Lin En-yu

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Starting pitcher

Born: March 25, 1981
Tainan City, Taiwan

Bats: Right

Throws: Right

Professional debut

CPBL: 2005, for the Macoto Cobras

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

NPB statistics
(through 2007 season)

1-3

3.63

Teams

Lin En-yu
Medal record

Representing Chinese Taipei
Men’s Baseball
Intercontinental Cup
	2006 Taichung	Team
Asian Baseball Championship
	2003 Sapporo	Team
	2007 Taichung	Team

Lin En-yu, (Chinese: 林恩宇; pinyin: Lín Enyǔ; Wade–Giles: Lin2 En1 Yü3; born March 25, 1981 in Tainan City, Taiwan, Republic of China), is a Taiwanese professional baseball pitcher. After serving in Chinese Taipei's National Training Team in 2003 and 2004, he was drafted by the Macoto Cobras of the Chinese Professional Baseball League in Republic of China 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 since 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 Chinese Taipei national baseball team since 2003.

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.

Chinese Taipei 2006 World Baseball Classic roster

6 Yang Sen 7 Lin Chih-sheng 8 Chih-Yao Chan 11 Lin En-yu 12 Chia-Hao Chang 13 Chen Yung-chi 15 Chung-Shou Yang 17 Chu-Chien Hsu 18 Pan Wei-lun 19 Lin Ying-chieh 24 Lin Wei-chu 27 Chun-Chang Yeh 30 Huang Lung-yi 31 Chan-Ming Cheng 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 Wei-Ming Chu 63 Wen-Hsiung Hsu 69 Chang Chien-ming 70 Ying-Feng Tsai 88 Po-Hsuan Keng 91 Yang Yao-hsun 97 Chiang Chien-ming

Manager 56 Hua-Wei Lin Coach 2 I-Chung Hung Coach 3 Chih-Shien Yeh Coach 66 Ming-Tsu Lu Coach 67 Fu-Lien Wu Coach 85 Hsieh Chang-heng

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