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This is a list of players from Taiwan in Major League Baseball. There have been 17 players total from Taiwan. Those players, especially star pitcher Chien-Ming Wang, became household names of Taiwanese people and induced huge followings for their games during MLB seasons. In November 2011, the inaugural MLB Taiwan All-Star Series was
This category is for Taiwanese baseball players who currently play or have played in Major League Baseball. Pages in category "Major League Baseball players from Taiwan" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
Lin led Taiwan's team to victory in the Junior League World Series in 2010. [2] [3] He played in the 2010 World Junior Baseball Championship, in which Taiwan won the championship. [4] He led all players in the tournament in batting average (.607), on-base percentage (.656), and slugging percentage (.907). [1]
He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, Washington Nationals, Toronto Blue Jays and Kansas City Royals. He also played for the Taiwan national baseball team, and is the current assistant pitching coach for CTBC Brothers. Wang signed as an amateur free agent with the Yankees in 2000.
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:Olympic baseball players of Taiwan The contents of that subcategory can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Baseball players from Taiwan .
In 2005, Chen was the first Taiwanese position player to ever get a hit in Major League Baseball, a 2-run RBI single off Colorado Rockies' reliever Bobby Seay. However, Chin-hui Tsao had earlier become the first Taiwanese player to get a hit in the Majors as a pitcher, with the Colorado Rockies on August 18, 2003.
Wei-Yin Chen was born in Kaohsiung County, Taiwan.He attended Ciao-Tou Junior High School [3] and Kaoyuan Vocational High School, which was also attended by former Major League pitcher Chin-hui Tsao and several other Taiwanese professional baseball players.
[6] [7] And in another example, Marcus Stroman played for the United States in the 2017 World Baseball Classic, but played for Puerto Rico in the 2023 World Baseball Classic. [8] As such, player representation by birth spans to 25 countries as of the 2022 MLB season, with the United States topping the list at 1,057 players called up to 26-man ...