2007 HS WBT 2nd Round Action....

SCOREBOARD:
Nan-Ying 6 - Ku-Pao 5
San-Hsin 8 - Taoyuan 0
San-Min 3 - Taitung PE 2
Hualien PE 2 - Shi-Yuan 0
Gao-Nong 3 - Tainan Marine Vocational 0
Qiang-Shu 7 - Yi-Feng 0
Cheng-Kung 9 - Kao-Yuan 0

Despite losing the game, Taitung PE HS Sr. RHP Chien-Chih Fang was clocked consistently over 87 mph and topped out at 92 mph. The last star player to come out of Taitung PE HS was Chia-An Huang. Here's a flashback to 2004 when Huang's star was still bright - he's facing San-Min HS.

The Class of 2003 - The Pitchers

Wei-Yin Chen

Chi-Hung Cheng

Ching-Lung Lo

Chia-An Huang

Well, the current crop of junior pitching talent in Taiwan has been a big disappointment to me. However, it wasn't too long ago that several prominent pitchers from the high school class of 2003 ascended into the spotlight.

Semi-quoting an R. Kelly song, " '85 was a very good year, if you know what i mean my dear......"
1985 was the birth year for these 5 young pitchers:

1)Chien-Ming Chiang (Yomiuri Giants) 5/27/85

2)Chi-Hung Cheng (Toronto Blue Jays) 6/20/85

3)Wei-Yin Chen (Chunichi Dragons) 7/21/85

4)Ching-Lung Lo (Colorado Rockies) 8/20/85

5)Chia-An Huang (Seattle Mariners) 11/11/85

The development of premium young arms is vital to Taiwan's continued success on the international baseball stage.