MLB Taiwan All-Star Series

In 2010, it was announced that MLB had agreed to hold a series of postseason baseball games at Taiwan in 2011 postseason. The major reason behind was to capture the growth in popularity in baseball by Taiwanese after several household names playing Major League games at the beginning of the Millennium. The trend started from Chin-Feng Chen and Chin-Hui Tsao earned debut for Los Angeles Dodgers in September 2002 and July 2003 respectively. The most famous player was Washington Nationals pitcher Chien-Ming Wang who played for New York Yankees during 2005 to 2009 seasons. In March 2010, manager Joe Torre led a Los Angeles Dodgers team that included Manny Ramirez and James Loney for a rain-truncated two game series. This was the first visit of MLB team to Taiwan in the 21st century. Taiwan-born pitcher Hong-Chih Kuo was on the Dodgers roster. ==List of series==

The rosters were announced in October 2011. ==Controversy==

Due to scheduling conflicts and unable to agree on the terms with the event organiser, CPBL players were not allowed to participate in the series. ==Future==

In 2011, Jim Small commented on possible return of the series in future. However, this has not been materialized. In April 2017, during negotiation with CPBL, Jim Small proposed to send an all star team to South Korea and then to play 3 games in Taiwan next November. In June 2017, during a visit to Taoyuan, Small further confirmed the selection of hosting city. Mayor of Taoyuan Cheng Wen-tsan promised to search for a suitable venue such as Taoyuan International Baseball Stadium. However, the series did not come to fruition. In 2019, after promotion to senior vice president of MLB’s international business, Jim Small reiterated the interest of hosting MLB Opening Series in Taiwan. He stressed on two important factors in consideration, adverse weather causing delays or cancelled games just like Dodgers game in 2010 and 2011 series and huge costs of hosting games in Asia. Therefore Small expressed hope for the completion of Taipei Dome with over 40,000 capacity as the first covered baseball stadium in Taiwan to enhance the possibility. ==See also==