Chien-Ming Wang (born March 31, 1980 in Tainan City,
Taiwan) is a starting pitcher for the New York
Yankees in Major League Baseball. He was initially
signed as an amateur free-agent for the 2000 season,
playing for the Staten Island Yankees. He has come
to be known as the Yankees ace pitcher over the 2006
and 2007 seasons.
Wang, Hong-Chih Kuo, Chin-hui Tsao, Chin-Lung Hu,
and Yung Chi Chen are the current Taiwanese MLB
players. Kuo and Tsao are pitchers for the Los
Angeles Dodgers and the Kansas City Royals. Hu is a
shortstop, also for the Dodgers, and Chen is an
infielder with the Seattle Mariners.
In a New York Times interview, Wang revealed that he
is the biological child of the man he formerly
thought was his uncle. Due to the media frenzy
created in Taiwan over this, Wang briefly refused to
give interviews to Taiwanese media. Wang has also
learned basic English and is able to give interviews
to American media without an interpreter. Wang
currently resides in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
