Saturday, November 26, 2022

2022 Award Winners

NPB announced most of their major awards earlier this week.  For the second straight year the league MVPs were Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the Orix Buffaloes and Munetaka Murakami of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.  It was the first time that both MVPs repeated since 1977 when Sadaharu Oh of the Giants and Hisashi Yamada of the Hankyu Braves did it.

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The Rookies Of The Year were Yoshinobu Mizukami of the Saitama Seibu Lions and Taisei (Ota) of the Yomiuri Giants:

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Here are the Best 9 winners for the Pacific League:

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And the Central League Best 9 team:

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2022 Calbee #102 (Yuki Okabayashi)

Additionally Yamamoto also won the Sawamura Award a few weeks back:

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