| Sinon Bulls | |||||
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| League | Chinese Professional Baseball League | ||||
| Location | Taichung | ||||
| Ballpark | Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium | ||||
| Year Founded | 1996 | ||||
| League championships | 2004, 2005 | ||||
| Colors | Green and white | ||||
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The Sinon Bulls (興農牛), formerly Jungo Bears and Sinon Bears, are one of the four teams in the Chinese Professional Baseball League in Taiwan. The team is owned by Sinon Corporation and plays most of its home games in Taichung. Those home games are played at Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium.
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The Jungo Bears (俊國熊) existed in CPBL between 1993 and 1995. Originally formed as an amateur club by the Taichung-based Jungo Corporation in 1989, this club was professionalized in 1992 after absorbing a group of players from the Chinese Taipei national baseball team who just won the silver medal in the 1992 Summer Olympics, similar to its sister team China Times Eagles. This club took Taichung Baseball Field as its home throughout its history.
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Despite a nice start, this club had been performing poorly throughout its short history, mainly due to the controversial leading styles of Jungo Corporation's then chairman Chen I-ping (陳一平). After a chain of rows over TV broadcast rights and the distribution of TV broadcast royalties, in November 1995 the other 5 teams of CPBL expelled Chen I-ping and Jungo Corporation's all legal rights inside CPBL. The Sinon Corporation took over this team and renamed it as Sinon Bears, which was later renamed again as Sinon Bulls in June 1996. Later in 1999 Chen I-ping and Jungo Corporation sought to sponsor Taiwan Major League (TML)'s Taichung Agan but TML did not respond.
The Sinon Bulls were founded in 1996 and are owned by the Taichung-based Sinon Corporation, which is known for its agricultural product lines, insurance, and supermarket chains through Central Taiwan. After a poor first season, the Bulls managed a winning record for the first time in second half of the 1997 season, and achieved the feat for a full season for the first time in 1998. It was in that season that the Bulls made it to the championship series for the first time, losing to the now defunct Wei Chuan Dragons four games to three. Sinon would advance to the finals in 2000 and 2003 as well, losing both times.
It was in 2004 that the Bulls finally made their breakthrough with a thrilling come-from-behind seven game series win that had the city of Taichung in jubilation. The Bulls made it back-to-back Taiwan Series wins with a sweep of the Macoto Cobras the following year, their third consecutive trip to the championship series. The Bulls have now made the playoffs four years in a row (2003–2006), a Chinese Professional Baseball League record they share with the Wei Chuan Dragons, who also appeared in four consecutive playoff rounds from 1996-1999.
The Bulls also participated in the first annual Konami Cup Asia Series in Japan following its Taiwan Series victory in 2005. While defeating a team of all-stars from the Chinese league, they lost to the champions of Japan and South Korea en route to a 1-2 showing.
| Qualified for Playoffs | Taiwan Series Championship | Asia Series Championship |
| Season | Wins | Losses | Ties | Pct. | Place |
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| 1993 | 40 (21/19) | 47 (24/23) | 3 (0/3) | .460 (.467/.452) | 4 (4/4) |
| 1994 | 29 (14/15) | 59 (31/28) | 2 (0/2) | .330 (.311/.349) | 6 (6/6) |
| 1995 | 40 (19/21) | 58 (30/28) | 2 (1/1) | .408 (.388/.429) | 6 (6/6) |
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| 1996 | 28 (14/14) | 69 (36/33) | 3 (0/3) | .289 (.280/.298) | 6 (6/6) |
| 1997 | 45 (20/25) | 48 (26/22) | 3 (2/1) | .484 (.435/.532) | 3 (5/3) |
| 1998 | 58 | 45 | 2 | 0.563 | 1 |
| 1999 | 30 | 61 | 2 | 0.330 | 6 |
| 2000 | 51 (27/24) | 38 (17/21) | 1 (1/0) | .573 (.614/.533) | 1 (1/2) |
| 2001 | 34 (17/17) | 51(25/26) | 5 (3/2) | .400 (.405/395) | 4 (4/4) |
| 2002 | 44 (21/23) | 45 (23/22) | 1 (1/0) | .494 (.477/.511) | 3 (3/3) |
| 2003 | 62 (34/28) | 32 (15/17) | 6 (1/5) | .660 (.695/.622) | 2 (1/3) |
| 2004 | 52 (25/27) | 43 (22/21) | 5 (3/2) | .547 (.532/.563) | 2 (2/1) |
| 2005 | 53 (28/25) | 42 (21/21) | 6 (2/4) | .558 (.571/.543) | 1 (2/1) |
| 2006 | 48 (25/23) | 49 (23/26) | 3 (2/1) | .495 (.521/.469) | 3 (3/3) |
| 2007 | 42 (24/18) | 57 (25/32) | 1 (1/0) | .424 (.490/390) | 6 (4/6) |
| 2008 | 37 (19/18) | 61 (30/31) | 1 (1/0) | .378 (.388/.367) | 6 (6/5) |
| 2009 | 57 (29/28) | 60 (29/31) | 3 (2/1) | .487 (.500/.475) | 3 (3/3) |
| 2010 | 65 (36/29) | 53 (23/30) | 2 (1/1) | .551 (.610/.492) | 1 (1/3) |
| 2011 | 45 (20/25) | 72 (38/34) | 3 (2/1) | .385 (.345/.424) | 4 (4/4) |
| Total | 860 | 991 | 53 | .465 | -- |
| Season | First Round | Taiwan Series | ||||
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| Opponent | Wins | Losses | Opponent | Wins | Losses | |
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| 1998 | Seeded first | Wei Chuan Dragons | 3 | 4 | ||
| 2000 | No first round | Uni-President Lions | 3 | 4 | ||
| 2003 | No first round | Brother Elephants | 2 | 4 | ||
| 2004 | No first round | Uni-President Lions | 4 | 3 | ||
| 2005 | Seeded first | Macoto Cobras | 4 | 0 | ||
| 2006 | Uni-President Lions | 0 | 3 | Eliminated | ||
| 2010 | No first round | Brother Elephants | 0 | 4 | ||
| Total | Combining the first round and Taiwan Series | 16 | 22 | |||
| Year | Round Robin | Chaniponship Round | |||
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| Wins | Losses | Standing | Opponent | Result | |
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| 2005 | 1 | 2 | 3 | Eliminated | |
| Total | 1 | 2 | -- | -- | |
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