The 2007 Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) season began on March 17 in Kaohsiung County when the defending champion La New Bears played host to the Uni-President Lions. The season concluded in late October with the Uni-President Lions defeating the La New Bears in Game 7 of the Taiwan Series.
Six teams, the La New Bears, Uni-President Lions, Sinon Bulls, Chinatrust Whales, Brother Elephants and Macoto Cobras will contest the CPBL, the highest level of professional baseball played in Taiwan. The season is divided into two halves, with each team playing fifty games in each half. The winners for each half-season plus the non-winner with the best overall record will qualify for the playoffs. In the event that the same team wins both halves, the next two teams with the best overall records will advance.
| Team | G | W | T | L | Pct. | GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Macoto Cobras | 50 | 28 | 1 | 21 | .571 | -- |
| Uni-President Lions | 50 | 27 | 0 | 23 | .540 | 1.5 |
| La New Bears | 50 | 26 | 0 | 24 | .520 | 2.5 |
| Sinon Bulls | 50 | 24 | 1 | 25 | .490 | 4.0 |
| Brother Elephants | 50 | 24 | 1 | 25 | .490 | 4.0 |
| Chinatrust Whales | 50 | 19 | 1 | 30 | .388 | 9.0 |
| Team | G | W | T | L | Pct. | GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| La New Bears | 50 | 32 | 0 | 18 | .640 | -- |
| Uni-President Lions | 50 | 31 | 1 | 18 | .633 | 0.5 |
| Chinatrust Whales | 50 | 27 | 1 | 19 | .551 | 4.5 |
| Brother Elephants | 50 | 25 | 0 | 25 | .500 | 7.0 |
| Sinon Bulls | 50 | 18 | 0 | 32 | .360 | 14.0 |
| Macoto Cobras | 50 | 16 | 0 | 34 | .320 | 16.0 |
The team among the non-half-season-winners with the best overall record will gain the wild card spot and the third seed in the playoffs.
| Team | G | W | T | L | Pct. | GB | RS | RA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uni-President Lions | 100 | 58 | 1 | 41 | .586 | -- | 614 | 442 |
| La New Bears | 100 | 58 | 0 | 42 | .580 | 0.5 | 474 | 443 |
| Brother Elephants | 100 | 49 | 1 | 50 | .495 | 9.0 | 480 | 535 |
| Chinatrust Whales | 100 | 46 | 2 | 52 | .469 | 11.5 | 446 | 491 |
| Macoto Cobras | 100 | 44 | 1 | 55 | .444 | 14.0 | 561 | 588 |
| Sinon Bulls | 100 | 42 | 1 | 57 | .424 | 16.0 | 466 | 545 |
| Stat | Player | Team | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR | Tilson Brito* | Uni-President Lions | 33 |
| AVG | Chen Chin-feng | La New Bears | 0.382 |
| H | Kao Kuo-ching* | Uni-President Lions | 152 |
| RBIs | Tilson Brito | Uni-President Lions | 107 |
| SB | Huang Lung-yi | La New Bears | 27 |
| Stat | Player | Team | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| W | Pan Wei-lun | Uni-President Lions | 16 |
| ERA | Peter Munro | Uni-President Lions | 2.03 |
| SO | Joe Dawley | Brother Elephants | 153 |
| SV | Todd Moser | Brother Elephants | 13 |
| Hld | Wang Ching-li | Brother Elephants | 12 |
| Month | Item | Player | Team |
|---|---|---|---|
| March | Pitcher | Huang Chun-chung | La New Bears |
| Hitter | Peng Cheng-min | Brother Elephants | |
| April | Pitcher | Iba Tomokazu | Sinon Bulls |
| Hitter | Peng Cheng-min | Brother Elephants | |
| May | Pitcher | Pan Wei-lun | Uni-President Lions |
| Hitter | Kao Kuo-ching | Uni-President Lions | |
| June | Pitcher | Jeremy Hill | Macoto Cobras |
| Hitter | Tilson Brito | Uni-President Lions | |
| July | Pitcher | Peter Munro | Uni-President Lions |
| Hitter | Yang Sen | Uni-President Lions | |
| August | Pitcher | Shen Yu-chieh | Chinatrust Whales |
| Hitter | Chen Chin-feng | La New Bears | |
| September | Pitcher | Pan Wei-lun | Uni-President Lions |
| Hitter | Carlos Villalobos | Chinatrust Whales | |
| October | Pitcher | Huang Chun-chung | La New Bears |
| Hitter | Kao Kuo-ching | Uni-President Lions |
| 1st Round | Taiwan Series | |||||||
| 1 | La New Bears | 3 | ||||||
| 2 | Macoto Cobras | 0 | 3 | Uni-President Lions | 4 | |||
| 3 | Uni-President Lions | 3 | ||||||
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