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CPBL Season Wrapup
Well, it's fall and another baseball season has ended. In the Chinese Professional Baseball League, the Sinon Bulls will take on the President Lions to decide Taiwan's best baseball team. It may not be the Boston Red Sox against the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series, but there will be at least four more games of exciting baseball.

In 2004, Pang Cheng-ming of the Brother Elephants took the batting title with a whopping .376 batting average. The Bulls' Chang Tai-shan finished second with at .337. However, Chang led the league with 21 home runs with Pang second at 18. Chang was way ahead of the rest of the field when it came to RBIs as he had 94 compared to Hsieh Jia-hsian of the Makoto Cobras who finished with 67. Cheng Jau-hau had 31 stolen bases.

Two youngsters stole the show in terms of pitching. Rookie Lin Ying-jie led the league with a 1.73 ERA and 203 strikeouts in 187 innings. Yang Chien-fu was second with a 1.77 ERA. Lee Ming-chin had a breakout sophomore year as he finished with a 1.87 earned run average. Pan Wei-luen and Kleber Ojima rounded out the top five with marks of 2.14 and 2.19 respectively. American veteran Jonathan Hurst led the CPBL with 17 victories. Michael Garcia had 33 saves and a 0.71 ERA as a closer.
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Re: CPBL Season Wrapup
[ Author: Guest: Billy Russell | Posted: Nov 5, 2004 2:19 PM ]

Wow, it looks like Yang Chien-fu and Lin Ying-jie had quite a year. Are they candidates to sign in Japan? Lin might be more attractive since he does have more power and there aren't many power pitchers in Japan.
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Re: CPBL Season Wrapup
[ Author: Guest: Tony | Posted: Nov 7, 2004 7:14 AM ]

I think Yang has more power as he throws harder and more consistent than Lin.
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