Gu Lin Ruei-yang (古林睿煬), the 2024 MVP of Taiwan's Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL), showed over 38,000 spectators in Fukuoka on Thursday why he was worth the high expectations fans in both Japan and Taiwan had for him.
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