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Wikipedia / Kuo Lee Chien-fu

Kuo Lee Chien-fu (; born March 24, 1969 in Taoyuan County, Taiwan) is a retired Taiwanese professional baseball pitcher and currently a baseball coach. He is best known for being the ace pitcher in the Chinese Taipei national baseball team in the 1992 Olympics where he was twice the winning pitcher in the two games against Japan, one in the preliminary round and the other in the semifinal. The two victories helped the Taiwanese national team win the silver medal that year. He was also a member of the team in the 1988 Olympics when baseball was a demonstration sport, but did not play in any of the tournament's games.

After the 1992 Olympics Kuo Lee joined the Hanshin Tigers. However, during his 6-year career with the Tigers he performed only moderately and was waived by the end of 1998. Right after the waiver Kuo Lee represented Taiwan in the 1998 Asian Games, but allowed 7 runs in within only 2 innings in game against South Korea, as the Chan-ho Park-led South Korean team routed Taiwan. His fame accumulated since 1992 suddenly vanished as Taiwan Major League immediately announced "we do not have any plan to acquire Kuo Lee" right after this fiasco. He later join CPBL's Chinatrust Whales and stayed with the team until his final retirement in late 2003. He currently coaches a college baseball team.

Career statistics

1992 Olympics:

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Nippon Professional Baseball:

Year

Club

Games

Innings

W

L

Saves

Complete Games

Shutouts

BB

K

Earned Runs

ERA

1993

Hanshin Tigers

27

51.333

5

4

2

0

0

28

48

21

3.68

1994

Hanshin Tigers

49

86

7

5

2

0

0

41

70

30

3.14

1995

Hanshin Tigers

30

115

5

12

0

3

2

68

92

43

3.37

1996

Hanshin Tigers

45

104.333

8

9

15

1

1

51

81

42

3.62

1997

Hanshin Tigers

5

4.667

0

0

0

0

0

4

3

3

5.79

1998

Hanshin Tigers

11

13.667

2

1

0

0

0

13

5

7

4.61

Total

167

375

27

31

19

4

3

205

299

146

3.50

Chinese Professional Baseball League:

Year

Club

W

L

ERA

Games

Complete Games

Shutouts

Saves

Innings

Hits allowed

Runs

Earned Runs

BB

K

1999

Chinatrust Whales

15

7

2.889

23

1

0

0

152.7

125

60

49

62

134

2000

Chinatrust Whales

10

6

2.392

26

1

0

2

131.7

114

52

35

73

107

2001

Chinatrust Whales

0

1

2.362

20

0

0

11

26.7

20

10

7

7

25

2002

Chinatrust Whales

4

5

2.319

34

0

0

16

54.3

41

23

14

23

54

2003

Chinatrust Whales

9

6

3.053

31

0

0

8

94.3

94

44

32

43

95

Total

38

25

2.68

134

2

0

37

459.667

394

189

137

208

415

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