2018 Award Winners

NPB announced most of their major awards this week.  The league MVPs were Hotaka Yamakawa of the Lions and Yoshihiro Maru of the Carp:

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I'll also mention here that Tomoyuki Sugano was named the Sawamura Award winner for the second year in a row a few weeks back:

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Kazuki Tanaka of the Eagles and Katsuki Azuma of the Baystars were the Pacific and Central League Rookie Of The Year winners respectively:

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Calbee was the only company that had a flagship card of Tanaka this year.  He was taken in the 2016 draft so even though he was still officially a rookie this year all his rookie cards were from last year.

The Best 9 teams were announced this week as well.  Here's the Pacific League team:

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And the Central League team:

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I had wanted to do the Best 9 teams with just the Epcoh NPB cards but unfortunately Neftali Soto was not in that set so I used his Genesis card instead. 

I thought I'd add the KBO Award Winners as well.  Kim Jae-Hwan of the Doosan Bears was named MVP:

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Kang Baek-Ho of the KT Wiz was named Rookie Of The Year:

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