Phillies to Sign OF CJ Lee.......

According to Taiwanese news outlets, the Philadelphia Phillies will be signing Leader University OF Chia-Jung (Rong) Lee. Lee, the #4 hitter for Leader U. will receive a comprehensive signing bonus (including tuition) of ~ $100 K. He would become the second Taiwanese player to sign with the Phils (Yen-Feng Lin was the first and is no longer with the organization).

The 21 year old does have some power; he led the Association Cup (back in November) in HR's. Here's a vid of him taking one out of the park (grand slam) in that tourney:

Vitals:

DOB: 11/3/88

H: 5'11"

W: 174

B:R/T:R

Wears # 99

*Leader U. lost today to TaiPower 3-1 in the College Cup. Performing well for TaiPower were former HS stars P Yi-Shan Deng (or Teng/8 IP, 1 R, 3 H) and SS Po-Ting Hsiao (had a few hits on the night).

*Former junior NT and Ku-Pao star RHP Keng-Hao Chang has decided that he will make himself available for the upcoming CPBL draft. He would be one of the top picks alongside En-Yu Lin.

*The Taiwanese government is planning to spend $62 million USD to "revive" the game. Related to this news is the fact that the CPBL will establish a free agency system (FA after 9 years of service in the league) and a player minimum salary (70 K NT/month) in 2010. That amount isn't too shabby when you consider the fact that the average monthly salary of a Taiwanese worker is 36.5 K NT/month.

*Update on MLB interest in Dragons lefty Wei-Yin Chen

HIGHS: 3-Peat for the Lions........ & LOWS: Another CPBL Scandal

CPBL:
Taiwan Series:

10/22 Thurs/Game 5: Elephants 5 - Lions 4 (10): game MVP: Kuan-Jen Chen 1-5, GWRBI in the 10th

10/24 Sat/Game 6: Elephants 5 - Lions 4 (17): game MVP: Chia-Rui Mai 5 IP, 0 R, 2 H, 4 K's, 3 BB's

10/25 Sun/Game 7: Lions 5 - Elephants 2: game MVP: Kuo-Ching Kao 1-4, 3 RBI

*The Lions have now won back to back to back championships - unfortunately for the team there is no Konami Cup to prove where it belongs on the Asian stage.

Scandals now becoming the norm rather than the exception in the CPBL:

There are new allegations regarding games being fixed in the CPBL. Allegations involve several big names in the CPBL, including former MLB player Chin-Hui Tsao, ex-Seibu Lion Chih-Chia Chang, Bulls slugger Chia-Hsien Hsieh, and former Red Sox farmhand and Bears reliever Kevin Huang. Several former and current players from 3 clubs (all but the Lions) are under suspicion for their involvement in the scandal.

Read more here and here.

Will they ever learn from past mistakes??!!

NPB:
CLCS - Stage 2:

10/22 Thurs/Game 2: Giants 6 - Dragons 4: WY Chen L 3.1 IP, 5 R, 9 H, 3 K's, 1 BB

(Dragons eliminated 3-1. The team will look to resign Chen to a 1 year deal.)

Other:

*CJ Lo garnered POW honors in the AFL.

*The Yomiuri Giants are hosting 6 Taiwanese university players who will be practicing with the nigun team at the EOM. Of those 6, the two most well known players are RHP's Keng-Hao Chang and Chih-Lung Huang (the Giants have followed Huang's career pretty closely).

The Baystars will be hosting former HS stars Kuan-Yu Chen and Wen-Hao Cheng also later this month.*Updated

Nan-Ying Vids (2009 Action)......

RHP Keng-Hao Chang:


IF Ping-Chieh Chen AB:

Nan-Ying Celebration (2009 Yu-Shan Cup):

Nan-Ying (Tainan City) Wins Yet Again......

CPBL:
Lions 5 - Bears 2:

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Bears	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	6	0
Lions	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	5	9	1

Attendance: 3,569

WP - Mickey Callaway (5-3, 6 IP, 2 R, 5 H, 4 K's, 1 BB)
LP - Mike Johnson (1-1, 5 IP, 4 R - 3 ER, 7 H, 5 K's, 3 BB's)

Offense:
Lions:
SS Tung-Yi Yang 1-5, SB, RBI
LF Tai-Chi Kuo 2-3, 2B, 2 BB's, 2 RBI - game MVP
1B KC Kao 1-4, RBI
DH Lien-Hung Chen 0-4
CF Feng-Pin Hsu 2-4, SB, RBI

Bears:
2B Chih-Sheng Lin 1-4, 2B
DH CFC 1-4, HR (15), RBI

CFC's 15th HR

Bulls 4 - Elephants 1:

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Bulls	1	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	4	9	0
Elephants	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	5	1

Attendance: 4,154

WP - Shoda Itsuki (6-2, 7.2 IP, 1 R, 3 H, 5 K's, 3 BB's) - game MVP
LP - Yu-Cheng Liao (5-2, 5.1 IP, 4 R - 3 ER, 8 H, 0 K's, 3 BB's)

Offense:
Bulls:
LF Da-Hung Cheng 2-4
1B Yi-Chuan Lin 1-3
DH Tarzan 0-3, RBI
3B Wilton Veras 3-4, 2 2B's
C Chun-Chang Yeh 1-4, 2 RBI

Elephants:
2B Chiang-Ho Chen 1-4, RBI

Vid Game Highlights

Yu-Shan Cup:
Nan-Ying laid its claim to the most dominant HS baseball program on the island as it won yet another major HS baseball tourney title (last Yu-Shan Cup title was 6 years ago - won the Taiwan Cup in March, HS Wood Bat Tourney in December). Nan-Ying (Tainan City) defeated Kaohsiung City (San-Hsin/San Min HS) 7-0 in the championship game. Tourney MVP Keng-Hao Chang (clocked at a high of 91 mph) not only extended his scoreless streak to 58 innings, but he also defeated the tourney's other outstanding staff ace - Yao-Lin Wang (San-Hsin HS).

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Tainan City	2	1	1	0	0	3	0			7	8	0
Kaohsiung City	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			0	3	2

WP - Keng-Hao Chang
LP - Yao-Lin Wang


Taoyuan Couny earned third in the tourney with a 2-1 win over Taitung County.

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Taitung County	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	5	1
Taoyuan County	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	X	2	10	1

WP - Ming-Chieh Lu
LP - Kao-Chen Chu
S - Shuo-Feng Tseng

*Other Tourney Finishers:
5)Kaohsiung County
6)Yilan County
7)Taichung City
8)Taipei City

*Tourney Awards:
Top BA: Fu-Lin Kuo (Tainan City) .485
Most RBI: Fu-Lin Kuo (Tainan City) 16
Top Pitcher: Keng-Hao Chang (Tainan City) 2 Wins / 0.00 ERA
Most HR: Tai-Yan Kuo (Taoyuan County) 1
MVP: Keng-Hao Chang

Yu-Shan Cup All-Stars:
1)P - Tien-Ting Lee (Tainan City)
2)C - Shao-Ming Ke (Ko) (Taoyuan County)
3)1B - Pei-Hua Hu (Taitung County)
4)2B - Ping-Chieh Chen (Tainan City)
5)3B - Fu-Lin Kuo (Tainan City)
6)SS - Han-Hsin Lin (Kaohsiung City)
7)OF - Keng-Hao Chang (Tainan City)
8)OF - Chih-Tang Pan (Taoyuan County)
9)OF - Wei-Kang Sung (Kaohsiung City)
10)DH - Kuo-Lin Lo (Kaohsiung County)




MILB:
A - YW Kuo 1-4, RBI

A+ - CH Chiang 0-3, BB / CH Lin 0-4

A+ - KH Lo 2-4, 2B, 2 RBI, OF Assist

AAA - CL Hu 3-5, SB (7), 2 RBI



MLB:
CMW Article
Next Start: Wed vs. Tim Wakefield & the Red Sox


NPB:
Tigers 4 - Hawks 3: WC Lin 1-1
*Updated

Kaohsiung City (San-Hsin/San-Min HS) to Face Tainan City (Nan-Ying HS)....

CPBL:
Elephants 2 - Bulls 0:

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Bulls	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0
Elephants	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	7	0

Attendance: 6,069

WP - Chin-Hui Tsao (3-4, 7.1 IP, 0 R, 5 H, 3 K's/BB's) - game MVP
LP - Alfredo Gonzalez (0-1, 1 IP, 1 R, 1 H, 0 K's/BB's)

Offense:
Elephants:
3B Hung-Sen Chu 1-3, SB, RBI
CF Cheng-Wei Huang 2-3, SB

Bulls:
RF Chien-Ming Chang 2-4
1B Yi-Chuan Lin 1-4
DH Tarzan 0-3

Game Vid Recap

Lions 5 - Bears 3:

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Bears	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	3	5	0
Lions	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	5	11	1

Attendance: 3,264

WP - Wei-Ming Chu (5-3, 5.1 IP, 2 R - 1 ER, 4 H, 4 K's, 5 BB's)
LP - Si-Yo Wu (3-4, 7 IP, 4 R, 8 H, 4 K's, 3 BB's)

Offense:
Lions:
3B Jose Castillo 2-4, HR (6), RBI
1B KC Kao 1-4
DH Lien-Hung Chen 3-3, RBI
CF Ching-He Chuang 2-3
2B Tzu-Sung Wang 1-3, HR (1), 3 RBI - game MVP

Bears:
CF Long-Yi Huang 0-2, RBI
2B Chih-Sheng Lin 0-3
DH CFC 2-4, HR (14), RBI

CFC's 14th Bomb

Yu-Shan Cup Semifinals:
1)Kaohsiung City 4 - Taitung County 1

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Taitung County	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	6	2
Kaohsiung City	2	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	X	4	9	0

WP - Yao-Te Tsai
LP - Hsiang-Ying Wang
S - Chia-Ming Huang

2)Tainan City 7 - Taoyuan County 0 (8)

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Taoyuan County	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	4	4
Tainan City	0	0	1	0	0	3	0	3		7	6	0

WP - Tien-Ting Lee
LP - Shih-Ying Peng


***Possible starters in tomorrow's championship game include staff aces Yao-Lin Wang (KC) and Keng-Hao Chang (TC).

YL Wang (L)/KH Chang (R)

Taoyuan County and Taitung County will square off for third place.





MILB:
Yen-Wen Kuo Brief

AAA - CL Hu 1-3 (5th)

AA - HW Chen W 3-5, 5 IP, 3 R, 9 H, 4 K's, 0 BB's, 1 HR allowed

AA - CJ Lo 1 IP, 0 R, 1 H, 1 K, 1 BB

A+ - CH Cheng ND, 5 IP, 0 R, 1 H, 2 K's/BB's

A+ - CH Lin 1-2, 2 BB's, RBI / CH Chiang 1-4

A - YW Kuo 0-3
*UPDATED