2022 CPBL season

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Standings First half standings

Team G W T L Pct. GB Rakuten Monkeys 60 37 1 22 — CTBC Brothers 60 32 2 26 4½ Uni-President Lions 60 31 2 27 5½ Wei Chuan Dragons 60 31 0 29 6½ Fubon Guardians 60 16 1 43 21

Second half standings

Team G W T L Pct. GB CTBC Brothers 60 37 2 21 — Rakuten Monkeys 60 33 3 24 3½ Fubon Guardians 60 30 3 26 6½ Wei Chuan Dragons 60 26 5 29 9½ Uni-President Lions 60 17 1 42 20½

Full season standings

Team G W T L Pct. GB Rakuten Monkeys 120 70 4 46 — CTBC Brothers 120 69 4 47 1 Wei Chuan Dragons 120 57 5 58 12½ Uni-President Lions 120 48 3 69 22½ Fubon Guardians 120 46 4 70 24

Green denotes first-half or second-half champion. Yellow denotes clinching playoff qualification as the wild card.

Playoffs

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

Taiwan Series

Statistical leaders

Hitting

Stat Player Team Total 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

Stat Player Team Total 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

2022 CPBL season

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