Lin En-Yu

Lin En-yu (; born 25 March 1981) is a Taiwanese former 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 (CPBL) 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 (NPB) in Japan starting 2007, under the introduction of former Cobras manager Kuo Tai-yuan and following 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

Achievements 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.