Scandal and the spectre of game fixing have once again hit the CPBL, Taiwan’s professional baseball league, resulting in diminishing attendance and the sacking of multiple Chinatrust Whales players.
Tainan city council member Wu Chen-Bao and 17 others were questioned by prosecutors regarding allegations that Wu colluded with Whales players to fix games. Wu is alleged […]

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One of the regular features here at East Windup Chronicle will be to follow the trajectories of some of the more intriguing Asian prospects in baseball.
The first such prospect will be Jung Young-Il, an 19-year-old right-hander from South Korea. Jung caught my eye because he was mentioned in the recent article detailing the extraordinarily high pitch […]

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