Chin-Lung Hu
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Hu with the Los Angeles Dodgers
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| Fubon Guardians – No. 15 | |||
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Born: February 2, 1984 Tainan City, Taiwan |
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| MLB debut | |||
| September 1, 2007, for the Los Angeles Dodgers | |||
| MLB statistics (through 2011 season) |
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| Batting average | .176 | ||
| Home runs | 2 | ||
| Runs batted in | 18 | ||
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Representing  Chinese Taipei
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2006 Doha | Team |
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2010 Guangzhou | Team |
| Asian Baseball Championship | ||
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2007 Taichung | Team |
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2009 Sapporo | Team |
Chin-lung Hu (Chinese: 胡金龍; pinyin: Hú Jīnlóng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hô͘ Kim-liông; born February 2, 1984) is a Taiwanese professional baseball player, currently with the Fubon Guardians of the Chinese Professional Baseball League. He is the fifth player — and first infielder — from Taiwan to play Major League Baseball. His last name (along with that of fellow countryman Fu-Te Ni, formerly of the Detroit Tigers) is the shortest in MLB history. Hu recorded 34 hits in his MLB career, more than any other Taiwanese-born player.
Hu was signed by the Dodgers on January 31, 2003, and began his professional career with the rookie league Ogden Raptors in 2003. He split 2004 between the Columbus Catfish in A ball and the Vero Beach Dodgers in High-A ball. In 2005, he played the whole season at Vero Beach and hit .313 with 23 stolen bases.
In 2006, he played for the Double-A Jacksonville Suns. Hu played in the All-Star Futures Game during the All-Star break in both 2006 and 2007. He won the MVP award for his performance in the 2007 game.
He was promoted to Triple-A Las Vegas on July 12, 2007, and made his major league debut on September 1, 2007, against the San Diego Padres. In his second MLB at bat, Hu hit a solo home run on September 11, 2007, against the Padres, becoming the first position player born in Taiwan to hit a home run in MLB. (Hu's teammate, pitcher Hong-Chih Kuo, had become the first Taiwanese-born player to hit a home run in MLB earlier in 2007). On September 25, Hu hit a two-run homer and became the first Taiwanese-born player to hit two home runs. Hu spent most of 2009 in AAA with the Albuquerque Isotopes and appeared in only five games with the Dodgers after a September callup.
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