Tsung-Che Cheng
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2001 (24 years old)
Pingtung County, TaiwanPosition
Shortstop
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Tsung-Che Cheng (Chinese: 鄭宗哲; pinyin: Zhèng Zōngzhé; born July 26, 2001) is a Taiwanese professional baseball infielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball (MLB). He signed with the Pirates as an international free agent in 2019 and made his MLB debut in 2025.
Professional career
Cheng was raised in Jiuru, Pingtung County, Taiwan, the younger of two sons born to a truck driver and homemaker. He began playing baseball around the age of five, and, inspired by Chien-Ming Wang, originally intended to become a pitcher. Cheng signed with the Pittsburgh Pirates out of Pu-Men High School as an international free agent on July 2, 2019, for a signing bonus of $380,000. He did not play in a game in 2020 due to the cancellation of the minor league season because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cheng made his professional debut with the Florida Complex League Pirates in 2021, and played second base, third base, and shortstop throughout the season. After the 2021 minor league season ended, Cheng played winter ball with the Caimanes de Barranquilla, winning the 2022 Caribbean Series.
Cheng spent the 2022 Minor League Baseball season with the Bradenton Marauders, playing shortstop more frequently. He appeared in 104 games, hit for a .270 batting average, .376 on-base percentage, and a .794 on-base plus slugging percentage, while scoring 79 runs. Of his 38 extra-base hits, seven were triples. He led the Florida State League in triples and runs scored, finished second in on-base percentage, fourth in batting average, and fifth in on-base plus slugging percentage. Cheng's 33 stolen bases in 39 attempts led all minor leaguers within the Pirates organization. At the end of the 2022 minor league season, Cheng was assigned to the Gigantes de Carolina of the Puerto Rican Professional Baseball League.
At the start of the 2023 regular season, Cheng ranked thirtieth on MLB Pipeline's list of top Pirates prospects and was assigned to the Greensboro Grasshoppers. On June 23, he played his first game at the Double–A level, with the Altoona Curve. During the season, Cheng set a career high in triples and was ranked by MLB Pipeline as the twenty-second best Pirates prospect.
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