Hsu Ming-Chieh (), born December 1, 1976 is a baseball

pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw ...

currently playing for

Chinese Professional Baseball League The Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL; ) is the top-tier professional baseball league in Taiwan. The league was established in 1989 and played the first season in 1990. CPBL eventually absorbed the competing Taiwan Major League in 20 ...

Lamigo Monkeys The Rakuten Monkeys (), formerly First Financial Holdings Agan (, abbreviated ), La New Bears () and then the Lamigo Monkeys (), are a professional baseball team in the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) in Taiwan. Owned and administer ...

in Taiwan. He previously played for

Nippon Professional Baseball or NPB is the highest level of baseball in Japan. Locally, it is often called , meaning ''Professional Baseball''. Outside Japan, it is often just referred to as "Japanese baseball". The roots of the league can be traced back to the formation ...

Saitama Seibu Lions The are a professional baseball team in Japan's Pacific League based north of Tokyo in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture. Before 1979, they were based in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture in Kyushu. The team is owned by a subsidiary of Seibu Railway, wh ...

and

Orix Buffaloes The are a Nippon Professional Baseball team formed as a result of the 2004 Nippon Professional Baseball realignment by the merger of the Orix BlueWave of Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, and the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes of Osaka, Osaka Prefectur ...

. He is known for his

Shuuto The or shootball is a baseball pitch. It is commonly thrown by right-handed Japanese pitchers such as Hiroki Kuroda, Noboru Akiyama, Kenjiro Kawasaki, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Yu Darvish and Masumi Kuwata. The most renowned ''shuuto'' pitcher in hist ...

(two-seamer).

Early life

Hsu was raised in southern

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

and joined his school's baseball team in elementary school. At the age of 12, Hsu participated in the

1989 Little League World Series The 1989 Little League World Series took place between August 22 and August 26 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The National Little League of Trumbull, Connecticut, defeated the Kang-Tu Little League of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, in the championship game of ...

while playing for Kang-Tu Little League. Kang-Tu lost the series to a team from

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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 is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher, who pitched professionally for 23 seasons, 16 of them in NPB, 7 in MLB. He is currently a baseball color commentator, critic, reporter, and YouTuber. Daisuke is nicknamed in Japan and "Dice-K ...

by the Taiwanese media. In 2000, he joined the Seibu Lions of the

Pacific League The or is one of the two professional baseball leagues constituting Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan. The winner of the league championship competes against the winner in the Central League for the annual Japan Series. It currently consis ...

in Japan. In 2012, after 12 seasons with the Lions, he moved to the

, where he played 2 seasons. In 2014, he returned to Taiwan, playing for the

in the

International experience

Hsu has participated in many International baseball events. * 1989:

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* 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

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hsu, Ming-Chieh 1976 births Asian Games 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 CTBC Brothers players Nippon Professional Baseball coaches

Early life

Professional career

International experience

See also

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