D-Backs Prospect Yu-Min Lin Leads Chinese Taipei To Premier12 Championship
Diamondbacks pitching prospect Yu-Min Lin pitched a gem in the Premier12 championship game, leading his team to victory over Japan and their 27-game winning streak.
We have more on his start, his nickname of Yumi which translates to Corn, and what this win means for Taiwan.
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Chinese (both mandarin and cantonese), japanese, and korean all use a lot of homophonic puns. He's named that because his name sounds like the word for corn. Its that simple
I’m Taiwanese and yes, Corn is “yu-mi” in mandarin and it sounds like Yu-Min, there’s literally nothing else to it lol