1981 Chunichi Dragons Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 58-65
Finished 5th in the JPCL
Manager: Sadao Kondo (58-65)
Location: Nagoya, Japan
Ballpark: Nagoya Stadium

1981 Chunichi Dragons Roster

The Chunichi Dragons of the Japan Central League ended the 1981 season with a record of 58 wins and 65 losses, finishing fifth in the JPCL.

The Dragons scored 545 runs and conceded 537 runs. Kenichi Yazawa paced Chunichi with 28 home runs, while Yasushi Tao, Yasunori Oshima, Masaru Uno and Ray Cosey each walloped 15 or more also. Yasunori Oshima accounted for 81 RBI. Kenichi Yazawa topped all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .318. Tatsuo Komatsu led the squad with 12 wins, and Kazuhiko Ushijima earned a 2.77 ERA, tops among pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.

Charlie Spikes and Ray Cosey both played in Major League Baseball during their careers.

Sadao Kondo 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
Tatsuo Komatsu	12	6	.667	3.07	42	14	24	6	1	11	152.7	139	62	52	22	41	1	122	11	0	2	637
Senichi Hoshino	10	9	.526	3.93	23	23	0	4	0	0	142.0	152	67	62	20	37	4	69	4	0	3	602
Jun Misawa	7	10	.412	3.35	37	24	3	4	0	2	163.7	159	70	61	17	49	9	69	1	0	0	685
Takamasa Suzuki	6	8	.429	3.20	48	1	29	0	0	8	76.0	83	27	27	10	18	8	43	2	0	2	321
Yujiro Miyako	6	8	.429	4.45	36	24	4	0	0	1	131.3	140	75	65	24	44	4	84	1	0	1	567
Yasuji Sota	5	4	.556	3.71	20	17	3	3	1	0	89.7	101	40	37	12	18	1	42	8	1	1	384
Kimiya Fujisawa	4	4	.500	4.95	17	10	0	1	0	0	56.3	66	37	31	11	21	1	24	6	0	0	248
Hiroaki Mizutani	2	0	1.000	2.70	47	0	15	0	0	3	56.7	41	18	17	8	27	4	37	3	0	0	238
Kazuhiko Ushijima	2	7	.222	2.76	51	5	9	0	0	0	104.3	84	39	32	11	59	6	82	0	0	3	434
Masakatsu Tsuchiya	1	0	1.000	1.91	23	0	6	0	0	0	33.0	23	8	7	2	10	3	16	0	0	0	129
Hisato Aoyama	1	1	.500	5.26	20	1	6	1	0	0	37.7	41	28	22	5	20	4	26	3	1	0	176
Genji Kaku	1	2	.333	6.33	6	5	0	0	0	0	21.3	23	17	15	2	15	0	17	1	0	1	96
Terashi Donoue	1	3	.250	4.12	36	2	10	0	0	1	63.3	71	30	29	4	18	6	28	1	0	0	274
Masayoshi Kanai	0	0		4.50	3	0	2	0	0	0	4.0	6	2	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	18
Yoshinori Toda	0	3	.000	8.22	7	4	0	0	0	0	15.3	26	17	14	3	9	0	4	0	0	1	75
Totals	58	65	.472	3.71	416	130	111	19	2	26	1147.3	1155	537	473	152	386	51	664	41	2	14	4884

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	506	462	57	147	22	3	28	79	4	2	39	63	.318	.368	.561	.928	259	6	0	0	5	4
Yasunori Oshima	130	548	468	69	141	22	2	23	81	7	1	68	71	.301	.396	.504	.900	236	11	8	0	4	9
Yasushi Tao	124	513	462	72	140	17	6	15	53	7	11	41	62	.303	.360	.463	.823	214	11	2	5	3	7
Masaru Uno	128	475	429	62	121	18	3	25	70	6	7	26	85	.282	.324	.513	.837	220	8	3	12	5	2
Seisuke Toyoda	114	352	315	39	92	19	2	4	29	9	2	23	43	.292	.343	.403	.746	127	7	3	8	3	0
Toshio Tanokura	113	365	313	38	87	14	3	14	39	4	2	36	77	.278	.358	.476	.834	149	6	4	10	2	3
Ray Cosey	120	372	342	40	86	9	2	15	41	2	4	18	51	.251	.288	.421	.709	144	7	1	7	4	2
Takayoshi Nakao	116	319	288	37	70	11	2	5	26	7	6	19	52	.243	.287	.347	.634	100	10	0	9	3	2
Tatsuhiko Kimata	108	256	232	19	64	10	0	10	36	0	0	17	19	.276	.331	.448	.779	104	9	3	2	2	8
Masaru Tomita	92	255	235	21	56	8	1	3	13	1	2	8	29	.238	.261	.319	.580	75	10	0	10	2	0
Ken Hirano	110	121	110	28	26	2	2	0	4	8	6	2	16	.236	.263	.291	.554	32	0	2	7	0	0
Akio Ishii	81	151	121	16	25	3	0	3	16	2	0	22	28	.207	.342	.306	.648	37	6	4	2	2	2
Yukio Fujinami	41	65	62	5	13	3	0	1	6	1	2	3	2	.210	.246	.306	.553	19	2	0	0	0	0
Shinji Masaoka	103	60	57	8	12	0	0	1	1	2	1	1	9	.211	.224	.263	.487	15	0	0	2	0	0
Sakae Okawara	32	30	28	2	10	1	0	1	1	0	0	2	4	.357	.400	.500	.900	14	1	0	0	0	0
Tsuneo Hirata	31	34	30	6	9	2	0	0	3	1	0	4	13	.300	.382	.367	.749	11	0	0	0	0	0
Tatsuo Komatsu	44	45	44	3	9	0	0	1	4	0	0	0	13	.205	.205	.273	.477	12	1	0	1	0	0
Yujiro Miyako	38	38	35	1	7	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	.200	.222	.229	.451	8	0	0	2	0	0
Senichi Hoshino	24	54	49	1	7	3	0	1	2	1	0	0	12	.143	.143	.265	.408	13	1	0	5	0	0
Charlie Spikes	26	52	49	4	6	1	0	1	6	0	0	3	21	.122	.173	.204	.377	10	2	0	0	0	0
Hidetoshi Kurioka	28	25	25	4	5	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	7	.200	.200	.280	.480	7	0	0	0	0	0
Jun Misawa	37	49	45	1	5	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	18	.111	.111	.156	.267	7	0	0	4	0	0
Kazuhiko Ushijima	52	17	14	0	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	7	.286	.375	.286	.661	4	0	0	1	0	0
Yasuji Sota	21	31	27	3	4	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	14	.148	.148	.185	.333	5	0	0	4	0	0
Terashi Donoue	37	8	6	1	3	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	1	.500	.571	.667	1.238	4	0	0	1	0	0
Kimiya Fujisawa	18	14	11	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	5	.273	.273	.273	.545	3	0	0	3	0	0
Yonetoshi Kawamata	11	14	13	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.231	.286	.231	.516	3	1	0	0	0	0
Hideyuki Akita	17	22	20	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	8	.150	.190	.150	.340	3	0	0	1	0	0
Genji Kaku	6	7	7	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.286	.286	.286	.571	2	0	0	0	0	0
Takamasa Suzuki	48	12	8	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.500	2	1	0	4	0	0
Takao Kanto	32	22	18	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	3	.056	.150	.056	.206	1	0	0	2	0	1
Takao Yanagisawa	37	6	5	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	1	0
Hisato Aoyama	20	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Yoshinori Toda	7	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hiroaki Mizutani	47	7	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	3	0	0
Totals	2120	4853	4341	545	1163	170	27	151	522	62	47	340	753	.268	.323	.424	.747	1840	101	30	106	36	40

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Kenichi Yazawa	1B	121					.000
Yasunori Oshima	1B	52					.000
Takao Kanto	1B	12					.000
Yonetoshi Kawamata	1B	3					.000
Hideyuki Akita	1B	3					.000
Ray Cosey	1B	2					.000
Toshio Tanokura	2B	109					.000
Masaru Tomita	2B	40					.000
Takao Yanagisawa	2B	27					.000
Shinji Masaoka	2B	20					.000
Hidetoshi Kurioka	2B	6					.000
Seisuke Toyoda	2B	5					.000
Takao Kanto	2B	5					.000
Yasunori Oshima	3B	62					.000
Shinji Masaoka	3B	59					.000
Masaru Tomita	3B	45					.000
Seisuke Toyoda	3B	39					.000
Toshio Tanokura	3B	13					.000
Takao Kanto	3B	7					.000
Takao Yanagisawa	3B	5					.000
Hidetoshi Kurioka	3B	5					.000
Hideyuki Akita	3B	2					.000
Takayoshi Nakao	C	107					.000
Tatsuhiko Kimata	C	68					.000
Sakae Okawara	C	18					.000
Yasushi Tao	OF	122					.000
Ray Cosey	OF	114					.000
Ken Hirano	OF	99					.000
Seisuke Toyoda	OF	73					.000
Yasunori Oshima	OF	66					.000
Akio Ishii	OF	53					.000
Yukio Fujinami	OF	16					.000
Charlie Spikes	OF	13					.000
Tsuneo Hirata	OF	9					.000
Tatsuhiko Kimata	OF	8					.000
Takayoshi Nakao	OF	5					.000
Hidetoshi Kurioka	OF	2					.000
Masaru Tomita	OF	1					.000
Hideyuki Akita	OF	1					.000
Kazuhiko Ushijima	P	51					.000
Takamasa Suzuki	P	48					.000
Hiroaki Mizutani	P	47					.000
Tatsuo Komatsu	P	42					.000
Jun Misawa	P	37					.000
Yujiro Miyako	P	36					.000
Terashi Donoue	P	36					.000
Masakatsu Tsuchiya	P	23					.000
Senichi Hoshino	P	23					.000
Yasuji Sota	P	20					.000
Hisato Aoyama	P	20					.000
Kimiya Fujisawa	P	17					.000
Yoshinori Toda	P	7					.000
Genji Kaku	P	6					.000
Masayoshi Kanai	P	3					.000
Masaru Uno	SS	127					.000
Shinji Masaoka	SS	25					.000
Toshio Tanokura	SS	11					.000
Hidetoshi Kurioka	SS	3					.000
Totals		1999	0	0	0	0	.000

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