Hsu Ming-chieh
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Early life
Hsu was raised in southern Taiwan and joined his school baseball team in elementary school. At the age of 12, he participated in the 1989 Little League World Series while playing for Kang-Tu Little League. Kang-Tu lost the series to a team from Trumbull, Connecticut.
Professional career
In 1998, Hsu joined Taichung Agan, a baseball club in the now-defunct Taiwan Major League. His outstanding performance with Agan in the 1998 and 1999 seasons has been compared with Daisuke Matsuzaka by the Taiwanese media.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
In 2000, he joined the Seibu Lions of the Pacific League in Japan. In 2012, after 12 seasons with the Lions, he moved to the Orix Buffaloes, where he played 2 seasons.
In 2014, he returned to Taiwan, playing for the Lamigo Monkeys in the Chinese Professional Baseball League.
International experience
Hsu has participated in many International baseball events.
- 1989: Little League World Series
- 1995: Asian Baseball Championship
- 1995: Intercontinental Cup
- 1997: Asian Baseball Championship
- 1998: Bangkok Asian Games
- 1999: Asian Baseball Championship
- 2001: Baseball World Cup
- 2003: Asian Baseball Championship
- 2007: Baseball World Cup
- 2007: Asian Baseball Championship
See also
External links
- Nippon Professional Baseball career statistics from Template:Trim JapaneseBaseball.com
- Player information from Template:Wikidata WikiBaseball Template:In lang
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Template:Chinese Taipei roster 2001 Baseball World Cup
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- 1976 births
- Asian Games bronze medalists in baseball
- Baseball players at the 1998 Asian Games
- Living people
- Nippon Professional Baseball pitchers
- Orix Buffaloes players
- Baseball players from Kaohsiung
- Saitama Seibu Lions players
- Seibu Lions players
- Taiwanese expatriate baseball players in Japan
- Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games
- Asian Games bronze medalists for Chinese Taipei
- Asian Games baseball players for Chinese Taipei
- CTBC Brothers players
- Nippon Professional Baseball coaches
- 2001 Baseball World Cup players