Chinatrust Brothers

Chinatrust Brothers
League Chinese Professional Baseball League
Location Taichung
Ballpark Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium
Year founded 1989
League championships 1992, 1993, 1994, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2010
Colors Yellow
Manager Wu Fu-lien (吳復連)
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The Chinatrust Brothers (中信兄弟) are a professional baseball team in Taiwan. It was originally established as an amateur team in 1984 by the Brother Hotel located in Taipei City, and later joined the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) in 1989. Brother Hotel's chairman Hung Teng-sheng (洪騰勝) also acted as CPBL's secretary-general from 1987 to 1991, and is respected as "father of the CPBL". The Brothers are currently owned by Hua Yi, a subdivision of CTBC Holding.

The team, known as the Brother Elephants for much of its history, has always worn yellow uniforms. Its current home is in Taichung, with the home field at the Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium.

History

Brother Elephants uniform

On March 17, 1990 the Brother Elephants played the first historical CPBL game against the Uni-President Lions in the now demolished Taipei Municipal Baseball Stadium with a full house of 14,350 in attendance. Interestingly, the two teams are also the only two remaining original teams of the CPBL.

With its long history from the amateur era plus a successful marketing strategy and management, the Brother Elephants has long been the most popular Taiwanese baseball team, also winning six, CPBL championships, more than any other team. Its current roster includes local batting star Peng Cheng-min, who also participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics. Cola Yeh, a former Brother Elephant's player, later moved to New Zealand and started his own baseball club, the Cola Yeh Baseball team. He coached the New Zealand Little League Baseball team.

Despite having the best season-long record for the 2004 season, the Elephants were unable to participate in the Taiwan Series because they had won neither half season. This resulted in the expansion of the playoffs to three teams beginning in 2005, where the team with the best season-long record among non-champions for the season would gain a wildcard berth, thus preventing a similar occurrence in the future.

In mid-season of 2008, GM Hung Je-he revealed the possibility of sale or disbanding of the organization if the financial deficit continues after the 2009 season.

The 2009 season saw great promise. Brother Elephants were triumphant in winning the second half of the season. Unfortunately, the team was affected deeply by the game fixing scandal which resulted in expulsion of many team players and the coach.

The 2010 season saw Brother Elephants coming third in the first half of the season.

In October 2013, the team's president announced attempts to sell the team.[1] The announcement drew interest from seven potential bidders.[2] The team was sold to Hua Yi, a subdivision of CTBC Holding, by December 2013 for a price of NT$400 million.[3] The team was renamed as the Chinatrust Brothers.[4]

Records

Qualified for Playoffs Taiwan Series Championship Asia Series Championship

Regular Seasons

Season Wins Losses Ties Pct. Place
Brother Elephants
1990 34 (17/17) 49 (25/24) 7 (3/4) .410 (.405/.415) 4 (3/4)
1991 38 (21/17) 49 (23/26) 3 (1/2) .437 (.477/.395) 3 (3/4)
1992 51 (27/24) 35 (17/18) 4 (1/3) .593 (.614/.571) 1 (1/1)
1993 52 (28/24) 36 (16/20) 2 (1/1) .591 (.636/.545) 2 (1/2)
1994 64 (34/30) 24 (11/13) 2 (0/2) .727 (.756/.698) 1 (1/1)
1995 48 (25/23) 51 (25/26) 1 (0/1) .485 (.500/.469) 4 (4/3)
1996 52 (29/23) 43 (19/24) 5 (2/3) .547 (.604/.489) 4 (2/4)
1997 45 (23/22) 44 (20/24) 7 (5/2) .506 (.535/.478) 3 (3/5)
1998 33 69 3 0.324 6
1999 37 53 4 0.411 5
2000 38 (21/17) 48 (21/27) 4 (3/1) .442 (.500/.386) 4 (3/4)
2001 44 (17/27) 39 (23/16) 7 (5/2) .530 (.435/.628) 2 (3/1)
2002 53 (25/28) 33 (17/16) 4 (3/1) .616 (.595/.636) 1 (1/1)
2003 63 (27/36) 31 (20/11) 6 (3/3) .670 (.574/.766) 1 (3/1)
2004 54 (26/28) 45 (23/22) 3 (1/2) .545 (.531/.560) 3 (3/2)
2005 47 (25/22) 49 (23/26) 4 (2/2) .490 (.521/.458) 4 (3/6)
2006 40 (20/20) 59 (29/30) 1 (1/0) .404 (.408/.400) 6 (5/6)
2007 49 (24/25) 50 (25/25) 1 (1/0) .495 (.490/.500) 3 (4/4)
2008 52 (24/28) 42 (23/19) 4 (3/6) .548 (.511/.587) 3 (3/3)
2009 54 (21/33) 63 (38/25) 3 (1/2) .462 (.356/.569) 4 (4/1)
2010 61 (25/36) 57 (33/24) 2 (2/0) .517 (.431/.600) 2 (2/1)
2011 60 (28/32) 60 (32/28) 0 (0/0) .500 (.467/.533) 3 (3/2)
2012 60 (26/34) 58 (33/25) 2 (1/1) .508 (.441/.576) 3 (3/2)
2013 55 (26/29) 65 (34/31) 0 (0/0) .458 (.433/.483) 4 (4/3)
Total 1184 1152 77 .507 --
Chinatrust Brothers
2014 50 (19/31) 66 (40/26) 4 (1/3) .431 (.322/.544) 4 (4/1)
Total 50 66 4 .431 --

Playoffs

Season First Round Taiwan Series
Opponent Wins Losses Opponent Wins Losses
Brother Elephants
1992 No playoffs. The Elephants won the championship by virtue of winning both half-seasons.
1993 No first round. Uni-President Lions 4 2
1994 No playoffs. The Elephants won the championship by virtue of winning both half-seasons.
2001 No first round. Uni-President Lions 4 3
2002 No first round. Chinatrust Whales 4 0
2003 No first round. Sinon Bulls 4 2
2008 La New Bears 3 0 Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions 3 4
2009 No first round. Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions 3 4
2010 No first round. Sinon Bulls 4 0
Total Combining the first round and Taiwan Series 26 15
Chinatrust Brothers
2014 No first round. Lamigo Monkeys 1 4
2015 No first round. Lamigo Monkeys 3 4
Total Combining the first round and Taiwan Series 4 8

Roster

Current roster

Players Coaches

Pitchers

Catchers

  • 12 Taiwan Lin Yu-hung(林育鴻)
  • 26 Taiwan Huang Chun-sheng(黃鈞聲)
  • 29 Taiwan Chen Chih-hung(陳智弘)
  • 45 Taiwan Wang Chun-chieh(王峻杰)

Infielders

  •  2 Taiwan Chang min-yen(張民諺)
  •  5 United States Jim Negrych(新加入的洋砲耐克)
  •  8 Taiwan Huang Shih-Hao(黃仕豪)
  •  9 Taiwan Yang Zhan-xu(楊展旭)
  • 14 Taiwan Wang Sheng-wei(王勝偉)
  • 22 Taiwan Chen Wei-ju(陳威儒)
  • 23 Taiwan Peng Cheng-min(彭政閔)
  • 31 Taiwan Chen Chiang-ho(陳江和)
  • 32 Taiwan Hsu Jui-tse(徐睿擇)
  • 37 Taiwan Tsai Ming-chueh(蔡明覺)
  • 51 Taiwan Chen Hung-huei(陳弘桂)
  • 52 Taiwan Chu Wei-ming(朱偉銘)
  • 61 Taiwan Su Yuan-yi(蘇袁億)
  • 63 Taiwan Cheng Nai-wen(鄭乃文)

Outfielders

  •  6 Taiwan Chang Cheng-wei(張正偉)
  •  7 Taiwan Chang Chih-hao(張志豪)
  • 16 Taiwan Chou Ssu-chi(周思齊)
  • 30 Taiwan Shih Yen-Wei(石彥緯)
  • 53 Taiwan Jan Fu-zhi(簡富智)
  • 57 Taiwan Chen hao-jan(陳浩然)

Manager

Coaches

  •  3 Taiwan Wang Jin-yong(王金勇) (Defense Coach)
  • 24 Taiwan Lin Chia-wei(林家緯) (Pitch-catch Assist Coach)
  • 36 Australia Brad Thomas(湯瑪仕) (Pithcing Coach and Player)
  • 70 Taiwan Lin Ming-hsien(林明憲) (Defense Coach)
  • 72 Taiwan Hsu Ming-lan(許閔嵐) (Batting Coach)

Reserve Team

  • 75 Taiwan Chen Je-chang(陳瑞昌) (Reserve Manager)
  • 17 Taiwan Chen Je-cheng(陳瑞振) (Coach and Scout)
  • 44 Taiwan Lin Pai-heng(林百亨) (Pitch-catch Coach)

Notable former players

See also

References

  1. ↑ Lin Hung-han and Sofia Wu (2013-10-19). "Brother Elephants up for sale (update 2)". Retrieved 2013-10-20.
  2. ↑ Lin, Hung-han; Jeffrey Wu (2013-10-23). "Funeral services company to bid for pro-baseball team". Central News Agency. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
  3. ↑ Lin, Hung-han; Y.L. Kao (3 December 2013). "CTBC-sponsored company buys Brother Elephants for NT$400 m.". Central News Agency. Retrieved 19 December 2013.
  4. ↑ "Brief History of CPBL". Chinese Professional Baseball League. Archived from the original on 2015-07-04. Retrieved 30 July 2015.

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