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Old 07-18-2004, 11:17 PM   #8
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Actually, Baltimore's Melvin Mora played in CPBL in 1998!

Actually, now come to think of it. I remeber there is one player (foreign player) that played in Taiwan and is currently a MLB player: Baltimore Orioles's Melvin Mora.

His stats line when he was playing for the Mecuries Tigers in Taiwan:


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Melvin Mora 1972/02/07 180cm 80kg R/R SS,OF

Year Team    G  PA  AB RBI  R  H 2B 3B HR TB GIDP SH SF BB HBP SO SB CS   AVG
1998 Tigers 44 191 164  11 34 55 11  2  3 79    2  0  1 23   3 26 37 13 0.335

note: The team he played for is the Mecuries Tigers, a now defunct team.
One thing should be noted, there were actually two leagues in Taiwan in 1998: CPBL and TML. This might have resulted a stretch of talent. Also, Mora has probably grown in his skill set after all these years in MLB. He was also condisered to have his ability grown when played in CPBL. (stats improves as he played) Last but not the least, the sample size of Mora's stats in CPBL is small as he only played 44 games and had 191 at-bats. All I want to say is 'Judge with discretion'.

This is just to provide a interesting bit of information.
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