Dai-Kang Yang

Dai-Kang Yang
Dai-Kang Yang
	Yang with the Yomiuri Giants in 2017
Yomiuri Giants – No. 2
	Outfielder
	Born: January 17, 1987 (age 34); Taitung, Taiwan
	Bats: Right Throws: Right
debut
	20 April, 2007, for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
NPB statistics ; (through 2020 season)
Batting average	.270
Hits	1,163
Home runs	105
RBI	482
Stolen bases	141
Teams
	Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters (2007–2016); Yomiuri Giants (2017–present);
Career highlights and awards
	1× Pacific League stolen base champion (2013); 3× Pacific League Golden Glove Award (2012–2014); 1× Japan Series champion (2016); 3× NPB All-Star (2012–2014);

Yang playing for the Chinese Taipei national team in 2015 WBSC Premier12 warm-up game

Dai-Kang Yang (Chinese: 陽岱鋼; pinyin: Yáng Dàigāng, a.k.a. Daikan Yoh (Japanese: 陽岱鋼, Hepburn: Yō Daikan); born January 17, 1987, Taitung City, Taitung County, Taiwan; previously known as Yang Chung-shou or Chung-Shou Yang 陽仲壽) is a Taiwanese professional baseball player. He plays as an outfielder for the Yomiuri Giants in Nippon Professional Baseball.

Career[]

Nippon Ham Fighters[]

The Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters of Nippon Professional Baseball selected Yang in the first round of the . Yang was called up to the Fighters from the reserve team on April 19, 2007.

Yang is a two-time Nippon Professional Baseball All-Star Series Game MVP, winning the honour in Game 3 of 2012 and Game 2 of 2014.

Yang has won the Nippon Professional Baseball Gold Glove Award twice in 2012 and 2013.

2013 was the best season of Yang's career, where he batted .282 along with 18 homeruns, 67 RBIs, and a league-leading 47 stolen bases.

At the end of the 2016 season after helping the Fighters to victory in the Pacific League and Japan Series, Yoh elected for free agency.

Yomiuri Giants[]

On 14 December 2016 it was announced that Yang would be joining the Yomiuri Giants.^[1]

International career[]

Yang played for the Chinese Taipei national baseball team at the 2006 World Baseball Classic. He went 0 for 3 with two strikeouts as the backup SS to Chin-Lung Hu.

In the 2006 Intercontinental Cup, Yang batted .267/.371/.567 and scored 9 runs, tying Michel Enriquez and Yulieski Gourriel for the tournament lead.

Yang was 1 for 1 for Taiwan in the , backing up Tai-Shan Chang at third base.

Yang batted 4-for-12 with a home run and four RBI in the first round of the 2013 World Baseball Classic. Yang was the Most Valuable Player of Pool B.^[2]

And also, on November 16, 2018, he was selected Yomiuri Giants roster at the 2018 MLB Japan All-Star Series exhibition game against MLB All-Stars.^[3]

Batting Stats[]

Year	Team	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	TB	RBI	SB	CS	SH	SF	BB	HP	SO	GDP	AVG	SLG	OBP
2007	Nippon-Ham	55	116	109	12	26	8	2	0	38	10	3	2	4	0	2	1	30	0	.239	.349	.259
2008	Nippon-Ham	44	123	111	7	16	0	1	2	24	4	1	0	4	1	6	1	31	3	.144	.216	.193
2009	Nippon-Ham	15	13	11	2	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	3	0	.182	.182	.250
2010	Nippon-Ham	109	281	253	35	62	12	3	2	86	31	8	1	10	2	12	4	70	4	.245	.340	.288
2011	Nippon-Ham	141	603	537	66	147	23	4	6	196	36	19	2	38	1	22	5	134	5	.274	.365	.308
2012	Nippon-Ham	144	599	533	71	153	28	5	7	212	55	17	6	18	5	37	6	123	10	.287	.398	.337
2013	Nippon-Ham	144	658	574	93	162	27	2	18	247	67	47	10	4	2	69	9	142	9	.282	.430	.367
2014	Nippon-Ham	125	540	471	77	138	18	1	25	233	85	20	6	9	3	45	12	108	10	.293	.495	.367
2015	Nippon-Ham	86	381	352	47	91	10	2	7	126	36	14	2	2	2	21	4	93	4	.259	.358	.306
2016	Nippon-Ham	130	555	495	66	145	24	1	14	213	61	5	6	7	1	42	10	121	10	.293	.430	.359
2017	Yomiuri	87	381	330	46	87	18	1	9	134	33	4	2	2	1	41	7	80	6	.264	.406	.356
2018	Yomiuri	87	276	253	24	62	12	2	10	108	37	2	2	3	1	17	2	72	7	.245	.427	.297
2019	Yomiuri	110	231	208	28	57	8	1	4	79	21	0	1	0	0	22	1	66	9	.274	.380	.346
2020	Yomiuri	38	77	63	12	15	1	0	1	19	6	1	0	0	2	9	3	21	1	.238	.302	.351
	Totals	1315	4834	4300	586	1163	189	25	105	1717	482	141	40	102	21	346	65	1094	78	.270	.399	.333

Personal[]

Yang is the brother of Yao-Hsun Yang, a cousin of Chih-Yuan Chen and a nephew of Tai-Shan Chang. He is also related more distantly to Chien-Fu Yang, Cheng-Wei Chang and Sen Yang.

References[]

^ "【巨人】陽岱鋼と契約合意！背番号「２」１９日に入団会見" [Giants: Yoh Daikan agrees to contract! Wears #2, presser on 19th]. Sports Hochi (in Japanese). 14 December 2016. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
^ Coskrey, Jason (March 7, 2013). "Second round set in Tokyo with four talented clubs". Worldbaseballclassic.com.
^ "8日の「2018日米野球」参加メンバー決まる". 読売巨人軍公式WEBサイト (in Japanese). November 16, 2018. Retrieved December 5, 2018.

External links[]

Career statistics and player information from MLB, or Baseball-Reference (Minors)
Dai-Kang Yang at B-R Bullpen
Dai-Kang Yang at NPB Official Website
Facebook:陽岱鋼
https://npb.jp/bis/eng/players/21825112.html

[1] "【巨人】陽岱鋼と契約合意！背番号「２」１９日に入団会見" [Giants: Yoh Daikan agrees to contract! Wears #2, presser on 19th]. Sports Hochi (in Japanese). 14 December 2016. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2016.

[2] Coskrey, Jason (March 7, 2013). "Second round set in Tokyo with four talented clubs". Worldbaseballclassic.com.

[3] "8日の「2018日米野球」参加メンバー決まる". 読売巨人軍公式WEBサイト (in Japanese). November 16, 2018. Retrieved December 5, 2018.

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show v t Yomiuri Giants current roster
Pitchers	11 12 Rubby De La Rosa 15 Ángel Sánchez 17 Kan Ohtake 18 Tomoyuki Sugano 19 20 Shosei Togo 21 Shoichi Inoh 23 Ryoma Nogami 26 Nobutaka Imamura 30 Yohei Kagiya 33 35 Toshiki Sakurai 41 Kota Nakagawa 42 C.C.Mercedes 45 Seishu Hatake 47 Yuki Takahashi 49 Thyago Vieira 50 Chiaki Tone 53 Yuhei Takanashi 54 56 57 Kyosuke Takagi 58 59 62 63 Yuri Furukawa 64 90 91 92 95 99 Shun Yamaguchi
Catchers	22 Seiji Kobayashi 24 Takumi Ohshiro 38 67 69
Infielders	00 0 5 Hiroyuki Nakajima 6 Hayato Sakamoto 10 Sho Nakata 25 Kazuma Okamoto 29 Naoki Yoshikawa 32 Taishi Hirooka 37 40 48 Zelous Wheeler 52 60 61 65 66 68 93 98
Outfielders	2 Dai-Kang Yang 8 Yoshihiro Maru 9 Yoshiyuki Kamei 13 Takayuki Kajitani 28 Scott Heineman 31 36 Shingo Ishikawa 39 Soichiro Tateoka 43 Shinnosuke Shigenobu 51 97
Development pitchers	002 Daniel Missaki 003 011 012 017 018 019 029 030 032 040 046 051
Development catchers	006 024 027
Development infielders	001 007 021 025
Development outfielders	008 013 055 099
First squad coaching	Manager: 83 Tatsunori Hara Head Coach: 77 Daisuke Motoki Chief position player coach: 90 Koji Goto Operation coach: 87 Sadaaki Yoshimura Position player coaches: 89 Takuro Ishii, 75 Shuichi Murata Chief pitching coach: 81 Kazutomo Miyamoto Pitching coaches: 73 Masumi Kuwata, 85 Toshiya Sugiuchi Battery coach: 79 Ryoji Aikawa Bullpen coach: 74 Yoshinori Murata Training coaches:
Second squad coaching	Manager: 80 Shinnosuke Abe Head Coach: 78 Kim Ki-tai Position player coaches: 86 Shigeyuki Furuki, 84 Tetsuya Matsumoto Pitching coach: 71 Tetsuya Yamaguchi Battery coach: 82 Kazunari Sanematsu Bullpen coach: 72 Training coaches:
Third squad coaching	Manager: 76 Tomohiro Nioka Position player coaches: 102 Yasuyuki Kataoka, 103 Tatsuhiko Kinjoh Pitching coaches:　101 Koichi Misawa, 104 Takahiro Aoki Battery coach: 105 Ken Katoh Training coaches:
Organisational coaching	Patrol hitting coach: 100 Patrol pitching coach: 106 Yushi Aida

Dai-Kang Yang
Yang with the Yomiuri Giants in 2017
Yomiuri Giants – No. 2
Outfielder
Born: (1987-01-17) January 17, 1987 (age 34) Taitung, Taiwan
Bats: Right Throws: Right
debut
20 April, 2007, for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
NPB statistics (through 2020 season)
Batting average	.270
Hits	1,163
Home runs	105
RBI	482
Stolen bases	141

Teams
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters (2007–2016) Yomiuri Giants (2017–present)
Career highlights and awards
1× Pacific League stolen base champion (2013) 3× Pacific League Golden Glove Award (2012–2014) 1× Japan Series champion (2016) 3× NPB All-Star (2012–2014)