Fu-Te Ni
Fu-Te Ni | |
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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 | |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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 |
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2008[5] | ![]() |
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 |
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2009[6] | ![]() |
21 | 0 | 0 | 6.75 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | - |
References
- ^ "Fu-Te Ni on WikiBaseball (Chinese)". WikiBaseball (臺灣棒球維基館). 2009-07-04. Retrieved 2009-07-06.
- ^ "Tigers place Robertson on 15-day DL". MLB.com. June 28, 2009. Retrieved 2009-06-28.
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(help) - ^ "Local pitcher closes on major-league debut". Government Information Office, Republic of China (Taiwan). June 29, 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-05.
- ^ "Baseball Men Cumulative Statistics - TPE - Chinese Taipei (Taiwan)". IBAF. 2008-08-20. Retrieved 2009-06-29.
- ^ "World Baseball Classic: Box Score - Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) vs. China". MLB Advanced Media. 2009-03-07. Retrieved 2009-07-01.
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 | ||
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Preceded by Joey Dawley
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CPBL Strikeout Champion Award 2008 |
Succeeded by incumbent
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- 2009 World Baseball Classic players of Taiwan
- Baseball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Chinatrust Whales players
- Detroit Tigers players
- Major League Baseball pitchers
- Major League Baseball players from Taiwan
- Taiwanese baseball players
- Toledo Mud Hens players
- Taiwanese expatriates in the United States
- Living people
- Deaths