Guiyuan Xu


Xu Guiyuan is a Chinese baseball first baseman and outfielder for the Kōchi Fighting Dogs of the Shikoku Island League Plus.

Career

Xu signed with the Baltimore Orioles as a free agent in July 2015 from the MLB Development Center in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China, making him the first player from one of MLB's three development centers in China to sign with a major league team.
In 2016, Xu made his professional debut with the GCL Orioles where he slashed.247/.271/.284 in 33 games and returned there in 2017, batting.179 with seven RBIs in 15 games.
In 2018, Xu was promoted to the low-A Aberdeen IronBirds. After the 2018 season, he signed with the Auckland Tuatara of the Australian Baseball League for the 2018/19 season.
On March 25, 2019, Xu was released by the Orioles organization. On May 27, 2019, Xu signed with the Kōchi Fighting Dogs of the Shikoku Island League Plus.

International

Xu played in the 2017 World Baseball Classic with China.