Chin-Feng Chen

Chin-Feng Chen
La New Bears — No. 52
Outfielder
Born: October 28, 1977 (1977-10-28) Tainan City, Taiwan
Bats: Right	Throws: Right
Professional debut
MLB: September 14, 2002 for the Los Angeles Dodgers
CPBL: March 21, 2006 for the La New Bears
statistics (through 2010, Aug 28)
CPBL Games	426
Batting average	.330
Hits	509
Home runs	95
Runs batted in	341
Stolen bases	50
Teams
Los Angeles Dodgers (MLB) (2002-2005) La New Bears (CPBL) (2006-present)

Medal record
Competitor for Chinese Taipei
Men’s Baseball
Baseball World Cup
Bronze	2001 Taipei	Team
Asian Games
Gold	2006 Doha	Team
Asian Baseball Championship
Bronze	1999 Seoul	Team
Silver	2003 Sapporo	Team
Bronze	2007 Taichung	Team

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Chen.

Chin-Feng Chen (simplified Chinese: 陈金锋; traditional Chinese: 陳金鋒; pinyin: Chén Jīnfēng; Wade–Giles: Ch'en2 Chin1-Feng1; born October 28, 1977) is a baseball outfielder who was the first player born in Taiwan to play in Major League Baseball.

He played for the Los Angeles Dodgers during 2002-2005 season, but only sparingly. In 2005, Chen was reluctant to accept the designate for assignment back to Dodgers' Las Vegas 51s AAA team, and try out with another major league team. In 2006, after struggling to make the 25-man roster with the Dodgers, Chen tried out for the Japanese professional league (NPB) and eventually decided to play in the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) in Taiwan.

Chen is the first Taiwanese baseball player to play in Major League baseball when he made his debut on September 14, 2002. In 2005, Chen was the first Taiwanese position player to ever get a hit in Major League Baseball. However, Chin-hui Tsao became the first Taiwanese player to get a hit in the Majors with the Colorado Rockies on August 18, 2003. After his contract with the Dodgers organization expired after the 2005 season, Chen announced on December 26, 2005, that he would not return to North America for the 2006 season, but would instead enter the CPBL draft. He was promptly selected by the La New Bears. Chen had completed his first complete baseball season at the hometown Taiwan in 2006. He ranked first on many aspects such as the highest batting average and 81 RBI for the whole season. He also led the La New Bears team to the championship title and he also won his first MVP title for the final series matches. Later on in the second Asian baseball tournament, he showed the best performance again and gained lots of attentions from Japanese and Korean baseball Clubs, including the well-known Orix Buffaloes team. But he rejected the contract from this Japanese team and made the decision to stay in Taiwan for at least one more year with his beloved La New Bears teammates.

Chen is a Taiwanese aborigine (Siraya tribal ancestry), as is Chin-hui Tsao (Amis people).[1]

Since Chen's debut, five other Taiwanese baseball players have played in MLB: the Rockies' Tsao (now with the CPBL Brother Elephants), the Washington Nationals' Chien-Ming Wang, the Tigers' Fu-Te Ni, and the Dodgers' Hong-Chih Kuo and Chin-Lung Hu.

Achievements

Chin-Feng Chen hit the first grand slam in Konami Cup history during the 2006 series.

See also

• Chinese Taipei national baseball team
• List of the Taiwan national baseball team squad at the 2006 Asian Games

External links

• Career statistics and player information from ESPN, or Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube