Chang Cheng-wei (; born 5 August 1986) is a Taiwanese

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player for the

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of the

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(CPBL).

Career

He made his debut in the

at age 23. Chang is the nephew of Chang Tai-shan and a cousin of Chang Chih-hao. Chang was drafted by the Sinon Bulls in 2008. He led the Taiwanese minors in hits (81) and average (a record .409) in 2009. When Sinon let him go, he signed with the

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. On March 20, he got his first CPBL hit, a single off Wei-Lun Pan. He hit .297/.360/.377 as a rookie with 15 steals (but 10 times caught). He was 8th in the 2010 CPBL in average. Chang joined the

for the 2018 season after spending 2010 to 2017 with the Brothers.

International career

He played for

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in the 2013 World Baseball Classic Qualification,

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and

2017 World Baseball Classic The 2017 World Baseball Classic (WBC) was an international professional baseball competition, composed of 16 competing nations, held from March 6 to 22, 2017. It was the fourth iteration of the World Baseball Classic. The first-round hosts wer ...

External links

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