Lin En-Yu

Lin En-Yu is one of those names that means a lot in Taiwanese baseball circles and almost nothing elsewhere, which is exactly why I find him interesting. A pitcher out of Tainan who came up through the national training team in the early 2000s before the Macoto Cobras drafted him into the CPBL, he reads to me as a product of Taiwan's serious, underrated baseball pipeline. His pro run with the team was short, ending in 2006, and I always wonder about the players whose careers burned bright and brief. He's a reminder that baseball's deepest stories often live well outside the major leagues.

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Name (English)

Lin En-Yu

Name (Japanese)

林恩宇

Reading

りん・えんゆう

Born

March 25, 1981 (age 45)

Origin

Tainan, Taiwan

Height

188 cm

Occupation

baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Rooster

University

National Taiwan Sport University

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin%20En-yu
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9E%97%E6%81%A9%E5%AE%87
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q700857

Tags

• baseball player

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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