Fu-Te Ni

Fu-Te Ni
Detroit Tigers – No. 59
Relief pitcher
Bats: Left Throws: Left
debut
June 29, 2009, for the Detroit Tigers
Career statistics (through August 16, 2009)
Win–Loss	0–0
Earned run average	2.14
Strikeouts	17
Teams
Chinatrust Whales (2007–2008) (CPBL) Detroit Tigers (2009–present)

Fu-Te Ni (Chinese: 倪福德; pinyin: Ní Fúdé; Wade–Giles: Ni Fu-te; born November 14, 1982 in Pingtung County, Taiwan) is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher for the Detroit Tigers. Before joining the Tigers, Ni was a professional baseball player from Taiwan's Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL). After his franchise, the Chinatrust Whales, disbanded in November 11, 2008, Ni signed a minor league contract with the Toledo Mud Hens, the Triple-A affiliate of the Tigers in 2009.

Ni was called up in June 2009, becoming the sixth Taiwanese player to enter Major League Baseball. He is also the first player to transition from the CPBL to MLB. Ni made his major league debut on 29 June 2009 in relief of Rick Porcello against the Oakland Athletics. The first major league batter he faced was slugger Jason Giambi, and Ni struck him out.

CPBL fans used to call Ni Tu Di Gong, or Fu Teh Cheng Shen, because his given name is the same as the formal name for the Chinese God of the Land. Some called him Need Food because the pronunciation is similar to his name in Mandarin.

Taiwanese career

Ni was drafted by the CPBL team Chinatrust Whales in 2005.

Year	Team	No.	W	L	ERA	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	AVG
2007	Chinatrust Whales	36	7	12†	3.53	44	14	1	1	4	122.1	111	56	48	15	36	125	-
2008	Chinatrust Whales		5	12	3.34	25	21	3	0	0	145.1	170	71	54	9	32	132†	-
Total	2 years		12	24	3.43	69	35	4	1	4	267.2	281	127	102	24	68	257	-

† indicates the league's best or most

Detroit Tigers career

2009 season

Ni was called up on 28 June 2009 to replace the injured Nate Robertson. After Chin-Feng Chen, Chin-hui Tsao, Chien-Ming Wang, Hong-Chih Kuo and Chin-lung Hu, Ni is the sixth Taiwanese player to enter Major League Baseball, and the fourth pitcher.

Year	Team	Lg	No.	W	L	ERA	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	AVG
2009	TOL	INT	18	3	0	2.60	24	0	0	0	0	34.2	31	10	10	4	9	32	.240
2009	DET	AL	59	0	0	2.37	18	0	0	0	0	19.0	14	5	5	3	5	16	.212

Stats through July 11, 2009.

International career

Baseball at the Summer Olympics

Year	Team	No.	W	L	ERA	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	AVG
2008	Chinese Taipei	36	1	2	4.09	4	0	0	0	0	11.0	10	5	5	0	4	11	-

World Baseball Classic

Year	Team	No.	W	L	ERA	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	AVG
2009	Chinese Taipei	21	0	0	6.75	1	0	0	0	0	1.1	3	1	1	1	0	2	-

External links

• Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball Reference, or Fangraphs, or Baseball Reference (Minors)
• Fu-Te Ni's 2009 AAA Statistics on MiLB.com.
• Frank's Field of Dreams: Far East Heroes > Fu-Te Ni
• Fu-Te Ni's online Album.

Awards
Preceded by Joey Dawley	CPBL Strikeout Champion Award 2008	Succeeded by incumbent

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