Long-Yi Huang

Long-Yi Huang (黃龍義) (Easy)

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 5' 8", Weight 169 lb.

• School Fu Jen Catholic University
• High School Chung-Hua High School

• Born February 20, 1979 in Taipei County Taiwan

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Biographical Information

Long-Yi Huang was an outfielder who played in the CPBL and the TML for 10 years.

Huang played for Taiwan in the 1994 World Youth Championship. In the 1997 World Junior Championship, he was the lone All-Star on the Silver Medal-winning Taiwan team. The Kaoping Fala drafted him in the third round of the 2001 TML Draft, and he hit .271/.326/.447 in 2001 TML. He won a TML Gold Glove and made the Taiwan Major League Best Ten as a rookie. He followed with a .230/.312/.333 batting line in 2002. In 2003, he batted .226/.299/.286 for the First Financial Holdings Agan of the Chinese Professional Baseball League after the Taiwan Major League folded. The Agan became the La New Bears in 2004 and he hit .241/.311/.373. In 2005, he improved to .306/.351/.437 and made the Best Ten in the outfield while winning a Gold Glove. He finished 8th in the CPBL in average. In the 2006 World Baseball Classic, Huang made his debut for the Taiwan senior national team. He struck out twice as a pinch-hitter, once against Dae-sung Koo and one against Jun Zhang.

2006 was a down-year as Long-Yi hit .270/.313/.365 though he did steal 18 bases in 20 tries. In the 2006 Taiwan Series, he had a .250/.368/.438 batting line and the Bears swept the Uni-President Lions. Huang had a big year in 2007, hitting .281/.348/.427 and leading the CPBL with 27 steals. He also fielded .996 and won his third Gold Glove. He hit .214/.241/.393 in the 2007 Taiwan Series, but they fell to the Lions in 7 games. In 2008, Huang is having his best year, hitting .308/.374/.511 with 12 homers. He wound up breaking Cheng-Hsien Chen's 13-year-old record for most doubles by a native-born player, and he extended the record to 40 (broken by Yi-Chuan Lin in 2012). He won the Best Ten and Gold Glove again. Huang slumped to .228/.311/.390 in 2009, and he only hit .183/.261/.246 in 2010. The Bears released him after the 2010 season, and his professional career ended. He then coached Trung-Yi High School from 2015 to 2017 and Tatung Institute of Commerce and Industry from 2017 to 2020.

Overall, Huang hit .264/.329/.399 with 747 hits, 137 doubles and 65 homers in 10 seasons in the CPBL and TML.

Sources

• CPBL Player Page
• 1998 Baseball Almanac
• Taiwan Baseball Wiki
• 2006 World Baseball Classic
• KT Choi's Taiwanese Baseball Database