Chinatrust Brothers

Chinatrust Brothers
League Chinese Professional Baseball League
Location Taichung
Ballpark Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium
Year founded 1989 (1989)
League championships 1992, 1994, 2002, 2003, 2016
Taiwan Series championships 1992, 1993, 1994, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2010
Colors Yellow
Playoff berths 1992, 1993, 1994, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2016
Manager Vacant
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The Brother Elephants (Chinese: 中信兄弟), nicknamed Brothers and also known as the Chinatrust Brothers due to ownership reasons, are a professional baseball team in Taiwan. The team was originally established as an amateur team in 1984 by the Brother Hotel located in Taipei City, and later joined the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) in 1989. Brother Hotel's chairman Hung Teng-sheng (洪騰勝) also acted as CPBL's secretary-general from 1987 to 1991, and is respected as "father of the CPBL". The Brothers are currently owned by Hua Yi, a subdivision of CTBC Holding.

With its long history from the amateur era plus a successful marketing strategy and management, the Brother Elephants has long been one of the most popular Taiwanese baseball teams. The team also won seven CPBL championships.

The team has always worn yellow uniforms. Its current home is in Taichung, with the home field at the Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium.

History

Brother Elephants uniform

On March 17, 1990, the Brother Elephants played the first historical CPBL game against the Uni-President Lions in the now-demolished Taipei Municipal Baseball Stadium with a full house of 14,350 in attendance. These two teams are also the only two remaining original teams of the CPBL.

Despite having the best season-long record for the 2004 season, the Elephants were unable to participate in the Taiwan Series because they had won neither half-season. This resulted in the expansion of the playoffs to three teams beginning in 2005, where the team with the best season-long record among non-champions for the season would gain a wildcard berth, thus preventing a similar occurrence in the future.

In mid-season of 2008, GM Hung Je-he revealed the possibility of sale or disbanding of the organization if the financial deficit continued after 2009.

In the 2009 season, Brother Elephants were triumphant in winning the second half of the season. However, the team was affected deeply by the match fixing scandal which resulted in expulsion of many team players and the coach.

In October 2013, the team's president announced attempts to sell the team.[1] The announcement drew interest from seven potential bidders.[2] The team was sold to Hua Yi, a subdivision of CTBC Holding, by December 2013 for a price of NT$400 million.[3] The team's name change reflected their new corporate parent, but it was felt that the branding from their previous owners was strong enough to rename the team Brothers, while retaining the elephant mascot.[4]

Records

Qualified for Playoffs Taiwan Series Championship Asia Series Championship

Regular seasons

Season Wins Losses Ties Pct. Place
Brother Elephants
1990 34 (17/17) 49 (25/24) 7 (3/4) .410 (.405/.415) 4 (3/4)
1991 38 (21/17) 49 (23/26) 3 (1/2) .437 (.477/.395) 3 (3/4)
1992 51 (27/24) 35 (17/18) 4 (1/3) .593 (.614/.571) 1 (1/1)
1993 52 (28/24) 36 (16/20) 2 (1/1) .591 (.636/.545) 2 (1/2)
1994 64 (34/30) 24 (11/13) 2 (0/2) .727 (.756/.698) 1 (1/1)
1995 48 (25/23) 51 (25/26) 1 (0/1) .485 (.500/.469) 4 (3/3)
1996 52 (29/23) 43 (19/24) 5 (2/3) .547 (.604/.489) 4 (2/4)
1997 45 (23/22) 44 (20/24) 7 (5/2) .506 (.535/.478) 3 (3/5)
1998 33 69 3 0.324 6
1999 37 53 4 0.411 5
2000 38 (21/17) 48 (21/27) 4 (3/1) .442 (.500/.386) 4 (3/4)
2001 44 (17/27) 39 (23/16) 7 (5/2) .530 (.425/.628) 2 (3/1)
2002 53 (25/28) 33 (17/16) 4 (3/1) .616 (.595/.636) 1 (1/1)
2003 63 (27/36) 31 (20/11) 6 (3/3) .670 (.574/.766) 1 (3/1)
2004 54 (26/28) 45 (23/22) 1 (1/0) .545 (.531/.560) 3 (3/2)
2005 47 (25/22) 49 (23/26) 4 (2/2) .490 (.521/.458) 4 (3/6)
2006 40 (20/20) 59 (29/30) 1 (1/0) .404 (.408/.400) 6 (5/6)
2007 49 (24/25) 50 (25/25) 1 (1/0) .495 (.490/.500) 3 (4/4)
2008 52 (24/28) 42 (23/19) 4 (3/1) .553 (.511/.596) 3 (3/3)
2009 54 (21/33) 63 (38/25) 3 (1/2) .462 (.356/.569) 4 (4/1)
2010 61 (25/36) 57 (33/24) 2 (2/0) .517 (.431/.600) 2 (3/1)
2011 60 (28/32) 60 (32/28) 0 (0/0) .500 (.467/.533) 3 (3/2)
2012 60 (26/34) 58 (33/25) 2 (1/1) .508 (.441/.576) 3 (3/2)
2013 55 (26/29) 65 (34/31) 0 (0/0) .458 (.433/.483) 4 (4/3)
Total 1184 1152 77 .507 —
Chinatrust Brothers
2014 50 (19/31) 66 (40/26) 4 (1/3) .431 (.322/.544) 4 (4/1)
2015 63 (27/36) 56 (33/23) 1 (0/1) .529 (.450/.610) 2 (3/1)
2016 68 (35/33) 50 (23/27) 2 (2/0) .576 (.603/.550) 1 (1/2)
Total 181 172 7 .512 —

Playoffs

Season First Round Taiwan Series
Opponent Wins Losses Opponent Wins Losses
Brother Elephants
1992 No playoffs. The Elephants won the championship by virtue of winning both half-seasons.
1993 No first round. Uni-President Lions 4 2
1994 No playoffs. The Elephants won the championship by virtue of winning both half-seasons.
2001 No first round. Uni-President Lions 4 3
2002 No first round. Chinatrust Whales 4 0
2003 No first round. Sinon Bulls 4 2
2008 La New Bears 3 0 Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions 3 4
2009 No first round. Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions 3 4
2010 No first round. Sinon Bulls 4 0
Total Combining the first round and Taiwan Series 26 15
Chinatrust Brothers
2014 No first round. Lamigo Monkeys 1 4
2015 No first round. Lamigo Monkeys 3 4
2016 No first round. EDA Rhinos 2 4
Total Combining the first round and Taiwan Series 6 12

Roster

Players Coaches

Pitchers

  •  3 Taiwan Chen Pan-wei (潘韋辰)
  •  5 United States Bryan Woodall
  • 13 Taiwan Yeh Yung-chieh (葉詠捷)
  • 15 Taiwan Lin Yu-ching (林煜清)
  • 17 Taiwan Chen Hung-wen (陳鴻文)
  • 18 Taiwan Kuan Ta-yuan (官大元)
  • 19 Taiwan Yeh Ting-jen (葉丁仁)
  • 21 Taiwan Cheng Chi-hung (鄭錡鴻)
  • 27 Taiwan Wang Chieng-hsun (王建勛)
  • 33 Taiwan (王則鈞)
  • 34 Taiwan Ou Yao-zong (歐耀宗)
  • 37 Taiwan Wang Tzu-an (王梓安)
  • 41 Taiwan Luo Kuo-hua (羅國華)
  • 42 Taiwan Tseng Sung-wei (增菘瑋)
  • 43 Taiwan Shih Hsiao-jung (石孝榮)
  • 46 United States Nate Long
  • 47 Taiwan Chen Wei-chieng (陳偉建)
  • 48 Taiwan Chiu Chun-wei (邱俊瑋)
  • 58 Taiwan Lee Chu-kuan (李居冠)
  • 59 Taiwan Lu Shao-yu (盧紹禹)
  • 69 United States Mike Ballard (巴拉德)
  • 75 Taiwan Yu Shu-nung (余書農)
  • 88 Taiwan Keng Po-hsung (耿伯軒)
  • 90 Taiwan Wu Ming-hsu (吳明旭)
  • 95 Taiwan Cheng Chi-hung (鄭錡鴻)
  • 97 Taiwan Lin Ko-chien (林克謙)
  • 99 Taiwan Chou Lei (周磊)

Catchers

  • 12 Taiwan Lin Yu-hung (林育鴻)
  • 26 Taiwan Huang Chun-sheng (黃鈞聲)
  • 29 Taiwan Chen Chih-hung (陳智弘)
  • 45 Taiwan Wang Chun-chieh (王峻杰)
  • 77 Taiwan Cheng Da-hung (郑达鸿)
  • 92 Taiwan Chen Chia-chu (陳家駒)

Infielders

  •  2 Taiwan Pan Ding Shan (潘萣翔)
  •  9 Taiwan Wang Wei-chen (王威晨)
  • 11 Taiwan Chiang Chih-hsien (蔣智賢)
  • 14 Taiwan Wang Sheng-wei (王勝偉)
  • 22 Taiwan Chen Wei-ju (陳威儒)
  • 23 Taiwan Peng Cheng-min (彭政閔)
  • 31 Taiwan Chen Chiang-ho (陳江和)
  • 32 Taiwan Hsu Jui-tse (徐睿擇)
  • 37 Taiwan Tsai Ming-chueh (蔡明覺)
  • 51 Taiwan Chen Hung-huei (陳弘桂)
  • 52 Taiwan Chu Wei-ming (朱偉銘)
  • 61 Taiwan Su Yuan-yi (蘇袁億)
  • 63 Taiwan Cheng Nai-wen (鄭乃文)
  • 69 Taiwan (张志强)
  • 74 Taiwan Hsu Chi-hung (许基宏)

Outfielders

  •  1 Taiwan Chen Tzu-hao (陳子豪)
  •  6 Taiwan Chang Cheng-wei (張正偉)
  •  7 Taiwan Chang Chih-hao (張志豪)
  • 10 Taiwan Kuo Chine-wi (郭健瑜)
  • 16 Taiwan Chou Ssu-chi (周思齊)
  • 24 Taiwan Lin Wei-chu (林威助)
  • 39 Taiwan Chan Tsu-hsien (詹子賢)
  • 49 Taiwan Lin Wang Chi Wei (林王啟瑋)
  • 57 Taiwan Chen hao-jan (陳浩然)
  • 58 Taiwan Tseng Tao-jung (曾陶鎔)

Manager

  • Vacant

Coaches

  •  3 Taiwan Wang Jin-yong (王金勇) (Defense Coach)
  •  8 Taiwan Huang Shih-hao] (黃仕豪) (Fielding Coach)
  • 21 Taiwan Hsu Ming-chieh (許銘傑) (Pitching Coach)
  • 24 Taiwan Lin Chia-wei (林家緯) (Pitch-catch Assist Coach)
  • 36 Taiwan Shih Chih-wei (石志偉) (Batting Coach)
  • 44 United States Razor Shines
  • 47 Australia Gary McCoy (Fitness Coach)
  • 50 United States Les Lancaster (Pitching Coach)
  • 52 Taiwan Zhu Weiming (朱伟铭) (Fitness Coach)
  • 70 Taiwan Lin Ming-hsien (林明憲) (Defense Coach)
  • 72 Taiwan Hsu Ming-lan (許閔嵐) (Batting Coach)
  • 76 Taiwan Lin Mingxian (林明宪)
  • 80 Taiwan Chen Baohong (陳保宏)
  • 85 Taiwan Lin En-yu (林恩宇) (Bullpen Coach)
  • 91 Taiwan Qiu Changrong (丘昌荣) (Head Coach)

References

  1. ↑ Lin Hung-han and Sofia Wu (2013-10-19). "Brother Elephants up for sale (update 2)". Retrieved 2013-10-20.
  2. ↑ Lin, Hung-han; Jeffrey Wu (2013-10-23). "Funeral services company to bid for pro-baseball team". Central News Agency. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
  3. ↑ Lin, Hung-han; Y.L. Kao (3 December 2013). "CTBC-sponsored company buys Brother Elephants for NT$400 m.". Central News Agency. Retrieved 19 December 2013.
  4. ↑ "Brief History of CPBL". Chinese Professional Baseball League. Archived from the original on 2015-07-04. Retrieved 4 May 2016.

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