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2008 Chunichi Dragons

2008 > Class Foreign > 2008 Japan Central League
Overall: 71-68
Scored 535 runs, Allowed 556 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 67-72

Affiliation: none or n/a
Manager: Hiromitsu Ochiai
Represented: Nagoya, JP, JP
Ballpark: n/a
Attendance: n/a
Other Years: 2007 / 2009

Team Batting

Bold indicates they played in the majors or are a HOFer
Rk Age G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
1 Ryota Arai 24 24 19 18 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 .167 .211 .167 .377 3 0 1 0 0 0
2 Masahiro Araki 30 130 591 538 64 131 15 2 4 28 32 7 35 81 .243 .292 .301 .593 162 8 2 15 1 0
3 Kenta Asakura 27 12 21 17 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 .118 .118 .118 .235 2 0 0 4 0 0
4 Takuya Asao 23 44 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Wei-Yin Chen* 22 39 28 25 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 .040 .040 .080 .120 2 0 0 3 0 0
6 Tomas de la Rosa 30 93 242 214 20 52 12 0 7 22 0 2 24 49 .243 .318 .397 .715 85 6 0 3 1 0
7 Naomichi Donoue 19 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Takehiro Donoue* 23 1 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .000 .333 .000 .333 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Atsushi Fujii 27 40 39 35 10 6 1 0 2 2 2 1 1 9 .171 .194 .371 .566 13 0 0 3 0 0
10 Masafumi Hirai 33 37 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 Ryosuke Hirata 20 59 111 97 9 26 3 0 1 9 0 1 6 25 .268 .311 .330 .641 32 4 1 5 2 0
12 Hirokazu Ibata 33 106 466 408 51 113 16 3 5 23 8 3 37 56 .277 .340 .368 .708 150 7 3 16 2 1
13 Kazuki Inoue* 36 74 154 141 11 41 12 0 1 10 0 0 12 18 .291 .346 .397 .744 56 1 0 1 0 4
14 Tatsuro Iwasaki 23 20 19 18 3 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 .056 .056 .111 .167 2 0 0 1 0 0
15 Yudai Kawai* 28 14 15 15 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 .133 .133 .133 .267 2 0 0 0 0 0
16 Kenshin Kawakami 33 20 32 29 1 3 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 12 .103 .103 .241 .345 7 0 0 3 0 0
17 Masaaki Koike 28 59 161 141 15 32 8 0 4 15 1 1 10 34 .227 .290 .369 .659 52 4 3 6 1 0
18 Hidenori Kuramoto 32 77 77 70 10 15 2 1 1 7 4 0 2 23 .214 .236 .314 .550 22 3 0 5 0 0
19 Byung-Gyu Lee* 33 105 448 418 40 106 16 2 16 65 1 2 23 93 .254 .293 .416 .710 174 13 1 5 1 0
20 Akihiro Maeda 25 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0
21 Masahiko Morino* 29 96 412 358 63 115 25 1 19 59 1 0 46 60 .321 .394 .556 .950 199 4 0 3 5 0
22 Ryosuke Morioka* 23 5 5 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .000 .200 .000 .200 0 0 0 0 0 0
23 Issei Nakamura 26 9 11 9 0 3 2 0 0 2 0 0 2 1 .333 .455 .556 1.010 5 0 0 0 0 0
24 Koji Nakamura 27 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0
25 Norihiro Nakamura 34 140 557 493 56 135 20 0 24 72 0 1 50 119 .274 .340 .460 .800 227 11 1 10 3 4
26 Kenichi Nakata 25 23 43 38 3 4 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 15 .105 .128 .158 .286 6 0 0 4 0 0
27 Akira Nishikawa* 24 13 16 14 1 2 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 5 .143 .200 .357 .557 5 0 0 1 0 0
28 Kohei Oda 31 41 71 64 2 12 1 0 0 4 0 0 4 12 .188 .232 .203 .435 13 2 0 2 1 2
29 Takashi Ogasawara* 31 26 33 27 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 .148 .148 .185 .333 5 0 0 6 0 0
30 Masatoshi Ogawa 29 13 11 11 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 .182 .182 .182 .364 2 0 0 0 0 0
31 Mitsuru Sato 30 8 15 15 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 .067 .067 .067 .133 1 0 0 0 0 0
32 Ryota Sato* 24 4 5 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .000 .250 .000 .250 0 0 0 1 0 0
33 Michihisa Sawai# 29 7 5 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .000 .200 .000 .200 0 0 0 0 0 0
34 Akinobu Shimizu 24 15 10 9 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 .111 .111 .111 .222 1 0 0 1 0 0
35 Masaumi Shimizu 33 17 21 18 1 4 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 6 .222 .263 .278 .541 5 2 0 2 0 0
36 Daisuke Tanaka 23 17 27 23 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 .174 .269 .174 .443 4 1 0 1 0 1
37 Motonobu Tanishige 37 113 384 329 27 77 18 0 2 27 0 1 39 45 .234 .325 .307 .632 101 9 6 9 1 4
38 Kazuyoshi Tatsunami* 38 86 86 73 2 15 4 0 1 10 0 0 11 11 .205 .314 .301 .615 22 2 1 0 1 3
39 Yoshinori Ueda? 34 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0
40 Kazuhiro Wada 36 136 560 520 60 157 34 4 16 74 1 2 34 71 .302 .345 .475 .820 247 16 2 0 4 0
41 Ty Woods 38 140 573 490 77 135 18 0 35 77 0 1 78 138 .276 .377 .527 .903 258 18 3 0 2 3
42 Daisuke Yamai 30 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0
43 Masahiro Yamamoto* 42 23 45 36 3 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 3 17 .056 .128 .083 .212 3 0 0 6 0 0
44 Soma Yamauchi 22 4 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0
45 Kazuki Yoshimi 23 35 36 33 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 23 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 3 0 0
45 Players 32.4 144 5362 4767 535 1207 215 13 140 514 51 22 427 989 .253 .316 .392 .708 1868 111 24 119 25 22
Only players for whom we have stats are shown. See roster for more complete team list.

Team Pitching

Bold indicates they played in the majors or are a HOFer
Rk Age W L W-L% ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP BK WP BF WHIP H/9 HR/9 BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB
1 Kazuyuki Akasaka 18 0 0 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 1.000 0.0 0.0 9.0 0.0 0.00
2 Kenta Asakura 27 3 4 .429 3.36 12 9 1 0 0 56.1 67 27 21 5 20 0 30 1 0 2 255 1.544 10.7 0.8 3.2 4.8 1.50
3 Takuya Asao 23 3 1 .750 1.79 44 0 0 0 1 50.1 43 11 10 0 9 2 35 3 0 0 199 1.033 7.7 0.0 1.6 6.3 3.89
4 Wei-Yin Chen* 22 7 6 .538 2.90 39 14 1 1 0 114.2 101 40 37 7 33 0 107 5 0 5 474 1.169 7.9 0.5 2.6 8.4 3.24
5 Masafumi Hirai 33 1 1 .500 5.14 37 0 0 0 0 28.0 36 16 16 3 6 1 23 3 0 1 128 1.500 11.6 1.0 1.9 7.4 3.83
6 Hitoki Iwase* 33 3 3 .500 2.94 51 0 0 0 36 49.0 55 16 16 2 10 4 41 0 0 0 212 1.327 10.1 0.4 1.8 7.5 4.10
7 Yudai Kawai* 28 1 5 .167 3.97 14 10 0 0 0 56.2 69 31 25 3 11 2 37 0 0 1 243 1.412 11.0 0.5 1.7 5.9 3.36
8 Kenshin Kawakami 33 9 5 .643 2.30 20 16 1 0 0 117.1 99 33 30 11 25 3 112 5 0 1 473 1.057 7.6 0.8 1.9 8.6 4.48
9 Masato Kobayashi* 27 0 2 .000 4.40 46 0 0 0 1 28.2 33 18 14 4 12 3 21 3 0 1 133 1.570 10.4 1.3 3.8 6.6 1.75
10 Hiroki Kongo 29 0 0 6.39 12 0 0 0 0 12.2 19 10 9 0 5 0 10 0 0 1 60 1.895 13.5 0.0 3.6 7.1 2.00
11 Shouji Nagamine 23 2 1 .667 5.65 33 1 0 0 0 43.0 63 28 27 1 10 1 30 3 0 1 198 1.698 13.2 0.2 2.1 6.3 3.00
12 Kenichi Nakata 25 7 9 .438 4.65 23 21 1 1 0 129.2 148 79 67 13 46 1 126 11 0 5 582 1.496 10.3 0.9 3.2 8.7 2.74
13 Atsushi Nakazato 25 0 0 3.48 13 0 0 0 0 10.1 6 4 4 1 6 0 5 0 0 1 44 1.161 5.2 0.9 5.2 4.4 0.83
14 Maximo Nelson 26 0 0 3.00 6 0 0 0 0 6.0 9 2 2 0 4 0 6 0 0 0 29 2.167 13.5 0.0 6.0 9.0 1.50
15 Takashi Ogasawara* 31 8 11 .421 4.70 26 22 0 0 0 132.0 147 71 69 20 42 3 89 5 2 2 575 1.432 10.0 1.4 2.9 6.1 2.12
16 Shinsuke Saito 26 1 1 .500 3.00 17 0 0 0 0 15.0 10 5 5 2 6 0 10 0 0 0 61 1.067 6.0 1.2 3.6 6.0 1.67
17 Mitsuru Sato 30 1 4 .200 4.43 8 7 0 0 0 40.2 47 20 20 4 7 0 23 0 0 1 169 1.328 10.4 0.9 1.5 5.1 3.29
18 Ryota Sato* 24 0 1 .000 4.97 4 2 0 0 0 12.2 13 7 7 2 2 0 6 3 0 0 56 1.184 9.2 1.4 1.4 4.3 3.00
19 Akinobu Shimizu 24 2 2 .500 2.45 15 4 1 0 0 44.0 34 14 12 2 17 0 33 5 1 0 183 1.159 7.0 0.4 3.5 6.8 1.94
20 Yoshihiro Suzuki 25 0 0 1.12 8 0 0 0 0 8.0 2 1 1 0 1 0 9 0 0 0 27 0.375 2.2 0.0 1.1 10.1 9.00
21 Akifumi Takahashi* 25 2 1 .667 2.33 54 0 0 0 1 54.0 47 16 14 4 10 2 48 4 0 0 222 1.056 7.8 0.7 1.7 8.0 4.80
22 Daisuke Yamai 30 0 1 .000 1.00 2 1 0 0 0 9.0 5 1 1 1 0 0 10 0 0 0 30 0.556 5.0 1.0 0.0 10.0
23 Masahiro Yamamoto* 42 11 7 .611 3.16 23 22 2 0 0 133.2 127 54 47 15 26 2 84 2 0 1 544 1.145 8.6 1.0 1.8 5.7 3.23
24 Soma Yamauchi 22 0 0 5.79 4 1 0 0 0 9.1 9 6 6 3 2 0 12 0 0 0 38 1.179 8.7 2.9 1.9 11.6 6.00
25 Kazuki Yoshimi 23 10 3 .769 3.23 35 14 3 2 0 114.1 118 46 41 11 25 0 82 4 0 1 476 1.251 9.3 0.9 2.0 6.5 3.28
25 Players 28.1 71 68 .511 3.53 144 144 134 10 11 39 1276.1 1307 556 501 114 336 24 989 57 3 24 5415 1.287 9.2 0.8 2.4 7.0 2.94

Team Fielding--By Pos

Bold indicates they played in the majors or are a HOFer

C

G CG PO A E DP Fld% RF/G PB SB CS CS% lgCS% PO
Motonobu Tanishige 113 737 51 3 10 .996 6.97 3
Kohei Oda 41 179 19 2 3 .990 4.83 1
Masaumi Shimizu 16 46 7 0 0 1.000 3.31 1
Daisuke Tanaka 16 51 9 0 1 1.000 3.75 0
Masatoshi Ogawa 8 31 3 0 0 1.000 4.25 0
Akihiro Maeda 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 0

1B

G CG PO A E DP Fld% RF/G lgCS% PO
Ty Woods 124 998 79 6 75 .994 8.69
Norihiro Nakamura 78 257 19 3 25 .989 3.54
Ryota Arai 4 8 0 0 1 1.000 2.00
Masahiko Morino 3 2 0 0 1 1.000 0.67

2B

G CG PO A E DP Fld% RF/G lgCS% PO
Masahiro Araki 130 329 415 11 74 .985 5.72
Tatsuro Iwasaki 10 10 22 0 2 1.000 3.20
Tomas de la Rosa 8 21 16 2 0 .949 4.63
Akira Nishikawa 3 5 3 0 0 1.000 2.67
Masahiko Morino 2 8 2 0 0 1.000 5.00

3B

G CG PO A E DP Fld% RF/G lgCS% PO
Norihiro Nakamura 118 73 219 6 22 .980 2.47
Masahiko Morino 60 23 42 2 5 .970 1.08
Tomas de la Rosa 33 13 27 3 4 .930 1.21
Naomichi Donoue 2 0 0 0 0 0.00

SS

G CG PO A E DP Fld% RF/G lgCS% PO
Hirokazu Ibata 106 139 311 8 50 .983 4.25
Tomas de la Rosa 40 48 112 2 16 .988 4.00
Tatsuro Iwasaki 7 2 4 0 1 1.000 0.86
Masahiro Araki 1 2 0 0 0 1.000 2.00

OF

G CG PO A E DP Fld% RF/G lgCS% PO
Kazuhiro Wada 135 228 11 3 2 .988 1.77
Byung-Gyu Lee 105 167 4 3 0 .983 1.63
Masahiko Morino 81 134 2 2 0 .986 1.68
Hidenori Kuramoto 69 39 1 1 1 .976 0.58
Masaaki Koike 50 85 2 1 0 .989 1.74
Ryosuke Hirata 35 39 1 1 0 .976 1.14
Kazuki Inoue 33 48 3 2 0 .962 1.55
Atsushi Fujii 29 19 0 1 0 .950 0.66
Issei Nakamura 8 8 0 0 0 1.000 1.00
Takehiro Donoue 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00
Yoshinori Ueda 1 0 0 0 0 0.00

P

G CG PO A E DP Fld% RF/G lgCS% PO
Akifumi Takahashi 54 2 8 0 0 1.000 0.19
Hitoki Iwase 51 0 10 0 1 1.000 0.20
Masato Kobayashi 46 2 5 0 1 1.000 0.15
Takuya Asao 44 3 14 1 3 .944 0.39
Wei-Yin Chen 39 5 12 1 0 .944 0.44
Masafumi Hirai 37 1 9 0 0 1.000 0.27
Kazuki Yoshimi 35 10 15 1 0 .962 0.71
Shouji Nagamine 33 1 6 1 0 .875 0.21
Takashi Ogasawara 26 8 30 0 0 1.000 1.46
Kenichi Nakata 23 10 14 5 1 .828 1.04
Masahiro Yamamoto 23 6 27 2 3 .943 1.43
Kenshin Kawakami 20 6 23 1 2 .967 1.45
Shinsuke Saito 17 1 2 0 0 1.000 0.18
Akinobu Shimizu 15 3 8 0 0 1.000 0.73
Yudai Kawai 14 11 12 0 2 1.000 1.64
Atsushi Nakazato 13 0 2 0 0 1.000 0.15
Kenta Asakura 12 2 12 1 0 .933 1.17
Hiroki Kongo 12 1 0 0 0 1.000 0.08
Mitsuru Sato 8 2 9 0 0 1.000 1.38
Yoshihiro Suzuki 8 1 1 0 0 1.000 0.25
Maximo Nelson 6 0 0 0 0 0.00
Ryota Sato 4 0 0 0 0 0.00
Soma Yamauchi 4 0 0 0 0 0.00
Daisuke Yamai 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 1.00
Kazuyuki Akasaka 1 0 0 0 0 0.00

Team Roster

Bold indicates they played in the majors
Age B T Ht Wt DoB Birthplace
Kazuyuki Akasaka 18 R R 6' 0.0" 183 Sep 4, 1989 Yokohama, Kanagawa, JP
Ryota Arai 24 R R 6' 2.0" 196 Aug 16, 1983 Hiroshima, Hiroshima, JP
Masahiro Araki 30 R R 5' 11.0" 163 Sep 13, 1977 Kikuchi-gun, Kumamoto, JP
Kenta Asakura 27 R R 6' 1.0" 201 Jun 11, 1981 Fukui, Fukui, JP
Takuya Asao 23 R R 6' 0.0" 165 Oct 22, 1984 Chita, Aichi, JP
Wei-Yin Chen 22 L L 6' 0.0" 195 Jul 21, 1985 Kaohsiung City, TW
Tomas de la Rosa 30 R R 5' 10.0" 165 Jan 28, 1978 La Victoria, Santo Domingo, DO
Naomichi Donoue 19 R R 6' 0.0" 176 Sep 23, 1988 Kasugai, Aichi, JP
Takehiro Donoue 23 L R 5' 9.0" 185 May 27, 1985 Kasugai, Aichi, JP
Atsushi Fujii 27 R R 5' 10.0" 180 May 20, 1981 Toyohashi, Aichi, JP
Masafumi Hirai 33 R R 6' 1.0" 214 Apr 21, 1975 Uwajima, Ehime, JP
Ryosuke Hirata 20 R R 5' 9.0" 185 Mar 23, 1988 Osaka, Osaka, JP
Hirokazu Ibata 33 R R 5' 8.0" 165 May 12, 1975 JP
Kazuki Inoue 36 L L 6' 0.0" 205 Jul 25, 1971
Tatsuro Iwasaki 23 R R 5' 9.0" 165 Dec 28, 1984
Hitoki Iwase 33 L L 5' 11.0" 179 Nov 10, 1974
Yudai Kawai 28 L L 5' 8.0" 158 Jun 17, 1980 Nagano, JP
Kenshin Kawakami 33 R R 5' 11.0" 200 Jun 22, 1975 Tokushima, JP
Masato Kobayashi 27 L L 5' 9.0" 190 Aug 21, 1980 Gunma, JP
Masaaki Koike 28 R R 6' 0.0" 194 May 15, 1980
Hiroki Kongo 29 R R 5' 11.0" 183 Feb 12, 1979
Hidenori Kuramoto 32 R R 6' 0.0" 163 May 9, 1976
Byung-Gyu Lee 33 L L 6' 1.0" 181 Oct 25, 1974
Akihiro Maeda 25 R R 6' 1.0" 198 Jun 19, 1983 JP
Masahiko Morino 29 L R 5' 11.0" 187 Jul 28, 1978
Ryosuke Morioka 23 L R 5' 8.0" 159 Jul 15, 1984
Shouji Nagamine 23 R R 6' 2.0" 194 Aug 8, 1984 Ibaraki, JP
Issei Nakamura 26 R R 6' 1.0" 187 Apr 2, 1982 Tokyo, JP
Koji Nakamura 27 R R 6' 1.0" 183 May 6, 1981
Norihiro Nakamura 34 R R 5' 10.0" 205 Jul 24, 1973 Osaka, JP
Kenichi Nakata 25 R R 5' 9.0" 172 Nov 5, 1982
Atsushi Nakazato 25 L R 6' 1.0" 185 Sep 12, 1982
Maximo Nelson 26 R R 6' 5.0" 165 Apr 21, 1982 Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional, DO
Akira Nishikawa 24 L R 5' 9.0" 159 Apr 2, 1984
Kohei Oda 31 R R 5' 11.0" 185 Mar 15, 1977
Takashi Ogasawara 31 L L 5' 8.0" 168 Nov 29, 1976
Masatoshi Ogawa 29 R R 6' 2.0" 187 Jan 18, 1979
Shinsuke Saito 26 R R 6' 0.0" 187 Feb 12, 1982
Mitsuru Sato 30 R R 6' 3.0" 183 Apr 29, 1978
Ryota Sato 24 L L 6' 1.0" 180 Sep 2, 1983 Nagano, JP
Michihisa Sawai 29 S R 5' 9.0" 163 Jun 25, 1979
Akinobu Shimizu 24 R R 5' 9.0" 187 Oct 26, 1983
Masaumi Shimizu 33 R R 5' 11.0" 185 Jan 9, 1975
Yoshihiro Suzuki 25 R R 6' 2.0" 194 Jan 5, 1983
Akifumi Takahashi 25 L L 5' 9.0" 176 May 29, 1983
Daisuke Tanaka 23 R R 5' 9.0" 165 Dec 18, 1984
Motonobu Tanishige 37 R R 5' 10.0" 180 Dec 21, 1970 JP
Kazuyoshi Tatsunami 38 L R 5' 8.0" 154 Aug 19, 1969
Yoshinori Ueda 34 Nov 18, 1973
Kazuhiro Wada 36 R R 6' 0.0" 190 Jun 19, 1972 JP
Ty Woods 38 R R 6' 1.0" 190 Aug 19, 1969 Dade City, FL, US
Daisuke Yamai 30 R R 5' 10.0" 181 May 10, 1978 JP
Masahiro Yamamoto 42 L L 6' 1.0" 192 Aug 11, 1965
Soma Yamauchi 22 R R 5' 11.0" 170 Jul 1, 1985
Kazuki Yoshimi 23 R R 5' 9.0" 182 Sep 19, 1984 Fukui, JP

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