It’s winter ball season here in Taiwan. We’re about 9 days into the 2017 Asia Winter Baseball League, with each team have played 8 games so far. Here’s the Asia Winter Baseball League week 1 scores and recap.

Team Stats and Standings [04-DEC]

TEAM W-D-L AVG OBP SLG ERA WHIP JABA 6-1-1 0.290 0.401 0.386 1.52 0.90 KBO 5-0-3 0.254 0.345 0.353 2.07 1.08 NPB East 4-0-4 0.255 0.351 0.386 4.00 1.39 CPBL 3-0-5 0.242 0.332 0.335 3.30 1.37 NPB West 3-0-5 0.209 0.280 0.309 4.89 1.63 WBSC 2-1-5 0.245 0.302 0.355 6.78 1.83

The schedule and full team rosters are available here.

JABA

Despite being semi-pro, the JABA All-Star continues to dominate the league in both pitching and batting. JABA finished the first week winter league with 6 wins, 1 loss and 1 draw.

RHP from Tokyo Gas 臼井 浩 (Usui Isamu) currently lead the league in number of wins have posted 0.82 ERA, 0.91 WHIP, 15 strikeouts over 11 innings of work.

臼井浩（東京ガス）

168cm 75kg 右投 投手 経歴

光明相模原高

中央学院大

東京ガス 特徴

小柄ながら最速147キロを誇る右腕。

コントロールに長けた先発型の投手。チェンジアップ、フォークの制球が良く、緩急のよさが特徴。 選手一覧https://t.co/ablenTcVaa pic.twitter.com/du5xWGaTmu — ドラフトの卵 (@draftegg) November 28, 2017

JABA scores for week 1

G1 – JABA 9 : NPB West 1

: NPB West 1 G2 – JABA 6 : WBSC 6

G3 – JABA 3 : KBO 2

: KBO 2 G4 – JABA 3 : CPBL 4

G5 – JABA 11 : NPB East 1



: NPB East 1 G6 – JABA 11 : WBSC 0

: WBSC 0 G7 – JABA 6 : KBO 0

: KBO 0 G8 – JABA 4 : NPB West 0

KBO

The KBO team finished week 1 of the winter league with 5 wins and 3 losses.

Kim Young Hwan of the Police team lead the league in batting average slashing .400/.423/.560 over 7 games, 25 at-bats. While RHP Hong Sung Min remains perfect with 0.00 ERA, 0.64 WHIP over 2 starts, 11 innings.

KBO scores for week 1

G1 – WBSC 2 : KBO 6

G2 – NPB East 6 : KBO 3

: KBO 3 G3 – KBO 2 : JABA 3

G4 – KBO 3 : CPBL 0

: CPBL 0 G5 – NPB West 4 : KBO 6

G6 – KBO 2 : NPB East 0

: NPB East 0 G7 – JABA 6 : KBO 0

: KBO 0 G8 – KBO 15 : WBSC 0

NPB East

The NPB East team finished week 1 with 4 wins and 4 losses.

Yokohama BayStars 19 years old prospect 細川 成也 (Hosokawa Seiya) posted .259/.364/.556 over 27 at-bats at the same time topping the home run chart with 2 home runs.

NPB East scores for week 1

G1 – CPBL 5 : NPB East 3

: NPB East 3 G2 – NPB East 6 : KBO 3

: KBO 3 G3 – NPB East 10 : WBSC 5

: WBSC 5 G4 – NPB East 8 : NPB West 2

: NPB West 2 G5 – JABA 11 : NPB EAst 1

: NPB EAst 1 G6 – KBO 2 : NPB East 0

: NPB East 0 G7 – NPB West 2 : NPB East 0

: NPB East 0 G8 – NPB East 8 : CPBL 3

CPBL

The CPBL team finished week 1 with 3 wins and 5 losses. Offense-wise, they’re able to get on base. However, the team just unable score when runners on scoring positions.

“I noticed a lot of our young guys are all trying to swing for the fence, they just need to slow it down a bit and take back a notch” Said the CPBL team manager Lin.

Chinatrust Brothers 王威晨 (Wang Wei-Chen) and Lamigo Monkeys 黃子鵬 (Huang Tzu-Peng) are two of the notable players from this years CPBL squad.

Wang posted .355/.459/.452 over 31 at-bats, while the sidearmer Huang has been solid with the record of 1.39 ERA, 1.31 WHIP, 11 strikeouts over 13 innings.

Team #CPBL starting pitcher 黃子鵬 (Huang Tzu-Peng) pitched 7 scoreless innings with 7 stirkeouts against Team #WBSC at Asia Winter Baseball League today. #AWB2017 #Lamigo https://t.co/aFt4AFqTQZ pic.twitter.com/4F8cUecNIU — CPBL STATS (@GOCPBL) December 2, 2017

CPBL scores for week 1

G1 – CPBL 5 : NPB East 3

: NPB East 3 G2 – CPBL 6 : NPB West 7

G3 – KBO 3 : CPBL 0

: CPBL 0 G4 – JABA 3 : CPBL 4

G5 – WBSC 5 : CPBL 3

: CPBL 3 G6 – NPB West 2 : CPBL 1

: CPBL 1 G7 – CPBL 4 : WBSC 0

: WBSC 0 G8 – NPB East 8 : CPBL 3

NPB West

The NPB West team finished week 1 with 3 wins and 5 losses.

One of the players to watch for is Orix Buffaloes pitcher 吉田 凌 (Yoshida Ryo). Who posted a record of 3.21 ERA, 1.36 WHIP over 14 innings so far in the winter league.

Ryo also pitched a 3-hit shutout game against NPB East team on December 2nd, where he used total of 119 pitches while striking 5.

NPB West scores for week 1

G1 – NPB West 1 : JABA 9

G2 – CPBL 6 : NPB West 7

G3 – WBSC 12 : NPB West 4

: NPB West 4 G4 – NPB East 8 : NPB West 2

: NPB West 2 G5 – NPB West 4 : KBO 6

G6 – NPB West 2 : CPBL 1

: CPBL 1 G7 – NPB West 2 : NPB East 0

: NPB East 0 G8 – JABA 4 : NPB West 0

WBSC

Team WBSC finished week 1 with 2 wins, 5 losses and 1 draw placing them last in the standings.

There seems to be an issue for team WBSC not having enough pitchers. As it today, the team is expect to bring in Japanese LHP 杉尾拓郎 (Sugio Takuro) in hope to add more depth in their pitching department.

WBSC scores for week 1