1997 Chunichi Dragons Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 59-76
Finished 6th in the JPCL
Manager: Senichi Hoshino (59-76)
Location: Nagoya, Japan
Ballpark: Nagoya Dome

1997 Chunichi Dragons Roster

The Chunichi Dragons of the Japan Central League ended the 1997 season with a record of 59 wins and 76 losses, finishing sixth in the JPCL.

The Dragons scored 510 runs and surrendered 644 runs. Leo Gómez walloped 31 home runs for Chunichi, while Takeshi Yamasaki swatted 15 or more also. Leo Gómez drove in 81 runs and topped batters with significant playing time by hitting .315. Masahiro Yamamoto led the team with 18 wins and a team-best 2.92 ERA, best among hurlers with significant time on the mound.

Alonzo Powell and Leo Gómez both played in Major League Baseball during their careers.

Senichi Hoshino 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
Masahiro Yamamoto	18	7	.720	2.92	29	28	1	4	1	1	206.7	174	74	67	26	57	4	159	3	0	1	838
Ken Kadokura	10	12	.455	4.72	34	26	5	2	0	0	160.0	173	95	84	13	96	4	143	10	1	4	747
Hiroaki Nakayama	7	6	.538	4.34	53	0	14	0	0	0	76.7	67	41	37	10	32	3	54	7	1	6	330
Eiji Ochiai	4	7	.364	3.66	19	9	1	2	0	0	66.3	66	33	27	3	7	1	52	2	0	0	271
Takuichi Koike	4	9	.308	5.02	30	19	2	0	0	0	98.7	93	56	55	7	51	3	87	7	3	0	439
Hiroshi Yamada	3	2	.600	3.07	10	6	2	1	1	0	41.0	33	16	14	4	16	0	30	3	0	3	172
Masaaki Daito	2	1	.667	3.57	43	0	7	0	0	0	58.0	61	26	23	5	23	0	47	8	0	6	260
Shinji Imanaka	2	2	.500	4.03	10	8	0	0	0	0	44.7	42	23	20	5	19	1	18	3	0	0	195
Katsuyoshi Murata	2	3	.400	6.35	11	6	2	0	0	0	34.0	42	24	24	7	24	0	21	2	0	0	167
Masataka Endo	2	4	.333	5.24	40	2	10	0	0	1	56.7	61	36	33	7	40	2	51	7	3	3	273
Yukinaga Maeda	2	13	.133	5.06	25	18	2	0	0	0	101.3	112	59	57	11	37	4	91	3	0	2	448
Dong Yol Sun	1	1	.500	1.28	43	0	42	0	0	38	63.3	36	9	9	0	12	0	69	1	1	0	232
Kenichiro Idemoto	1	2	.333	6.75	28	2	5	0	0	0	29.3	33	30	22	6	18	0	16	1	0	0	138
Katsuya Udo	1	4	.200	4.10	19	3	5	0	0	0	37.3	39	17	17	2	11	1	20	2	1	1	153
Sadaharu Hiranuma	0	0		0.00	4	0	3	0	0	0	3.7	6	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	15
Masahito Higasa	0	0		2.25	5	0	0	0	0	0	4.0	5	1	1	0	4	0	4	2	0	1	21
Takashi Yamada	0	0		2.84	4	0	1	0	0	0	6.3	7	2	2	1	3	0	1	0	0	0	27
Kikuo Yamada	0	0		4.50	19	0	8	0	0	0	18.0	16	10	9	2	8	0	7	1	0	0	77
Yasuyuki Sato	0	0		7.04	15	0	1	0	0	0	15.3	25	17	12	1	9	0	12	1	0	1	79
Hiromu Kojima	0	0		7.11	6	0	3	0	0	0	6.3	7	5	5	1	1	0	3	0	0	1	26
Koji Mori	0	0		7.56	5	0	1	0	0	0	8.3	13	7	7	1	7	0	4	0	0	0	42
Hideki Sato	0	0		9.00	6	0	3	0	0	0	7.0	9	7	7	2	5	0	8	0	0	0	36
Naoyuki Naito	0	0		27.00	2	0	0	0	0	0	0.3	1	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	4
Katsunori Kitano	0	1	.000	4.35	34	0	6	0	0	0	20.7	25	11	10	5	9	1	7	1	0	0	93
Shigeki Noguchi	0	1	.000	6.57	11	7	1	0	0	0	37.0	46	29	27	2	21	0	14	3	0	2	179
Kazuyoshi Ono	0	1	.000	11.57	8	2	2	0	0	0	11.7	20	15	15	2	6	1	6	0	0	0	61
Totals	59	76	.437	4.34	513	136	127	9	2	40	1212.7	1212	644	585	123	519	25	925	67	10	31	5323

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
Leo Gómez	135	562	483	84	152	23	1	31	81	2	0	74	76	.315	.407	.559	.966	270	13	3	0	2	3
Kazuyoshi Tatsunami	133	579	495	77	133	24	3	14	55	8	5	77	42	.269	.372	.414	.786	205	13	5	1	1	4
Daisuke Masuda	117	458	402	54	108	15	8	2	24	11	8	42	88	.269	.341	.361	.701	145	2	4	6	4	0
Takeshi Yamasaki	130	483	421	45	108	19	2	19	54	0	1	55	66	.257	.350	.447	.796	188	14	6	0	1	4
Alonzo Powell	106	417	379	36	96	13	1	14	56	0	0	36	56	.253	.321	.404	.725	153	17	2	0	0	3
Yasuaki Taiho	95	341	296	33	71	12	0	12	35	0	1	38	78	.240	.330	.402	.732	119	5	3	2	2	2
Takeshi Nakamura	102	314	280	27	65	15	0	8	36	0	0	26	42	.232	.301	.371	.673	104	11	3	2	3	5
Yusuke Torigoe	124	308	269	35	56	6	2	2	16	10	3	20	63	.208	.269	.268	.536	72	2	3	14	2	1
Akihiro Yano	83	244	214	24	54	8	0	3	19	1	0	22	32	.252	.331	.332	.662	71	3	3	5	0	1
Takeshi Aiko	93	121	99	8	28	5	1	2	20	0	0	16	18	.283	.370	.414	.784	41	3	0	2	4	0
Koji Yamaguchi	65	129	110	16	25	2	0	2	5	1	0	13	19	.227	.312	.300	.612	33	5	1	4	1	0
Kazutoshi Higuchi	55	126	101	14	23	4	2	0	5	3	3	18	17	.228	.345	.307	.651	31	5	0	7	0	0
Kazuki Inoue	28	74	73	6	21	5	0	2	9	0	1	1	25	.288	.297	.438	.736	32	0	0	0	0	0
Shigeki Oto	55	149	130	9	21	3	1	1	9	2	0	8	24	.162	.213	.223	.436	29	5	1	8	2	1
Hiroyuki Watanabe	34	65	52	6	18	5	2	0	4	0	1	11	8	.346	.477	.519	.996	27	2	2	0	0	0
Masahiro Yamamoto	29	84	72	4	16	3	0	0	6	0	0	4	23	.222	.260	.264	.524	19	1	0	7	1	0
Masahiro Araki	63	74	67	9	12	2	0	0	2	12	4	1	16	.179	.203	.209	.412	14	1	1	5	0	1
Toshikatsu Hikono	42	42	36	2	11	3	0	1	19	0	0	5	8	.306	.381	.472	.853	17	1	0	0	1	1
Yonetoshi Kawamata	48	45	41	0	9	3	0	0	7	0	0	4	13	.220	.289	.293	.582	12	1	0	0	0	1
So Tsutsui	37	45	42	2	9	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	9	.214	.227	.238	.465	10	1	1	1	1	0
Junichi Jinno	13	53	46	3	8	0	0	0	5	2	0	5	12	.174	.264	.174	.438	8	0	1	0	1	0
Masahiko Harada	14	21	20	2	6	1	1	0	2	0	2	1	3	.300	.333	.450	.783	9	0	0	0	0	0
Koji Yamada	19	39	39	2	6	2	0	1	8	1	0	0	10	.154	.154	.282	.436	11	0	0	0	0	0
Ken Kadokura	34	57	48	1	6	2	0	0	6	0	0	1	31	.125	.160	.167	.327	8	1	1	7	0	0
Eiji Ochiai	19	19	18	1	4	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	9	.222	.222	.278	.500	5	0	0	1	0	0
Takuichi Koike	32	32	30	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	.133	.133	.133	.267	4	0	0	2	0	0
Hidekazu Mitsuyama	25	38	34	1	4	1	0	0	2	0	0	3	12	.118	.189	.147	.336	5	0	0	1	0	0
Masahiko Morino	13	22	22	2	3	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	8	.136	.136	.318	.455	7	2	0	0	0	0
Eiichi Nakano	12	24	23	0	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	11	.130	.167	.174	.341	4	1	0	0	0	0
Takayuki Onishi	6	9	8	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	.250	.250	.250	.500	2	0	0	1	0	0
Yukinaga Maeda	25	31	25	1	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	7	.080	.115	.120	.235	3	0	0	5	0	0
Kenichiro Idemoto	28	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0	0	0
Katsuyoshi Murata	11	8	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.143	.143	.143	.286	1	0	0	1	0	0
Hitoshi Taneda	8	19	13	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.077	.143	.154	.297	2	0	0	5	0	0
Shinji Imanaka	10	14	13	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	.077	.077	.077	.154	1	0	0	1	0	0
Dong Yol Sun	43	8	7	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Masaaki Daito	43	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Masataka Endo	40	10	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.125	.000	.125	0	0	0	2	0	0
Kei Ichihara	22	7	7	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hiroaki Nakayama	53	9	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Shigeki Noguchi	11	11	10	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	7	.000	.091	.000	.091	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kazuyoshi Ono	8	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Katsuya Udo	19	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kenji Makuta	2	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hideki Sato	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Takumi Shiigi	4	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hiroshi Yamada	10	12	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2104	5127	4482	510	1088	182	24	115	495	55	30	486	891	.243	.321	.371	.692	1663	109	40	93	26	27

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Yasuaki Taiho	1B	89					.000
Takeshi Aiko	1B	49					.000
Alonzo Powell	1B	25					.000
Takeshi Yamasaki	1B	12					.000
Hiroyuki Watanabe	1B	9					.000
So Tsutsui	1B	4					.000
Masahiro Araki	1B	1					.000
Kazuyoshi Tatsunami	2B	133					.000
Kazutoshi Higuchi	2B	5					.000
Junichi Jinno	2B	4					.000
So Tsutsui	2B	3					.000
Masahiro Araki	2B	2					.000
Kei Ichihara	2B	1					.000
Leo Gómez	3B	135					.000
Hiroyuki Watanabe	3B	4					.000
So Tsutsui	3B	3					.000
Takeshi Nakamura	C	96					.000
Akihiro Yano	C	60					.000
Hidekazu Mitsuyama	C	21					.000
Eiichi Nakano	C	11					.000
Takumi Shiigi	C	3					.000
Takeshi Yamasaki	OF	122					.000
Daisuke Masuda	OF	113					.000
Alonzo Powell	OF	75					.000
Koji Yamaguchi	OF	64					.000
Shigeki Oto	OF	48					.000
Masahiro Araki	OF	44					.000
Akihiro Yano	OF	22					.000
Kazuki Inoue	OF	21					.000
Yusuke Torigoe	OF	19					.000
Koji Yamada	OF	16					.000
Masahiko Harada	OF	7					.000
Takayuki Onishi	OF	6					.000
So Tsutsui	OF	4					.000
Toshikatsu Hikono	OF	3					.000
Kenji Makuta	OF	2					.000
Takeshi Aiko	OF	2					.000
Takuichi Koike	OF	1					.000
Hiroaki Nakayama	P	53					.000
Dong Yol Sun	P	43					.000
Masaaki Daito	P	43					.000
Masataka Endo	P	40					.000
Katsunori Kitano	P	34					.000
Ken Kadokura	P	34					.000
Takuichi Koike	P	30					.000
Masahiro Yamamoto	P	29					.000
Kenichiro Idemoto	P	28					.000
Yukinaga Maeda	P	25					.000
Kikuo Yamada	P	19					.000
Katsuya Udo	P	19					.000
Eiji Ochiai	P	19					.000
Yasuyuki Sato	P	15					.000
Shigeki Noguchi	P	11					.000
Katsuyoshi Murata	P	11					.000
Hiroshi Yamada	P	10					.000
Shinji Imanaka	P	10					.000
Kazuyoshi Ono	P	8					.000
Hideki Sato	P	6					.000
Hiromu Kojima	P	6					.000
Koji Mori	P	5					.000
Masahito Higasa	P	5					.000
Takashi Yamada	P	4					.000
Sadaharu Hiranuma	P	4					.000
Naoyuki Naito	P	2					.000
Yusuke Torigoe	SS	109					.000
Kazutoshi Higuchi	SS	40					.000
Kei Ichihara	SS	16					.000
Masahiro Araki	SS	16					.000
Junichi Jinno	SS	13					.000
Masahiko Morino	SS	9					.000
Hiroyuki Watanabe	SS	8					.000
Hitoshi Taneda	SS	7					.000
So Tsutsui	SS	1					.000
Totals		1971	0	0	0	0	.000

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