Birthplaces · Asia · 2015–2026
🇹🇼MLB Players from Taiwan
Every major leaguer born in Taiwan who took a plate appearance or threw a pitch in a published season, with what they have done since 2015 — and who is playing now.
- Players
- 13 2015–2026
- Active in 2026
- 3
- Total dbWAR
- 4.3
- Home runs
- 31
- Strikeouts
- 665 799.1 IP
- Batters / pitchers
- 4 / 9
Notable
Superlatives over the seasons published here, not over whole careers.
Wei-Yin Chen2015–2019Most home runs20
Yu Chang650 PAMost strikeouts452Wei-Yin Chen549.1 IPBest season2.0 WARWei-Yin Chen2015First to the majors2003
Chin-hui TsaoHardest-hit ball112.2 mph
Hao-Yu Lee2026Youngest in 202623Hao-Yu LeeMost seasons here5Wei-Yin Chen2015–2019The All-Taiwanese Team
The best player born in Taiwan at each position since 2015, by the dbWAR he produced there. Positions nobody has filled are left open.
And on the mound
How this is picked. Each player is filed at the one position he appeared at most often — so a shortstop who spent two years at third is a shortstop, and cannot hold both slots — and the spot goes to whoever produced the most dbWAR there. The figure on a card is therefore the value at that position rather than the career total shown elsewhere on this page: they differ for anyone who moved. Starting and relieving are counted separately for the same reason, on the share of each season's appearances that were starts. A slot needs 100 plate appearances or 20 innings to be claimed at all, which keeps a September call-up from becoming a first baseman. 3 position players are eligible here, with 1 starters and 4 relievers.
In the majors now
3 Taiwanese-born players were on a major-league roster in 2026. Every column sorts.
| Hao-Yu Lee | DET | 2B | 23 | 102 | 331 | 10 | 45 | 2 | .266 | .321 | .432 | 109 | 1.7 |
| Tsung-Che Cheng | BOS | SS | 25 | 14 | 44 | 0 | 5 | 0 | .256 | .318 | .282 | 69 | -0.0 |
| Kai-Wei Teng | HOU | 28 | 30 | 10 | 73.2 | 5 | 0 | 73 | 4.76 | 4.76 | 1.38 | 0.1 |
The full 2026 leaderboards filter by birthplace too: batting · pitching — pick several countries at once there.
Since 2015
Career totals over the published seasons, ranked by dbWAR.
| Hao-Yu Lee | 2026 | 1 | 331 | 80 | 10 | 45 | 2 | .266 | 1.7 |
| Tzu-Wei Lin | 2017–2020 | 4 | 218 | 43 | 1 | 12 | 2 | .223 | -0.1 |
| Tsung-Che Cheng | 2025–2026 | 2 | 51 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 0 | .217 | -0.2 |
| Yu Chang | 2019–2023 | 5 | 650 | 121 | 20 | 79 | 5 | .204 | -0.6 |
| Wei-Yin Chen | 2015–2019 | 5 | 549.1 | 24 | 0 | 452 | 4.49 | 3.6 |
| Kai-Wei Teng | 2024–2026 | 3 | 114.1 | 7 | 0 | 119 | 5.67 | 0.3 |
| Chien-Ming Wang | 2016 | 1 | 53.1 | 6 | 0 | 30 | 4.22 | 0.1 |
| C.C. Lee | 2015 | 1 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5.40 | 0.1 |
| Chih-Wei Hu | 2017–2018 | 2 | 23.0 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 3.52 | 0.1 |
| Wei-Chieh Huang | 2019 | 1 | 5.2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3.18 | -0.0 |
| Jen-Ho Tseng | 2017–2018 | 2 | 8.0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 9.00 | -0.1 |
| Wei-Chung Wang | 2017–2019 | 2 | 32.1 | 3 | 0 | 20 | 4.18 | -0.1 |
| Chin-hui Tsao | 2015–2016 | 2 | 8.2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 9.35 | -0.3 |
By season
How many were in the majors each year, and what they produced.
Where in Taiwan
Birth cities with more than one major leaguer, most first.
About this page
13 major-league players born in Taiwan appear in this archive, between 2015 and 2026. 3 of them were on a major-league roster in 2026. Together they are worth 4.3 dbWAR, on 31 home runs and 665 strikeouts thrown.
The most valuable of them by our own measure is Wei-Yin Chen, worth 3.6 dbWAR across 2015–2019. His best year was 2015, at 2.0 WAR. Chin-hui Tsao has been in the majors longest of anyone here, since 2003.
Yu Chang has hit the most home runs, 20. Wei-Yin Chen has thrown the most strikeouts, 452. The hardest ball anyone from here has struck came off Hao-Yu Lee's bat at 112.2 mph, in 2026. These are totals over the seasons published here rather than whole careers: a player who debuted before 2015 arrives mid-career, and his numbers start where the archive does.
Taichung has produced 2 of them, more than anywhere else in Taiwan. In 2026 they are spread across 3 clubs, one each — among them Boston Red Sox.
Country here means country of birth, taken from each player's biographical record. It is not nationality and not who a player has represented internationally — the three disagree often enough to matter, and birthplace is the one this data actually holds. Every rate statistic and every dbWAR figure is computed from play-by-play using constants measured from each season's own data, so the numbers are era-correct without being copied from anywhere. See the derivation →
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