Cheng Kai-wen

{{short description|Taiwanese baseball player (born 1988)}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

| name = Cheng Kai-wen

| image = Cheng Kai-Wen.jpg

| image_size = 250

| caption = Kai-Wen with the Hanshin Tigers

| team = CTBC Brothers

| number = 19

| position = Pitcher

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1988|7|26}}

| birth_place = Tainan, Taiwan

| bats = Right

| throws = Right

| debutleague = NPB

| debutdate = April 26

| debutyear = 2009

| debutteam = Hanshin Tigers

| debut2league = CPBL

| debut2date = March 25

| debut2year = 2014

| debut2team = Chinatrust Brothers

| statleague = NPB

| statyear = 2013 season

| stat1label = Win–loss record

| stat1value = 2–3

| stat2label = Earned run average

| stat2value = 5.16

| stat3label = Strikeouts

| stat3value = 40

| stat2league = CPBL

| stat2year = April 22, 2025

| stat21label = Win–loss record

| stat21value = 80–54

| stat22label = Earned run average

| stat22value = 3.72

| stat23label = Strikeouts

| stat23value = 750

| teams =

| awards =

  • 3x Taiwan Series champion ({{by|2021}}, {{by|2022}}, {{by|2024}})

}}

Cheng Kai-wen ({{zh|c=鄭凱文}}; using "{{nihongo|Cheng|ジェン||}}" as his registration until 2010, born July 26, 1988) is a Taiwanese professional baseball pitcher for the CTBC Brothers of the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL). He has previously played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Hanshin Tigers and Yokohama DeNA BayStars.

Career

=Hanshin Tigers=

Cheng was signed to a one-year contract with the Hanshin Tigers in 2009.[http://www.japanball.com/news.phtml?id=13838 Taiwanese right-hander Cheng to join Hanshin] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713090412/http://www.japanball.com/news.phtml?id=13838 |date=July 13, 2011 }} Cheng played with the Tigers through the 2012 season.

=Yokohama DeNA BayStars=

Cheng signed with the Yokohama DeNA BayStars of Nippon Professional Baseball for the 2013 season.

=Chinatrust / CTBC Brothers=

After the year, Cheng signed with the Chinatrust Brothers, whom he played for from 2014 to 2023. In parts of 10 seasons in the CPBL, Cheng accumulated a 76–51 record and 3.69 ERA with 718 strikeouts across {{fraction|1,044|2|3}} innings pitched.

International career

He was selected Chinese Taipei national baseball team at the 2008 Summer Olympics, 2009 World Baseball Classic and 2018 MLB Japan All-Star Series exhibition game against Japan{{cite web | url=http://www.cpbl.com.tw/news/view/18417.html?&news=18417&prev_id=18415&next_id=18419 | title=台日交流賽名單公布 中職好手征戰日本福岡 | work=中華職棒大聯盟全球資訊網 The Official Site of CPBL | language=zh-TW | date=October 15, 2018 | accessdate=December 5, 2018 }}

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