Yang Yao-hsun

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Yao-Hsun Yang
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Lamigo Monkeys – No. 23
Pitcher / Outfielder
Born: (1983-01-22) January 22, 1983 (age 41)
Taitung City, Taiwan
Bats: Left Throws: Left
NPB debut
May 17, 2006, for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
Teams
Yang Yao-hsun
Medal record
Representing  Chinese Taipei
Men’s Baseball
Intercontinental Cup
Bronze medal – third place 2006 Taichung Team
Asian Games
Silver medal – second place 2010 Guangzhou Team
Asian Baseball Championship
Silver medal – second place 2005 Miyazaki Team

Yao-Hsun Yang (Chinese: 陽耀勳; pinyin: Yāng Yàoxūn; born January 22, 1983 in Taitung City, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese professional baseball pitcher / Outfielder in the Lamigo Monkeys of CPBL. He has played in Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks. Yang competed for Chinese Taipei in the 2006 and 2013 World Baseball Classic.[1]

On February 13, 2014 he signed a minor league deal with an invite to Spring training with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He was released on July 10.

He signed with the Lamigo Monkeys of CPBL in 2015.

Yang is a 5 ft 10 in, 190 lb left-handed pitcher. he throws a low 90s fastball, along with a slider, curveball, and a splitter. He mostly uses his fastball-slider combination in games.[2]

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