Huang Yusheng had three hits and three hits in the first inning against the Taiwan Steel Eagles yesterday. (Provided by Fubon Titans)
[Reporter Gong Naijie/Kaohsiung Report] Huang Yusheng, a self-trained Fubon player, was promoted to the first team for the first time on the 11th. He made his career debut the day before yesterday. Yesterday, he had three hits and three hits in one inning against Taipei Steel. He was in the same class as Li Yupeng and Chen Shizhan in the East Sports. Even though he was the only one among the three who did not have a signing bonus, he was the fastest pitcher to debut on the big stage. After entering professional baseball, he knew that unlike other newcomers, he had no room for development. "I just wanted to come up quickly and see if I could adapt quickly."
Huang Yusheng spent his third-level baseball career in Taitung. Although he was a fielder in Little League and Youth Baseball, his hitting was very poor. He didn't start pitching until he was in high school. At that time, he was still a side pitcher.
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Huang Yusheng said that he did not accidentally lose the election at that time. It was the best to be on the list. If he didn't, he would just let nature take its course. "If you keep going according to your normal plan, you will still be seen one day."
After entering the Cultural University, Huang Yusheng continued to hone his biggest weakness: "ball control." Compared with the catcher's catcher training in the youth baseball stage, when he entered college, he began to throw the ball constantly and practiced his pitching in a targeted manner. The coach and seniors also reminded him to use his whole body to throw to improve his ball control. Before this year's draft, he began to hear scouts comment that he was a "potential first-team player."
What's special is that Huang Yusheng was originally supposed to participate in the rookie test meeting to qualify for the draft, but ended up not participating because he didn't register. Two days later, he joined Fubon with an independent training contract. In order to enter professional baseball training early, Huang Yusheng decided not to participate in the draft and get a chance to get a signing bonus.
Huang Yusheng admitted frankly that many seniors had indeed mentioned this part to him, and his family members were a little hesitant at the time, "But they also told me that it's up to you to choose, like my mother, who said you should go your own way. I didn't hesitate at all. Even if there was no signing bonus, I invested on my own initiative to earn a monthly salary. If I get better and better, can it be worth the signing bonus?"
The signing bonus is the team's evaluation of the player, and it also relates to how much time the team is willing to spend cultivating the player before it blossoms into fruition. Huang Yusheng said, "I came in as a self-trained person, and my mentality was to join the army as soon as possible to see if my mentality and ball handling can adapt."
Huang Yusheng joined Fubon in June and had an ERA of only 1.69 in 11 games with the second team. On August 28, he became an official player under the contract. He also caught up with the 831 registration limit and rushed to the first team on September 11. Looking back on his decision to join through self-training, he said: "The idea is still the same, just to look forward."
Compared with Huang Yusheng, his fellow pitcher Chen Shizhan at East Sports is the most famous pitcher. He has national player qualifications for the 2024 U18 Asian Youth and the 2025 U18 World Cup. He is also the third highest pitcher of East Sports in the draft, with a signing bonus of 3.2 million yuan. He is still in Lotte's pitcher training program and has played 42 innings in the second team. Since there is a registered 60-man roster, he has the opportunity to debut in the first team this year.
Another East Sports player, Li Yupeng, was nominated fourth by Lotte, second only to Chen Shizhan, and had a signing bonus of 2.5 million. However, in April this year, he drove drunk without a license and caused an accident in Taitung. Lotte fired him immediately. He was banned from the league for 40 games and fined NT$440,000. He left the secondary vocational field at the age of 19. At the time, the Japanese pitching coach Tsuyoshi Kawagishi once said, "He has very good ability, but it is very sad (regrettable)."
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