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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–Loss0–0
Earned run average2.14
Strikeouts17
Teams

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.[1]

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.[2][3] 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.[4]

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[5]  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[6]  Chinese Taipei 21 0 0 6.75 1 0 0 0 0 1.1 3 1 1 1 0 2 -

References

  1. ^ "Fu-Te Ni on WikiBaseball (Chinese)". WikiBaseball (臺灣棒球維基館). 2009-07-04. Retrieved 2009-07-06.
  2. ^ "Tigers place Robertson on 15-day DL". MLB.com. June 28, 2009. Retrieved 2009-06-28. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  3. ^ "Tigers put LHP Nate Robertson on disabled list". USA Today. June 28, 2009. Retrieved 2009-06-28. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  4. ^ "Local pitcher closes on major-league debut". Government Information Office, Republic of China (Taiwan). June 29, 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-05.
  5. ^ "Baseball Men Cumulative Statistics - TPE - Chinese Taipei (Taiwan)". IBAF. 2008-08-20. Retrieved 2009-06-29.
  6. ^ "World Baseball Classic: Box Score - Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) vs. China". MLB Advanced Media. 2009-03-07. Retrieved 2009-07-01.
Awards
Preceded by
Joey Dawley
CPBL Strikeout Champion Award
2008
Succeeded by
incumbent

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