The United States is the largest sports country in the world. The sports that Americans are passionate about are led by the four major North American leagues NHL, NBA, MLB, and NFL. These four major leagues have concentrated the vast majority of sports resources in the United States. People come to play in these four major leagues. It is also the biggest ideal in life for athletes in the corresponding four sports.
NBA has the greatest international influence among them. Chinese player Yao Ming should be the most successful East Asian athlete in the history of the NBA and the four major leagues. However, generally speaking, Asians are an absolute "minority" in the four major leagues.
Yao Ming
But in one of the four major leagues, although Asian athletes do not occupy a dominant position, there have been many first-class athletes, and they have long got rid of the dilemma of lack of Asian strength in the other three sports. Among the four major leagues in China, Japan and South Korea, the athletes with the highest annual income also come from this league. However, perhaps this league is the league that has received the least attention in the country, at least in mainland China, among the four major leagues. This is the American professional league. MLB.
MLB
Chen Wei-yin from Taiwan, China, currently belongs to the Miami Marlins of the American Professional Baseball League. He is the first Taiwanese player to join the Japanese Professional Baseball League and then move to the American Major League Baseball. Since entering MLB in 2012, his performance Excellent. In 2016, he signed a five-year, US$80 million contract with the Miami Marlins. It was also the largest contract ever for a Chinese in MLB. In the last year, his annual salary reached US$22 million, which in absolute terms exceeded Yao Ming, Jeremy Lin and others. , becoming the Chinese athlete with the highest annual salary in a single year among the four major leagues.
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In addition, there are many high-level baseball players in Asia. Outfielder Qiu Shinsoo from South Korea had an annual salary of US$21 million in 2019, making him the highest-paid Asian athlete in 2019. Japanese Darvish - Yes, his annual salary was as high as 25 million US dollars in 2018, and he is also an absolutely high-paid player in the entire MLB.
Darvish-you
It should be said that the performance of East Asian athletes in MLB is very good. Especially at the end of every year, MLB holds an All-Star Game with Japan's Major League Baseball NPB. Although NPB's level is naturally not as good as MLB's, it also proves that the power of Asian baseball is something MLB attaches great importance to.
MLB vs NPB
But compared to the other three of the four major leagues, the rules of baseball seem more complicated and unintuitive. Although not every audience in basketball and ice hockey understands the details of the rules, they at least appreciate the victory and defeat on the field. It's easy, and football is basically the same. Baseball is different. The domestic audience is too small and the rules are not intuitive, which has seriously affected the number of baseball fans in China. Little is known about the performance of Asian-American players in MLB. In terms of total volume, MLB is the second-largest sports league in the United States after the NFL, and even higher than the NBA. MLB is actually a league worthy of Chinese people's attention.
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