| 33rd CPBL season | |
| League: | Chinese Professional Baseball League |
| Sport: | Baseball |
| No Of Games: | 120 |
| No Of Teams: | 5 |
| Duration: | 2 April – 26 October |
| Season: | First half-season |
| Season Champs: | Rakuten Monkeys |
| Season2: | Second half-season |
| Season Champs2: | CTBC Brothers |
| Finals: | Taiwan Series |
| Finals Link: | Taiwan Series |
| Finals Champ: | CTBC Brothers |
| Seasonslist: | List of Chinese Professional Baseball League seasons |
| Seasonslistnames: | CPBL |
| Prevseason Link: | 2021 Chinese Professional Baseball League season |
| Prevseason Year: | 2021 |
| Nextseason Link: | 2023 Chinese Professional Baseball League season |
| Nextseason Year: | 2023 |
The 2022 Chinese Professional Baseball League season was the 33rd season of the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL), based in Taiwan.
The regular season began on 2 April 2022 at the Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium. Teams are playing a split-season, while second-half games started on 22 July at the newly-renovated Hsinchu Municipal Baseball Stadium. The CPBL All-Star Game is being played the weekend of 30–31 July.
The postseason started on 29 October, followed by the first game of the Taiwan Series on 5 November. Postseason uses an apertura and clausura format. The first round, the Playoff Series, features the half-season champion with the lower winning percentage overall against the team with the overall highest winning percentage of all teams that did not win either half. The winner of the Playoff Series faced the half-season champion with the overall higher winning percentage of the two "seasons" in the Taiwan Series.[1]
From 2022, foreign-born players can be considered domestic draft picks if: they have attended a Taiwanese high school for three years, a Taiwanese university for four years, or have lived in Taiwan for five years, while playing for a Taiwanese semi-professional league for three years.[2]
On Opening Day, Lin Chih-sheng, who was released by the CTBC Brothers at the end of last season, hit the 290th home run of his career, breaking the league record held by Chang Tai-shan, who is a coach for his newly adopted team, the Wei Chuan Dragons.[3]
On the opening weekend of the second half of the season, the high expectations for the re-opening of the Hsinchu Municipal Baseball Stadium were dashed when the league announced that the stadium was to be closed temporarily due to player safety issues. Injuries to players in both games played showed inadequacies in the stadium, including the nature of the dirt in the infield. The stadium was to have been a second home to the Wei Chuan Dragons for the second half of the season, but as of this time it is unclear when games will be played in the stadium again. [4]
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| height = 35 | 120 | 48 | 3 | 69 | 22½ | ||||||||
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The series started with a 1–0 advantage for the second-placed team.
| Stat | Player | Team | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | ||||
| 0.335 | ||||
| 140 | ||||
| Lin Li | 83 | |||
| 38 |
| Stat | Player | Team | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | ||||
| 2.33 | ||||
| 158 | ||||
| 36 | ||||
| 26 |