2001 Chunichi Dragons Statistics

Japan Central League (JPCL) - Class: Foreign Major
Team Record: 62-74
Finished 5th in the JPCL
Manager: Senichi Hoshino (62-74)
Location: Nagoya, Japan
Ballpark: Nagoya Dome

2001 Chunichi Dragons Roster

The Chunichi Dragons of the Japan Central League ended the 2001 season with a record of 62 wins and 74 losses, finishing fifth in the JPCL.

The Dragons topped the league with just 513 runs allowed. Chunichi scored 483 runs. Takeshi Yamasaki led the team with 25 home runs, while Leo Gómez and Kosuke Fukudome walloped 15 or more, too. Kazuyoshi Tatsunami recorded 65 runs batted in and topped hitters with significant playing time by hitting .292. Shigeki Noguchi paced the squad with 12 wins and a team-best 2.47 earned run average, best among regular hurlers.

Eddie Gaillard, Ozzie Timmons, Kosuke Fukudome, Melvin Bunch, Tim Unroe, Leo Gómez and Kenshin Kawakami were all players from the 2001 Chunichi Dragons who played in the Majors during their careers.

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	12	9	.571	2.46	26	26	0	11	5	0	193.7	167	62	53	7	28	1	187	2	0	1	765
Melvin Bunch	10	8	.556	3.38	25	25	0	1	0	0	160.0	158	64	60	14	63	6	151	5	1	2	684
Masahiro Yamamoto	10	13	.435	3.63	28	26	1	2	2	0	163.7	160	69	66	12	44	4	98	2	0	3	672
Hitoki Iwase	8	3	.727	3.30	61	0	9	0	0	0	62.7	51	23	23	3	16	0	62	3	0	0	252
Kenshin Kawakami	6	10	.375	3.72	26	25	1	3	1	0	145.0	153	61	60	12	36	1	127	4	0	4	608
Masataka Endo	4	2	.667	3.91	40	0	11	0	0	0	53.0	47	23	23	5	28	1	60	5	0	5	233
Yukinaga Maeda	4	10	.286	3.41	36	13	5	1	0	0	103.0	98	39	39	10	26	4	81	0	0	6	430
Eiji Shotsu	3	1	.750	3.04	53	1	14	0	0	0	68.0	69	23	23	4	23	2	49	4	0	3	295
Kazuhiro Takeda	3	6	.333	4.83	11	11	0	0	0	0	54.0	60	32	29	2	14	0	36	1	0	3	231
Makoto Kito	2	0	1.000	3.20	21	0	6	0	0	0	25.3	24	9	9	4	5	0	28	0	0	2	104
Shinya Okamoto	0	0		0.00	3	0	1	0	0	0	6.0	0	0	0	0	5	0	6	1	0	0	22
Shinji Imanaka	0	0		3.27	7	0	3	0	0	0	11.0	12	4	4	1	6	0	1	0	0	0	49
Hiroaki Nakayama	0	0		5.40	4	0	2	0	0	0	6.7	7	4	4	1	2	0	3	0	0	0	27
Naoki Imoto	0	0		8.31	6	0	3	0	0	1	8.7	10	8	8	2	6	0	6	0	0	0	41
Akira Miyakoshi	0	0		12.00	3	0	3	0	0	0	3.0	6	4	4	2	0	0	4	0	0	0	14
Takahiro Fukuzawa	0	0		27.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	2	3	3	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	7
Eddie Gaillard	0	1	.000	2.12	47	0	43	0	0	29	46.7	34	11	11	2	11	1	24	0	0	1	181
Shinichiro Koyama	0	1	.000	4.76	4	0	2	0	0	0	5.7	8	4	3	0	4	0	4	0	0	0	28
Takashi Ogasawara	0	1	.000	4.76	23	2	6	0	0	0	28.3	31	15	15	5	13	0	28	0	0	1	130
Atsushi Nakazato	0	1	.000	6.00	2	2	0	0	0	0	9.0	12	8	6	0	5	0	5	0	0	1	45
Eiji Ochiai	0	3	.000	1.73	45	0	7	0	0	2	41.7	41	14	8	1	11	3	19	1	0	0	177
Kenta Asakura	0	5	.000	5.44	15	9	4	0	0	0	49.7	60	33	30	4	34	1	31	1	1	4	236
Totals	62	74	.456	3.48	487	140	122	18	8	32	1245.7	1210	513	481	91	382	24	1012	29	2	36	5231

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	139	576	507	52	148	30	2	9	65	6	1	54	54	.292	.359	.412	.771	209	9	2	7	6	4
Hirokazu Ibata	140	625	531	53	139	25	3	1	32	14	12	49	60	.262	.330	.326	.656	173	10	6	37	2	2
Takeshi Nakamura	134	455	412	29	109	16	0	2	27	1	0	31	59	.265	.317	.318	.635	131	17	1	10	1	5
Kosuke Fukudome	120	442	375	51	94	22	2	15	56	8	4	56	90	.251	.352	.440	.792	165	4	4	4	3	4
Masahiro Araki	111	304	272	53	92	12	1	4	23	13	9	20	48	.338	.384	.434	.818	118	3	1	10	1	0
Leo Gómez	88	343	291	30	89	13	0	19	61	0	0	47	35	.306	.398	.546	.944	159	10	0	1	4	5
Takeshi Yamasaki	111	398	365	46	87	16	0	25	51	0	1	24	95	.238	.297	.488	.785	178	13	7	1	1	2
Kazuki Inoue	112	349	321	24	83	21	2	2	20	2	1	25	54	.259	.313	.355	.668	114	5	1	1	1	2
Toshio Haru	92	307	275	21	66	8	0	1	20	2	3	13	37	.240	.277	.280	.557	77	8	2	15	2	1
Ozzie Timmons	83	299	272	30	62	9	1	12	45	1	1	22	73	.228	.287	.401	.688	109	7	1	3	1	0
Koichi Sekikawa	65	212	180	20	40	4	0	1	8	3	3	24	34	.222	.317	.261	.578	47	0	1	7	0	2
Takayuki Onishi	87	120	105	21	24	3	2	0	6	1	4	10	22	.229	.308	.295	.603	31	3	2	3	0	0
Junichi Jinno	30	42	38	4	14	3	0	0	7	0	0	3	7	.368	.415	.447	.862	17	1	0	1	0	0
Hidenori Kuramoto	15	48	45	7	14	1	0	1	3	0	2	3	7	.311	.354	.400	.754	18	2	0	0	0	0
Shigeki Noguchi	27	73	66	3	13	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	20	.197	.209	.197	.406	13	1	0	6	0	0
Melvin Bunch	25	61	52	1	12	1	0	1	4	0	0	0	19	.231	.226	.308	.534	16	1	0	8	1	0
Yasuaki Taiho	38	77	70	6	12	4	0	3	7	0	0	6	34	.171	.234	.357	.591	25	1	0	0	1	1
Hiroyuki Watanabe	53	66	55	8	11	1	0	0	3	0	0	8	8	.200	.323	.218	.541	12	3	2	1	0	0
Masahiko Morino	40	59	58	4	11	3	0	0	2	0	0	1	13	.190	.203	.241	.445	14	1	0	0	0	0
Masahiro Yamamoto	30	57	49	3	7	0	0	0	4	0	0	2	17	.143	.176	.143	.319	7	1	0	6	0	0
Shogo Mori	18	36	32	3	6	2	0	1	6	0	2	3	11	.188	.278	.344	.622	11	0	1	0	0	0
Yuichi Yanagisawa	18	23	19	0	5	1	0	0	3	0	0	1	4	.263	.333	.316	.649	6	1	1	2	0	0
Kenshin Kawakami	26	49	39	2	5	1	0	1	2	0	0	3	17	.128	.190	.231	.421	9	0	0	7	0	0
Atsushi Nakazato	2	4	4	0	3	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	1	.750	.750	1.000	1.750	4	0	0	0	0	0
Kazuhito Yoshimura	16	14	12	3	3	1	1	0	2	0	0	1	5	.250	.308	.500	.808	6	1	0	1	0	0
Hitoshi Taneda	8	18	17	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	.176	.222	.176	.399	3	0	0	0	0	0
Hitoki Iwase	61	10	9	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.222	.300	.222	.522	2	0	0	0	0	0
Jong Beom Lee	8	13	13	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.154	.154	.231	.385	3	0	0	0	0	0
Kazuhiro Takeda	11	17	14	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	5	.143	.250	.143	.393	2	0	0	1	0	0
Yukinaga Maeda	37	27	24	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	8	.083	.154	.083	.237	2	1	0	1	0	0
Takashi Ogasawara	23	4	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.500	.667	.500	1.167	1	1	0	1	0	0
Tim Unroe	4	8	7	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.143	.143	.286	.429	2	0	0	1	0	0
Kiyohito Shimizu	5	10	9	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.111	.111	.111	.222	1	0	0	1	0	0
Teruyoshi Kuji	34	19	11	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	.091	.333	.091	.424	1	1	1	4	0	0
Kenta Asakura	15	14	13	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	.077	.077	.077	.154	1	1	0	1	0	0
So Tsutsui	13	15	13	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.077	.077	.077	.154	1	0	0	2	0	0
Fumihiro Suzuki	24	19	17	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	5	.059	.158	.059	.217	1	0	0	0	0	0
Kenji Makuta	2	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mitsunobu Takahashi	3	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.143	.000	.143	0	1	0	0	0	0
Makoto Kito	21	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Masataka Endo	40	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Eiji Shotsu	53	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	.000	.333	.000	.333	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1982	5230	4609	483	1167	200	14	98	464	53	44	421	882	.253	.319	.366	.685	1689	107	33	143	24	28

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	RF/G
Takeshi Yamasaki	1B	102					.000
Leo Gómez	1B	48					.000
Hiroyuki Watanabe	1B	22					.000
Yasuaki Taiho	1B	18					.000
So Tsutsui	1B	4					.000
Mitsunobu Takahashi	1B	3					.000
Tim Unroe	1B	1					.000
Ozzie Timmons	1B	1					.000
Hitoshi Taneda	1B	1					.000
Kazuki Inoue	1B	1					.000
Kosuke Fukudome	1B	1					.000
Masahiro Araki	1B	1					.000
Kazuyoshi Tatsunami	2B	95					.000
Masahiro Araki	2B	50					.000
Hirokazu Ibata	2B	15					.000
Masahiko Morino	2B	10					.000
Junichi Jinno	2B	6					.000
Hiroyuki Watanabe	2B	4					.000
Kazuhito Yoshimura	2B	1					.000
Leo Gómez	3B	59					.000
Kazuyoshi Tatsunami	3B	54					.000
Kosuke Fukudome	3B	51					.000
Hiroyuki Watanabe	3B	9					.000
Junichi Jinno	3B	8					.000
Toshio Haru	3B	4					.000
Masahiko Morino	3B	3					.000
Jong Beom Lee	3B	3					.000
Tim Unroe	3B	2					.000
So Tsutsui	3B	2					.000
Takeshi Nakamura	C	134					.000
Fumihiro Suzuki	C	20					.000
Yuichi Yanagisawa	C	16					.000
Kiyohito Shimizu	C	5					.000
Kazuki Inoue	OF	99					.000
Ozzie Timmons	OF	75					.000
Takayuki Onishi	OF	74					.000
Kosuke Fukudome	OF	61					.000
Koichi Sekikawa	OF	60					.000
Masahiro Araki	OF	59					.000
Hidenori Kuramoto	OF	15					.000
Shogo Mori	OF	13					.000
Hirokazu Ibata	OF	11					.000
Hiroyuki Watanabe	OF	5					.000
Toshio Haru	OF	5					.000
Hitoshi Taneda	OF	4					.000
So Tsutsui	OF	2					.000
Yasuaki Taiho	OF	2					.000
Kenji Makuta	OF	1					.000
Jong Beom Lee	OF	1					.000
Hitoki Iwase	P	61					.000
Eiji Shotsu	P	53					.000
Eddie Gaillard	P	47					.000
Eiji Ochiai	P	45					.000
Masataka Endo	P	40					.000
Yukinaga Maeda	P	36					.000
Masahiro Yamamoto	P	28					.000
Shigeki Noguchi	P	26					.000
Kenshin Kawakami	P	26					.000
Melvin Bunch	P	25					.000
Takashi Ogasawara	P	23					.000
Makoto Kito	P	21					.000
Kenta Asakura	P	15					.000
Kazuhiro Takeda	P	11					.000
Shinji Imanaka	P	7					.000
Naoki Imoto	P	6					.000
Hiroaki Nakayama	P	4					.000
Shinichiro Koyama	P	4					.000
Shinya Okamoto	P	3					.000
Akira Miyakoshi	P	3					.000
Atsushi Nakazato	P	2					.000
Takahiro Fukuzawa	P	1					.000
Hirokazu Ibata	SS	134					.000
Teruyoshi Kuji	SS	27					.000
Kosuke Fukudome	SS	11					.000
Kazuyoshi Tatsunami	SS	1					.000
Masahiro Araki	SS	1					.000
Totals		1902	0	0	0	0	.000

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