1978 Chunichi Dragons Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 53-71
Finished 5th in the JPCL
Manager: Toshio Naka (53-71)
Location: Nagoya, Japan
Ballpark: Nagoya Stadium

1978 Chunichi Dragons Roster

The Chunichi Dragons of the Japan Central League ended the 1978 season with a record of 53 wins and 71 losses, finishing fifth in the JPCL.

The Dragons tallied 509 runs, worst in the circuit, and yielded 635 runs. Gene Martin walloped 33 home runs for Chunichi, while Yasunori Oshima and Tatsuhiko Kimata swatted 15 or more also. Gene Martin drove in 84 runs. Tatsuhiko Kimata paced all regular batters by hitting .294. Jun Misawa topped the squad with 12 wins and a team-best 3.41 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Gene Martin and Fred Kuhaulua both played in Major League Baseball during their careers.

Toshio Naka 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
Jun Misawa	12	9	.571	3.40	55	22	8	3	1	1	187.7	185	80	71	28	58	4	90	6	0	2	789
Takamasa Suzuki	10	3	.769	2.09	32	2	22	0	0	9	82.0	64	22	19	9	21	1	46	0	0	2	326
Terashi Donoue	9	18	.333	4.48	54	25	14	4	3	4	197.0	227	112	98	32	63	3	81	6	1	1	873
Yukitsura Matsumoto	6	12	.333	5.14	32	27	0	3	0	0	157.7	185	103	90	23	41	0	58	6	1	0	686
Yoshinori Toda	5	6	.455	3.96	29	18	5	2	1	0	113.7	115	61	50	17	52	1	56	2	1	0	502
Senichi Hoshino	5	8	.385	4.89	34	9	22	2	0	14	92.0	106	55	50	10	36	6	47	2	0	0	404
Fred Kuhaulua	3	4	.429	4.33	25	10	3	1	0	0	72.7	75	43	35	9	45	1	52	1	0	2	331
Yataro Oishi	2	0	1.000	5.35	26	0	10	0	0	0	37.0	47	24	22	7	6	0	18	2	0	0	158
Hisato Aoyama	1	7	.125	5.12	34	12	7	0	0	0	91.3	86	53	52	20	56	2	66	12	0	0	421
Tatsuo Komatsu	0	0		11.25	2	0	2	0	0	0	4.0	4	5	5	1	5	0	3	0	0	0	19
Minoru Hayakawa	0	0		11.25	2	0	2	0	0	0	4.0	8	5	5	3	1	0	4	1	0	0	19
Masao Sato	0	1	.000	3.94	42	0	12	0	0	0	48.0	56	23	21	6	12	2	23	2	0	0	206
Masayoshi Kanai	0	1	.000	16.71	6	1	2	0	0	0	7.0	15	13	13	3	1	0	5	0	0	0	34
Masakatsu Tsuchiya	0	2	.000	7.45	16	4	6	0	0	0	38.7	57	36	32	11	25	0	12	3	0	2	194
Totals	53	71	.427	4.47	389	130	115	15	5	28	1132.7	1230	635	563	179	422	20	561	43	3	9	4962

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
Gene Martin	130	501	448	56	129	14	0	33	84	1	4	50	72	.288	.359	.540	.899	242	7	1	0	2	8
Tatsuhiko Kimata	117	431	385	37	113	14	0	16	55	0	2	36	35	.294	.358	.455	.812	175	16	3	6	1	6
Yasunori Oshima	98	410	352	50	99	11	0	15	47	1	5	47	64	.281	.371	.440	.811	155	8	6	0	5	0
Yasushi Tao	102	372	339	42	93	12	0	11	47	3	2	27	61	.274	.327	.407	.734	138	3	1	2	3	1
Morimichi Takagi	89	338	314	41	89	15	2	13	37	3	3	9	20	.283	.309	.468	.777	147	10	3	11	1	2
Hiroaki Inoue	111	362	317	39	72	11	0	12	39	1	2	31	49	.227	.314	.375	.689	119	4	10	2	2	4
Yukio Fujinami	96	333	299	39	69	6	0	4	22	3	8	29	14	.231	.301	.291	.592	87	4	1	4	0	1
Kyohei Taniki	105	286	243	38	68	13	1	5	21	10	3	39	26	.280	.382	.403	.785	98	2	1	3	0	0
Shinji Masaoka	119	305	281	23	64	12	0	0	19	3	5	15	43	.228	.272	.270	.542	76	4	2	7	0	2
Kenichi Yazawa	70	199	184	17	52	14	0	2	18	1	4	11	27	.283	.323	.391	.715	72	6	1	1	2	0
Kiyoshi Morimoto	97	240	202	27	43	5	0	10	30	2	2	30	24	.213	.321	.386	.707	78	10	2	6	0	1
Takao Kanto	90	157	143	15	34	4	0	0	9	1	2	11	33	.238	.297	.266	.563	38	2	1	2	0	0
Yasunori Ito	93	181	157	19	34	4	2	6	12	2	1	22	47	.217	.317	.382	.699	60	6	1	1	0	1
Jun Misawa	55	55	52	2	15	1	0	0	2	0	1	0	12	.288	.288	.308	.596	16	0	0	3	0	0
Kunizo Umeda	62	60	49	9	14	1	0	0	1	2	1	8	6	.286	.397	.306	.703	15	1	1	2	0	0
Takuji Kanayama	37	82	69	9	13	0	1	6	13	1	1	13	25	.188	.317	.478	.795	33	1	0	0	0	1
Kenji Komatsu	53	68	58	5	12	4	0	2	3	0	0	9	21	.207	.324	.379	.703	22	2	1	0	0	0
Terashi Donoue	54	62	55	6	11	0	1	2	7	0	0	2	16	.200	.224	.345	.570	19	2	0	4	1	0
Masaru Uno	26	55	48	6	10	2	0	3	7	1	0	6	14	.208	.296	.438	.734	21	1	0	1	0	0
Yukitsura Matsumoto	32	50	43	0	9	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	5	.209	.227	.209	.437	9	2	0	6	0	0
Hiroshi Shintaku	28	27	23	2	6	0	0	0	4	0	0	3	6	.261	.346	.261	.607	6	1	0	1	0	0
Masayuki Kamigaki	42	37	35	10	6	2	0	0	3	1	1	1	9	.171	.216	.229	.445	8	0	1	0	0	0
Akio Ishii	20	44	41	6	6	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	8	.146	.205	.146	.351	6	3	0	0	0	0
Yoshinori Toda	29	37	31	2	4	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	8	.129	.182	.129	.311	4	0	0	4	0	0
Senichi Hoshino	34	23	19	1	3	2	0	1	3	0	0	1	4	.158	.200	.421	.621	8	0	0	3	0	0
Takamasa Suzuki	32	22	19	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	6	.158	.238	.158	.396	3	0	0	1	0	0
Toshio Tanokura	15	20	20	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	.100	.100	.100	.200	2	0	0	0	0	0
Yuichi Nakahara	2	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Masao Sato	42	2	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Masakatsu Tsuchiya	17	8	8	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.125	.125	.125	.250	1	0	0	0	0	0
Hisato Aoyama	34	15	14	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	10	.071	.133	.071	.205	1	0	0	0	0	0
Fred Kuhaulua	25	17	15	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	.067	.125	.067	.192	1	0	0	1	0	0
Yukio Iida	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yataro Oishi	27	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1986	4805	4271	509	1078	147	7	141	488	36	47	410	685	.252	.322	.389	.711	1662	95	36	71	17	27

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Hiroaki Inoue	1B	66					.000
Kenichi Yazawa	1B	45					.000
Yasunori Ito	1B	30					.000
Gene Martin	1B	14					.000
Yasunori Oshima	1B	6					.000
Takao Kanto	1B	2					.000
Yasushi Tao	1B	1					.000
Yukio Iida	1B	1					.000
Morimichi Takagi	2B	84					.000
Kiyoshi Morimoto	2B	38					.000
Takao Kanto	2B	31					.000
Masayuki Kamigaki	2B	6					.000
Shinji Masaoka	2B	5					.000
Masaru Uno	2B	4					.000
Kunizo Umeda	2B	2					.000
Yasunori Oshima	3B	96					.000
Kiyoshi Morimoto	3B	21					.000
Takao Kanto	3B	14					.000
Kunizo Umeda	3B	6					.000
Hiroaki Inoue	3B	6					.000
Toshio Tanokura	3B	2					.000
Masaru Uno	3B	1					.000
Masayuki Kamigaki	3B	1					.000
Yasunori Ito	3B	1					.000
Tatsuhiko Kimata	C	115					.000
Takuji Kanayama	C	35					.000
Hiroshi Shintaku	C	7					.000
Yuichi Nakahara	C	1					.000
Gene Martin	OF	116					.000
Yasushi Tao	OF	99					.000
Yukio Fujinami	OF	91					.000
Kyohei Taniki	OF	90					.000
Yasunori Ito	OF	52					.000
Hiroaki Inoue	OF	21					.000
Kenji Komatsu	OF	15					.000
Akio Ishii	OF	14					.000
Jun Misawa	P	55					.000
Terashi Donoue	P	54					.000
Masao Sato	P	42					.000
Senichi Hoshino	P	34					.000
Hisato Aoyama	P	34					.000
Takamasa Suzuki	P	32					.000
Yukitsura Matsumoto	P	32					.000
Yoshinori Toda	P	29					.000
Yataro Oishi	P	26					.000
Fred Kuhaulua	P	25					.000
Masakatsu Tsuchiya	P	16					.000
Masayoshi Kanai	P	6					.000
Tatsuo Komatsu	P	2					.000
Minoru Hayakawa	P	2					.000
Shinji Masaoka	SS	117					.000
Kunizo Umeda	SS	48					.000
Masayuki Kamigaki	SS	20					.000
Masaru Uno	SS	16					.000
Toshio Tanokura	SS	7					.000
Kiyoshi Morimoto	SS	3					.000
Totals		1739	0	0	0	0	.000

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