2003 Chunichi Dragons Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 73-66
Finished 2nd in the JPCL
Manager: Kyosuke Sasaki (0-0), Hisashi Yamada (0-0)
Location: Nagoya, Japan
Ballpark: Nagoya Dome

2003 Chunichi Dragons Roster

The Chunichi Dragons of the Japan Central League ended the 2003 season with a record of 73 wins and 66 losses, finishing second in the JPCL.

The Dragons plated 616 runs and conceded 578 runs. Kosuke Fukudome walloped 34 home runs for Chunichi, while Motonobu Tanishige and Alex Ochoa swatted 15 or more, too. Kosuke Fukudome accounted for 96 RBI and topped all regular hitters by hitting .312. Masafumi Hirai led the squad with 12 wins and a team-best 3.06 earned run average, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Kosuke Fukudome, Akinori Otsuka, Iván Cruz, Eddie Gaillard, Marc Valdes, Alex Ochoa and Kenshin Kawakami were all players from the 2003 Chunichi Dragons who played in the Majors during their careers.

Kyosuke Sasaki and Hisashi Yamada 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
Masafumi Hirai	12	6	.667	3.06	40	20	3	3	2	0	144.3	132	55	49	16	25	2	98	6	0	0	584
Masahiro Yamamoto	9	7	.562	3.58	26	26	0	0	0	0	156.0	156	69	62	19	35	5	121	9	0	1	653
Shigeki Noguchi	9	11	.450	4.55	29	26	0	1	0	0	146.3	154	80	74	12	59	0	146	9	0	3	641
Eiji Ochiai	7	0	1.000	1.77	61	0	8	0	0	1	56.0	53	11	11	4	5	2	35	0	0	0	215
Makoto Kito	7	8	.467	4.91	23	17	0	0	0	0	88.0	97	54	48	20	21	0	57	5	0	0	381
Hitoki Iwase	5	2	.714	1.41	58	0	9	0	0	4	63.7	47	10	10	3	12	6	69	1	1	1	244
Kazuhiro Hiramatsu	5	3	.625	4.05	15	11	1	0	0	0	46.7	49	23	21	3	15	1	32	1	0	1	195
Kenshin Kawakami	4	3	.571	3.02	8	8	0	1	0	0	53.7	60	22	18	2	14	0	37	1	0	3	234
Shinya Okamoto	4	6	.400	3.34	40	12	10	0	0	0	97.0	79	39	36	9	27	2	96	3	0	10	398
Shigetoshi Yamakita	3	0	1.000	3.25	57	0	7	0	0	0	55.3	52	25	20	5	20	4	41	4	0	2	238
Masataka Endo	2	2	.500	2.83	34	0	8	0	0	0	41.3	33	14	13	5	14	0	41	4	0	0	175
Eddie Gaillard	2	2	.500	5.09	23	0	19	0	0	14	23.0	23	14	13	4	7	3	21	1	0	0	97
Shinichiro Koyama	1	0	1.000	9.35	12	0	4	0	0	0	17.3	18	18	18	2	15	1	13	4	0	3	88
Yuichi Hisamoto	1	1	.500	3.22	51	2	21	0	0	1	67.0	58	24	24	6	23	5	68	2	0	4	277
Akinori Otsuka	1	3	.250	2.09	51	0	34	0	0	17	43.0	31	10	10	4	5	0	56	1	1	0	164
Kenta Asakura	1	4	.200	7.89	6	6	0	1	0	0	29.7	48	31	26	5	16	1	23	0	1	0	153
Akira Miyakoshi	0	0		0.00	3	0	1	0	0	0	3.0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	10
Daisuke Yamai	0	0		4.76	4	0	0	0	0	0	5.7	11	5	3	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	27
Eiji Shotsu	0	0		8.44	6	0	3	0	0	0	5.3	10	5	5	1	2	0	3	0	0	0	28
Martin Vargas	0	2	.000	6.65	6	4	0	0	0	0	21.7	34	17	16	3	9	1	15	0	0	2	103
Marc Valdes	0	3	.000	4.45	37	5	3	0	0	1	58.7	54	33	29	8	24	2	38	6	2	2	256
Takashi Ogasawara	0	3	.000	7.77	11	3	3	0	0	0	22.0	30	19	19	6	7	0	21	2	0	0	105
Totals	73	66	.525	3.80	601	140	134	6	2	38	1244.7	1231	578	525	137	356	35	1035	59	5	32	5266

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
Kosuke Fukudome	140	617	528	107	165	30	11	34	96	10	5	78	118	.312	.401	.604	1.005	319	5	4	1	6	1
Alex Ochoa	137	567	507	83	149	28	0	21	65	5	4	47	91	.294	.360	.473	.834	240	9	8	1	4	1
Kazuyoshi Tatsunami	135	569	500	52	140	28	2	13	80	2	4	52	72	.280	.350	.422	.772	211	13	7	0	10	2
Takayuki Onishi	119	365	332	51	104	16	1	9	35	5	5	16	56	.313	.355	.449	.804	149	3	6	10	1	1
Hirokazu Ibata	105	447	386	44	103	14	0	5	27	5	3	28	50	.267	.319	.342	.661	132	9	2	30	1	0
Masahiro Araki	133	472	417	42	99	13	5	3	41	16	8	25	68	.237	.283	.314	.598	131	6	3	24	3	6
Motonobu Tanishige	112	426	367	48	97	20	1	18	69	3	2	42	90	.264	.344	.471	.816	173	11	5	8	4	2
Koichi Sekikawa	107	282	247	35	78	11	1	2	23	3	4	28	39	.316	.385	.393	.778	97	2	1	4	2	1
Masahiko Morino	89	239	225	30	61	11	0	6	33	1	0	12	36	.271	.308	.400	.708	90	4	0	2	0	0
Hiroyuki Watanabe	114	211	188	18	51	7	0	2	17	1	0	12	30	.271	.319	.340	.659	64	5	2	7	2	0
Iván Cruz	71	248	225	21	50	8	1	11	34	1	0	20	60	.222	.290	.413	.704	93	2	2	0	1	1
Omar Linares	56	162	144	19	33	9	0	6	28	0	0	15	49	.229	.311	.417	.727	60	0	2	1	0	1
Kazuki Inoue	75	126	115	16	29	7	1	2	5	0	0	10	23	.252	.317	.383	.700	44	1	1	0	0	0
Yuichi Yanagisawa	45	87	77	7	17	1	0	0	4	1	1	3	22	.221	.277	.234	.511	18	1	3	4	0	1
So Tsutsui	59	60	55	10	16	4	1	2	8	1	0	5	14	.291	.350	.509	.859	28	1	0	0	0	1
Eiichi Nakano	25	53	48	5	13	3	0	1	4	0	0	3	22	.271	.340	.396	.735	19	0	2	0	0	0
Masahiro Yamamoto	28	61	49	3	10	0	0	0	4	0	0	6	20	.204	.291	.204	.495	10	0	0	6	0	0
Hidenori Kuramoto	61	36	33	11	9	1	0	0	2	3	2	3	10	.273	.333	.303	.636	10	1	0	0	0	0
Shigeki Noguchi	29	55	47	4	8	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	23	.170	.188	.170	.358	8	0	0	7	0	0
Kenshin Kawakami	8	20	20	1	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	.350	.350	.350	.700	7	0	0	0	0	0
Tadaharu Sakai	16	18	17	2	5	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	5	.294	.294	.353	.647	6	0	0	1	0	0
Makoto Kito	23	28	24	1	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	9	.167	.200	.167	.367	4	0	0	3	0	0
Mitsunobu Takahashi	15	14	14	1	3	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	3	.214	.214	.500	.714	7	1	0	0	0	0
Masafumi Hirai	44	49	45	1	3	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	29	.067	.067	.067	.133	3	2	0	4	0	0
Kazuhito Yoshimura	4	6	5	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	.400	.500	.600	1.100	3	0	0	0	0	0
Ryosuke Morioka	3	7	7	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	4	.286	.286	.429	.714	3	0	0	0	0	0
Tadaatsu Nakazawa	10	11	10	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	4	.200	.200	.200	.400	2	1	0	1	0	0
Shinya Okamoto	40	21	19	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	11	.105	.150	.105	.255	2	0	0	1	0	0
Kiyohito Shimizu	2	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Hitoki Iwase	58	6	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.200	.333	.200	.533	1	1	0	0	0	0
Hidenori Tanoue	8	9	9	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.111	.111	.111	.222	1	0	0	0	0	0
Kenta Asakura	6	12	12	1	1	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	7	.083	.083	.333	.417	4	0	0	0	0	0
Kazuhiro Hiramatsu	17	18	17	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	13	.059	.059	.059	.118	1	0	0	1	0	0
Martin Vargas	6	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jiro Fujitate	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Masataka Endo	34	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shinichiro Koyama	12	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Eddie Gaillard	23	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yuichi Hisamoto	51	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Junichi Jinno	5	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Shingo Maeda	14	9	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Takashi Ogasawara	11	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Marc Valdes	37	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Totals	2088	5342	4733	616	1267	215	24	137	586	57	40	410	1012	.268	.330	.410	.740	1941	81	48	117	34	18

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Hiroyuki Watanabe	1B	79					.000
Iván Cruz	1B	62					.000
Omar Linares	1B	42					.000
So Tsutsui	1B	14					.000
Masahiko Morino	1B	12					.000
Mitsunobu Takahashi	1B	6					.000
Kazuki Inoue	1B	3					.000
Masahiro Araki	2B	129					.000
Masahiko Morino	2B	27					.000
Hiroyuki Watanabe	2B	12					.000
Kazuhito Yoshimura	2B	2					.000
Tadaharu Sakai	2B	2					.000
So Tsutsui	2B	1					.000
Ryosuke Morioka	2B	1					.000
Kazuyoshi Tatsunami	3B	133					.000
So Tsutsui	3B	40					.000
Hiroyuki Watanabe	3B	15					.000
Masahiko Morino	3B	13					.000
Shingo Maeda	3B	12					.000
Tadaharu Sakai	3B	4					.000
Kazuhito Yoshimura	3B	1					.000
Tadaatsu Nakazawa	3B	1					.000
Motonobu Tanishige	C	110					.000
Yuichi Yanagisawa	C	43					.000
Eiichi Nakano	C	24					.000
Hidenori Tanoue	C	3					.000
Akihiro Maeda	C	1					.000
Alex Ochoa	OF	137					.000
Kosuke Fukudome	OF	136					.000
Takayuki Onishi	OF	95					.000
Koichi Sekikawa	OF	76					.000
Kazuki Inoue	OF	26					.000
Hidenori Kuramoto	OF	23					.000
Eiji Ochiai	P	61					.000
Hitoki Iwase	P	58					.000
Shigetoshi Yamakita	P	57					.000
Akinori Otsuka	P	51					.000
Yuichi Hisamoto	P	51					.000
Shinya Okamoto	P	40					.000
Masafumi Hirai	P	40					.000
Marc Valdes	P	37					.000
Masataka Endo	P	34					.000
Shigeki Noguchi	P	29					.000
Masahiro Yamamoto	P	26					.000
Makoto Kito	P	23					.000
Eddie Gaillard	P	23					.000
Kazuhiro Hiramatsu	P	15					.000
Shinichiro Koyama	P	12					.000
Takashi Ogasawara	P	11					.000
Kenshin Kawakami	P	8					.000
Martin Vargas	P	6					.000
Eiji Shotsu	P	6					.000
Kenta Asakura	P	6					.000
Daisuke Yamai	P	4					.000
Akira Miyakoshi	P	3					.000
Hirokazu Ibata	SS	104					.000
Masahiko Morino	SS	41					.000
Tadaharu Sakai	SS	9					.000
Masahiro Araki	SS	9					.000
Tadaatsu Nakazawa	SS	7					.000
Ryosuke Morioka	SS	2					.000
Shingo Maeda	SS	2					.000
Kazuhito Yoshimura	SS	1					.000
Totals		2061	0	0	0	0	.000

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