1998 Chunichi Dragons Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 75-60
Finished 2nd in the JPCL
Manager: Senichi Hoshino (75-60)
Location: Nagoya, Japan
Ballpark: Nagoya Dome

1998 Chunichi Dragons Roster

The Chunichi Dragons of the Japan Central League ended the 1998 season with a record of 75 wins and 60 losses, finishing second in the JPCL.

The Dragons conceded 458 runs, the lowest total in the circuit. Chunichi plated 488 runs. Takeshi Yamasaki paced the squad with 27 home runs, and Leo Gómez walloped 15 or more, too. Takeshi Yamasaki accounted for 86 RBI. Koichi Sekikawa topped hitters with significant playing time by hitting .285. Shigeki Noguchi and Kenshin Kawakami led the team with 14 wins each, while Shigeki Noguchi registered a 2.34 earned run average, leading regular hurlers.

Players from the 1998 Chunichi Dragons who spent time in Major League Baseball during their careers included Sang-Hoon Lee, Leo Gómez, Kevin Jarvis and Kenshin Kawakami.

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
Kenshin Kawakami	14	6	.700	2.57	26	25	1	4	3	0	161.3	123	48	46	14	51	1	124	2	0	4	649
Shigeki Noguchi	14	9	.609	2.34	27	27	0	6	1	0	192.0	174	59	50	10	63	4	134	5	0	8	802
Ken Kadokura	10	9	.526	3.40	26	25	1	3	2	0	153.7	133	60	58	10	66	0	115	9	0	9	651
Masahiro Yamamoto	9	9	.500	3.66	28	28	0	5	3	0	182.0	185	74	74	14	60	3	131	2	0	1	769
Eiji Shotsu	6	1	.857	2.45	45	2	13	1	0	0	77.0	62	21	21	7	20	1	55	4	0	1	301
Yukinaga Maeda	4	2	.667	2.34	36	0	11	0	0	0	42.3	43	11	11	2	11	1	34	0	1	1	176
Eiji Ochiai	4	6	.400	2.82	55	0	12	0	0	5	73.3	81	29	23	3	12	2	36	0	0	0	308
Dong Yol Sun	3	0	1.000	1.48	42	0	37	0	0	29	48.7	31	8	8	4	11	0	58	0	0	1	187
Masataka Endo	2	0	1.000	3.00	15	0	8	0	0	2	18.0	15	6	6	0	9	1	20	2	0	3	79
Yasuyuki Sato	2	3	.400	2.82	20	0	3	0	0	0	22.3	24	8	7	0	11	0	14	0	0	0	100
Hiroshi Yamada	2	3	.400	4.50	14	6	5	0	0	0	38.0	41	19	19	1	20	1	27	2	0	3	172
Shinji Imanaka	2	8	.200	5.34	14	14	0	0	0	0	62.3	64	41	37	4	28	2	50	1	0	1	276
Masaaki Daito	1	0	1.000	2.95	21	0	7	0	0	0	21.3	22	7	7	0	6	0	14	1	0	1	90
Sang-Hoon Lee	1	0	1.000	4.68	11	5	3	0	0	0	32.7	32	22	17	6	12	0	33	1	1	0	143
Kevin Jarvis	1	2	.333	4.41	4	3	0	0	0	0	16.3	18	8	8	0	5	0	7	0	0	0	70
Hiroaki Nakayama	0	0		0.00	4	0	1	0	0	0	7.0	4	0	0	0	2	1	2	0	0	0	27
Takatoshi Kishikawa	0	0		5.40	3	0	1	0	0	0	5.0	6	5	3	0	3	0	5	1	0	1	24
Keiichi Kojima	0	0		10.29	5	0	1	0	0	0	7.0	14	8	8	1	1	0	3	0	0	0	35
Takuichi Koike	0	0		11.25	3	0	1	0	0	0	4.0	7	6	5	2	4	0	2	0	0	0	22
Takashi Yamada	0	0		18.90	2	0	1	0	0	0	3.3	9	7	7	4	2	0	1	0	0	0	21
Masahito Higasa	0	1	.000	1.87	46	0	10	0	0	0	43.3	34	9	9	2	20	0	35	2	0	2	181
Yasushi Tsuruta	0	1	.000	2.25	3	1	1	0	0	0	8.0	4	2	2	0	5	0	4	0	0	0	33
Totals	75	60	.556	3.15	450	136	117	19	9	36	1219.0	1126	458	426	84	422	17	904	32	2	36	5116

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
Kazuyoshi Tatsunami	134	589	504	60	137	24	1	8	43	6	6	74	60	.272	.367	.371	.738	187	8	4	3	4	4
Leo Gómez	116	488	420	57	115	14	0	26	76	1	1	57	66	.274	.363	.493	.856	207	10	5	1	5	7
Takeshi Yamasaki	131	516	439	52	112	17	1	27	86	0	3	63	95	.255	.355	.483	.838	212	14	8	0	6	0
Koichi Sekikawa	125	449	382	62	109	13	2	1	36	15	3	47	57	.285	.367	.338	.705	129	5	4	13	3	2
Teruyoshi Kuji	122	482	389	43	97	10	3	0	18	7	7	52	51	.249	.342	.290	.633	113	5	3	38	0	0
Takeshi Nakamura	128	468	407	27	96	18	4	5	42	2	0	49	65	.236	.321	.337	.658	137	10	3	7	2	12
Kazuki Inoue	107	394	352	34	93	18	4	9	31	1	0	35	79	.264	.332	.415	.747	146	13	2	3	2	2
Jong Beom Lee	67	290	244	38	69	11	3	10	29	18	8	36	33	.283	.387	.475	.862	116	4	6	3	1	2
Hitoshi Taneda	43	113	100	10	28	4	1	3	8	2	1	8	11	.280	.330	.430	.760	43	4	0	4	1	1
Daisuke Masuda	55	135	121	6	28	4	0	1	14	1	2	11	32	.231	.299	.289	.588	35	3	1	1	1	0
Takayuki Onishi	95	111	94	20	25	5	0	1	8	16	6	11	22	.266	.349	.351	.700	33	1	1	5	0	0
Junichi Jinno	44	122	102	8	25	3	1	1	16	8	0	13	25	.245	.339	.324	.663	33	1	2	4	1	0
Koji Yamaguchi	72	136	113	12	25	6	0	2	8	4	2	12	17	.221	.302	.327	.629	37	1	1	10	0	0
Tokitaka Minamibuchi	66	97	87	1	23	6	0	0	13	0	0	9	9	.264	.340	.333	.674	29	2	1	0	0	1
So Tsutsui	35	100	89	7	22	3	1	0	4	0	0	9	19	.247	.316	.303	.620	27	3	0	2	0	0
Takeshi Aiko	78	78	62	9	14	2	0	2	13	0	0	13	13	.226	.364	.355	.718	22	1	1	1	1	1
Hirokazu Ibata	18	60	49	2	12	1	0	0	2	4	0	6	8	.245	.339	.265	.605	13	0	1	4	0	0
Masahiro Yamamoto	30	68	55	4	10	1	0	0	3	0	0	5	17	.182	.250	.200	.450	11	3	0	8	0	0
Masahiko Harada	20	34	32	4	8	1	0	1	2	1	1	2	6	.250	.294	.375	.669	12	0	0	0	0	0
Shigeki Noguchi	30	71	61	4	8	2	0	0	4	0	0	5	27	.131	.197	.164	.361	10	3	0	5	0	0
Hideyuki Yasuda	20	43	38	7	7	1	0	0	0	1	0	5	13	.184	.279	.211	.490	8	0	0	0	0	0
Eiichi Nakano	16	30	29	4	6	2	0	2	3	0	0	0	6	.207	.233	.483	.716	14	1	1	0	0	0
Kenshin Kawakami	30	64	59	3	6	3	0	1	6	0	0	1	21	.102	.115	.203	.318	12	1	0	3	1	0
Fumihiro Suzuki	4	9	8	2	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.625	.667	.750	1.417	6	0	0	0	0	0
Eiji Shotsu	45	15	13	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	.231	.231	.231	.462	3	0	0	2	0	0
Shinji Imanaka	15	18	14	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	.143	.143	.143	.286	2	1	0	4	0	0
Shigeki Oto	11	21	20	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	6	.100	.143	.150	.293	3	0	1	0	0	0
Yusuke Torigoe	44	29	27	5	2	0	0	0	1	4	0	0	7	.074	.103	.074	.178	2	0	1	0	1	0
Ken Kadokura	27	55	48	0	2	0	1	0	2	0	0	2	29	.042	.078	.083	.162	4	0	0	4	1	0
Yukinaga Maeda	36	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Masataka Endo	15	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Hidekazu Mitsuyama	15	7	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.143	.143	.143	.286	1	0	0	0	0	0
Hiroshi Yamada	15	11	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	.125	.222	.125	.347	1	0	0	2	0	0
Masaaki Daito	21	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Masahiro Araki	7	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Masashi Fujii	3	5	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	.000	.400	.000	.400	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yasushi Tsuruta	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.500	.000	.500	0	0	0	0	0	0
Masahito Higasa	46	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.500	.000	.500	0	0	0	0	0	0
Toshikatsu Hikono	7	7	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.143	.000	.143	0	0	0	0	0	1
Takuichi Koike	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kaoru Nihei	4	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Eiji Ochiai	55	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Hiroyuki Watanabe	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kevin Jarvis	4	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yasuyuki Sato	21	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Sang-Hoon Lee	11	8	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.125	.000	.125	0	1	0	0	0	0
Dong Yol Sun	42	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Takashi Yamada	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		1.000			0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2041	5156	4417	488	1095	171	22	100	469	91	41	534	841	.248	.333	.365	.698	1610	95	46	129	30	33

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Takeshi Yamasaki	1B	128					.000
Takeshi Aiko	1B	34					.000
So Tsutsui	1B	7					.000
Hideyuki Yasuda	1B	3					.000
Leo Gómez	1B	3					.000
Kazuki Inoue	1B	1					.000
Kazuyoshi Tatsunami	2B	56					.000
Teruyoshi Kuji	2B	49					.000
Hitoshi Taneda	2B	29					.000
Junichi Jinno	2B	28					.000
Tokitaka Minamibuchi	2B	8					.000
Hirokazu Ibata	2B	6					.000
So Tsutsui	2B	1					.000
Yusuke Torigoe	2B	1					.000
Leo Gómez	3B	114					.000
Yusuke Torigoe	3B	18					.000
Tokitaka Minamibuchi	3B	13					.000
So Tsutsui	3B	11					.000
Junichi Jinno	3B	11					.000
Kazuyoshi Tatsunami	3B	2					.000
Hideyuki Yasuda	3B	1					.000
Hiroyuki Watanabe	3B	1					.000
Masahiro Araki	3B	1					.000
Takeshi Nakamura	C	128					.000
Eiichi Nakano	C	15					.000
Hidekazu Mitsuyama	C	15					.000
Fumihiro Suzuki	C	4					.000
Masashi Fujii	C	2					.000
Koichi Sekikawa	OF	120					.000
Kazuki Inoue	OF	105					.000
Kazuyoshi Tatsunami	OF	86					.000
Takayuki Onishi	OF	85					.000
Koji Yamaguchi	OF	58					.000
Daisuke Masuda	OF	38					.000
So Tsutsui	OF	20					.000
Hideyuki Yasuda	OF	12					.000
Jong Beom Lee	OF	12					.000
Masahiko Harada	OF	12					.000
Shigeki Oto	OF	8					.000
Yusuke Torigoe	OF	6					.000
Masahiro Araki	OF	5					.000
Kaoru Nihei	OF	2					.000
Takeshi Yamasaki	OF	1					.000
Toshikatsu Hikono	OF	1					.000
Eiji Ochiai	P	55					.000
Masahito Higasa	P	46					.000
Eiji Shotsu	P	45					.000
Dong Yol Sun	P	42					.000
Yukinaga Maeda	P	36					.000
Masahiro Yamamoto	P	28					.000
Shigeki Noguchi	P	27					.000
Kenshin Kawakami	P	26					.000
Ken Kadokura	P	26					.000
Masaaki Daito	P	21					.000
Yasuyuki Sato	P	20					.000
Masataka Endo	P	15					.000
Hiroshi Yamada	P	14					.000
Shinji Imanaka	P	14					.000
Sang-Hoon Lee	P	11					.000
Keiichi Kojima	P	5					.000
Hiroaki Nakayama	P	4					.000
Kevin Jarvis	P	4					.000
Yasushi Tsuruta	P	3					.000
Takuichi Koike	P	3					.000
Takatoshi Kishikawa	P	3					.000
Takashi Yamada	P	2					.000
Teruyoshi Kuji	SS	72					.000
Jong Beom Lee	SS	56					.000
Yusuke Torigoe	SS	15					.000
Hirokazu Ibata	SS	12					.000
Junichi Jinno	SS	5					.000
Hitoshi Taneda	SS	1					.000
Tokitaka Minamibuchi	SS	1					.000
Totals		1873	0	0	0	0	.000

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