Lin competed at the
2006 Asian Games and had the game-winning hit at the championship game against
Japan. In 2008, Lin was chosen to play on the
Taiwanese national baseball team at the
2008 Olympic Games. He also played in the
2010 Asian Games, and captained the national team in the inaugural
WBSC Premier12 held in November 2015. He recorded the CPBL's first
30–30 season in 2015, and also won the MVP award that season. On 4 January 2016, Lin signed with the
Chinatrust Brothers. He is the first player to change teams since the implementation of free agency in 2010. The three-year deal, worth a guaranteed NT$45 million (US$1.36 million), is the richest in CPBL history, and also includes NT$9 million in incentives. On 3 April 2022, while playing for the
Wei Chuan Dragons, Lin hit his 290th career home run off of
Uni-President Lions pitcher
Ching-Ming Wang. With the solo blast, Lin set the all-time CPBL home run record. He played in 103 games for Wei Chuan in 2022, batting .300/.392/.432 with 10 home runs and 62 RBI. On 16 April 2023, Lin hit his 300th career home run off of
Bradin Hagens of the
Rakuten Monkeys. In doing so, he became the first player in CPBL history to reach the 300 home run mark. In February 2025, Lin announced that he would retire at the end of the season. Lin hit the 305th home run of his career in his final game on 7 September 2025. Over the course of his career, Lin tied the record with six Taiwan Series championship wins, and set a CBPL postseason home run record with fourteen. ==References==