Dai-Kang Yang
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| Dai-Kang Yang | |
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 Yang with the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters in 2013 | |
| Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters – No. 1 | |
| Outfielder | |
| Born: January 17, 1987 | |
Bats: Right Throws: Right | |
| debut | |
| 2007, for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters | |
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Dai-Kang Yang (Chinese: 陽岱鋼; pinyin: Yáng Dàigāng;born January 17, 1987; previously known as Yang Chung-shou or Chung-Shou Yang 陽仲壽) is a Taiwanese professional baseball player.
Yang played for the Chinese Taipei national baseball team in the 2006 World Baseball Classic. He went 0 for 3 with two strikeouts as the backup SS to Chin-Lung Hu. In the 2006 Intercontinental Cup, Yang batted .267/.371/.567 and scored 9 runs, tying Michel Enriquez and Yulieski Gourriel for the tournament lead.
The Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters of Nippon Professional Baseball selected Yang in the first round of the 2006 NPB Draft. Yang was called up to the Fighters from ni-gun on April 19, 2007, when Andy Green was injured.
Yang was 1 for 1 for Taiwan in the 2007 Asian Championship, backing up Tai-Shan Chang at third base.
Yang is the brother of Yao-Hsun Yang, a cousin of Chih-Yuan Chen and a nephew of Tai-Shan Chang. He is also related more distantly to Chien-Fu Yang, Cheng-Wei Chang and Sen Yang.
Yang batted 4-for-12 with a home run and four RBI in the first round of the 2013 World Baseball Classic. Yang was the Most Valuable Player of Pool B.[1]
Yang is a two-time Nippon Professional Baseball All-Star Series Game MVP, winning the honour in Game 3 of 2012 and Game 2 of 2014.
Yang has won the Nippon Professional Baseball Gold Glove Award twice in 2012 and 2013.
2013 was the best season of Yang's career, where he batted 0.282 along with 18 homeruns, 67 RBIs, and a league-leading 47 stolen bases.
References
- ^ Coskrey, Jason (March 7, 2013). "Second round set in Tokyo with four talented clubs". Worldbaseballclassic.com.
External links
- Career statistics from MLB, or Baseball Reference (Minors)
- Dai-Kang Yang at NPB Official Website
- Facebook：陽岱鋼
- Facebook：陽岱鋼後援會
- 1987 births
- Living people
- Amis people
- Taiwanese baseball players
- Nippon Professional Baseball outfielders
- Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters players
- Taiwanese expatriate baseball players in Japan
- 2006 World Baseball Classic players
- 2013 World Baseball Classic players
- Asian Games medalists in baseball
- Baseball players at the 2006 Asian Games
- 2015 WBSC Premier 12 players