2000 Chunichi Dragons Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 70-65
Finished 2nd in the JPCL
Manager: Senichi Hoshino (0-0), Ikuo Shimano (0-0)
Location: Nagoya, Japan
Ballpark: Nagoya Dome

2000 Chunichi Dragons Roster

The Chunichi Dragons of the Japan Central League ended the 2000 season with a record of 70 wins and 65 losses, finishing second in the JPCL.

The Dragons scored 544 runs and conceded 617 runs. Leo Gómez led Chunichi with 25 home runs, and Takeshi Yamasaki walloped 15 or more also. Leo Gómez drove in 79 runs. Takeshi Yamasaki paced batters with significant playing time by hitting .311. Melvin Bunch topped the team with 14 wins, while Masahiro Yamamoto earned a 2.62 ERA, tops among regular hurlers.

Kosuke Fukudome, Dan Carlson, Eddie Gaillard, Leo Gómez, Dave Nilsson, Melvin Bunch and Kenshin Kawakami were all players from the 2000 Chunichi Dragons who played in the Majors during their careers.

Senichi Hoshino and Ikuo Shimano 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
Melvin Bunch	14	8	.636	2.98	27	27	0	2	1	0	184.0	141	67	61	12	77	2	168	3	0	4	756
Masahiro Yamamoto	11	9	.550	2.61	28	21	0	5	2	0	151.7	129	50	44	16	36	4	104	2	0	3	608
Hitoki Iwase	10	5	.667	1.90	58	1	12	0	0	1	80.3	66	20	17	3	28	4	65	1	0	1	323
Shigeki Noguchi	9	11	.450	4.63	33	27	0	4	1	0	173.0	200	99	89	20	58	3	128	2	0	9	764
Eiji Shotsu	5	2	.714	4.47	42	1	7	0	0	0	50.3	49	27	25	7	16	2	42	1	0	0	216
Yukinaga Maeda	5	4	.556	3.78	41	12	5	0	0	0	97.7	82	46	41	10	18	1	71	2	0	2	392
Hideo Koike	4	3	.571	4.19	13	12	0	0	0	0	58.0	52	32	27	5	36	2	47	1	0	4	259
Kazuhiro Takeda	3	6	.333	4.66	15	15	0	1	0	0	85.0	96	45	44	12	23	2	48	1	0	2	370
Hiroaki Nakayama	2	1	.667	2.22	25	0	5	0	0	0	28.3	23	10	7	3	9	1	22	2	0	1	116
Kenshin Kawakami	2	3	.400	4.77	14	10	2	0	0	0	60.3	65	32	32	10	20	3	24	1	0	1	260
Shinichiro Koyama	2	4	.333	5.58	29	3	11	0	0	0	50.0	45	33	31	7	32	2	41	6	0	2	226
Shigeki Sano	1	0	1.000	8.10	11	0	6	0	0	0	16.7	22	17	15	7	7	1	15	0	0	1	77
Taira Suzuki	1	1	.500	3.86	21	0	8	0	0	0	16.3	19	7	7	1	8	2	12	2	0	0	77
Eddie Gaillard	1	2	.333	2.68	51	0	49	0	0	35	47.0	37	14	14	5	13	3	52	1	0	1	189
Dan Carlson	0	0		0.00	2	0	0	0	0	0	2.3	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	8
Takashi Ogasawara	0	0		6.32	8	0	1	0	0	0	15.7	20	11	11	2	14	0	14	2	0	1	81
Tetsuo Yaguchi	0	0		7.71	2	2	0	0	0	0	7.0	13	6	6	3	2	0	6	0	0	0	36
Takahiro Fukuzawa	0	0		10.12	4	0	1	0	0	0	5.3	11	6	6	0	3	0	5	1	0	1	30
Masahito Higasa	0	0		12.00	2	0	0	0	0	0	3.0	6	4	4	0	1	0	3	1	0	0	19
Masataka Endo	0	0		12.46	6	0	3	0	0	0	8.7	15	12	12	1	10	0	7	0	1	0	51
Shigetoshi Yamakita	0	0		24.30	5	0	1	0	0	0	3.3	3	9	9	0	10	0	5	2	0	2	25
Yasuyuki Sato	0	0		27.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.7	3	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	5
Yasushi Tsuruta	0	1	.000	5.28	14	1	5	0	0	1	15.3	15	10	9	1	6	1	14	0	0	2	65
Akira Miyakoshi	0	1	.000	11.70	5	1	1	0	0	0	10.0	14	13	13	4	2	0	5	1	0	0	47
Kenta Asakura	0	1	.000	14.02	9	1	3	0	0	0	17.3	36	32	27	5	7	0	9	2	0	1	95
Eiji Ochiai	0	2	.000	2.75	21	0	2	0	0	0	19.7	20	7	6	0	6	4	18	1	0	2	83
Totals	70	65	.519	4.19	489	135	123	12	4	37	1212.7	1188	617	565	135	448	37	932	36	1	40	5206

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
Takeshi Yamasaki	118	473	427	55	133	29	3	18	68	3	2	39	74	.311	.372	.520	.892	222	15	4	0	3	4
Kazuyoshi Tatsunami	126	503	436	58	132	30	3	9	58	5	0	46	43	.303	.372	.447	.819	195	13	3	16	2	1
Leo Gómez	122	508	440	59	127	19	1	25	79	1	2	57	75	.289	.373	.507	.880	223	18	5	1	5	8
Jong Beom Lee	113	465	414	58	114	26	2	8	37	11	8	28	70	.275	.332	.406	.738	168	6	8	13	2	0
Koichi Sekikawa	127	485	419	50	109	19	2	3	29	8	6	46	72	.260	.335	.337	.671	141	3	3	13	4	2
Kazuki Inoue	116	351	324	38	91	20	2	11	41	0	6	25	79	.281	.330	.457	.787	148	8	0	0	2	2
Takeshi Nakamura	126	417	356	26	87	10	0	4	34	2	2	43	68	.244	.327	.306	.633	109	12	1	16	1	9
Hitoshi Taneda	102	295	264	30	83	14	3	7	31	4	4	25	30	.314	.373	.470	.843	124	5	1	3	2	0
Kosuke Fukudome	97	368	316	50	80	18	2	13	42	8	5	45	79	.253	.350	.446	.796	141	5	3	2	2	4
Hirokazu Ibata	92	270	242	35	74	7	0	3	16	6	8	16	22	.306	.351	.372	.723	90	1	2	8	2	0
Hiroyuki Watanabe	76	116	102	6	26	7	0	0	16	0	2	9	20	.255	.319	.324	.642	33	3	1	3	1	0
Junichi Jinno	66	102	93	11	20	4	0	2	9	0	1	5	23	.215	.263	.323	.585	30	1	1	3	0	0
Fumihiro Suzuki	42	67	62	9	14	4	0	1	10	1	1	1	16	.226	.258	.339	.596	21	1	2	1	1	0
Teruyoshi Kuji	80	86	72	3	12	1	1	0	6	0	0	8	10	.167	.259	.208	.468	15	1	1	5	0	0
Takayuki Onishi	49	54	50	12	11	5	0	1	5	5	0	2	9	.220	.250	.380	.630	19	1	0	2	0	0
Dave Nilsson	18	63	61	5	11	2	0	1	8	0	0	2	16	.180	.206	.262	.469	16	2	0	0	0	0
Mitsunobu Takahashi	22	38	38	4	9	2	0	2	6	0	0	0	5	.237	.237	.447	.684	17	2	0	0	0	0
Masahiro Yamamoto	28	58	48	4	9	0	0	0	5	0	0	6	25	.188	.278	.188	.465	9	2	0	4	0	0
Shigeki Noguchi	34	60	53	2	8	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	15	.151	.151	.151	.302	8	1	0	7	0	0
Melvin Bunch	27	69	61	2	8	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	23	.131	.131	.131	.262	8	1	0	8	0	0
Kosuke Yoshihara	17	23	21	5	7	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	6	.333	.391	.429	.820	9	0	0	0	0	0
Masahiko Morino	28	46	45	3	7	0	1	2	6	0	0	0	9	.156	.152	.333	.486	15	0	0	0	1	0
So Tsutsui	23	43	36	1	6	0	0	0	1	0	0	5	7	.167	.286	.167	.452	6	1	1	1	0	0
Kazuhiro Takeda	16	32	27	2	4	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	11	.148	.179	.148	.327	4	1	0	4	0	0
Takeshi Aiko	14	13	12	1	3	1	0	1	2	0	0	1	2	.250	.308	.583	.891	7	2	0	0	0	0
Hideo Koike	15	22	18	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	11	.167	.167	.167	.333	3	0	0	4	0	0
Yukinaga Maeda	41	25	20	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	8	.150	.190	.150	.340	3	1	1	4	0	0
Hitoki Iwase	58	11	10	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	.200	.200	.200	.400	2	0	0	1	0	0
Masahiro Araki	40	12	10	11	2	0	0	0	3	3	0	0	4	.200	.167	.200	.367	2	0	0	0	2	0
Kenshin Kawakami	14	18	15	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.133	.133	.133	.267	2	1	0	3	0	0
Akira Miyakoshi	5	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Tetsuo Yaguchi	2	3	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	1	0	0
Eiji Shotsu	42	4	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	1	0	0
Masahiko Harada	3	7	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	1	0	0
Eddie Gaillard	51	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Daisuke Masuda	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Takashi Ogasawara	8	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kenta Asakura	9	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yasushi Tsuruta	14	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Masashi Fujii	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shinichiro Koyama	29	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2014	5119	4515	544	1201	220	20	111	521	57	47	412	848	.266	.330	.397	.728	1794	107	37	125	30	30

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Takeshi Yamasaki	1B	117					.000
Leo Gómez	1B	51					.000
Mitsunobu Takahashi	1B	12					.000
Hiroyuki Watanabe	1B	6					.000
So Tsutsui	1B	4					.000
Takeshi Aiko	1B	3					.000
Kazuyoshi Tatsunami	2B	123					.000
Junichi Jinno	2B	28					.000
Hirokazu Ibata	2B	23					.000
Hiroyuki Watanabe	2B	10					.000
Hitoshi Taneda	2B	6					.000
Teruyoshi Kuji	2B	3					.000
Leo Gómez	3B	109					.000
Hiroyuki Watanabe	3B	33					.000
Kosuke Fukudome	3B	30					.000
Hitoshi Taneda	3B	24					.000
Junichi Jinno	3B	14					.000
Hirokazu Ibata	3B	2					.000
Kazuyoshi Tatsunami	3B	1					.000
Jong Beom Lee	3B	1					.000
Takeshi Nakamura	C	125					.000
Fumihiro Suzuki	C	41					.000
Kosuke Yoshihara	C	15					.000
Dave Nilsson	C	1					.000
Koichi Sekikawa	OF	123					.000
Jong Beom Lee	OF	113					.000
Kazuki Inoue	OF	110					.000
Hitoshi Taneda	OF	68					.000
Takayuki Onishi	OF	42					.000
Masahiro Araki	OF	34					.000
Hirokazu Ibata	OF	21					.000
Dave Nilsson	OF	18					.000
Kazuyoshi Tatsunami	OF	15					.000
So Tsutsui	OF	14					.000
Hiroyuki Watanabe	OF	10					.000
Masahiko Harada	OF	2					.000
Hitoki Iwase	P	58					.000
Eddie Gaillard	P	51					.000
Eiji Shotsu	P	42					.000
Yukinaga Maeda	P	41					.000
Shigeki Noguchi	P	33					.000
Shinichiro Koyama	P	29					.000
Masahiro Yamamoto	P	28					.000
Melvin Bunch	P	27					.000
Hiroaki Nakayama	P	25					.000
Taira Suzuki	P	21					.000
Eiji Ochiai	P	21					.000
Kazuhiro Takeda	P	15					.000
Yasushi Tsuruta	P	14					.000
Kenshin Kawakami	P	14					.000
Hideo Koike	P	13					.000
Shigeki Sano	P	11					.000
Kenta Asakura	P	9					.000
Takashi Ogasawara	P	8					.000
Masataka Endo	P	6					.000
Shigetoshi Yamakita	P	5					.000
Akira Miyakoshi	P	5					.000
Takahiro Fukuzawa	P	4					.000
Tetsuo Yaguchi	P	2					.000
Masahito Higasa	P	2					.000
Dan Carlson	P	2					.000
Yasuyuki Sato	P	1					.000
Kosuke Fukudome	SS	77					.000
Teruyoshi Kuji	SS	64					.000
Hirokazu Ibata	SS	51					.000
Masahiko Morino	SS	11					.000
Hitoshi Taneda	SS	6					.000
Kazuyoshi Tatsunami	SS	3					.000
Totals		2053	0	0	0	0	.000

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