Chen Wei-Yin born July 21, 1985 in Kaohsiung County

Kaohsiung County

Kaohsiung County was a county in southern Taiwan that enclosed but did not include Kaohsiung City. On December 25, 2010, the county merged with Kaohsiung City to form a single special municipality.- Administration :-External links:*...

 (now part of Kaohsiung City), Taiwan

Taiwan

Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

 is a professional pitcher for the Chunichi Dragons

Chunichi Dragons

The are a professional baseball team based in Nagoya, the chief city in the Chubu region of Japan. The team is in the Central League. They won the 2007 Japan Series and 2007 Asia Series.-History:...

 in Central League

Central League

The or is one the two professional baseball leagues that constitute Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan. The winner of the league championship plays against the winner of the Pacific League in the annual Japan Series. It currently consists of six teams from around the country,The Central League...

 of the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

Career

Chen played for the Chinese Taipei national baseball team in 2004

Baseball at the 2004 Summer Olympics

-Preliminary round:The top four teams advanced to the semifinals. To determine the seed ranking of teams tied in the standings, the result of the two teams' game against each other was used. Japan therefore received first place due to the win over Cuba. In the semi-finals, Japan played...

 and 2008

Baseball at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Baseball at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing was held from August 13 to August 23. All games were played at Wukesong Baseball Field, a temporary venue constructed at the Beijing Wukesong Culture & Sports Center...

 Olympic Games. He is one of the most dominant pitchers in NPB. He won the 2009 Central League ERA title with the lowest ERA (1.54) since the 1968 season in NPB. Chen had Tommy John surgery

Tommy John surgery

Tommy John surgery, known in medical practice as ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction, is a surgical procedure in which a ligament in the medial elbow is replaced with a tendon from elsewhere in the body...

 at the end of 2006 season.

Scouting report

Chen is a 182 centimetre, 80 kg (176.4 lb) left-handed pitcher. With a high three-quarters delivery Chen pitches a fastball that usually sits around 90-92 mph (tops out at 96 mph). The best breaking ball of his package is a mid-80s slider. Chen commands his fastball well against batters, but his slider isn't that effective with common quality and control. Chen can be considered as a two-pitch starter in NPB although he also has a forkball in development. Chen lost some fastball velocity during the 2011 season (sitting 87-91 mph) with a leg injury, and it made him not as dominant as before. His hitting and bunt skill are both below average for a pitcher, but he is a capable fielder.

stats

||GS

Starting lineup

A starting lineup in sports is an official list of the set of players who will actively participate in the event when the game begins. The players in the starting lineup are commonly referred to as starters, whereas the others are substitutes or bench players.The starters are commonly the best...

>|CG

Complete game

In baseball, a complete game is the act of a pitcher pitching an entire game without the benefit of a relief pitcher.As demonstrated by the charts below, in the early 20th century, it was common for most good Major League Baseball pitchers to pitch a complete game almost every start. Pitchers were...

>|SHO

Shutout

In team sports, a shutout refers to a game in which one team prevents the opposing team from scoring. While possible in most major sports, they are highly improbable in some sports, such as basketball....

>|||SV

Save (sport)

In baseball, a save is credited to a pitcher who finishes a game for the winning team under certain prescribed circumstances. The number of saves, or percentage of save opportunities successfully converted, is an oft-cited statistic of relief pitchers...

>|hold

Hold (baseball)

A hold is awarded to a relief pitcher who meets the following three conditions:Unlike saves, wins, and losses, more than one pitcher per team can earn a hold for a game, though it is not possible for a pitcher to receive more than one hold in a given game...

>|||||||IBB

Intentional base on balls

In baseball, an intentional base on balls, usually referred to as an intentional walk and denoted in baseball scorekeeping by IBB, is a walk issued to a batter by a pitcher with the intent of removing the batter's opportunity to swing at the pitched ball...

>|||WP

Wild pitch

In baseball, a wild pitch is charged against a pitcher when his pitch is too high, too short, or too wide of home plate for the catcher to control with ordinary effort, thereby allowing a baserunner, perhaps even the batter-runner on strike three or ball four, to advance.A wild pitch usually...

>||||||

WHIP Walks plus hits per inning pitched In baseball statistics, walks plus hits per inning pitched is a sabermetric measurement of the number of baserunners a pitcher has allowed per inning pitched. It is a measure of a pitcher's ability to prevent batters from reaching base...	|League ERA
2005	Chunichi	10	1	0	0	0	0	1	1
92		19.1	29	3	6	0	0	20	2	0	17	13	6.05	9.3	1.81	4.10
2008		39	14	1	1	7	6	0	12	.538	474	114.2	101	7	33	0	5	107	5	0	40	37	2.90	8.4	1.17	3.74
2009		24	23	5	4	8	4	0	0	.667	644	164.0	113	10	40	0	3	146	2	0	32	28	1.54	8.0	0.93	3.55
2010		29	27	3	2	13	10	0	1	.565	773	188.0	166	21	49	2	8	153	5	0	63	60	2.87	7.3	1.14	4.13
2011	25	24	4	1	8	10	0	0	.444	659	164.2	138	9	31	2	5	94	2	0	57	49	2.68	5.1	1.03	3.06
Career		127	89	13	8	36	30	1	14	.545	2642	650.2	547	50	159	4	21	520	16	0	209	187	2.59	7.2	1.09

• Bold indicates league leader; statistics current as of 1 Nov. 2011

External links

http://bis.npb.or.jp/players/21625119.html NPB career stats