The Asia Winter Baseball League is a professional baseball league hosted in Taiwan with 2012 as its inaugural season. Making use of the warm and dry winter climate in West Taiwan, the short term league aims to offer young baseball players additional training experience and continued exposure in off-season games. It is the de facto successor to the now defunct Asia Series.

Seasons 2012 Season 2012 was played between Japan, Taiwan Red, Taiwan White, and the Dominican Republic, with Japan winning the championship.

2013 Season 2013 was played between the teams of Nippon Professional Baseball League, Korea Baseball Organization, Chinese Professional Baseball League of Taiwan, and the Dominican Republic. Japan won the league phase but lost the playoff final to South Korea.

2015 Season 2015 was played between the teams of Nippon Professional Baseball League, Korea Baseball Organization, Chinese Professional Baseball League of Taiwan, the Chinese Taipei National Training Team, and the Team Europe. This was the first time since the Asia Winter Baseball League was founded that Team Europe was invited. Team Europe consisted of total 30 players from different countries (12 Italians, 8 Dutch, 3 German, 2 French, 1 Czech, 1 Belgian, 1 Croat, 1 Hispanic and 1 Romanian). The Chinese Taipei National Training Team won the championship with team Japan as runner-up.

2016 Season 2016 was played between the 2 teams of Nippon Professional Baseball League (East Japan/West Japan), Korea Baseball Organization Team, Chinese Professional Baseball League Team of Taiwan, Chinese Taipei National Training Team, and the Team Europe. The final was played between the 2 Japanese teams. The West Japan team consisting of players from Nippon Professional Baseball League teams from West Japan won the championship.

2017 Season 2017 was played between the 2 teams of Nippon Professional Baseball League (East Japan/West Japan), Korea Baseball Organization Team, Chinese Professional Baseball League Team of Taiwan, the Japan Amateur Baseball Association All Star Team, and the WBSC All Star team managed by WBSC consisting of Team Europe players augmented with additional U.S. players. Experiencing player shortages due to injuries and early departures of team members, WBSC team took on amateur baseball players from Japan and Taiwan as replacements. The East Japan team consisting of players from Nippon Professional Baseball League teams from East Japan won the championship.

2018 Season 2018 was played by 5 teams, 2 teams of Nippon Professional Baseball League (East Japan/West Japan), one Korea Baseball Organization Team, one Chinese Professional Baseball League of Taiwan team, the Japan Amateur Baseball Association All Star Team. 40 regular season games were played November 24 - December 13, 2018. Each team was playing 16 games, top four teams played three more games in playoffs December 14–16, 2018. All games were played at either Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium or Douliu Baseball Stadium

NPB West missed the Playoffs. KBO finished in fourth place, JABA team in third place, CPBL in second place, NPB East winners.

2019 The CPBL Expansion team Wei Chuan Dragons have expressed their willingness to send a team. source: CPBL Stats

Previous Results

Edition Year Host City Champions Score Runners-up Third place Fourth place No. of Teams 1 2012 Taichung NPB 5-2 CPBL White CPBL Red Dominican Republic NT 4 2 2013 Taichung KBO 6-2 NPB CPBL Dominican Republic NT 4 3 2015 Taichung Chinese Taipei NT 4-2 NPB KBO CPBL 5 4 2016 Taichung NPB West 6-1 NPB East Chinese Taipei NT KBO 6 5 2017 Taichung NPB East 4-1 KBO Japanese Amateur Baseball Association CPBL 6 6 2018 Douliu NPB East 1-0 CPBL Japanese Amateur Baseball Association KBO 5 7 2019 Taichung Japanese Amateur Baseball Association 4-2 NPB Red Wei Chuan Dragons CPBL 6 8 2023 Douliu TSG Hawks 7-1 NPB Red CPBL Japanese Amateur Baseball Association 6 9 2024 Douliu NPB White 3-1 Japanese Amateur Baseball Association Taiwan Mountains Taiwan Seas 5 10 2025 Chiayi Japanese Amateur Baseball Association 5-4 NPB Taiwan Mountains Taiwan Seas 5

All-time Table (Excluding playoffs)

Pos.Team Best finish 1 Japan 233 133 79 21 1286 912 +374 .571 .627 NPB 57 43 11 3 378 189 +189 .754 .796 NPB Red 15 9 3 3 91 60 +31 .600 .750 Japan Amateur Baseball Association 48 27 14 7 266 158 +108 .562 .659 NPB East 49 27 19 3 227 197 +30 .551 .587 NPB West 49 22 23 4 246 227 +19 .449 .489 NPB White 15 5 9 1 78 81 -3 .333 .357 2 South Korea 100 45 42 13 488 532 -44 .450 .517 KBO 100 45 42 13 488 532 -44 .450 .517 3 Taiwan 186 83 89 14 952 944 +8 .446 .483 CPBL Red 21 12 9 0 100 93 +7 .571 .571 Wei Chuan Dragons 15 7 6 2 77 76 +1 .467 .538 Chinese Taipei NT 31 14 12 5 169 160 +9 .452 .538 CPBL White 19 8 11 0 87 84 +3 .421 .421 CPBL 199 42 51 7 519 531 -12 .420 .452 4 Rest of World 48 9 33 6 214 404 -190 .188 .214 WBSC All Stars 17 4 11 2 62 127 -65 .235 .267 Team Europe 31 5 22 4 152 277 -125 .161 .185 5 Dominican Republic 41 7 34 0 138 286 -148 .171 .171 Dominican Republic NT 41 7 34 0 138 286 -148 .171 .171

See also Asia Series Chinese Professional Baseball League (Taiwan) Taiwan baseball team Professional baseball in Taiwan Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) awards

References

3. 2018 Schedule and info from CPBL in Chinese Retrieved October 20, 2018 4. Roster of the AWB 2018 NPB teams by Yakyu Database Retrieved October 20, 2018 5. 2018 AWB Rosters Retrieved November 20, 2018 6. Day One of 2018 at CPBL website Retrieved November 24, 2018