1999 Chunichi Dragons Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 81-54
Finished 1st in the JPCL
Manager: Senichi Hoshino (81-54)
Location: Nagoya, Japan
Ballpark: Nagoya Dome

1999 Chunichi Dragons Roster

The Chunichi Dragons of the Japan Central League ended the 1999 season with a record of 81 wins and 54 losses, finishing first in the JPCL.

The Dragons conceded 488 runs, the lowest total in the circuit. Chunichi plated 598 runs. Leo Gómez walloped 36 home runs for the squad, while Takeshi Yamasaki and Kosuke Fukudome added 15 or more also. Leo Gómez drove in 109 runs. Koichi Sekikawa paced all regular batters by hitting .330. Shigeki Noguchi topped the team with 19 wins and a team-best 2.66 earned run average, leading pitchers with enough qualifying appearances.

Players from the 1999 Chunichi Dragons who spent time in the Majors during their careers included Kosuke Fukudome, Leo Gómez, Kenshin Kawakami, Sang-Hoon Lee and Nelson Liriano.

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
Shigeki Noguchi	19	7	.731	2.65	29	29	0	7	4	0	203.7	202	68	60	13	67	3	145	5	0	6	870
Hitoki Iwase	10	2	.833	1.57	65	0	13	0	0	1	74.3	67	16	13	3	22	2	73	2	0	4	307
Kazuhiro Takeda	9	10	.474	3.50	25	25	0	5	3	0	162.0	166	65	63	17	43	2	92	4	1	1	679
Masahiro Yamamoto	8	5	.615	2.96	25	25	0	1	0	0	158.3	149	55	52	16	44	6	116	3	0	1	661
Kenshin Kawakami	8	9	.471	4.44	29	25	1	3	1	1	162.0	173	84	80	20	43	0	102	2	0	3	695
Sang-Hoon Lee	6	5	.545	2.83	36	11	10	2	0	3	95.3	75	30	30	8	30	1	65	4	1	2	377
Eiji Shotsu	5	1	.833	3.35	47	1	13	0	0	0	48.3	49	22	18	5	25	1	34	4	0	1	219
Eiji Ochiai	5	4	.556	2.79	56	0	15	0	0	2	51.7	43	17	16	8	9	2	27	2	0	0	207
Hiroaki Nakayama	3	1	.750	3.16	31	0	12	0	0	0	37.0	31	13	13	2	12	1	16	1	0	2	146
Yukinaga Maeda	2	0	1.000	2.63	25	4	8	0	0	1	37.7	26	12	11	5	10	3	34	1	0	2	145
Yasushi Tsuruta	2	1	.667	2.57	6	4	0	0	0	0	21.0	25	12	6	1	6	1	18	0	0	0	91
Ken Kadokura	2	4	.333	5.69	15	8	2	0	0	0	49.0	61	33	31	7	18	2	38	2	0	3	227
Takuichi Koike	1	0	1.000	6.00	8	0	2	0	0	0	15.0	15	11	10	2	11	1	17	0	0	0	72
Dong Yol Sun	1	2	.333	2.61	39	0	31	0	0	28	31.0	31	9	9	1	10	1	34	0	0	4	131
Kotaro Azuse	0	0		0.00	2	0	0	0	0	0	0.7	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4
Takeshi Shimazaki	0	0		4.05	5	0	1	0	0	0	6.7	7	3	3	0	4	0	2	1	0	0	30
Shinichiro Koyama	0	0		4.26	3	0	2	0	0	0	6.3	5	3	3	0	6	1	3	0	0	1	30
Takatoshi Kishikawa	0	0		5.19	7	0	0	0	0	0	8.7	10	5	5	2	6	0	6	0	0	0	40
Masataka Endo	0	0		15.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	3.0	5	5	5	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	16
Takashi Ogasawara	0	0		18.00	2	0	2	0	0	0	2.0	2	4	4	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	10
Masaaki Daito	0	1	.000	4.97	6	1	1	0	0	0	12.7	15	7	7	1	8	0	7	1	0	0	61
Hiroshi Yamada	0	1	.000	7.00	3	1	1	0	0	0	9.0	11	7	7	1	5	1	9	2	0	2	43
Shinji Imanaka	0	1	.000	7.88	5	1	3	0	0	0	8.0	11	7	7	1	1	0	6	1	0	0	38
Totals	81	54	.600	3.39	470	135	117	18	8	36	1203.3	1180	488	453	115	386	28	845	35	2	32	5099

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
Koichi Sekikawa	135	591	522	74	172	28	6	4	60	20	11	48	73	.330	.383	.429	.812	224	6	2	11	8	2
Leo Gómez	133	560	474	84	141	19	1	36	109	4	1	70	59	.297	.389	.570	.959	270	15	7	0	9	10
Kazuki Inoue	130	499	450	40	133	18	5	10	65	2	0	45	85	.296	.357	.424	.781	191	7	0	0	4	5
Kosuke Fukudome	132	526	461	76	131	25	2	16	52	4	7	50	121	.284	.359	.451	.810	208	3	5	8	2	1
Kazuyoshi Tatsunami	123	477	417	54	111	32	1	4	53	3	2	51	44	.266	.345	.376	.721	157	14	1	4	4	1
Jong Beom Lee	123	484	424	76	101	20	5	9	33	24	7	38	62	.238	.310	.373	.683	158	6	7	13	2	1
Takeshi Yamasaki	113	410	354	59	87	16	0	28	75	1	0	50	99	.246	.345	.528	.873	187	11	4	1	1	1
Takeshi Nakamura	127	439	395	31	79	12	0	6	42	3	1	28	65	.200	.251	.276	.527	109	9	0	13	3	6
Teruyoshi Kuji	107	211	172	17	54	8	0	0	11	5	2	21	23	.314	.390	.360	.750	62	1	1	16	1	1
Junichi Jinno	40	102	88	15	29	3	3	3	17	1	1	10	22	.330	.398	.534	.932	47	3	0	4	0	0
Hiroyuki Watanabe	81	103	89	11	25	9	0	1	16	2	2	11	16	.281	.366	.416	.782	37	3	1	2	0	2
Shigeki Oto	76	83	74	2	15	4	0	0	7	1	0	7	16	.203	.280	.257	.537	19	2	1	1	0	0
Takeshi Aiko	38	34	31	3	12	1	0	0	3	0	0	3	6	.387	.441	.419	.861	13	0	0	0	0	0
Fumihiro Suzuki	36	62	56	7	12	3	0	0	7	2	0	3	12	.214	.250	.268	.518	15	1	0	2	1	1
Hitoshi Taneda	43	61	51	6	10	3	1	0	2	3	0	6	10	.196	.281	.294	.575	15	0	0	4	0	0
Shigeki Noguchi	30	78	65	5	9	1	0	0	5	0	0	4	23	.138	.186	.154	.340	10	0	0	8	1	0
Kenshin Kawakami	30	58	52	3	7	0	0	1	3	0	0	2	17	.135	.167	.192	.359	10	1	0	4	0	0
Kazuhiro Takeda	25	60	56	1	7	1	1	0	1	0	0	3	24	.125	.169	.179	.348	10	0	0	1	0	0
Takayuki Onishi	55	34	27	14	5	0	0	0	2	2	1	3	5	.185	.312	.185	.498	5	0	2	2	0	0
Daisuke Masuda	8	14	13	2	4	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	3	.308	.357	.538	.896	7	0	0	0	0	0
Masahiro Yamamoto	25	60	47	4	4	0	0	0	6	0	0	8	19	.085	.218	.085	.303	4	1	0	5	0	0
Hitoki Iwase	65	12	12	2	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	.250	.250	.333	.583	4	0	0	0	0	0
Yukinaga Maeda	25	9	5	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	.400	.571	.400	.971	2	0	0	2	0	0
Ryo Kawano	3	10	8	2	2	0	0	1	3	0	0	1	2	.250	.333	.625	.958	5	0	0	1	0	0
Kosuke Yoshihara	7	9	9	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.222	.222	.222	.444	2	0	0	0	0	0
Ken Kadokura	17	14	11	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	.182	.182	.182	.364	2	0	0	3	0	0
Tokitaka Minamibuchi	16	16	14	1	2	2	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	.143	.188	.286	.473	4	1	0	0	1	0
Takatoshi Kishikawa	7	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
Masaaki Daito	6	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	2.000	3.000	2	0	0	0	0	0
Dong Yol Sun	39	3	3	1	1	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.667	1.000	2	0	0	0	0	0
Masahiro Araki	16	4	4	4	1	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.500	1	0	0	0	0	0
Yasushi Tsuruta	6	8	6	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	5	.167	.167	.167	.333	1	0	0	2	0	0
So Tsutsui	9	16	13	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	.077	.200	.154	.354	2	0	0	1	0	0
Sang-Hoon Lee	36	28	24	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	10	.042	.080	.083	.163	2	0	0	3	0	0
Koji Yamaguchi	4	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shinichiro Koyama	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Eiji Shotsu	47	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Masataka Endo	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Takuichi Koike	8	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Eiji Ochiai	56	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nelson Liriano	1	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Hiroaki Nakayama	31	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	2	0	0
Hiroshi Yamada	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		1.000			0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2016	5099	4446	598	1168	210	25	120	578	78	38	470	850	.263	.335	.402	.737	1788	85	31	115	37	31

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Takeshi Yamasaki	1B	109					.000
Leo Gómez	1B	63					.000
Takeshi Aiko	1B	10					.000
Hiroyuki Watanabe	1B	8					.000
Ryo Kawano	1B	3					.000
Kazuyoshi Tatsunami	2B	118					.000
Junichi Jinno	2B	29					.000
Hiroyuki Watanabe	2B	17					.000
Hitoshi Taneda	2B	8					.000
Teruyoshi Kuji	2B	6					.000
Tokitaka Minamibuchi	2B	1					.000
Nelson Liriano	2B	1					.000
Kosuke Fukudome	2B	1					.000
Masahiro Araki	2B	1					.000
Leo Gómez	3B	111					.000
Kosuke Fukudome	3B	44					.000
Hiroyuki Watanabe	3B	37					.000
Hitoshi Taneda	3B	7					.000
So Tsutsui	3B	3					.000
Kazuyoshi Tatsunami	3B	3					.000
Junichi Jinno	3B	1					.000
Takeshi Nakamura	C	127					.000
Fumihiro Suzuki	C	34					.000
Kosuke Yoshihara	C	6					.000
Koichi Sekikawa	OF	135					.000
Kazuki Inoue	OF	128					.000
Jong Beom Lee	OF	119					.000
Takayuki Onishi	OF	46					.000
Shigeki Oto	OF	42					.000
Kazuyoshi Tatsunami	OF	12					.000
Kosuke Fukudome	OF	12					.000
Masahiro Araki	OF	12					.000
Hitoshi Taneda	OF	8					.000
Daisuke Masuda	OF	5					.000
So Tsutsui	OF	3					.000
Koji Yamaguchi	OF	2					.000
Hitoki Iwase	P	65					.000
Eiji Ochiai	P	56					.000
Eiji Shotsu	P	47					.000
Dong Yol Sun	P	39					.000
Sang-Hoon Lee	P	36					.000
Hiroaki Nakayama	P	31					.000
Shigeki Noguchi	P	29					.000
Kenshin Kawakami	P	29					.000
Masahiro Yamamoto	P	25					.000
Kazuhiro Takeda	P	25					.000
Yukinaga Maeda	P	25					.000
Ken Kadokura	P	15					.000
Takuichi Koike	P	8					.000
Takatoshi Kishikawa	P	7					.000
Yasushi Tsuruta	P	6					.000
Masaaki Daito	P	6					.000
Takeshi Shimazaki	P	5					.000
Shinji Imanaka	P	5					.000
Hiroshi Yamada	P	3					.000
Shinichiro Koyama	P	3					.000
Takashi Ogasawara	P	2					.000
Kotaro Azuse	P	2					.000
Masataka Endo	P	1					.000
Kosuke Fukudome	SS	109					.000
Teruyoshi Kuji	SS	100					.000
Hiroyuki Watanabe	SS	4					.000
Junichi Jinno	SS	4					.000
Totals		1959	0	0	0	0	.000

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