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Gu Lin Ruei-yang
Taiwanese baseball pitcher (born 2000) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Gu Lin Ruei-yang (Chinese: 古林睿煬; born 12 June 2000) is a Taiwanese professional baseball pitcher for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He previously played in the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) for the Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions.
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Amateur career
Born on 12 June 2000,[1] Gu Lin Ruei-yang was introduced to baseball by coach Lai Chao-jung as a student of Taichung Chung-Hsiao Elementary School, located the city's West District.[2][3] While attending Taichung Municipal Chung-Shan Junior High School, Gu Lin pitched in the 2014 and 2015 editions of the Junior League World Series.[4][5] This resulted in two straight wins for Taichung Chung-Shan at the tournament, and three consecutive championships for Taiwanese teams overall.[6] Gu Lin continued his baseball career at Taoyuan Municipal Ping Jen Senior High School,[7][8] and pitched one game during the 2017 U-18 Baseball World Cup.[9]
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Professional career
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Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions
Gu Lin was selected out of high school as the second overall pick in the 2018 Chinese Professional Baseball League draft.[10] Gu Lin made his CPBL debut for the Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions on 27 September 2019, which the Lions acknowledged by issuing the first "debut certificates" in CPBL history to five hundred fans.[11] Gu Lin recorded his first career victory on 1 July 2020.[12] He was not a full-time starting pitcher until the 2021 season.[13][14] On 13 March 2021, he became the youngest Opening Day starting pitcher in CPBL history at 20 years and 274 days old.[15][16] His 2021 and 2022 seasons were slowed by injury.[13][14]
Gu Lin led his team to the best-of-five first round of the 2023 CBPL playoffs.[17] After the Lions' season ended, Gu Lin pitched in the Asia Professional Baseball Championship,[18] winning a bronze medal with Taiwan. He had also appeared in the postponed 2022 Asian Games,[19] where Taiwan won the silver medal in baseball.
Gu Lin started his second career Opening Day game on 31 March 2024.[20] In the 2024 regular season, Gu Lin recorded a 1.66 ERA alongside 10 wins and threw 125 innings over 21 starts. Each statistic was a career best.[14] Gu Lin started the first game of the 2024 Taiwan Series, and was removed from the game due to injury, then missed the rest of the series.[21][22] Although the Lions lost the Taiwan Series in five games, Gu Lin won the CPBL's Best Nine Award at pitcher and the league's MVP.[14] Gu Lin became the first Taiwanese pitcher to be named the CPBL MVP since 2006.[14] Due to the injury during his only Taiwan Series game, Gu Lin was not rostered for the 2024 WBSC Premier12,[10][14] which Taiwan won.[23]
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
In November 2024, Gu Lin was posted to Nippon Professional Baseball,[24] and negotiated a three-year contract with the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters.[25] Ryo Koma, a Japanese-born classmate and baseball teammate of his at Taoyuan Ping Jen, served as Gu Lin's translator when he began his NPB career.[8][26]
Gu Lin made his NPB debut on 23 April 2025, pitching 5+2⁄3 innings in a loss.[27] Gu Lin recorded his first NPB win on 2 May, which was also the first win by a Taiwanese pitcher in four NBP seasons, as well as the first win by a pitcher who had started his career in the CBPL since 2007.[28] Gu Lin pitched a complete game shutout on 98 pitches on 10 May, a performance that qualified as a Maddux.[29][30] He became the third Taiwanese pitcher to throw a Maddux in Nippon Professional Baseball. The feat had previously been achieved by Wei-Yin Chen in 2011.[31] Gu Lin was demoted to the second team on 22 May.[32][33] Gu Lin threw 2+1⁄3 innings in his next first team appearance on 3 June, was removed due to an abdominal injury,[34][35] and expected to miss significant time.[36][37]
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Personal life
Gu Lin Ruei-yang is of Atayal descent, and was known as Lin Ruei-yang until adding his mother's surname to his full name.[38] Gu Lin Ruei-yang's brother, Gu Lin Ruei-chen, is four years older than him, and also played amateur baseball.[2] As Gu Lin started his professional baseball career in 2018, both his father and grandfather died.[14]
Gu Lin Ruei-yang is married.[28] He is known as "Taiwan's Golden Grandson".[39][40]
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