Chinatrust Whales

Chinatrust Whales
League	Chinese Professional Baseball League
Location	Taipei
Ballpark	None
Year Founded	1997
Colors	Green and red
Uniforms Home Away

The Chinatrust Whales (中信鯨), formerly Koos Group Whales (和信鯨), were a Taiwanese professional baseball team. Originally founded as an amateur team in 1991, this club became professional and joined the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) in 1997. It is administered by the Chinatrust Financial Holding Company. The Whales have never won a CPBL championship. It was announced on November 11, 2008 that the team would defunct and disband due to financial losses of Chinatrust Group.

History

In 1997, the amateur Chinatrust Whales Baseball Team was professionalized and became the seventh member of Chinese Professional Baseball League; however, because Taiwan forbid financial institutions to invest in unrelated market, the ownership of the team had to be transferred to Koos Group(和信集團), which was also the owner of Chinatrust, thus the team was named KG Whales when it began its first season. Initially, the Whales played their home games at the Chiayi Baseball Field. The team has not had any notable success over the course of its history with only two appearances in the Championship series, winning only a single game over the course of those two series while dropping eight. In 2002, because of the split of Chinatrust and the Koo Group, the ownership of the Whales were transferred back to Chinatrust and renamed Chinatrust Whales. The organization disbanded after the 2008 season.

Records

Qualified for Playoffs

Taiwan Series Championship

Asia Series Championship

Regular Seasons

Season	Wins	Losses	Ties	Pct.	Place
Koos Group Whales
1997	39 (20/19)	56 (27/29)	1 (1/0)	.411 (.426/.396)	7 (6/6)
1998	54	49	2	.524	4
1999	60	29	2	.674	1
2000	41 (21/20)	45 (21/24)	4 (3/1)	.477 (.500/.455)	3 (2/3)
2001	45 (23/22)	45 (22/23)	0 (0/0)	.500 (.511/.489)	3 (2/2)
Chinatrust Whales
2002	45 (21/24)	42 (21/21)	3 (3/0)	.517 (.500/.533)	2 (2/2)
2003	51 (26/25)	43 (19/24)	6 (5/1)	.543 (.578/.510)	4 (2/4)
2004	45 (21/24)	50 (27/23)	5 (2/3)	.474 (.438/.511)	4 (5/4)
2005	47 (24/23)	49 (24/25)	4 (2/2)	.490 (.500/.479)	4 (4/4)
2006	42 (17/25)	51 (31/20)	7 (2/5)	.452 (.354/.556)	5 (6/2)
2007	46 (19/27)	52 (30/22)	2(1/1)	.469 (.388/.551)	4 (6/3)
2008	39 (20/19)	61 (30/31)	0 (0/0)	.390 (.400/.380)	5 (5/4)
Totals	554	572	36	.492	--

Playoffs

Season	First Round			Taiwan Series
	Opponent	Wins	Losses	Opponent	Wins	Losses
Koos Group Whales
1999	No first round.			Wei Chuan Dragons	1	4
Chinatrust Whales
2002	No first round.			Brother Elephants	0	4
Total	Combining the first round and Taiwan Series				1	8

See also

• 2007 CPBL season

External links

• The Chinatrust Whales Official Website
• The Chinatrust Financial Holding Company Official Website
• The CPBL Official Website