Asia Winter Baseball League
The Asia Winter Baseball League is a professional baseball league hosted in Taiwan with 2012 as its inaugural season. Making use of the warm and dry winter climate in West Taiwan, the short term league aims to offer young baseball players additional training experience and continued exposure in off-season games. It is the de facto successor to the now defunct Asia Series.
Seasons
2012
Season 2012 was played between Japan, Taiwan Red, Taiwan White, and the Dominican Republic, with Japan winning the championship.2013
Season 2013 was played between the teams of Nippon Professional Baseball League, Korea Baseball Organization, Chinese Professional Baseball League of Taiwan, and the Dominican Republic. Japan won the league phase but lost the playoff final to South Korea.2015
Season 2015 was played between the teams of Nippon Professional Baseball League, Korea Baseball Organization, Chinese Professional Baseball League of Taiwan, the Chinese Taipei National Training Team, and the Team Europe. This was the first time since the Asia Winter Baseball League was founded that Team Europe was invited. Team Europe consisted of total 30 players from different countries. The Chinese Taipei National Training Team won the championship with team Japan as runner-up.2016
Season 2016 was played between the 2 teams of Nippon Professional Baseball League, Korea Baseball Organization Team, Chinese Professional Baseball League Team of Taiwan, Chinese Taipei National Training Team, and the Team Europe. The final was played between the 2 Japanese teams. The West Japan team consisting of players from Nippon Professional Baseball League teams from West Japan won the championship.2017
Season 2017 was played between the 2 teams of Nippon Professional Baseball League, Korea Baseball Organization Team, Chinese Professional Baseball League Team of Taiwan, the Japan Amateur Baseball Association All Star Team, and the WBSC All Star team managed by WBSC consisting of Team Europe players augmented with additional U.S. players. Experiencing player shortages due to injuries and early departures of team members, WBSC team took on amateur baseball players from Japan and Taiwan as replacements. The East Japan team consisting of players from Nippon Professional Baseball League teams from East Japan won the championship.2018
Season 2018 was played by 5 teams, 2 teams of Nippon Professional Baseball League, one Korea Baseball Organization Team, one Chinese Professional Baseball League of Taiwan team, the Japan Amateur Baseball Association All Star Team. 40 regular season games were played November 24 - December 13, 2018. Each team was playing 16 games, top four teams played three more games in playoffs December 14–16, 2018. All games were played at either Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium or Douliu Baseball StadiumNPB West missed the Playoffs. KBO finished in fourth place, JABA team in third place, CPBL in second place, NPB East winners.
2019
The CPBL Expansion team Wei Chuan Dragons have expressed their willingness to send a team.Previous Results
| Edition | Year | Host City | Champions | Score | Runners-up | Third place | Fourth place | No. of Teams | |||
| 1 | 2012 |  Taichung |  Nippon Professional Baseball | 5-2 |  CPBL White | CPBL Red |  Dominican Republic NT | 4 | |||
| 2 | 2013 | Taichung |  Korea Baseball Organization | 6-2 | Nippon Professional Baseball | Chinese Professional Baseball League | Dominican Republic NT | 4 | |||
| 3 | 2015 | Taichung | Chinese Taipei NT | 4-2 | Nippon Professional Baseball | Korea Baseball Organization | Chinese Professional Baseball League | 5 | |||
| 4 | 2016 | Taichung | NPB West | 6-1 | NPB East | Chinese Taipei NT | Korea Baseball Organization | 6 | |||
| 5 | 2017 | Taichung | NPB East | 4-1 | Korea Baseball Organization | Japanese Amateur Baseball Association | Chinese Professional Baseball League | 6 | |||
| 6 | 2018 | Douliu | NPB East | 1-0 | Chinese Professional Baseball League | Japanese Amateur Baseball Association | Korea Baseball Organization | 5 | |||
| 7 | 2019 | Taichung | Japanese Amateur Baseball Association | 4-2 | NPB Red | Wei Chuan Dragons | Chinese Professional Baseball League | 6 | |||
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All-time Table (Excluding playoffs)
| Pos. | Team | Best finish | |||||||||
| 1 |  Japan | 233 | 133 | 79 | 21 | 1286 | 912 | +374 | .571 | .627 | |
| Nippon Professional Baseball | 57 | 43 | 11 | 3 | 378 | 189 | +189 | .754 | .796 | ||
| NPB Red | 15 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 91 | 60 | +31 | .600 | .750 | ||
| Japan Amateur Baseball Association | 48 | 27 | 14 | 7 | 266 | 158 | +108 | .562 | .659 | ||
| NPB East | 49 | 27 | 19 | 3 | 227 | 197 | +30 | .551 | .587 | ||
| NPB West | 49 | 22 | 23 | 4 | 246 | 227 | +19 | .449 | .489 | ||
| NPB White | 15 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 78 | 81 | -3 | .333 | .357 | ||
| 2 |  South Korea | 100 | 45 | 42 | 13 | 488 | 532 | -44 | .450 | .517 | |
| Korea Baseball Organization | 100 | 45 | 42 | 13 | 488 | 532 | -44 | .450 | .517 | ||
| 3 | Taiwan | 186 | 83 | 89 | 14 | 952 | 944 | +8 | .446 | .483 | |
| CPBL Red | 21 | 12 | 9 | 0 | 100 | 93 | +7 | .571 | .571 | ||
| Wei Chuan Dragons | 15 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 77 | 76 | +1 | .467 | .538 | ||
| Chinese Taipei NT | 31 | 14 | 12 | 5 | 169 | 160 | +9 | .452 | .538 | ||
| CPBL White | 19 | 8 | 11 | 0 | 87 | 84 | +3 | .421 | .421 | ||
| Chinese Professional Baseball League | 199 | 42 | 51 | 7 | 519 | 531 | -12 | .420 | .452 | ||
| 4 | Rest of World | 48 | 9 | 33 | 6 | 214 | 404 | -190 | .188 | .214 | |
  WBSC All Stars | 17 | 4 | 11 | 2 | 62 | 127 | -65 | .235 | .267 | ||
| Team Europe | 31 | 5 | 22 | 4 | 152 | 277 | -125 | .161 | .185 | ||
| 5 |  Dominican Republic | 41 | 7 | 34 | 0 | 138 | 286 | -148 | .171 | .171 | |
| Dominican Republic NT | 41 | 7 | 34 | 0 | 138 | 286 | -148 | .171 | .171 |