‘FORMER KIA PITCHER’ GAGNON WINS 2023 TAIWAN PROFESSIONAL BASEVALL MVP AWARD

Drew Gagnon (33-Weizhuan Dragons) has been named the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the 2023 Taiwan Professional Baseball League (CPBL).The CPBL held its awards ceremony for the 2023 season on Nov. 21. The regular season MVP was Gagnon, who went 13-7 with a 3.00 ERA and 155 strikeouts.

Gagnon started Game 7 of the Taiwan Series against the Rakuten Monkeys and earned the win with six innings of five-hit ball and three runs (two earned). Weizhou won Game 7, 6-3, to clinch their first Taiwan Series title in 24 years, since 1999.Gagnon had a mediocre 2020 season with the KIA Tigers of the Korean Baseball Organization, going 11-8 with a 4.34 ERA .After signing with Taiwan’s Weizhou in 2021, Gagnon struggled in his first year, going 5-7 with a 3.93 ERA, but bounced back in 2022 with a 12-6 record and 2.68 ERA, and was named the Taiwanese 슬롯사이트 Professional Baseball MVP this year.

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