外電 Orioles sign Taiwanese left-hander Chen
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Orioles sign Taiwanese left-hander Chen
By Bill Ladson / MLB.com | 01/10/12 9:00 AM EST
The Orioles have signed left-hander Wei-Yin Chen of Taiwan to a three-year
contract with a club option for 2015. The team formally announced the
agreement on Tuesday.
Chen, 26, spent the last four years with the Chunichi Dragons of Japan's
Central League. He went 38-30 with a 2.48 ERA in 117 games, 88 of them
starts. Chen had a 2.68 ERA in 25 appearances last season. He will be the
first Taiwanese-born player in Orioles history.
"Chen works off of a 92-94 mph fastball and he uses a hard, slurve-like
breaking ball as an out pitch," Orioles executive vice president of baseball
operations Dan Duquette said. "He has exceptional command and we like the
quality of his pitches to help our team."
Chen had a career-high 13 wins in 27 starts, striking out 153 in 188 innings,
in 2019. He led the Central League with a 1.54 ERA, 0.93 WHIP and four
shutouts in 164 innings in 2009.
He was a member of the Chinese Taipei national baseball team in the 2004
Athens and 2008 Beijing Olympics. He went 1-0 in two starts in the 2008
Games, tossing seven shutout innings in a 5-0 win over the Netherlands.
"I am extremely excited about this opportunity to challenge the Major
Leagues and begin the next chapter of my professional baseball career,"
Chen said. "I will do my best to help the Orioles to the championship."
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