Sinon Bulls

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Name = Sinon Bulls

Founded = 1996
League = Chinese Professional Baseball League
Location = Taichung
Stadium = Taichung Baseball Field
Colors = Green and white
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The Sinon Bulls (興農牛), formerly Jungo Bears and Sinon Bears, are one of the six teams in the Chinese Professional Baseball League in Taiwan. The team is owned by Sinon Corporation and plays most of its home games in Taichung. Those home games are played at Taichung Baseball Field, and planned to move into Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium in the future.

History

The Jungo Era (1993-1995)

The Jungo Bears (俊國熊) existed in CPBL between 1993 and 1995. Originally formed as an amateur club by the Taichung-based Jungo Corporation in 1989, this club was professionalized in 1992 after absorbing a group of players from the Taiwan national baseball team who just won the silver medal in the 1992 Summer Olympics, similar to its sister team China Times Eagles. This club took Taichung Baseball Field as its home throughout its history.

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Despite a nice start, this club had been performing poorly throughout its short history, mainly due to the controversial leading styles of Jungo Corporation's then chairman Chen I-ping (陳一平). After a chain of rows over TV broadcast rights and the distribution of TV broadcast royalties, in November 1995 the other 5 teams of CPBL expelled Chen I-ping and Jungo Corporation's all legal rights inside CPBL. The Sinon Corporation took over this team and renamed it as Sinon Bears, which was later renamed again as Sinon Bulls in June 1996. Later in 1999 Chen I-ping and Jungo Corporation sought to sponsor Taiwan Major League(TML)'s Taichung Agan but TML did not respond.

The Sinon Era (1996-current)

The Sinon Bulls were founded in 1996 and are owned by the Taichung-based Sinon Corporation, which is known for its agricultural product lines, insurance, and supermarket chains through Central Taiwan. After a poor first season, the Bulls managed a winning record for the first time in second half of the 1997 season, and achieved the feat for a full season for the first time in 1998. It was in that season that the Bulls made it to the championship series for the first time, losing to the now defunct Wei Chuan Dragons four games to three. Sinon would advance to the finals in 2000 and 2003 as well, losing both times.

It was in 2004 that the Bulls finally made their breakthrough with a thrilling come-from-behind seven game series win that had the city of Taichung in jubilation. The Bulls made it back-to-back Taiwan Series wins with a sweep of the Macoto Cobras the following year, their third consecutive trip to the championship series. The Bulls have now made the playoffs four years in a row (2003-2006), a Chinese Professional Baseball League record they share with the Wei Chuan Dragons, who also appeared in four consecutive playoff rounds from 1996-1999.

The Bulls also participated in the first annual Konami Cup Asia Series in Japan following its Taiwan Series victory in 2005. While defeating a team of all-stars from the Chinese league, they lost to the champions of Japan and South Korea en route to a 1-2 showing.

Records

Asia Series

2007 Roster

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Pitchers

*player|11|TWN|Shen Fu-Jen(沈福仁)
*player|15|TWN|Chen Yen-Ming (陳彥銘)(職棒18年季中，已遭解約)
*player|16|TWN|Yu Wen-Ping(余文彬)
*player|18|TWN|Tsai Chung-Nan(蔡仲南)
*player|19|TWN|Tsai Ming-Chin(蔡明晉)
*player|20|JPN|Shibakusa Hiroshi (芝草 宇宙)(職棒18年季中，已遭解約)
*player|22|JPN|Iba Tomokazu (井場 友和)(職棒19年季初，已遭解約)
*player|29|TWN|Kuo Yong-Chih(郭勇志)
*player|32|TWN|Lee Kuo-Ching(李國慶)(職棒19年季初，已遭釋出，隨即轉戰米迪亞暴龍)
*player|36|USA|Mike Vento (凡托)
*player|41|DOM|Alfredo Gonzalez (剛雷)(職棒19年未與球團續約，目前已轉戰MLB德州遊奇兵隊小聯盟發展)
*player|46|TWN|Yang Chien-Fu(陽建福)
*player|48|TWN|Tu Ying-Chueh(杜寅傑)
*player|51|TWN|Lin Chi-Wei(林其緯)
*player|55|USA|Jeffrey Farnsworth(沃斯)
*player|60|DOM|Jose Espinal(班尼歐)

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Catchers

*player|23|TWN|Chong Chia-Pao (鍾家寶)
*player|27|TWN|Yeh Ching-Chang (葉君璋)

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Infielders

*player|03|TWN|Hsu Kuo-Long (許國隆)
*player|11|TWN|Chen Yih-Chung (陳意忠) (職棒18年季末，已遭解約)
*player|14|TWN|Lin Tsong-Nan (林宗男)
*player|17|TWN|Huang Chung-Yi (黃忠義)
*player|43|TWN|Chen Chih-Wei (陳志偉)
*player|49|TWN|Chang Tai-Shan (張泰山)
*player|88|TWN|Cheng Tsao-Hang (鄭兆行)

Outfielders

*player|05|TWN|Yu Hsien-Ming (余賢明)
*player|07|TWN|Cheng Ta-Hung (鄭達鴻)
*player|10|TWN|Su Chien-Rong (蘇建榮)
*player|21|TWN|Tseng Hua-Wei (曾華偉)
*player|28|TWN|Yang Chin-Hsiung (楊進雄) (職棒18年球季已遭釋出，隨即轉戰中信鯨)
*player|31|TWN|Tseng Ching-Feng (曾鏡峰) (職棒18年球季結束，已遭解約)

ee also

*Chinese Professional Baseball League
*2006 Chinese Professional Baseball League playoffs
*2007 CPBL season

External links

* [http://twbsball.dils.tku.edu.tw/wiki/index.php/%E4%BF%8A%E5%9C%8B%E7%86%8A Jungo Bears in Taiwan Baseball Wiki (in Traditional Chinese)]
* [http://www.bulls.com.tw Sinon Bulls Official Website]
* [http://www.sinon.com.tw Sinon Corporation Official Website]