Asia Winter Baseball League

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Asia Winter Baseball League
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2024 Asia Winter Baseball League
SportBaseball
Founded2012
No. of teams4~6
CountryFile:Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg Dominican Republic
File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan
File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea
File:Flag of the Republic of China.svg Taiwan
File:Flag of Europe.svg European Union
File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States
ContinentAsia
Most recent
champion		Japan (NPB White in 2024)
Most titlesJapan (6 titles)
Tournament formatShort-League
Official websitehttps://awb.cpbl.com.tw/en

The Asia Winter Baseball League is a professional baseball league hosted in Taiwan[1] with 2012 as its inaugural season. Making use of the warm and dry winter climate in West Taiwan, the short term league aims to offer young baseball players additional training experience and continued exposure in off-season games. It is the de facto successor to the now defunct Asia Series.

Seasons

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2012

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Season 2012 was played between Japan, Taiwan Red, Taiwan White, and the Dominican Republic, with Japan winning the championship.

2013

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Season 2013 was played between the teams of Nippon Professional Baseball League, Korea Baseball Organization, Chinese Professional Baseball League of Taiwan, and the Dominican Republic.[2] Japan won the league phase but lost the playoff final to South Korea.

2015

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Season 2015 was played between the teams of Nippon Professional Baseball League, Korea Baseball Organization, Chinese Professional Baseball League of Taiwan, the Chinese Taipei National Training Team, and the Team Europe. This was the first time since the Asia Winter Baseball League was founded that Team Europe was invited. Team Europe consisted of total 30 players from different countries (12 Italians, 8 Dutch, 3 German, 2 French, 1 Czech, 1 Belgian, 1 Croat, 1 Hispanic and 1 Romanian). The Chinese Taipei National Training Team won the championship with team Japan as runner-up.

2016

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Season 2016 was played between the 2 teams of Nippon Professional Baseball League (East Japan/West Japan), Korea Baseball Organization Team, Chinese Professional Baseball League Team of Taiwan, Chinese Taipei National Training Team, and the Team Europe. The final was played between the 2 Japanese teams. The West Japan team consisting of players from Nippon Professional Baseball League teams from West Japan won the championship.

2017

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Season 2017 was played between the 2 teams of Nippon Professional Baseball League (East Japan/West Japan), Korea Baseball Organization Team, Chinese Professional Baseball League Team of Taiwan, the Japan Amateur Baseball Association All Star Team, and the WBSC All Star team managed by WBSC consisting of Team Europe players augmented with additional U.S. players. Experiencing player shortages due to injuries and early departures of team members, WBSC team took on amateur baseball players from Japan and Taiwan as replacements. The East Japan team consisting of players from Nippon Professional Baseball League teams from East Japan won the championship.

2018

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Season 2018 was played by 5 teams, 2 teams of Nippon Professional Baseball League (East Japan/West Japan), one Korea Baseball Organization Team, one Chinese Professional Baseball League of Taiwan team, the Japan Amateur Baseball Association All Star Team. 40 regular season games were played November 24 - December 13, 2018. Each team was playing 16 games, top four teams played three more games in playoffs December 14–16, 2018. All games were played at either Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium or Douliu Baseball Stadium

NPB West missed the Playoffs. KBO finished in fourth place, JABA team in third place, CPBL in second place, NPB East winners.

2019

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The CPBL Expansion team Wei Chuan Dragons have expressed their willingness to send a team. source: CPBL Stats

Previous Results

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Edition Year Host City Champions Score Runners-up Third place Fourth place No. of Teams
1 2012 Taiwan
Taichung 		Japan
NPB 		5-2 Taiwan
CPBL White 		Taiwan
CPBL Red 		Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic NT 		4
2 2013 Taiwan
Taichung 		South Korea
KBO 		6-2 Japan
NPB 		Taiwan
CPBL 		Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic NT 		4
3 2015 Taiwan
Taichung 		Taiwan
Chinese Taipei NT 		4-2 Japan
NPB 		South Korea
KBO 		Taiwan
CPBL 		5
4 2016 Taiwan
Taichung 		Japan
NPB West 		6-1 Japan
NPB East 		Taiwan
Chinese Taipei NT 		South Korea
KBO 		6
5 2017 Taiwan
Taichung 		Japan
NPB East 		4-1 South Korea
KBO 		Japan
Japanese Amateur Baseball Association 		Taiwan
CPBL 		6
6 2018 Taiwan
Douliu 		Japan
NPB East 		1-0 Taiwan
CPBL 		Japan
Japanese Amateur Baseball Association 		South Korea
KBO 		5
7 2019 Taiwan
Taichung 		Japan
Japanese Amateur Baseball Association 		4-2 Japan
NPB Red 		Taiwan
Wei Chuan Dragons 		Taiwan
CPBL 		6
8 2023 Taiwan
Douliu 		Taiwan
TSG Hawks 		7-1 Japan
NPB Red 		Taiwan
CPBL 		Japan
Japanese Amateur Baseball Association 		6
9 2024 Taiwan
Douliu 		Japan
NPB White 		3-1 Japan
Japanese Amateur Baseball Association 		Taiwan
Taiwan Mountains 		Taiwan
Taiwan Seas 		5

All-time Table (Excluding playoffs)

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Pos. Team P W L T F A Diff Win% NPB% Best finish
1 Japan Japan 233 133 79 21 1286 912 +374 .571 .627
Japan NPB 57 43 11 3 378 189 +189 .754 .796 Champions (2012)
Japan NPB Red 15 9 3 3 91 60 +31 .600 .750 Runners up (2019)
Japan Japan Amateur Baseball Association 48 27 14 7 266 158 +108 .562 .659 Champions (2019)
Japan NPB East 49 27 19 3 227 197 +30 .551 .587 Champions (2017, 2018)
Japan NPB West 49 22 23 4 246 227 +19 .449 .489 Champions (2016)
Japan NPB White 15 5 9 1 78 81 -3 .333 .357 Fifth place (2019)
2 South Korea South Korea 100 45 42 13 488 532 -44 .450 .517
South Korea KBO 100 45 42 13 488 532 -44 .450 .517 Champions (2013)
3 Taiwan Taiwan 186 83 89 14 952 944 +8 .446 .483
Taiwan CPBL Red 21 12 9 0 100 93 +7 .571 .571 Third place (2012)
Taiwan Wei Chuan Dragons 15 7 6 2 77 76 +1 .467 .538 Third place (2019)
Taiwan Chinese Taipei NT 31 14 12 5 169 160 +9 .452 .538 Champions (2015)
Taiwan CPBL White 19 8 11 0 87 84 +3 .421 .421 Runners Up (2012)
Taiwan CPBL 199 42 51 7 519 531 -12 .420 .452 Runners Up (2018)
4 Rest of World 48 9 33 6 214 404 -190 .188 .214
EuropeJapanTaiwanUnited States WBSC All Stars 17 4 11 2 62 127 -65 .235 .267 Sixth place (2017)
Europe Team Europe 31 5 22 4 152 277 -125 .161 .185 Fifth place (2015)
5 Dominican Republic Dominican Republic 41 7 34 0 138 286 -148 .171 .171
Dominican Republic Dominican Republic NT 41 7 34 0 138 286 -148 .171 .171 Fourth place (2012, 2013)

See also

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References

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