Chien-Ming Wang ( , pinyin: Wáng Jiànmín) (born March 31, 1980 in Tainan City, Taiwan) is a starting pitcher for the New York Yankees in Major League Baseball. He was initially signed as an amateur free-agent for the 2000 season, playing for the Staten Island Yankees. He has come to be known as the Yankees ace pitcher over the 2006 and 2007 seasons.
Wang, Hong-Chih Kuo, Chin-hui Tsao, Chin-Lung Hu, and Yung Chi Chen are the current Taiwanese MLB players. Kuo and Tsao are pitchers for the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Kansas City Royals. Hu is a shortstop, also for the Dodgers, and Chen is an infielder with the Seattle Mariners.
In a New York Times interview, Wang revealed that he is the biological child of the man he formerly thought was his uncle. Due to the media frenzy created in Taiwan over this, Wang briefly refused to give interviews to Taiwanese media. Wang has also learned basic English and is able to give interviews to American media without an interpreter. Wang currently resides in Fort Lee, New Jersey,
