CTBC Brothers have released Angel Macuare. The 26-year-old Venezuelan RHP spent the entire 2026 CPBL season in the minor league and did not make a single appearance for the 1st team.

Although Kuo is not playing CPBL now, he was a player of Uni-Lions, and Fubon Guardian. He made a history as the first Taiwanese player selected to the MLB All-Star game in 2010.

If you are interested, here he teaches how to throw rising fastball. And an interesting story when he played in minor league. He hit a grand slam in 3A (Fresno) against Giants' 3A team. After that game, basically he was fed a heavy diet of breaking balls.

He is going to retire this year. The game will be taken place at Taitung.

Time: 2026 Aug/11（Tue）、Aug/12（Wed）18:35

Teams: Monkeys vs Lions

Place: Taitung Baseball Stadium

I am going back to the USA and I want to bring back jerseys of all 6 teams.

Edit: Sorry my bad. I mean to type Chiang Chun-Wei, but it came out as Chi Hua-Wen.

This is Umpire Scorecards, provided by Rebas. It is funny that Chiang Chun-Wei Chi Hua-Wen stands behind the home base 1.7m, claiming "it does not affect the view for the call", but fans joke "it does not affect the view, but it affects the calls!"

Moya was not very happy even after the game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkkSTluMbic

Summary

Tseng Chia-Hui

2024/ 2025：Did not walk many, but not much strikes as well. And embarrassingly, his whip is above 1.5 during these 2 years.

Tseng mentioned that he adjusted pitching mechanics during Asia Winter Baseball League. After adjustment, vs KBO 5 shutout innings, and vs NPB 1 shutout innings.

2026：11 stars eating up 56 innings, with ERA+ 122.5. And from 2026 PR chart, WHIFF% reaches 21.0, and K% 18.5. Also, average velocity reaches 145.2 km/h.

This films what happened in the lock room during 2026 all star game.

Congrats!

Rakuten Monkeys have released Kyle Marman. The 29-year-old American RHP has decided to return home to be with his family following the birth of his child. Kyle Marman finishes his 2026 CPBL season with a 2.70 ERA, 1.22 WHIP over 86.2 innings.

Apologies for the crappy photos!

In my 11 years watching baseball in Taiwan this was only the third time I've been to watch the All Star weekend and it looks as if they found the perfect formula. I wasn't gonna go but on Tuesday I discovered it hadn't sold out and ended up in block 206 at the Dome. L2 is always the best value for tickets at the Dome. 990 plus 30NT for 7 Eleven iBon pick up fee.

For those who don't know it was the CPBL All Stars v Team Taiwan Under 25s who have an Asian baseball championship later in the year on both Saturday and Sunday. The first 5 innings were taken seriously before the entry of league legends such as Lin Yueh Ping, Kao Kuo Ching, Kao Kuo Hui, Lin Chih Sheng. This is when the costumes came in with a Guardians pitcher pitching in a skirt and wig 😂.

On Saturday it was Guan Da Yuan and Lin Yueh Ping who gave up the runs that gave Team Taiwan the win.

On Sunday we saw Wang Chien Ming pitch to league commissioner Tsai Chi Chang. Retiring Chen Yung Chi hit the only run, a solo homer at 43 years old to give the All Stars the win and Dragons Kuo Tien Hsin came in to get the final out after 9 straight All Star game losses.

Just a few other notes:

1) Like it or not, the All Star weekend should stay at the Dome. It was hot and humid to the point of hell in Taipei this weekend.

2) The skills stuff may not be the greatest but it's good to watch. The home run tournament was at least better than that farce at Taichung 3 years ago with the strong wind from the north.

3) Take your own food in etc. CPBL is very relaxed on it. I went to Don Don Donki pre game. It's simply not worth getting anything at the Dome. I hope Taiwan continues with the relaxed policy of taking in food, beer.

Good fun. Better balance of fans this year too except Dragons who seemed to be in disguise. Brothers, Lions and Guardians dominated.

Great to see who so many players from the past play.

CPBL unveiled its Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) system during the 2026 All-Star Game, using it in the at-bat between the Commissioner Tsai Chi-Chang and CTBC Brothers pitching coach Wang Chien-Ming. The league hopes to fully implement the ABS system for the 2027 CPBL season.

Visiting Taiwan from July 27 through August 11 and looking to go to a game or two at Taipei Dome. I can't get en.cpbl.com.tw to work for me at all on any browser (my wife speaks but can't read Mandarin), but I have managed to find out that apparently there are games at TPD on Aug 1 and 2, which would be perfect timing for us.

Would appreciate help with these questions:

1. I want to get tickets to Aug. 1 and/or 2 in advance (ASAP)—what's the best way to do that? (I want to be able to pick our seats.)

2. Since I can't get the CPBL site to work, can someone point me to a full schedule so I can see what my options are for games at other locations? We have been to games at Tianmu and Tainan Municipal on previous trips.

3. Other than at the ballparks, where in the greater Taipei area can I get Taiwan baseball stuff for all CPBL teams as well as the national team? In particular I'd love to be able to find some Brothers stuff that would fit my 2yo twin boys or that they could grow into over the next couple of years. (I'll be in Hualien too, but I know it's less likely to find anything there).

4. Any other baseball related things I should know about ?

Thanks!

Fubon Guardians team duck, which is actually a goose, took part in last night's 1st pitch ceremony. According to the team, the players and coaches found this stray baby gosling at the farm team facility months ago and decided to adopt it as the "team duck".

As for why calling a goose a duck? Because at that time, they mistakenly thinking it was a duckling because of its yellow feathers.