On the heels of its now infamous losses to China in the Beijing Olympics and WBC, Taiwan’s international rep took another one on the chin this week when it learned it likely will no longer be invited to participate in the Asia Series. Despite putting up competitive teams, The CPBL winners’ presence in the [...]

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Big news in the world of international baseball and thereby international baseball scouting — QSL Sports Limited, led by Chinese-born financier Kenny Huang Jian Hua, who’s heading a group attempting to buy 15% of the Cleveland Cavaliers, announced that it has formed a binding partnership with the Chinese Baseball Association (CBA) to develop a Chinese [...]

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“But in all that what truth will there be… he’ll know nothing…the air is full of cries”
-Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
While the WBC moves forward, in Taiwan the aftermath of the national team’s dismal WBC showing has given rise to an unintentionally hilarious media war of finger-pointing, accusations, and tragically off-base quotes from various baseball [...]

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I’ve been feeling vaguely queasy all day due to Taiwan’s 4-1 loss to China. Make no mistake–China’s players and coaches deserve nothing but credit for the way China has played throughout the WBC thus far. They flat out dusted Taiwan in every facet of the game today, and have come a long way in [...]

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Not even six months after being built, China’s Wukesong Baseball Stadium–best known as the site of China’s only olympic baseball victory–is in danger of being torn down. World Baseball Today reports that unless baseball has a plan in place to make the stadium profitable, it’s curtains. Not that it should come as a [...]

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The CBL’s English website has a brief but interesting timeline of the history of baseball in mainland China from 1863 to the present.  Most notably, the cruel twist of fate in the mid 1950’s–where Mao banned baseball, forcing a painful half century of watching that game where they take dives and roll on the ground [...]

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Today was an exciting day for me journalism wise, as I had my first feature editorial run in the Sunday edition of the Taipei Times. It’s a piece calling for the creation of a pan-Asian professional baseball league that would include teams from Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China.
For regular readers of the site, hearing [...]

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Regrettably, the Championship match of the Konami Cup appeared during our several day shutdown, but in case you missed it, the Seibu Lions won. 1-0. In the bottom of the 9th. On a lousy call from the 3rd base umpire that put first baseman Ishii Yoshihito on for Seibu, and then a defensive lapse [...]

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Despite one Mr. Shinsano’s edict to go ahead and “put the Wyverns in the finals”, KBO champions SK Wyverns were surpisingly sent home from the Konami Cup Asia Series last night as Uni-President right fielder Liu Fu-Hao belted a pair of three run home runs, handing the Korean champions to 10-4 defeat.
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The SK Wyverns are looking like the team to beat in the Konami Cup, thumping the CBL champion Tianjin Lions 15-0 and improving to 2-0 in the Asia Series.  They are the only undefeated team remaining among the four contestants.
Meanwhile, Saitama Seibu LIons starter Kishi Takayushi–the rookie MVP of the Japan series–looked poised and confounded [...]

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