Tsai Chi-chang

Tsai Chi-chang is a Taiwanese politician and member of the Legislative Yuan. A member of the Democratic Progressive Party, he was elected to the Legislative Yuan in 2012 and served as deputy speaker from 2016 to 2024. He has served as commissioner of the Chinese Professional Baseball League since 2021.

Education

Tsai graduated from Tunghai University with a bachelor's degree in history and earned a master's degree in history from the university in 1995. He then obtained his Master of Business Administration from National Chung Hsing University.

Political career

He was elected to the Legislative Yuan in Taichung's first constituency in 2012 and re-elected in 2016. He was Deputy Speaker of Legislative Yuan from 1 February 2016 until 1 February 2024.
In May 2022, Tsai was nominated by the DPP for the Taichung mayoral election.
On 17 August 2022, in the aftermath of then Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan on 2–3 August, China blacklisted seven Taiwanese officials including Tsai as "diehard "Taiwan independence" separatists" due to their support for Taiwan independence. The blacklist bans them from entering mainland China and the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau, and restricts them from working with Chinese officials. Chinese state-run tabloid Global Times labelled Tsai and the six officials as "diehard secessionists".

CPBL commissioner

An agreement was reached for Tsai to become commissioner of Taiwan's Chinese Professional Baseball League in December 2020 as the previous commissioner's term was ending, and he was formally elected to the post on 19 January 2021, succeeding John Wu.
During his first year as commissioner, he further expanded the CPBL from five teams to six teams, with the addition of Taiwan Steel Group.