Yakyu Cosmopolitan

Awards & Titles History

Eiji Sawamura, Most Valuable Player, Rookie of the Year

Year	SAWAMURA	CL MVP	CL ROY	PL MVP	PL ROY	Japan Series MVP	Interleague MVP
2026							Hasegawa Shinya
2025	Itoh Hiromi	Sato Teruaki	Shoji Kota	Moinelo Livan	Nishikawa Misho	Yamakawa Hotaka	Yanagimachi Tatsuru
2024	No Winner	Sugano Tomoyuki	Funabasama Hiromasa	Kondoh Kensuke	Takeuchi Natsuki	Kuwahara Masayuki	Mizutani Shun
2023	Yamamoto Yoshinobu	Murakami Shoki	Murakami Shoki	Yamamoto Yoshinobu	Yamashita Shunpeita	Chikamoto Koji	Okamoto Kazuma
2022	Yamamoto Yoshinobu	Murakami Munetaka	Ota Taisei	Yamamoto Yoshinobu	Mizukami Yoshinobu	Sugimoto Yutaro	Murakami Munetaka
2021	Yamamoto Yoshinobu	Murakami Munetaka	Kuribayashi Ryoji	Yamamoto Yoshinobu	Miyagi Hiroya	Nakamura Yuhei	Yamamoto Yoshinobu
2020	Ohno Yudai	Sugano Tomoyuki	Morishita Masato	Yanagita Yuki	Taira Kaima	Kurihara Ryoya	N/A

Batting Title Winners

Year	CL AVG	CL HR	CL RBI	CL OPS	CL SB	PL AVG	PL HR	PL RBI	PL OPS	PL SB
2025	Kozono	Sato	Sato	Sato	Chikamoto	Makihara	Reyes	Reyes	Reyes	Shuto
2024	Austin	Murakami	Murakami	Austin	Chikamoto	Kondoh	Yamakawa	Yamakawa	Kondoh	Shuto
2023	Miyazaki	Okamoto	Maki	Okamoto	Chikamoto	Tongu	Kondoh/Asamura/Polanco	Kondoh	Kondoh	Shuto/Kobukata
2022	Murakami	Murakami	Murakami	Murakami	Chikamoto	Matsumoto	Yamakawa	Yamakawa	Yoshida	Takabe
2021	Suzuki	Murakami/Okamoto	Okamoto	Suzuki	Nakano	Yoshida	Sugimoto	Shimauchi	Yoshida	Ogino/Nishikawa/Genda/Wada
2020	Sano	Okamoto	Okamoto	Murakami	Chikamoto	Yoshida	Asamura	Nakata	Yanagita	Shuto

Pitching Title Winners

Year	CL ERA	CL Strikeouts	CL Wins	CL WHIP	CL Saves	PL ERA	PL Strikeouts	PL Wins	PL WHIP	PL Saves
2025	Saiki	Murakami	Murakami/Azuma	Murakami	Matsuyama/Martinez	Moinelo	Itoh	Itoh/Arihara	Imai	Sugiyama/Taira
2024	Takahashi	Togo	Sugano	Sugano	Martinez	Moinelo	Imai	Itoh/Arihara	Moinelo	Norimoto
2023	Murakami	Imanaga	Azuma	Murakami	Iwazaki	Yamamoto	Yamamoto	Yamamoto	Yamamoto	Matsui
2022	Aoyagi	Togo	Aoyagi	Imanaga	Martinez	Yamamoto	Yamamoto	Yamamoto	Katoh	Matsui
2021	Yanagi	Yanagi	Aoyagi/Kuri	Yanagi	Suarez	Yamamoto	Yamamoto	Yamamoto	Yamamoto	Masuda
2020	Ohno	Ohno	Sugano	Ohno	Suarez	Senga	Senga/Yamamoto	Senga/Wakui	Yamamoto	Masuda

Central League Best 9

Year	P	C	1B	2B	3B	SS	OF	OF	OF
2025	Murakami	Sakamoto	Ohyama	Nakano	Sato	Izuguchi	Chikamoto	Okabayashi	Morishita
2024	Sugano	Yamamoto	Okamoto	Yoshikawa	Murakami	Nagaoka	Chikamoto	Hosokawa	Santana
2023	Azuma	Ohshiro	Ohyama	Maki	Miyazaki	Kinami	Chikamoto	Okabayashi	Nishikawa
2022	Aoyagi	Nakamura	Osuna	Maki	Murakami	Nakano	Chikamoto	Okabayashi	Sano
2021	Yanagi	Nakamura	Marte	Yamada	Murakami	Sakamoto	Chikamoto	Shiomi	Suzuki
2020	Sugano	Ohshiro	Murakami	Kikuchi	Okamoto	Sakamoto	Sano	Maru	Suzuki

Pacific League Best 9

Year	P	C	1B	2B	3B	SS	OF	OF	OF	DH
2025	Moinelo	Wakatsuki	Nevin	Makihara	Murabayashi	Muneyama	Yanagimachi	Shuto	Nakagawa	Reyes
2024	Arihara	Satoh	Yamakawa	Kobukata	Kurihara	Imamiya	Kondoh	Shuto	Tatsumi	Reyes
2023	Yamamoto	Mori	Tongu	Asamura	Mune	Kurebayashi	Yanagita	Mannami	Kondoh	Polanco
2022	Yamamoto	Kai	Yamakawa	Asamura	Mune	Imamiya	Yanagita	Matsumoto	Shimauchi	Yoshida
2021	Yamamoto	Mori	Laird	Nakamura	Mune	Genda	Yanagita	Yoshida	Sugimoto	Kondoh
2020	Senga	Kai	Nakata	Asamura	Suzuki	Genda	Yanagita	Yoshida	Kondoh	Kuriyama

Central League Gold Glove

Year	P	C	1B	2B	3B	SS	OF	OF	OF
2025	Murakami	Sakamoto	Ohyama	Nakano	Sato	Izuguchi	Chikamoto	Okabayashi	Morishita
2024	Sugano	Yamamoto	Okamoto	Yoshikawa	Sakamoto	Yano	Chikamoto	Okabayashi	Akiyama
2023	Azuma	Sakamoto	Ohyama	Nakano	Miyazaki	Kinami	Chikamoto	Okabayashi	Kuwahara
2022	Morishita	Nakamura	Nakata	Kikuchi	Okamoto	Nagaoka	Chikamoto	Okabayashi	Shiomi
2021	Yanagi	Nakamura	Viciedo	Kikuchi	Okamoto	Sakamoto	Chikamoto	Ohshima	Suzuki
2020	Sugano	Umeno	Viciedo	Kikuchi	Takahashi	Sakamoto	Aoki	Ohshima	Suzuki

Pacific League Gold Glove

Year	P	C	1B	2B	3B	SS	OF	OF	OF
2025	Itoh	Wakatsuki	Nevin	Makihara	Murabayashi	Kurebayashi	Shuto	Tatsumi	Nishikawa
2024	Moinelo	Kai	Yamakawa	Kobukata	Kurihara	Genda	Shuto	Tatsumi	Mannami
2023	Yamamoto	Wakatsuki	Nakamura	Nakamura	Mune	Genda	Kondoh	Tatsumi	Mannami
2022	Yamamoto	Kai	Nakamura	Tonosaki	Mune	Genda	Takabe	Tatsumi	Fukuda
2021	Yamamoto	Kai	Nakamura	Nakamura	Mune	Genda	Yanagita	Tatsumi	Ogino
2020	Senga	Kai	Nakamura/Nakata	Tonosaki	Suzuki	Genda	Yanagita	Nishikawa	Ohta

Yakyu Cosmopolitan All-NPB Team Batters

Year	C	1B	2B	3B	SS	OF	OF	OF	DH
2025 First	Sakamoto	Nevin	Nakano	Sato	Izuguchi	Yanagimachi	Chikamoto	Morishita	Reyes
2025 Second	Kishida	Okamoto	Maki	Murakami	Kurebayashi	Nishikawa	Shuto	Okabayashi	Kondoh

Yakyu Cosmopolitan All-NPB Team Pitchers

Year	SP	SP	SP	SP	SP	SP	RP	RP	RP
2025 First	Moinelo	Imai	Itoh	Miyagi	Murakami	Sumida	Matsuyama	Martinez	Sugiyama
2025 Second	Kitayama	Yamasaki	Kay	Taneichi	Saiki	Duplantier	Ishii	Fujii	Nishiguchi

Sports Info Solutions Fielding Bible

Year	P	C	1B	2B	3B	SS	LF	CF	RF	Multi	DPOY
2025	Morishita	Sakamoto	Nevin	Yoshikawa	Sato	Tomosugi	Nishikawa	Shuto	Mannami	Takizawa	Takizawa
2024	Ojima	Yamamoto	Okamoto	Yoshikawa	Kurihara	Imamiya	Kondoh	Shuto	Mannami	Calixte	Mannami
2023	Yamamoto	Ohshiro	MacKinnon	Yoshikawa	Miyazaki	Genda	Kondoh	Chikamoto	Mannami	Kadowaki	Mannami
2022	Senga	Umeno	Suzuki	Tonosaki	Yasuda	Genda	Nishikawa	Kuwahara	Okabayashi	Makihara	–
2021	Yanagi	Nakamura	Nakata	Yamada	Mune	Genda	Ogino	Asama	Aito	Ogino	–
2020	Morishita	Kai	Nakajima	Kikuchi	Matsuda	Sakamoto	Aoki	Chikamoto	Ohta	Shuto	–

The Fielding Bible awards are voted on by a panel of English-language NPB writers and experts, favoring advanced defensive metrics. Yakyu Cosmopolitan has participated from 2023-2025.