Chin-Lung Hu
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
|
|---|---|
| Los Angeles Dodgers — No. 14 | |
| Infielder | |
| Born: February 2, 1984 | |
| Bats: Right | Throws: Right |
| Major League Baseball debut | |
| September 1, 2007 for the Los Angeles Dodgers | |
| Selected MLB statistics (through May 21, 2008) |
|
| Batting average | .202 |
| Home runs | 2 |
| Runs batted in | 11 |
| Teams | |
|
|
Chin-Lung Hu (Traditional Chinese: 胡金龍, pinyin: hú jīn lóng) (born February 2, 1984 in Tainan City, Taiwan) is a Major League Baseball shortstop for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Hu is the fifth MLB player and the first MLB infielder from Taiwan. He has the shortest last name for a player in Major League history.
Hu was signed by the Dodgers on January 31, 2003, and began his professional career with the rookie league Ogden Raptors in 2003. He split 2004 between the Columbus Catfish in A ball and the Vero Beach Dodgers in high-A ball. In 2005, he played the whole season at Vero Beach and hit .313 with 23 stolen bases.
In 2006, he played for Taiwan in the 2006 World Baseball Classic and then returned to play for the Double-A Jacksonville Suns. Hu played in the All-Star Futures Game during the All-Star break in both 2006 & 2007. He won the MVP award for his performance in the 2007 game. [1]
He was promoted to Triple-A Las Vegas on July 12, 2007. Hu made his major league debut on September 1, 2007, against the San Diego Padres. In his second MLB at bat, Hu hit a left-field solo home run on September 11, 2007, against the Padres, becoming the first position player born in Taiwan to hit a home run in MLB. (Hu's teammate, pitcher Hong-Chih Kuo, had become the first Taiwanese-born player to hit a home run in MLB earlier in 2007). On September 25, Hu hit a two-run homer and became the first Taiwanese-born player to hit two home runs.
[edit] References
- ^ Singer, Tom "Dodgers prospect named Futures MVP", MLB.com, 07/08/2007
[edit] External links
- Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube
|
||||||||
 This biographical article relating to a baseball shortstop is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
