Dai-Kang Yang
Infielder, Baseball Player
1987 –
Who is Dai-Kang Yang?
Dai-Kang Yang is a Taiwanese professional baseball player.
Yang played for the Chinese Taipei national baseball team in 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.
The Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters of Nippon Professional Baseball selected Yang in the first round of the 2006 NPB Draft. Yang was called up to the Fighters from ni-gun on April 19, 2007, when Andy Green was injured.
Yang was 1 for 1 for Taiwan in the 2007 Asian Championship, backing up Tai-Shan Chang at third base.
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.
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.
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- Born
- Jan 17, 1987
Taitung City - Also known as
- Yang, Dai-Kang
- yáng dài gāng
- 陽岱鋼
- よう だいかん
- 陽 仲壽
- よう ちょんそ
- Chung-Shou Yang
- DaiKan Yoh
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Xie Wan-Rong
(2008/12/24 - )
- Xie Wan-Rong
- Nationality
- Taiwan
- Profession
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on July 23, 2013
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