Chen Wei-Yin

Chen Wei-Yin
Chunichi Dragons — No. 21
Pitcher
Born: July 21, 1985 (1985-07-21) (age 26)
Kaohsiung County (now part of Kaohsiung City), Taiwan
Bats: Left Throws: Left
Professional debut
NPB: April 3, 2005 for the Chunichi Dragons
NPB statistics
(through Nov 5, 2011)
Win-loss record     36-30
ERA     2.59
Strikeouts     520
Teams
Career highlights and awards
  • 2009 Central League ERA title
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Chen.

Chen Wei-Yin (陳偉殷) born July 21, 1985 in Kaohsiung County (now part of Kaohsiung City), Taiwan is a professional pitcher for the Chunichi Dragons in Central League of the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

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Career

Chen played for the Chinese Taipei national baseball team in 2004 and 2008 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 at the end of 2006 season.

Scouting report

Chen is a 182 cm (6 ft 0 in), 80 kg (180 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

year team GP GS CG SHO W L SV hold W% TBF IP H HR BB IBB HB SO WP BK R ER ERA K/9 WHIP 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

External links

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

Chunichi Dragons current roster
First squad

00 Akihiro Maeda | 2 Masahiro Araki | 5 Kazuhiro Wada | 6 Hirokazu Ibata | 8 Ryosuke Hirata | 9 Kei Nomoto | 13 Hitoki Iwase | 19 Kazuki Yoshimi | 20 Kenichi Nakata | 21 Wei-Yin Chen | 23 Yoshihiro Suzuki | 24 Hidenori Kuramoto | 27 Motonobu Tanishige | 30 Masahiko Morino | 34 Masahiro Yamamoto | 41 Takuya Asao | 42 Tony Blanco | 43 Takashi Ogasawara | 44 Masaaki Koike | 46 Tatsuro Iwasaki | 60 Junichi Kawahara | 65 Kenji Oyama | 67 Akifumi Takahashi | 69 Masato Kobayashi
Second squad

0 Hiroki Kongoh | 1 Naomichi Donoue | 4 Atsushi Fujii | 7 Dionys Cesar | 11 Toshiya Okada | 12 Akinobu Shimizu | 14 Kenta Asakura | 16 Ryuya Ogawa | 17 Susumu Kawai | 18 Junki Ito | 22 Daisuke Tanaka | 25 Ryota Arai | 26 Sohma Yamauchi | 28 Shinji Iwata | 29 Daisuke Yamai | 31 Hiroki Nakagawa | 32 Yohei Oshima | 33 Masafumi Hirai | 35 Shohei Takashima | 36 Tetsuya Tani | 37 Kyohei Iwasaki | 38 Shinsuke Saitoh | 39 Koji Mise | 40 Akira Nishikawa | 45 Edward Valdez | 47 Masato Matsui | 48 Michihisa Sawai | 49 Maximo Nelson | 50 Ryoji Nakata | 51 Issei Nakamura | 52 Kohei Oda |  | 53 Shigeo Yanagida | 54 Kazuyuki Akasaka | 55 Nobumasa Fukuda | 56 Yusuke Matsui | 57 Toshikazu Yoshida | 59 Kento Yachi | 61 Yuichi Hisamoto | 62 Shingo Ito | 63 Takehiro Donoue | 64 Ryosuke Oguma | 68 Shoji Nagamine | 70 Mitsuru Satoh | 201 Satoshi Kato | 202 Ryuichiro Akada | 211 Takaya Kobayashi | 213 Joaquin Santamaria | 214 Candido Jesus
Coaching Staff

Manager 66 Hiromitsu Ochiai | Second squad Manager 85 Hatsuhiko Tsuji