Liao Minxiong, head coach of the Chinese Culture University baseball team.

(Information photo, provided by the university)

[Reporter Luo Zhipeng/New Taipei Report] In recent years, amateur players can participate in international competitions, including the U23 World Cup, Asian Games and Asian Championships. The proportion of domestic university players selected for the national team is not high. Liao Minxiong, head coach of Cultural University, lamented: " Players who stay in college are small fish, even if they become big fish in the future, they will be caught by the net (put into mid-season draft).

Liao Minxiong pointed out that in recent years, high school graduates will not go to college. They either go to the draft or form a baseball team to hone their skills. Even if they enter college, they may go to the draft after one or two years of study. The selection of talents for the national team is also limited. "There are really not many good players in universities now."

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The future military service of Taiwanese draftees will be restored to one year. Even so, Liao Minxiong believes that high school players should still be drafted first or enter the national training team. Universities still cannot absorb more good players. After all, the younger the draft, the better the market. In college, it is generally a player who lacks training.

University players have been marginalized in the international competition. Lin Zongyi, the head coach of Taiwan University of Sports, said that it is not that the university players are bad, but that the head coaches of the national team generally believe that international competitions need more experienced and better players, so that they can compete with foreign teams. Only then will more professional baseball or A-composition baseball players be selected.

Lin Zongyi believes that international competitions are very important experience for college players. In the past, Wei Shuocheng, Jiang Guohao, and Lin Anke all experienced many international competitions before they could grow rapidly. He hopes that college players can play more international competitions to improve themselves.

In fact, not only Taiwan, South Korea’s top high school graduates generally go to professional baseball. The competitiveness of college competitions is weakened, and the national team’s selection is also marginalized. Last year’s U23 World Cup South Korea’s head coach Lee Yeon-shou revealed in an interview that the U23 World Cup is very high-level. In high-level international competitions, if only college players are sent to form a team, they may not be able to perform very well, so the Korean Second Army players are the main body, with a total of 22 players, and only 2 college players are selected.

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