Kuo Lee Chien-fu

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Kuo Lee.
Olympic medal record
Men’s Baseball
1992 Barcelona Team

Kuo Lee Chien-Fu (Chinese: 郭李建夫; pinyin: Guō Lǐ Jiànfū; born March 24, 1969[1] in Taoyuan County, Taiwan (now Taoyuan City)) 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 Chinese Taipei versus Japan matches, one in the preliminary round and the other in the semifinal. The two victories helped the Chinese Taipei team win the silver medal that year. He was also a member of the Chinese Taipei national baseball team in the 1988 Olympics when baseball was a demonstration sport, but did not play in any of the tournament's matches due to his juniority at that time.

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 the Chinese Taipei national baseball team in the 1998 Asian Games, but was allowed 7 runs in within only 2 innings in the Chinese Taipei versus South Korea match, only could see the Chan-ho Park-led South Korean team slaughtering Taiwan. His fame accumulated since 1992 suddenly vanished: Taiwan Major League immediately announced "we do not have any plan to acquire Kuo Lee" right after this fiasco. He later sought to join CPBL's Chinatrust Whales and stayed with the team until his final retirement in late 2003. He currently coaches local college baseball team.

Career statistics

1992 Olympics:

ERAGamesWLIPHRHits AllowedKBBRunsEarned Runs
0.9343029011261333

Nippon Professional Baseball:

YearClubGamesInningsWLSavesComplete GamesShutoutsBB KEarned RunsERA
1993Hanshin Tigers27 51.333 5 4 2 0 0 28 48 21 3.68
1994Hanshin Tigers49 86 7 5 2 0 0 41 70 30 3.14
1995Hanshin Tigers30 115 5 12 0 3 2 68 92 433.37
1996Hanshin Tigers45 104.333 8 9 15 1 1 51 81 42 3.62
1997Hanshin Tigers5 4.667 0 0 0 0 0 4 3 3 5.79
1998Hanshin Tigers11 13.667 2 1 0 0 0 13 5 7 4.61
Total 167 375 27 31194 3 205 299 146 3.50

Chinese Professional Baseball League:

YearClubWLERAGamesComplete GamesShutoutsSavesInningsHits allowedRunsEarned RunsBBK
1999Chinatrust Whales15 7 2.889 23 1 0 0 152.7 125 60 49 62 134
2000Chinatrust Whales10 6 2.392 26 1 0 2 131.7 114 52 35 73 107
2001Chinatrust Whales0 1 2.362 20 0 0 11 26.7 20 10 7 7 25
2002Chinatrust Whales4 5 2.319 34 0 0 16 54.3 41 23 14 23 54
2003Chinatrust Whales9 6 3.053 31 0 0 8 94.3 94 44 32 43 95
Total38 25 2.68 134 2 0 37 459.667 394 189 137 208 415
  1. other sources report his date of birth: March 21, 1969

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