2022 Chinese Professional Baseball League season

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33rd CPBL season
League Chinese Professional Baseball League
Sport Baseball
Duration2 April – 26 October
Number of games120
Number of teams5
First half-season
Season champions Rakuten Monkeys
Second half-season
Season champions CTBC Brothers
Taiwan Series
Champions CTBC Brothers
CPBL seasons

The 2022 Chinese Professional Baseball League season was the 33rd season of the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL), based in Taiwan.

Contents

Season schedule

The regular season began on 2 April 2022 at the Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium. Teams are playing a split-season, while second-half games started on 22 July at the newly-renovated Hsinchu Municipal Baseball Stadium. The CPBL All-Star Game is being played the weekend of 30–31 July.

The postseason started on 29 October, followed by the first game of the Taiwan Series on 5 November. Postseason uses an apertura and clausura format. The first round, the Playoff Series, features the half-season champion with the lower winning percentage overall against the team with the overall highest winning percentage of all teams that did not win either half. The winner of the Playoff Series faced the half-season champion with the overall higher winning percentage of the two "seasons" in the Taiwan Series. [1]

Draft

From 2022, foreign-born players can be considered domestic draft picks if: they have attended a Taiwanese high school for three years, a Taiwanese university for four years, or have lived in Taiwan for five years, while playing for a Taiwanese semi-professional league for three years. [2]

Milestones

On Opening Day, Lin Chih-sheng, who was released by the CTBC Brothers at the end of last season, hit the 290th home run of his career, breaking the league record held by Chang Tai-shan, who is a coach for his newly adopted team, the Wei Chuan Dragons. [3]

Controversies

On the opening weekend of the second half of the season, the high expectations for the re-opening of the Hsinchu Municipal Baseball Stadium were dashed when the league announced that the stadium was to be closed temporarily due to player safety issues. Injuries to players in both games played showed inadequacies in the stadium, including the nature of the dirt in the infield. The stadium was to have been a second home to the Wei Chuan Dragons for the second half of the season, but as of this time it is unclear when games will be played in the stadium again. [4]

Standings

First half standings

TeamGWTLPct.GB
Rakuten Monkeys 6037122.627—
CTBC Brothers 6032226.5524½
Uni-President Lions 6031227.5345½
Wei Chuan Dragons 6031029.5176½
Fubon Guardians 6016143.27121

Second half standings

TeamGWTLPct.GB
CTBC Brothers 6037221.638—
Rakuten Monkeys 6033324.5793½
Fubon Guardians 6030326.5366½
Wei Chuan Dragons 6026529.4739½
Uni-President Lions 6017142.28820½

Full season standings

TeamGWTLPct.GB
Rakuten Monkeys 12070446.603—
CTBC Brothers 12069447.5951
Wei Chuan Dragons 12057558.49612½
Uni-President Lions 12048369.41022½
Fubon Guardians 12046470.39724

Playoffs

2022 CPBL playoff series 2022 Taiwan Series
1 Rakuten Monkeys 0
2 CTBC Brothers 32 CTBC Brothers 4
3 Wei Chuan Dragons 1

CPBL Playoff Series

The series started with a 1–0 advantage for the second-placed team.

CTBC Brothers won the series, 3−1.

GameDateScoreLocationTimeAttendance 
1October 29Wei Chuan Dragons – 2 , CTBC Brothers – 6 Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium 2:4517,216 [5]  
2October 30CTBC Brothers – 2, Wei Chuan Dragons – 4 Tianmu Baseball Stadium 3:029,885 
3October 31Wei Chuan Dragons– 2, CTBC Brothers – 3Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium3:447,925

Taiwan Series

CTBC Brothers won the series, 4−0.

GameDateScoreLocationTimeAttendance 
1November 5CTBC Brothers – 5 , Rakuten Monkeys – 3 Rakuten Taoyuan Baseball Stadium 3:1814,132 
2November 6CTBC Brothers – 4, Rakuten Monkeys – 1Rakuten Taoyuan Baseball Stadium3:2811,392 
3November 8Rakuten Monkeys– 2, CTBC Brothers – 7 Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium 3:1817,112 
4November 9Rakuten Monkeys– 2, CTBC Brothers – 3Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium3:1920,000

Statistical leaders

Hitting

StatPlayerTeamTotal
HR Giljegiljaw Kungkuan
Lin Li 		Wei Chuan Dragons
Rakuten Monkeys 		14
AVG Lin Li Rakuten Monkeys 0.335
H Lin Li Rakuten Monkeys 140
RBIs Lin Li Rakuten Monkeys 83
SB Chen Chen-Wei Rakuten Monkeys 38

Pitching

StatPlayerTeamTotal
W José de Paula CTBC Brothers 14
ERA Huang Tzu-Peng Rakuten Monkeys 2.33
SO José de Paula CTBC Brothers 158
SV Bradin Hagens Rakuten Monkeys 36
Hld Chen Yu-Hsun Rakuten Monkeys 26

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