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**Brother Elephants**
	Brother Elephants
League	Chinese Professional Baseball League
Location	Taipei City
Ballpark	Sinjhuang Baseball Stadium
Year Founded	1989
League championships	1992, 1993, 1994, 2001, 2002, 2003
Colors	Yellow
	Uniforms
Home	Away

The Brother Elephants (兄弟象) are the most popular professional baseball team in Taiwan. It was originally established as an amateur team in 1984 by the Brother Hotel located in Taipei City, and later joined the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) in 1989. Brother Hotel's chairman Hung Teng-sheng (洪騰勝) also acted as CPBL's secretary-general from 1989 until now, and is respected as "father of the CPBL".

The Brother Elephants wear yellow uniforms throughout its history and makes Taipei its home city, with a training field in Longtan Township, Taoyuan County.

[edit] History

On March 17, 1990 the Brother Elephants played the first historical CPBL game against the Uni-President Lions in the now demolished Taipei Municipal Baseball Stadium with a full house of 14,350 in attendance. Interestingly, the two teams are also the only two remaining original teams of the CPBL.

With its long history from the amateur era plus a successful marketing strategy and management, the Brother Elephants has long been the most popular Taiwanese baseball team, also winning six, CPBL championships, more than any other team. Its current roster includes two local batting stars Chen Chih-yuan and Peng Cheng-min, both of whom participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics. Cola Yeh, a former Brother Elephant's player, later moved to New Zealand and started his own baseball club, the Cola Yeh Baseball team. He coached the New Zealand Little League Baseball team.

Despite having the best season-long record for the 2004 season, the Elephants were unable to participate in the Taiwan Series because they had won neither half season. This resulted in the expansion of the playoffs to three teams beginning in 2005, where the team with the best season-long record among non-champions for the season would gain a wildcard berth, thus preventing a similar occurrence in the future.

In mid-season of 2008, GM Hung Je-he revealed the possibility of sale or disbanding of the organization if the financial deficit continues after the 2009 season.

The 2009 season saw great promise. However, Brother Elephants are currently running last due to very poor performance by the pitchers.

As of October 28th, 2009, the team is currently under investigation for game fixing allegations.

[edit] Records

Qualified for Playoffs	Taiwan Series Championship	Asia Series Championship

[edit] Regular Seasons

Season	Wins	Losses	Ties	Pct.	Place
Brother Elephants
1990	34 (17/17)	49 (25/24)	7 (3/4)	.410 (.405/.415)	4 (3/4)
1991	38 (21/17)	49 (23/26)	3 (1/2)	.437 (.477/.395)	3 (3/4)
1992	51 (27/24)	35 (17/18)	4 (1/3)	.593 (.614/.571)	1 (1/1)
1993	52 (28/24)	36 (16/20)	2 (1/1)	.591 (.636/.545)	2 (1/2)
1994	64 (34/30)	24 (11/13)	2 (0/2)	.727 (.756/.698)	1 (1/1)
1995	48 (25/23)	51 (25/26)	1 (0/1)	.485 (.500/.469)	4 (4/3)
1996	52 (29/23)	43 (19/24)	5 (2/3)	.547 (.604/.489)	4 (2/4)
1997	45 (23/22)	44 (20/24)	7 (5/2)	.506 (.535/.478)	3 (3/5)
1998	33	69	3	0.324	6
1999	37	53	4	0.411	5
2000	38 (21/17)	48 (21/27)	4 (3/1)	.442 (.500/.386)	4 (3/4)
2001	44 (17/27)	39 (23/16)	7 (5/2)	.530 (.435/.628)	2 (3/1)
2002	53 (25/28)	33 (17/16)	4 (3/1)	.616 (.595/.636)	1 (1/1)
2003	63 (27/36)	31 (20/11)	6 (3/3)	.670 (.574/.766)	1 (3/1)
2004	54 (26/28)	45 (23/22)	3 (1/2)	.545 (.531/.560)	3 (3/2)
2005	47 (25/22)	49 (23/26)	4 (2/2)	.490 (.521/.458)	4 (3/6)
2006	40 (20/20)	59 (29/30)	1 (1/0)	.404 (.408/.400)	6 (5/6)
2007	49 (24/25)	50 (25/25)	1 (1/0)	.495 (.490/.500)	3 (4/4)
2008	52 (24/28)	42 (23/19)	4 (3/6)	.548 (.511/.587)	3 (3/3)
2009	54 (21/33)	63 (38/25)	3 (1/2)	.462 (.356/.569)	4 (4/1)
Total	948	912	73	.510	--

[edit] Playoffs

Season	First Round			Taiwan Series
Season	Opponent	Wins	Losses	Opponent	Wins	Losses
Brother Elephants
1992	No playoffs. The Elephants won the championship by virtue of winning both half-seasons.
1993	No first round.			Uni-President Lions	4	2
1994	No playoffs. The Elephants won the championship by virtue of winning both half-seasons.
2001	No first round.			Uni-President Lions	4	3
2002	No first round.			Chinatrust Whales	4	0
2003	No first round.			Sinon Bulls	4	2
2008	La New Bears	3	0	Uni-President Lions	3	4
2009	No first round.			Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions	3	4
Total	Combining the first round and Taiwan Series				25	16

[edit] Roster

[edit] Current Roster

Brother Elephants Roster

Players

Coaches

Pichers

13 Yeh Yung-chieh(葉詠捷)
18 Tseng Chia-min(曾嘉敏)
19 Yeh Ting-jen(葉丁仁)
20 Liu Yu-chan(柳裕展)
21 Wang Jing-li(王勁力)
22 Ryokan Kobayashi (小林亮寬)
25 Mai Chia-je(買嘉瑞)
34 Matt Perisho(麥　特)
35 Tsao Chun-yang{曹竣崵)
39 Huang Jung-yi(黃榮義)
40 Mike Smith(麥　克)
42 Li Hou-jen(李濠任)
43 Wu Pau-hsien(吳保賢)
47 Liao Yu-cheng(廖于誠)
71 Chin-hui Tsao(曹錦輝)

Catchers

2 Wang Chun-tai(汪竣泰)
11 Chen Chih-hung(陳智弘)
15 Chen Je-chang(陳瑞昌)
24 Lin Chia-wei(林家緯)
36 Kuo Yi-feng(郭一峰)

Infields

3 Wang Jin-yong(王金勇)
7 Chu Hung-sen(朱鴻森)
8 Huang Chih-hsiang(黃志祥)
10 Liu Keng-shin(劉耿欣)
14 Wang Seng-wei(王勝偉)
17 Chen Je-cheng(陳瑞振)
23 Peng Cheng-min(彭政閔)
31 Chen Chiung-her(陳江和)

Outfields

6 Young Chung-fung(楊宗範)
9 Huang Cheng-wei(黃正偉)
16 Chou Ssu-Chi(周思齊)
27 Liu Yu-ann(劉裕安)
28 Chen Chih-peng(陳致鵬)
50 Chen Chih-yuan(陳致遠)
52 Lin Ming-hsien(林明憲)
55 Chen Kuan-jen(陳冠任)

Manager

77 Sin Nakagomi(中込伸)

Coaches

15 Chen Je-chang(陳瑞昌) (Bullpen Coach)
17 Chen Je-cheng(陳瑞振) (Defense Coach)
52 Lin Ming-hsien(林明憲) (Physical Coach)
56 Chen Chi-feng(陳琦豐) (Bench Coach)
72 Hsu Ming-lan(許閔嵐) (Batting Coach)
81 Cheng Hen-li(鄭漢禮) (Pitching-Catching Coach)
88 Feng Sheng-hsien (馮勝賢) (Defense Coach)
89 Glenn Steele (Strength and Conditioning Coach)

Reserve Team

26 Wang Kong-hui(王光輝) (Reserve Manager)
59 Chen hsien-chang(陳憲章) (Reserve Pitching Coach)

[edit] External links

[edit] See also

2007 CPBL season

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