Martin	119	467	408	53	115	13	0	31	78	0	3	53	66	.282	.368	.542	.910	221	5	4	0	2	1
Hiroaki Inoue	120	444	387	60	110	13	0	17	60	5	3	32	51	.284	.358	.450	.807	174	9	14	8	3	1
Willie Davis	72	302	288	47	88	13	2	25	63	10	3	10	18	.306	.332	.625	.957	180	6	2	1	1	1
Yukio Fujinami	100	237	214	32	68	9	1	6	20	11	5	11	9	.318	.365	.453	.818	97	4	5	7	0	0
Shinji Masaoka	120	259	233	23	55	7	2	0	12	8	5	13	35	.236	.282	.283	.565	66	7	3	7	3	0
Yasushi Tao	96	166	152	19	42	6	1	6	19	1	0	9	31	.276	.315	.447	.762	68	3	0	4	1	0
Kyohei Taniki	117	175	153	32	36	6	1	4	14	6	3	19	32	.235	.331	.366	.697	56	0	3	0	0	1
Senichi Hoshino	42	96	84	10	19	1	0	3	8	0	0	5	19	.226	.270	.345	.615	29	4	0	7	0	0
Kiyoshi Morimoto	49	118	99	7	17	3	1	2	13	1	1	13	14	.172	.274	.283	.556	28	4	2	1	3	0
Takuji Kanayama	40	77	66	9	14	2	0	3	7	0	0	8	21	.212	.307	.379	.685	25	1	1	2	0	0
Terashi Donoue	43	48	44	1	12	2	1	1	5	0	0	0	11	.273	.289	.432	.721	19	1	1	3	0	0
Kunizo Umeda	39	50	43	7	10	0	0	0	4	2	0	3	7	.233	.312	.233	.545	10	2	2	2	0	1
Takao Kanto	40	50	45	3	10	3	0	0	0	1	0	5	11	.222	.300	.289	.589	13	1	0	0	0	0
Takamasa Suzuki	57	53	45	1	9	1	0	0	4	0	0	3	12	.200	.265	.222	.488	10	1	1	4	0	0
Yasunori Ito	58	56	47	4	9	2	0	1	4	0	0	8	12	.191	.304	.298	.601	14	0	0	0	1	2
Shinichi Miyoshi	79	79	69	13	8	1	0	2	7	1	1	7	19	.116	.218	.217	.435	15	2	2	1	0	0
Masayuki Kamigaki	11	29	28	6	7	1	1	1	5	1	0	1	5	.250	.276	.464	.740	13	1	0	0	0	0
Hiroshi Shintaku	20	20	20	0	5	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	3	.250	.250	.300	.550	6	2	0	0	0	0
Yukitsura Matsumoto	36	34	32	2	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	11	.156	.182	.156	.338	5	1	0	1	0	0
Yukio Iida	20	18	17	4	3	2	0	0	1	0	0	1	8	.176	.222	.294	.516	5	0	0	0	0	0
Hiroaki Suzuki	25	23	22	1	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	.136	.174	.182	.356	4	0	0	0	0	0
Toshio Tanokura	19	8	7	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.286	.375	.286	.661	2	0	0	0	0	0
Masao Sato	52	10	9	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.111	.111	.111	.222	1	0	0	1	0	0
Hisato Aoyama	44	30	28	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	17	.036	.036	.036	.071	1	0	0	2	0	0
Yoshinori Toda	26	42	35	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	19	.029	.081	.029	.110	1	2	0	5	0	0
Katsumi Kaneko	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jun Misawa	26	16	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	4	0	0
Masakatsu Tsuchiya	10	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.250	.000	.250	0	0	1	0	0	0
Hiroaki Shibaike	14	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yataro Oishi	12	5	3	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	.000	.250	.000	.250	0	0	0	1	0	0
Totals	2009	4887	4376	575	1203	165	18	176	558	69	41	355	661	.275	.335	.441	.777	1932	105	54	82	20	15

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Kenichi Yazawa	1B	88					.000
Gene Martin	1B	42					.000
Yasunori Ito	1B	13					.000
Hiroaki Suzuki	1B	11					.000
Yasunori Oshima	1B	3					.000
Morimichi Takagi	2B	120					.000
Takao Kanto	2B	17					.000
Kiyoshi Morimoto	2B	8					.000
Masayuki Kamigaki	2B	8					.000
Shinji Masaoka	2B	7					.000
Shinichi Miyoshi	2B	4					.000
Katsumi Kaneko	2B	1					.000
Yasunori Oshima	3B	115					.000
Kiyoshi Morimoto	3B	19					.000
Yasunori Ito	3B	4					.000
Tatsuhiko Kimata	C	119					.000
Takuji Kanayama	C	39					.000
Hiroshi Shintaku	C	12					.000
Hiroaki Inoue	OF	107					.000
Kyohei Taniki	OF	86					.000
Gene Martin	OF	73					.000
Willie Davis	OF	70					.000
Yukio Fujinami	OF	68					.000
Yasushi Tao	OF	53					.000
Kenichi Yazawa	OF	47					.000
Yasunori Oshima	OF	6					.000
Yasunori Ito	OF	3					.000
Kiyoshi Morimoto	OF	1					.000
Katsumi Kaneko	OF	1					.000
Takamasa Suzuki	P	57					.000
Masao Sato	P	52					.000
Hisato Aoyama	P	44					.000
Terashi Donoue	P	43					.000
Senichi Hoshino	P	42					.000
Yukitsura Matsumoto	P	36					.000
Yoshinori Toda	P	26					.000
Jun Misawa	P	25					.000
Hiroaki Shibaike	P	14					.000
Yataro Oishi	P	12					.000
Masakatsu Tsuchiya	P	9					.000
Yoshinori Murakami	P	6					.000
Minoru Hayakawa	P	6					.000
Shigeru Matsubayashi	P	4					.000
Tadashi Matsuura	P	2					.000
Katsuhiko Takamoto	P	1					.000
Shinji Masaoka	SS	110					.000
Shinichi Miyoshi	SS	63					.000
Kunizo Umeda	SS	38					.000
Toshio Tanokura	SS	12					.000
Masaru Uno	SS	2					.000
Kiyoshi Morimoto	SS	2					.000
Takao Kanto	SS	1					.000
Totals		1752	0	0	0	0	.000

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