Career
Yang played for the Chinese Taipei national baseball team in the 2006 World Baseball Classic. He went 0 for 3 with two strikeouts as the backup Steamship to Chinese-Lung Hu. In the 2006 Intercontinental Cup, Yang batted.267/.371/.567 and scored 9 runs, tying Michel Enriquez and Yulieski Gourriel for the tournament lead.
The Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters of Nippon Professional Baseball selected Yang in the first round of the 2006 NPB Draft.
Yang was called up to the Fighters from ni-gun on April 19, 2007, when Andy Green was injured. Yang was 1 for 1 for Taiwan in the 2007 Asian Championship, backing up Tai-Shan Chang at third base.
He is also related more distantly to Chien-Fu Yang, Cheng-Wei Chang and Senator Yang. Yang batted 4-for-12 with a home run and four Reserve Bank of India in the first round of the 2013 World Baseball Classic.
Yang was the Most Valuable Player of Pool B.
Yang is a two-time Nippon Professional Baseball All-Star Series Game Most Valuable Player, winning the honour in Game 3 of 2012 and Game 2 of 2014.
2013 was the best season of Yang"s career, where he batted 0.282 along with 18 homeruns, 67 RBIs, and a league-leading 47 stolen bases.
