# 2022 Chinese Professional Baseball League season

The 2022 Chinese Professional Baseball League season was the 33rd season of the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL), based in Taiwan.

## Season schedule

The regular season began on 2 April 2022 at the Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium. Teams are playing a split-season, while second-half games started on 22 July at the newly-renovated Hsinchu Municipal Baseball Stadium. The CPBL All-Star Game is being played the weekend of 30–31 July.
The postseason started on 29 October, followed by the first game of the Taiwan Series on 5 November. Postseason uses an apertura and clausura format. The first round, the Playoff Series, features the half-season champion with the lower winning percentage overall against the team with the overall highest winning percentage of all teams that did not win either half. The winner of the Playoff Series faced the half-season champion with the overall higher winning percentage of the two "seasons" in the Taiwan Series.

## Draft

From 2022, foreign-born players can be considered domestic draft picks if: they have attended a Taiwanese high school for three years, a Taiwanese university for four years, or have lived in Taiwan for five years, while playing for a Taiwanese semi-professional league for three years.

## Milestones

On Opening Day, Lin Chih-sheng, who was released by the CTBC Brothers at the end of last season, hit the 290th home run of his career, breaking the league record held by Chang Tai-shan, who is a coach for his newly adopted team, the Wei Chuan Dragons.

## Controversies

On the opening weekend of the second half of the season, the high expectations for the re-opening of the Hsinchu Municipal Baseball Stadium were dashed when the league announced that the stadium was to be closed temporarily due to player safety issues. Injuries to players in both games played showed inadequacies in the stadium, including the nature of the dirt in the infield. The stadium was to have been a second home to the Wei Chuan Dragons for the second half of the season, but as of this time it is unclear when games will be played in the stadium again.

## Standings
### First half standings

| Team | G | W | T | L | Pct. | GB |
| Rakuten Monkeys | 60 | 37 | 1 | 22 | .627 | — |
| CTBC Brothers | 60 | 32 | 2 | 26 | .552 | 4½ |
| Uni-President Lions | 60 | 31 | 2 | 27 | .534 | 5½ |
| Wei Chuan Dragons | 60 | 31 | 0 | 29 | .517 | 6½ |
| Fubon Guardians | 60 | 16 | 1 | 43 | .271 | 21 |

### Second half standings

| Team | G | W | T | L | Pct. | GB |
| CTBC Brothers | 60 | 37 | 2 | 21 | .638 | — |
| Rakuten Monkeys | 60 | 33 | 3 | 24 | .579 | 3½ |
| Fubon Guardians | 60 | 30 | 3 | 26 | .536 | 6½ |
| Wei Chuan Dragons | 60 | 26 | 5 | 29 | .473 | 9½ |
| Uni-President Lions | 60 | 17 | 1 | 42 | .288 | 20½ |

### Full season standings

| Team | G | W | T | L | Pct. | GB |
| Rakuten Monkeys | 120 | 70 | 4 | 46 | .603 | — |
| CTBC Brothers | 120 | 69 | 4 | 47 | .595 | 1 |
| Wei Chuan Dragons | 120 | 57 | 5 | 58 | .496 | 12½ |
| Uni-President Lions | 120 | 48 | 3 | 69 | .410 | 22½ |
| Fubon Guardians | 120 | 46 | 4 | 70 | .397 | 24 |
* Green denotes first-half or second-half champion.
* Yellow denotes clinching playoff qualification as the wild card.

## Playoffs

| 2022 CPBL playoff series | 2022 CPBL playoff series | 2022 CPBL playoff series | 2022 Taiwan Series | 2022 Taiwan Series | 2022 Taiwan Series |
| | | | 1 | Rakuten Monkeys | 0 |
| 2 | CTBC Brothers | 3 | 2 | CTBC Brothers | 4 |
| 3 | Wei Chuan Dragons | 1 | | | |

### CPBL Playoff Series

The series started with a 1–0 advantage for the second-placed team.
CTBC Brothers won the series, 3−1.
| Game | Date | Score | Location | Time | Attendance |
| 1 | October 29 | Wei Chuan Dragons – 2 , CTBC Brothers – 6 | Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium | 2:45 | 17,216 |
| 2 | October 30 | CTBC Brothers – 2, Wei Chuan Dragons – 4 | Tianmu Baseball Stadium | 3:02 | 9,885 |
| 3 | October 31 | Wei Chuan Dragons– 2, CTBC Brothers – 3 | Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium | 3:44 | 7,925 |

### Taiwan Series

CTBC Brothers won the series, 4−0.
| Game | Date | Score | Location | Time | Attendance |
| 1 | November 5 | CTBC Brothers – 5 , Rakuten Monkeys – 3 | Rakuten Taoyuan Baseball Stadium | 3:18 | 14,132 |
| 2 | November 6 | CTBC Brothers – 4, Rakuten Monkeys – 1 | Rakuten Taoyuan Baseball Stadium | 3:28 | 11,392 |
| 3 | November 8 | Rakuten Monkeys– 2, CTBC Brothers – 7 | Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium | 3:18 | 17,112 |
| 4 | November 9 | Rakuten Monkeys– 2, CTBC Brothers – 3 | Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium | 3:19 | 20,000 |

## Statistical leaders
### Hitting

| Stat | Player | Team | Total |
| HR | Giljegiljaw Kungkuan Lin Li | Wei Chuan Dragons Rakuten Monkeys | 14 |
| AVG | Lin Li | Rakuten Monkeys | 0.335 |
| H | Lin Li | Rakuten Monkeys | 140 |
| RBIs | Lin Li | Rakuten Monkeys | 83 |
| SB | Chen Chen-Wei | Rakuten Monkeys | 38 |

### Pitching

| Stat | Player | Team | Total |
| W | José de Paula | CTBC Brothers | 14 |
| ERA | Huang Tzu-Peng | Rakuten Monkeys | 2.33 |
| SO | José de Paula | CTBC Brothers | 158 |
| SV | Bradin Hagens | Rakuten Monkeys | 36 |
| Hld | Chen Yu-Hsun | Rakuten Monkeys | 26 |