Yomiuri Giants sign Chih-Lung Huang to an Ikusei contract
by Gen on Nov.20, 2009 @ 3:57 pm, under NPB
The Yomiuri Giants announced on Friday that they signed 20-year-old pitcher Chih-Lung Huang (黄志龍) to an Ikusei contract. Huang is a right-handed pitcher from Taiwan that tops out at 152km/h. A number of MLB teams were also said to have been interested in him.
Huang was training with the Giants for about a week back near the end of October. At that time, his fastball was clocked in the 140-144km/h range, but the movement on his pitches caught the eye of the Ni-gun manager.
Along with his slider, Huang also throws a slider and a fork. He was selected to the National team and also made appearances in 4 games at the Baseball World Cup.
It seems the Giants are hoping they've found the next Chien-Ming Wang.
2009 Baseball World Cup Stats
| ERA | W | L | G | CG | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | 2B | 3B | HR | AB | WP | HBP | BK |
| 4.81 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 24.1 | 25 | 16 | 13 | 11 | 13 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 93 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
=== UPDATE 1/26/2010 2:13pm JST
Huang was assigned the number 118.
=== UPDATE 1/27/2010 8:35am JST
Huang gets a contract worth 2.4M yen and a signing bonus of 2M yen.
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November 21st, 2009 on 10:55 pm
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November 23rd, 2009 on 1:45 pm
[...] can also go to http://yakyubaka.com/2009/11/20/yomiuri-giants-sign-chih-lung-huang-to-an-ikusei-contract/ to read about his pitches and his world cup [...]