On Taiwan they're famed as "Chuang and the two Kuo's" but in Japan they're better known as "Kaku, Kaku, and So." Last year, Chuang Sheng-hsiung and Kuo Yuan-chih posted eleven victories each, with respective earned run averages of 3.15 and 3.65, figures which placed them third and thirteenth among pitchers in their leagues.
以去年球季結束後的統計來看，郭源治與莊勝雄同為十一勝，防禦率（平均責任失分率，數字愈低表示投手愈厲害）分別為三．六五及三．一五，分別居日本職棒兩大聯盟投手排行榜的第十三及第三傑。