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Taiwanese baseball player Baseball player

Lin En-yu

Starting pitcher

Born: (1981-03-25) 25 March 1981 (age 43)
Tainan City, Taiwan

Batted: RightThrew: Right

Professional debut

CPBL: April 21, 2005, for the Macoto Cobras

NPB: April 13, 2007, for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles

Last appearance

NPB: October 4, 2007, for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles

CPBL: April 10, 2014, for the Chinatrust Brothers

CPBL statistics

38–23

2.37

446

NPB statistics

1–3

3.63

Teams

Career highlights and awards

Medals

Representing Chinese Taipei

Men's Baseball
Intercontinental Cup
	2006 Taichung	Team
Asian Baseball Championship
	2003 Sapporo	Team
	2007 Taichung	Team

In this Chinese name, the family name is Lin.

Lin En-yu (Chinese: 林恩宇; pinyin: Lín Enyǔ; Wade–Giles: Lin En Yü; born 25 March 1981) is a former Taiwanese professional baseball pitcher. After serving on the Taiwanese national training team in 2003 and 2004, he was drafted by the Macoto Cobras of the Chinese Professional Baseball League in Taiwan in early 2005 and stayed with the team until the end of 2006. He later played for Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of the Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan starting 2007, under the introduction of former Cobras manager Kuo Tai-yuan and followed his teammate Lin Ying-chieh. Lin throws a variety of different pitches and has a fastball speed up to 151 km/h (94 mph), and has been a frequent member of the national team.

Records

Season	Team	G	IP	W	L	ERA	K
2005	Macoto Cobras	31	167.2	12	8	1.72	152
2006	Macoto Cobras	31	202.2	17	8	1.73	209
2007	Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles	8	34.2	1	3	3.63	28

In his first 2005 CPBL season Lin won the following awards: rookie of the year, best nine players on the field, and the annual most valuable player.
Lin pitched the first historical ball in World Baseball Classic history on March 3, 2006, at the Tokyo Dome (Chinese Taipei vs. South Korea).
In the 2006 CPBL season, Lin set the record of achieving most strike outs in a single season in the CPBL history (209K in 202.2 innings), as well as led in wins and earned run average.

v t e Chinese Taipei roster – 2006 World Baseball Classic
6 Yang Sen 7 Lin Chih-sheng 8 Chan Chih-yao 11 Lin En-yu 12 Chang Chia-hao 13 Chen Yung-chi 15 Chung-Shou Yang 17 Hsu Chu-chien 18 Pan Wei-lun 19 Lin Ying-chieh 24 Lin Wei-chu 27 Yeh Chun-chang 30 Huang Lung-yi 31 Cheng Chan-ming 32 Kevin Huang 34 Kao Chih-kang 37 Hong-Chih Kuo 46 Yang Chien-fu 49 Chang Tai-shan 51 Hu Chin-lung 55 Hsieh Chia-hsien 59 Chu Wei-ming 63 Hsu Wen-hsiung 69 Chang Chien-ming 70 Tsai Ying-feng 88 Keng Po-hsuan 91 Yang Yao-hsun 97 Chiang Chien-ming
Manager 56 Lin Hua-wei Coach 2 Hung I-chung Coach 3 Yeh Chih-shien Coach 66 Lu Ming-tsu Coach 67 Wu Fu-lien Coach 85 Hsieh Chang-heng

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