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- This is a Chinese name; the family name is Lin.
En-Yu Lin (traditional Chinese: 林恩宇; pinyin: Lín Enyǔ; Wade-Giles: Lín En-yǚ; born March 25, 1981 in Tainan City, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese professional baseball pitcher. After serving in Taiwan's National Training Team in 2003 and 2004, he was drafted by the Macoto Cobras of the Chinese Professional Baseball League 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 in Japan since 2007, under the introduction of former Cobras manager Tai-Yuan Kuo and followed his teammate Ying-Chieh Lin. 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 Taiwan national baseball team since 2003.
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- 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 (Taiwan 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.
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Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles current roster |
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1 Tatsuya Shiokawa | 2 Naoto Watanabe | 4 Yosuke Takasu | 7 Takeshi Yamasaki | 12 Daisuke Kusano | 17 José Fernández | 18 Masahiro Tanaka | 21 Hisashi Iwakuma | 25 Fuminori Yokogawa | 26 Kanehisa Arime | 28 Hiroshi Katayama | 30 Satoshi Nagai | 31 Akihito Fujii | 32 Yoshinori Okihara | 36 Hideki Asai | 37 Motohiro Shima | 40 Masaru Yoshizaki | 41 Koji Aoyama | 46 Teppei | 50 Domingo | 51 Tsuyoshi Kawagishi | 55 Rick | 57 Shinichiro Koyama | 58 Koichiro Kimura | 61 Kenshi | 62 Fumikazu Takanami | 64 Toshiya Nakashima | 65 Akira Matsumoto
Coaching: Manager 19 Katsuya Nomura
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Taiwan 2006 World Baseball Classic roster |
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Manager 56 Hua-Wei Lin | Coach 2 I-Chung Hung | Coach 3 Chih-Shien Yeh | Coach 66 Ming-Tsu Lu | Coach 67 Fu-Lien Wu | Coach 85 Chang-Heng Hsieh
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