Chinatrust Whales






































Chinatrust Whales
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Information
League Chinese Professional Baseball League
Location Chiayi
Ballpark None
Year founded 1991; 28 years ago (1991)
Year folded 2008; 11 years ago (2008)
Former name(s) Koos Group Whales
(1997–2001)
Colors Green and red
Uniforms





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Home




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Away



The Chinatrust Whales (中信鯨), formerly Koos Group Whales (和信鯨), were a Taiwanese professional baseball team. Founded as an amateur team in 1991, this club became professional and joined the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) in 1997. It is administered by the Chinatrust Financial Holding Company. The Whales have never won a CPBL championship. On November 11, 2008, it was announced that the team would disband due to financial losses of the Chinatrust Group.




Contents






  • 1 History


  • 2 Records


    • 2.1 Regular seasons


    • 2.2 Playoffs




  • 3 External links





History


In 1997, the amateur Chinatrust Whales Baseball Team was professionalized and became the seventh member of Chinese Professional Baseball League; however, because Taiwan forbid financial institutions to invest in unrelated market, the ownership of the team had to be transferred to Koos Group(和信集團), which was also the owner of Chinatrust, thus the team was named KG Whales when it began its first season. Initially, the Whales played their home games at the Chiayi Baseball Field. The team has not had any notable success over the course of its history with only two appearances in the Championship series, winning only a single game over the course of those two series while dropping eight. In 2002, because of the split of Chinatrust and the Koo Group, the ownership of the Whales were transferred back to Chinatrust and renamed Chinatrust Whales. The organization disbanded after the 2008 season.


Although owned by the same parent corporation, Chinatrust Whales and Chinatrust Brothers are two separate organization with separate franchise histories. Chinatrust acquired the Brothers organization from Brother Hotel in December 2013, five years after the Whales folded.



Records







Qualified for Playoffs

Taiwan Series Championship

Asia Series Championship


Regular seasons





















































































































Season
Wins
Losses
Ties
Pct.
Place

Koos Group Whales
1997
39 (20/19)
56 (27/29)
1 (1/0)
.411 (.426/.396)
7 (6/6)
1998
54
49
2
.524
4
1999
60
29
2
.674
1
2000
41 (21/20)
45 (21/24)
4 (3/1)
.477 (.500/.455)
3 (2/3)
2001
45 (23/22)
45 (22/23)
0 (0/0)
.500 (.511/.489)
3 (2/2)

Chinatrust Whales
2002
45 (21/24)
42 (21/21)
3 (3/0)
.517 (.500/.533)
2 (2/2)
2003
51 (26/25)
43 (19/24)
6 (5/1)
.543 (.578/.510)
4 (2/4)
2004
45 (21/24)
50 (27/23)
5 (2/3)
.474 (.438/.511)
4 (5/4)
2005
47 (24/23)
49 (24/25)
4 (2/2)
.490 (.500/.479)
4 (4/4)
2006
42 (17/25)
51 (31/20)
7 (2/5)
.452 (.354/.556)
5 (6/2)

2007
46 (19/27)
52 (30/22)
2 (1/1)
.469 (.388/.551)
4 (6/3)
2008
39 (20/19)
61 (30/31)
0 (0/0)
.390 (.400/.380)
5 (5/4)
Totals
554
572
36
.492
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Playoffs






































Season
First Round
Taiwan Series
Opponent
Wins
Losses
Opponent
Wins
Losses

Koos Group Whales
1999

No first round.

Wei Chuan Dragons
1
4

Chinatrust Whales
2002

No first round.

Brother Elephants
0
4
Total

Combining the first round and Taiwan Series
1
8


External links



  • The Chinatrust Financial Holding Company official website

  • The CPBL official website











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