Lyle Lin
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Lin with the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs in 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters – No. 38 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Catcher | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born: 26 June 1997 Taipei County, Taiwan | |||||||||||||||||||||
Bats: Right Throws: Right | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Stats at Baseball Reference | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Chinese | 林家正 | ||||||
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Lin Chia-cheng (Chinese: 林家正; Wade–Giles: Lin2 Chia1-cheng4; born 26 June 1997), also known as Lyle Lin, is a Taiwanese professional baseball catcher for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He became the first Taiwanese-born player to be drafted by a Major League Baseball (MLB) team in 2016 and the first to join an MLB team through the draft in 2019.
Born in Taipei County (now New Taipei), Taiwan, Lin moved to California to attend high school. He was recruited to play baseball at Arizona State University (ASU) before being drafted by and signing with the Arizona Diamondbacks.