Chinatrust Brothers veteran shortstop 王勝偉 (Wang Seng-Wei) have reached 100 career hit-by-pitch milestone. At the same time also tied the CPBL record for most hit-by-pitch, a record which previous set by Brother Elephants catcher 陳瑞昌 (Chen Je-Chang).

#CTBros 王勝偉 (Wang Seng-Wei) aka #CPBL Magneto reaches 100 career hit by pitch pic.twitter.com/KFzXeqNQ3h — CPBL STATS (@GOCPBL) June 24, 2017

Journey to 100 HBP for Wang Seng-Wei

Below is the hit by pitch breakdown by teams.

Team # HBP Lamigo Monkeys (La New Bears) 35 Uni-Lions 32 EDA Rhinos 12 Sinon Bulls 11 dmedia T-REX 5 Chinatrust Whales 5 Total 100

The next CPBL magneto?

In the current CPBL top 10 HBP chart, Wang on average gets hit once every 42 plate appearances. Other than Wang, Lamigo Monkeys 林泓育 (Lin Hung-Yu) is only player that have PA/HBP that’s lower than Wang (40 PA/HBP).

NUM NAME NAME PA HBP PA/HBP 1 王 勝 偉 Wang Seng-Wei 4285 100 42.9 2 林 智 勝 Lin Chih-Sheng 5259 84 62.6 3 彭 政 閔 Peng Cheng-Min 6515 83 78.5 4 張 建 銘 Chang Chien-Ming 4945 80 61.8 5 林 泓 育 Lin Hung-Yu 3234 80 40.4 6 高 國 慶 Kao Kuo-Ching 5583 63 88.6 7 鄭 達 鴻 Cheng Ta-Hung 3973 58 68.5 8 張 正 偉 Chang Cheng-Wei 3716 55 67.6 9 劉 芙 豪 Kao Chih-Kang 4432 54 82.1 10 高 志 綱 Kao Chih-Kang 3453 50 69.1

Quick profile on Wang Seng-Wei

Wang drafted by Brother Elephants (Chinatrust Brothers) in the 1st round back in 2006. Since then, Wang has been the primary short stop for Brothers and have won 7 CPBL gold gloves.

At the end of 2016, Wang filed for free agency and was resigned by the Chinatrust Brothers with 2-year 350,000 USD extension.