Red Sox Sign Chih-Jung Liu

[a700hitter]

[h=2]Red Sox Sign Taiwanese Prospect Chih-Jung Liu[/h]By Dylan A. Chase | October 23, 2019 at 2:30pm CDT

The Red Sox have agreed to terms with 20-year-old Taiwanese righthander Chih-Jung Liu for $750K, reports Pete Abraham of The Boston Globe (link).

Liu is a former two-way player with a fastball clocked as high as 98 mph in recent months. Abraham notes that a large high school workload forced Liu to abandon pitching in his first collegiate year with Taipei City’s Culture University, but a 2019 return to the bump yielded newfound velocity. Liu teamed with Red Sox infield prospect Tzu-Wei Lin on Taiwan’s national squad in this month’s Asian Baseball Championship series, taking home tournament MVP honors en route to his country’s first ABC gold medal. Liu is set to play for Taiwan in the upcoming Premier12 tournament, an Olympic qualifier trial.

Following the firing of former Team President Dave Dombrowski, it’s fair to say that the Red Sox farm has seen better days. MLB.com’s midseason ranking identified just one “Top 100” prospect within their system (infielder Triston Casas placed 85th), and other organizational rankings generally placed Boston’s young ranks as among the game’s bottom-third. Under the temporary leadership quartet of Eddie Romero, Zack Scott, Brian O’Halloran, and Raquel Ferreira, it appears that Boston’s operations staff is searching far and wide in their search for farm reinforcement.

What do we know about this guy?

[jacksonianmarch]

Just what you read. Throws smoke. The low number tells me he wasn't a top INTL name, but anyone who can chuck it 98 at that age had promise

[mvp 78]

He’s a bum. More like Chih Jung Poo.

 

Damn Desperate Dave! I mean Benny the Boob! I mean Eddie Spaghetti!

[notin]

He’s a bum. More like Chih Jung Poo.

 

Damn Desperate Dave! I mean Benny the Boob! I mean Eddie Spaghetti!

 

Chih Jung Poo was on the Sox radar as well, but he was the #2 option.

 

(Yes, I went there!)

[mvp 78]

Chih Jung Poo was on the Sox radar as well, but he was the #2 option.

 

(Yes, I went there!)

 

LOL. I miss this site sometimes. Will start posting more once I’m no longer unemployed and depressed. This is not a threat it’s a promise.

[Bellhorn04]

He’s a bum. More like Chih Jung Poo.

 

Damn Desperate Dave! I mean Benny the Boob! I mean Eddie Spaghetti!

 

Or Romero the Zero!

[mvp 78]

Or Romero the Zero!

 

Is it pronounced Romero or Romearo? I assumed it was the former.

[Bellhorn04]

Is it pronounced Romero or Romearo? I assumed it was the former.

 

It's an imperfect rhyme.

[mvp 78]

Still good tho

[Kimmi]

LOL. I miss this site sometimes. Will start posting more once I’m no longer unemployed and depressed. This is not a threat it’s a promise.

 

Hope you find employment soon. You need to start posting more.

[notin]

LOL. I miss this site sometimes. Will start posting more once I’m no longer unemployed and depressed. This is not a threat it’s a promise.

 

 

Whaddaya mean “sometimes”?!?!?

[OH FOY]

This team should be doing this all over the Far East, besides Korea, China, Australia, look for leagues. Hold tryouts, everywhere. Their is talent all over besides the Latin America Countries.

Get off you Ass and spend a little, and look.

You need Scouts for this type evaluations, not computers.