Fubon Guardians 林益全 (Lin Yi-Chuan) has recorded his 1300th career hit last night. Lin is the 8th CPBL players to joined the 1300 club at the same time setting the CPBL record for being the fastest player to reach 1300 hits.
Lin Yi-Chuan setting CPBL record for fastest to 1300 hits
- 965 games – previous record 1083 games
- 4128 plate appearances – previous record 4577 plate appearances
- 3717 at bats – previous record 3756 at bats
“This just part of the process, enjoying playing baseball and helping the team to win is far more important than personal record” Said Lin in the post game interview.
The “Fastest” hit machine in CPBL
Despite Lin Yi-Chuan’s slow base running speed, it’s a completely different story when it comes to hitting. Lin has been setting CPBL hit records being the fastest to reach pretty much all the hit milestones since his rookie season.
Just how good is Lin? We put together a list below to show Lin at producing hits. When opening up CPBL hit record book, we can see Lin’s footprints all over it.
| Milestone | Date | Games | H/G | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2009/03/29 | 1 | 1 | - |
| 100 | 2009/07/09 | 62 | 1.67 | CPBL record (Fastest) |
| 200 | 2010/04/23 | 142 | 1.40 | Former CPBL record (Fastest) |
| 300 | 2010/09/30 | 224 | 1.34 | Former CPBL record (Fastest) |
| 400 | 2011/08/26 | 306 | 1.31 | - |
| 500 | 2012/06/03 | 374 | 1.34 | Former CPBL record (Fastest) |
| 600 | 2013/04/04 | 449 | 1.34 | CPBL record (Fastest) |
| 700 | 2013/08/07 | 516 | 1.36 | CPBL record (Fastest) |
| 800 | 2014/06/24 | 611 | 1.31 | CPBL record (Fastest) |
| 900 | 2015/03/24 | 675 | 1.34 | CPBL record (Fastest) |
| 1000 | 2015/07/18 | 744 | 1.34 | CPBL record (Fastest) |
| 1100 | 2016/05/03 | 817 | 1.35 | CPBL record (Fastest) |
| 1200 | 2016/09/25 | 888 | 1.35 | CPBL record (Fastest) |
| 1300 | 2017/07/25 | 965 | 1.35 | CPBL record (Fastest) |
林益全 Lin Yi-Chuan Career Stats
| YEAR | TEAM | PA | H | HR | RBI | AVG | OBP | SLG | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Bulls | 529 | 169 | 18 | 113 | 0.348 | 0.395 | 0.543 | 146 |
| 2010 | Bulls | 438 | 134 | 8 | 55 | 0.330 | 0.374 | 0.453 | 147 |
| 2011 | Bulls | 415 | 117 | 8 | 55 | 0.318 | 0.383 | 0.462 | 128 |
| 2012 | Bulls | 489 | 167 | 13 | 92 | 0.371 | 0.419 | 0.573 | 162 |
| 2013 | Rhinos | 467 | 149 | 18 | 79 | 0.357 | 0.415 | 0.549 | 169 |
| 2014 | Rhinos | 520 | 161 | 14 | 88 | 0.346 | 0.398 | 0.510 | 159 |
| 2015 | Rhinos | 512 | 166 | 23 | 126 | 0.367 | 0.422 | 0.586 | 151 |
| 2016 | Rhinos | 472 | 146 | 17 | 81 | 0.350 | 0.416 | 0.530 | 122 |
| 2017 | Guardians | 290 | 92 | 9 | 41 | 0.354 | 0.400 | 0.523 | 130 |
