1989 Chunichi Dragons Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 68-59
Finished 3rd in the JPCL
Manager: Senichi Hoshino (68-59)
Location: Nagoya, Japan
Ballpark: Nagoya Stadium

1989 Chunichi Dragons Roster

The Chunichi Dragons of the Japan Central League ended the 1989 season with a record of 68 wins and 59 losses, finishing third in the JPCL.

The Dragons paced the circuit with 538 runs, spearheaded by 149 home runs. Chunichi surrendered 524 runs. Hiromitsu Ochiai walloped 40 home runs for the team, while Toshikatsu Hikono and Masaru Uno swatted 15 or more, too. Hiromitsu Ochiai accounted for 116 RBI and topped all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .321. Takashi Nishimoto led the squad with 20 wins and a team-best 2.45 ERA, leading qualifying pitchers.

George Hinshaw played in Major League Baseball during his career, the only member of the Chunichi Dragons to do so.

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	WP	BF
Takashi Nishimoto	20	6	.769	2.44	30	30	0	15	5	0	246.7	231	73	67	22	39	11	96	12	1	979
Tadashi Kashima	9	3	.750	2.56	54	0	17	0	0	0	105.7	75	31	30	10	46	7	97	6	2	436
Masahiro Yamamoto	9	9	.500	2.93	35	26	2	5	2	1	181.0	172	66	59	14	56	8	108	2	3	757
Yasuhiro Kawabata	7	1	.875	2.85	20	8	6	2	1	0	66.3	59	25	21	6	25	1	42	1	3	277
Genji Kaku	5	3	.625	2.31	42	1	39	1	0	25	74.0	57	19	19	5	18	2	69	1	2	287
Akira Uehara	4	5	.444	4.46	22	13	4	1	0	0	76.7	81	43	38	12	29	2	59	5	2	337
Tadashi Sugimoto	3	4	.429	3.99	23	7	4	0	0	0	49.7	60	27	22	4	24	1	22	1	2	225
Takamasa Suzuki	3	4	.429	4.72	24	5	4	0	0	0	61.0	61	32	32	10	14	1	27	2	0	252
Akira Yonemura	2	2	.500	6.57	25	5	4	0	0	0	37.0	53	30	27	3	20	2	21	0	0	182
Tomio Tanaka	1	1	.500	3.72	16	4	3	0	0	1	36.3	38	16	15	1	14	1	23	0	0	155
Shinji Imanaka	1	4	.200	6.86	10	7	2	0	0	0	40.7	71	32	31	5	17	0	30	0	1	200
Kazuyuki Ono	1	8	.111	6.20	21	13	3	1	0	0	81.3	108	59	56	11	32	3	53	3	0	378
Hiromichi Nakamura	0	0		0.00	2	0	0	0	0	0	0.7	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
Haruhiko Nakajima	0	0		0.93	7	0	5	0	0	0	9.7	5	1	1	0	5	0	4	0	0	39
Masaaki Miura	0	0		2.53	5	0	2	0	0	0	10.7	9	3	3	0	6	0	10	2	0	44
Manabu Saito	0	0		5.56	8	0	2	0	0	0	11.3	13	8	7	2	6	0	12	1	0	52
Yujiro Miyako	0	0		9.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	5	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	10
Koichi Emoto	0	0		9.00	3	0	1	0	0	0	2.0	1	2	2	0	3	0	1	1	2	11
Satoru Takashima	0	1	.000	9.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	3.0	3	3	3	2	0	0	2	1	0	13
Masami Miyashita	0	3	.000	1.76	4	3	1	0	0	0	15.3	14	8	3	1	2	0	5	0	0	63
Tatsuo Komatsu	0	4	.000	7.66	5	5	0	0	0	0	24.7	34	23	21	6	9	1	11	2	1	115
Totals	68	59	.535	3.68	374	130	105	25	8	27	1168.0	1191	524	478	119	379	40	709	41	19	4963

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
Hiromitsu Ochiai	130	559	476	78	153	23	1	40	116	4	3	75	69	.321	.410	.626	1.036	298	11	1	1	6	7
Masaru Uno	119	488	437	66	133	22	0	25	68	2	7	39	82	.304	.359	.526	.885	230	15	1	6	5	3
Toshikatsu Hikono	125	551	454	83	125	21	3	26	59	10	10	71	82	.275	.379	.507	.885	230	6	7	15	4	5
Takeshi Nakamura	125	420	352	23	95	12	0	7	41	2	2	55	94	.270	.370	.364	.733	128	7	2	9	2	19
Toru Nimura	93	347	307	37	83	14	1	8	32	4	3	22	58	.270	.320	.401	.721	123	9	1	16	1	3
Yonetoshi Kawamata	113	323	271	33	77	19	0	4	31	3	2	40	30	.284	.374	.399	.772	108	7	0	10	2	3
Yasuaki Taiho	101	353	309	37	72	18	0	14	36	2	3	36	86	.233	.318	.427	.745	132	9	3	4	1	0
George Hinshaw	53	222	201	30	59	9	0	8	26	10	5	15	33	.294	.344	.458	.802	92	10	2	1	3	0
Shigeki Oto	78	253	219	29	55	12	2	1	16	4	2	14	34	.251	.303	.338	.640	74	3	3	15	2	0
Hiroyuki Saito	58	142	123	16	30	3	0	6	17	1	1	13	29	.244	.319	.415	.733	51	2	1	4	1	0
Tetsuya Komori	56	144	125	13	30	5	1	0	5	7	5	7	14	.240	.286	.296	.582	37	0	1	11	0	0
Kaoru Nimura	82	116	100	10	23	3	2	2	13	0	2	7	27	.230	.278	.360	.638	36	3	0	8	1	2
Yasutomo Suzuki	80	119	100	15	22	4	0	0	9	3	3	7	23	.220	.266	.260	.526	26	0	0	10	2	0
Kazuyoshi Tatsunami	30	100	85	10	20	6	1	2	8	3	6	10	10	.235	.316	.400	.716	34	3	0	5	0	0
Yoshihisa Komatsuzaki	55	79	67	4	14	4	0	2	10	1	0	8	34	.209	.299	.358	.657	24	2	1	2	1	0
Mitsuhiro Kataoka	30	58	56	5	11	5	0	0	0	0	0	1	14	.196	.211	.286	.496	16	0	0	1	0	0
Takashi Nishimoto	30	96	83	5	10	3	0	1	6	0	0	1	32	.120	.128	.193	.321	16	0	0	10	2	0
Tatsuo Omiya	31	42	40	2	9	1	0	1	3	0	0	1	7	.225	.244	.325	.569	13	2	0	1	0	0
Koji Yamaguchi	23	49	47	7	9	2	0	1	1	1	0	1	13	.191	.208	.298	.506	14	2	0	1	0	0
Seiji Enda	41	31	26	7	6	1	0	0	1	6	2	1	5	.231	.250	.269	.519	7	0	0	3	1	0
Kazuyoshi Koyama	22	31	28	5	5	1	0	1	2	0	0	1	7	.179	.207	.321	.528	9	1	0	2	0	0
Takeshi Yamasaki	20	35	29	2	5	1	0	0	2	0	0	5	11	.172	.286	.207	.493	6	0	0	0	1	1
Masahiro Yamamoto	35	62	54	2	5	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	18	.093	.109	.093	.202	5	1	0	7	0	0
Yasuhiro Kawabata	20	20	18	0	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	6	.222	.222	.278	.500	5	0	0	2	0	0
Kazuyuki Ono	21	21	17	2	3	1	0	0	3	0	0	2	6	.176	.263	.235	.498	4	0	0	2	0	0
Tomoyoshi Oishi	33	19	19	0	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	.158	.158	.158	.316	3	0	0	0	0	0
Yasuharu Fujio	16	23	22	2	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	.136	.174	.182	.356	4	0	1	0	0	0
Akira Yonemura	25	7	6	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.333	.333	.333	.667	2	0	0	1	0	0
Tatsuo Komatsu	5	8	6	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	.333	.429	.333	.762	2	0	0	1	0	0
Yoshihiro Iwamoto	29	14	13	10	2	0	0	0	0	8	1	0	2	.154	.154	.154	.308	2	0	0	1	0	0
Hiroyuki Maebara	15	21	21	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	9	.095	.095	.095	.190	2	1	0	0	0	0
Akira Uehara	22	28	21	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	12	.095	.174	.095	.269	2	0	1	5	0	0
Tomio Tanaka	16	6	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	3	0	0
Masami Miyashita	4	5	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0	1	0	0
Tadashi Sugimoto	23	11	10	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.100	.100	.100	.200	1	0	0	1	0	0
Genji Kaku	42	11	10	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.100	.100	.100	.200	1	1	0	1	0	0
Takamasa Suzuki	24	14	11	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.091	.167	.091	.258	1	1	0	2	0	0
Tadashi Kashima	54	19	14	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	.071	.071	.071	.143	1	0	0	5	0	0
Masaji Shimizu	21	25	22	1	1	0	1	0	1	1	1	0	4	.045	.045	.136	.182	3	0	0	3	0	0
Shinji Imanaka	10	11	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Shunsuke Kitamura	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Masaaki Miura	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Satoru Takashima	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Manabu Saito	8	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	1	0	0
Totals	1943	4895	4225	538	1082	192	12	149	517	72	58	436	886	.256	.327	.413	.740	1745	96	25	174	35	43

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Hiromitsu Ochiai	1B	86					.000
Yonetoshi Kawamata	1B	85					.000
Yasuaki Taiho	1B	16					.000
Hiroyuki Saito	1B	11					.000
Yoshihisa Komatsuzaki	1B	2					.000
Mitsuhiro Kataoka	1B	2					.000
Toru Nimura	2B	67					.000
Tetsuya Komori	2B	48					.000
Yasutomo Suzuki	2B	34					.000
Masaji Shimizu	2B	16					.000
Yoshihiro Iwamoto	2B	12					.000
Mitsuhiro Kataoka	2B	10					.000
Masaru Uno	2B	6					.000
Shunsuke Kitamura	2B	2					.000
Hiromitsu Ochiai	3B	96					.000
Masaru Uno	3B	47					.000
Toru Nimura	3B	41					.000
Mitsuhiro Kataoka	3B	10					.000
Hiroyuki Maebara	3B	7					.000
Masaji Shimizu	3B	3					.000
Yasutomo Suzuki	3B	1					.000
Takeshi Nakamura	C	121					.000
Tomoyoshi Oishi	C	32					.000
Tatsuo Omiya	C	26					.000
Takeshi Yamasaki	C	8					.000
Toshikatsu Hikono	OF	124					.000
Yasuaki Taiho	OF	87					.000
Shigeki Oto	OF	69					.000
Kaoru Nimura	OF	60					.000
George Hinshaw	OF	52					.000
Seiji Enda	OF	41					.000
Hiroyuki Saito	OF	30					.000
Koji Yamaguchi	OF	22					.000
Yoshihisa Komatsuzaki	OF	20					.000
Kazuyoshi Koyama	OF	11					.000
Yasuharu Fujio	OF	6					.000
Yonetoshi Kawamata	OF	5					.000
Yoshihiro Iwamoto	OF	2					.000
Tadashi Kashima	P	54					.000
Genji Kaku	P	42					.000
Masahiro Yamamoto	P	35					.000
Takashi Nishimoto	P	30					.000
Akira Yonemura	P	25					.000
Takamasa Suzuki	P	24					.000
Tadashi Sugimoto	P	23					.000
Akira Uehara	P	22					.000
Kazuyuki Ono	P	21					.000
Yasuhiro Kawabata	P	20					.000
Tomio Tanaka	P	16					.000
Shinji Imanaka	P	10					.000
Manabu Saito	P	8					.000
Haruhiko Nakajima	P	7					.000
Masaaki Miura	P	5					.000
Tatsuo Komatsu	P	5					.000
Masami Miyashita	P	4					.000
Koichi Emoto	P	3					.000
Hiromichi Nakamura	P	2					.000
Satoru Takashima	P	1					.000
Yujiro Miyako	P	1					.000
Masaru Uno	SS	103					.000
Yasutomo Suzuki	SS	45					.000
Kazuyoshi Tatsunami	SS	27					.000
Tetsuya Komori	SS	3					.000
Totals		1870	0	0	0	0	.000

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