Six-time Taiwan pro baseball league champion team up for sale

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/07/03
By: Joseph Yeh

Taipei, July 3 (CNA) Six-time Taiwan professional baseball league championship team the Lamigo Monkeys created a bombshell Wednesday when its owner announced that the team is being put up for sale.

The decision, made because of the owner's heavy financial burden, came a week after the Taoyuan-based squad clinched the first half-season champion title of the local Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL).

Speaking to the press to announce the decision, Monkeys general manager Justin Liu (劉玠廷) said that over the last 16 years in the CPBL, the Monkeys have seen the highs and lows of the league, but added that the days of small and medium-sized enterprises running a pro baseball club are over.

Even though his team's management was able to build the Monkeys into a competitive popular unit with limited funding, Liu said that running a pro ball club needs more resources and manpower than can be provided by the Monkeys' mother company.    [FULL  STORY]