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The Chunichi Dragons (中日ドラゴンズ, Chūnichi Doragonzu) are a professional baseball team based in Nagoya, the chief city in the Chūbu region of Japan. The team plays in the Central League of Nippon Professional Baseball .
He was the first manager with no professional baseball experience to do so in Japan. It took another 53 years for Chunichi to win its second Japan series in 2007, under the coaching of long-term manager Hiromitsu Ochiai. Ochiai would prove to be the Dragons' most successful manager, with four Central League pennants to go with his Japan Series win.
The Central League was founded in 1949 with eight teams: four holdovers from the previous Japanese Baseball League — the Chunichi Dragons, the Hanshin Tigers, the Yomiuri Giants, and the Shochiku Robins (formerly the Taiyō Robins) — and four new teams — the Hiroshima Carp, the Kokutetsu Swallows, the Nishi Nippon Pirates, and the Taiyō Whales.
Shinnosuke Ogasawara (小笠原 慎之介, Ogasawara Shinnosuke, born October 8, 1997) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Chunichi Dragons of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). Ogasawara was the winning pitcher at the 2015 Summer Koshien tournament and was regarded as the second best high school pitching prospect in the 2015 ...
On 1 November, Takahashi signed a pre-contract with the Dragons guaranteeing a ¥100,000,000 sign-on bonus and a ¥16,000,000 yearly salary with ¥50,000,000 in incentives. [2] On July 7, 2022, Takahashi set a club record for fastest pitch thrown by a Japanese pitcher, clocking in at 98.2 miles per hour (158 kilometers per hour). [3]
Takeshi Nakamura (中村 武志, Nakamura Takeshi, born March 17, 1967) is a Japanese former professional baseball catcher. He played for the Chunichi Dragons, Yokohama Baystars and Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles. He was most recently the first team battery coach for the Chunichi Dragons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.
Hiromitsu Ochiai was the manager of the Chunichi Dragons from 2004 to 2011. He led the Dragons to the Japan Series during his inaugural year as manager in 2004, again in 2006, and led them to victory on the third try in 2007. His contract was not renewed after leading the Dragons to within a game of winning the 2011 Japan Series. [2]
The 2021 Chunichi Dragons season is the 85th season of the franchise in Nippon Professional Baseball, also the 85th season in Nagoya, the 75th season under Chunichi Shimbun, and the 27th season in Nagoya Dome. This is also the 3rd and final season under manager Tsuyoshi Yoda. He was replaced by Kazuyoshi Tatsunami for 2022.