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Sinon Bulls Adds Top Slugger In Chinese Professional Baseball League Special Draft

By admin on Saturday, 3rd January 2009 Sinon Bulls Adds Top Slugger In Chinese Professional Baseball League Special Draft thumbnail

TAIWAN – The Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) recently held its 2008 New Player Draft which also included a Special Draft for players from the disbanded dmedia T-Rex and Chinatrust Whales franchises.

SPECIAL DRAFT

The Sinon Bulls used the top pick to select former dmedia slugger Chia-Hsien Hsieh who finished second in the league this past season with 17 home runs. The Brother Elephants had the second pick and quickly snapped up ex-Chinatrust ace Fu-Te Ni who led the CPBL with 132 strikeouts in 2008.

With the third selection the La New Bears chose Chih-Yao Chan and the President Lions took Wei-Ming Chu with the fourth and final pick of the first round.

FINAL RESULTS
Round 1 – 1.Chia-Hsien Hsieh 2.Fu-Te Ni 3.Chih-Yao Chan 4.Wei-Ming Chu
Round 2 – 1.Ying-Chieh Lin 2.Yu-Chan Liu 3.Hung-(Jen)Ren Huang 4.Han Lin
Round 3 – 1.Yu-Chieh Shen 2.Ssu-Chi Chou 3.Chih-Hao Chang 4.no pick
Round 4 – 1.Yi-Wei Lee 2.Chih-Peng Chen 3.Chao-Hao Tseng 4.no pick
Round 5 – 1.Shih-Yang Deng 2.no pick 3.Hao-(Jan)Ran Huang
Round 6 – 1.Min-Hao Wang 3.Chia-Chun Tang

NEW PLAYER DRAFT

The Bulls were unwilling to take a chance on highly-touted pitcher Chin-Hui Tsao whose past arm troubles led the club to take amateur pitcher Ko-Chien Lin with the top pick. However, the Elephants rolled the dice and grabbed Tsao with the second pick.

Although teams wanted to see Tsao’s medical records before drafting the talented hurler, his agency insisted that they will only show the records after the draft which led Sinon to bypass one of Taiwan’s top pitching prospects.

The Bears chose Po-Hsuan Keng with the third pick while the Lions added Ching-Ming Wang with the final selection in the opening round.

FINAL RESULTS
Round 1 – 1.Ko-Chien Lin 2.Chin-Hui Tsao 3.Po-Hsuan Keng 4.Ching-Ming Wang
Round 2 – 1.Kuo-Min Lin 2.Chih-Hsiang Huang 3.Yi-Cheng Wang 4.Yi-Chen Chen
Round 3 – 1.Hsiao-Pai Lan 2.Pao-Lo Tseng 3.Hong-Yu Lin 4.Chia-YiMai
Round 4 – 1.Tsung-Chun Wu 2.Cheng-Yang Chen 3.Hsin-Hsien He 4.WeiLin
Round 5 – 1.Pai-Cheng Chen 2.Wei-Ming Chu 3.Yen-Feng Chen 4.Kuang-Sheng Chou
Round 6 – 1.Rui-Mu Chen 2.Chi-Shu Huang 3.Hsueh-Ping Ma 4.Chi-Yung Tang
Round 7 – 1.Cheng-Wei Chang 2.Rui-Tsung Chu 3.Shi-Hung Chu 4.Cheng-Tsai Yen
Round 8 – 1.Nan-Te Kuo 2.Fu-Chi Jen 3.Pao-Lo Yen 4.no pick
Round 9 – 1.Chien-Ming Chiang 2.Ken-Wei Lin

(Draft Order: 1-Sinon Bulls 2-Brother Elephants 3-La New Bears 4-President Lions)

Source: Taiwan Baseball

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