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colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Last appearance</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">1988, for the <a href="/wiki/Saitama_Seibu_Lions" title="Saitama Seibu Lions">Seibu Lions</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:#000000;"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Career statistics</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:right; width:50%; padding-right:0.5em;"><a href="/wiki/Win%E2%80%93loss_record_(pitching)" title="Win–loss record (pitching)">Win–loss</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="width:50%; padding-left:0.5em;">251–247</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:right; width:50%; padding-right:0.5em;"><a href="/wiki/Earned_run_average" title="Earned run average">Earned run average</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="width:50%; padding-left:0.5em;">3.50</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:right; width:50%; padding-right:0.5em;"><a href="/wiki/Shutouts" class="mw-redirect" title="Shutouts">Shutouts</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="width:50%; padding-left:0.5em;">34</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:right; width:50%; padding-right:0.5em;"><a href="/wiki/Innings_pitched" title="Innings pitched">Innings pitched</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="width:50%; padding-left:0.5em;">4,086</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:right; width:50%; padding-right:0.5em;"><a href="/wiki/Strikeout" title="Strikeout">Strikeouts</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="width:50%; padding-left:0.5em;">1,684</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:#000000;"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Teams</th></tr><tr class="ib-baseball-bio-teams"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><b>As player</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Saitama_Seibu_Lions" title="Saitama Seibu Lions">Nishitetsu Lions/Taiheiyo Club Lions/Crown Lighter Lions/Seibu Lions</a> (<a href="/wiki/1969_in_baseball" title="1969 in baseball">1969</a>–<a href="/wiki/1988_in_baseball" title="1988 in baseball">1988</a>)</li></ul> <p><b>As manager</b> </p> <ul><li>Seibu Lions (<a href="/wiki/1995_Nippon_Professional_Baseball_season" title="1995 Nippon Professional Baseball season">1995</a>–<a href="/wiki/2001_Nippon_Professional_Baseball_season" title="2001 Nippon Professional Baseball season">2001</a>)</li></ul> </td></tr><tr style="background-color:#DCDCDC;color:#000000;"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Career highlights and awards</th></tr><tr class="ib-baseball-bio-highlights"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"> <ul><li>2× <a href="/wiki/Nippon_Professional_Baseball_Most_Valuable_Player_Award" title="Nippon Professional Baseball Most Valuable Player Award">Pacific League MVP</a> (<a href="/wiki/1983_in_baseball" title="1983 in baseball">1983</a>, <a href="/wiki/1987_in_baseball" title="1987 in baseball">1987</a>)</li> <li>5× <a href="/wiki/Japan_Series" title="Japan Series">Japan Series</a> champion (<a href="/wiki/1982_Japan_Series" title="1982 Japan Series">1982</a>, <a href="/wiki/1983_Japan_Series" title="1983 Japan Series">1983</a>, <a href="/wiki/1986_Japan_Series" title="1986 Japan Series">1986</a>–<a href="/wiki/1988_Japan_Series" title="1988 Japan Series">1988</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japan_Series_MVP" class="mw-redirect" title="Japan Series MVP">Japan Series MVP</a> (<a href="/wiki/1982_Japan_Series" title="1982 Japan Series">1982</a>)</li></ul> </td></tr><tr class="ib-baseball-bio-member-header"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><a href="/wiki/Japanese_Baseball_Hall_of_Fame" title="Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame">Member of the Japanese</a></th></tr><tr class="nowrap ib-baseball-bio-member" style="background:#272662;"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><span 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href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.5em;">Induction</th><td class="infobox-data" style="padding-left:0.5em;">2010</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Osamu Higashio</b><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">東尾修</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">Higashio Osamu</i></span>, born May 18, 1950)</span> is a former Japanese <a href="/wiki/Baseball" title="Baseball">baseball</a> player who played in the Japanese professional leagues from 1969–1988, being remembered as one of the leading Japanese pitchers in the 1980s. He also was manager of the <a href="/wiki/Saitama_Seibu_Lions" title="Saitama Seibu Lions">Seibu Lions</a> from 1995 to 2001. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Professional_career">Professional career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Osamu_Higashio&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Professional career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Higashio was a star in the <a href="/wiki/National_High_School_Baseball_Invitational_Tournament" class="mw-redirect" title="National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament">Koshien</a> high school baseball tournament, helping his team advance to the semi-finals in the spring of 1968. He was drafted in the first round by the Nishitetsu Lions (the current <a href="/wiki/Saitama_Seibu_Lions" title="Saitama Seibu Lions">Saitama Seibu Lions</a>) later that year. He lost confidence in his pitching ability after seeing the high level of pitching in the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_League" title="Pacific League">Pacific League</a>, and requested the team to convert him to a position player. The team accepted his request, but quickly withdrew it when the <a href="/wiki/Black_Mist_Scandal_(Japanese_Baseball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Black Mist Scandal (Japanese Baseball)">Black Mist Scandal</a> erupted in the 1969 off-season. The ace of the Lions pitching staff, <a href="/wiki/Masaaki_Ikenaga" title="Masaaki Ikenaga">Masaaki Ikenaga</a>, was banished from the professional leagues because of the scandal, and Higashio was forced into pitching a full year in the Lions starting rotation. His inexperience resulted in a 5.15 ERA in 40 games that season. Higashio made improvements in the following years, but still led the league in losses in 1971 and 1972. During the 1972 season in particular he pitched over 300 innings, leading the league not only in losses, but in hits, runs, and home runs given up. He also allowed over 100 walks in three consecutive seasons beginning in 1971. </p><p>The Lions team was sold by the <a href="/wiki/Nishi-Nippon_Railroad" title="Nishi-Nippon Railroad">Nishi-Nippon Railroad</a> in 1973, becoming the Taiheiyo Club Lions, and in 1978 he was sold again when the team became the Crown Lighter Lions. It was during this turbulent period that Higashio emerged as the ace of the Lions pitching staff. In the 1975 season he had a very respectable 2.38 ERA while leading the league with 23 wins. He won 23 games again in 1978, pitching over 300 innings for the third time in his career. The Lions finally obtained financial stability in 1979, becoming the Seibu Lions, and won the <a href="/wiki/Japan_Series" title="Japan Series">Japan Series</a> in <a href="/wiki/1982_Japan_Series" title="1982 Japan Series">1982</a> and <a href="/wiki/1983_Japan_Series" title="1983 Japan Series">1983</a>. Higashio marked the lowest ERA in the league (2.92), and led the league in wins to receive the <a href="/wiki/Nippon_Professional_Baseball_Most_Valuable_Player_Award" title="Nippon Professional Baseball Most Valuable Player Award">MVP</a> award in 1983. The Lions won the Pacific League championship four years in a row from 1985–1988 (including three more Japan Series wins), and Higashio won his second MVP award in 1987. He announced his retirement in 1988. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Beanballs">Beanballs</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Osamu_Higashio&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Beanballs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Higashio often pitched towards the inside of the plate to intimidate opposing batters during his professional career, and he holds the Japanese career record for hit batsmen (165). He was not afraid to throw pitches close to the batter, and showed little remorse after hitting batters. In 1986, he received a beating on the mound by <a href="/wiki/Kintetsu_Buffaloes" class="mw-redirect" title="Kintetsu Buffaloes">Kintetsu Buffaloes</a> player <a href="/wiki/Dick_Davis_(baseball)" title="Dick Davis (baseball)">Dick Davis</a>, after hitting Davis with a pitch (Higashio continued pitching after the incident, marking the win).<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many fans sympathized with Davis, and demanded that Higashio be penalized as well for hitting so many batters. Managers of rival teams accused Higashio of purposely hitting batters, since Higashio possessed excellent control, and there was no way he could accidentally hit batters so often. Higashio has maintained that he never threw a pitch with the intention of hitting the batter. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career_statistics">Career statistics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Osamu_Higashio&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Career statistics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>Bolded figures</b> are league-leading ones</li></ul> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Year</th> <th>Team</th> <th>G</th> <th>CG</th> <th>SHO</th> <th>W</th> <th>L</th> <th>SV</th> <th>IP</th> <th>H</th> <th>HR</th> <th>BB+HBP</th> <th>SO</th> <th>ER</th> <th>ERA(Place) </th></tr> <tr style="text-align: right;"> <td>1969</td> <td rowspan="4" style="text-align: center;">Nishitetsu Lions </td> <td>8</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>0</td> <td>2</td> <td>0</td> <td>15.0</td> <td>16</td> <td>2</td> <td>15</td> <td>11</td> <td>14</td> <td>8.40 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: right;"> <td>1970</td> <td>40</td> <td>3</td> <td>0</td> <td>11</td> <td>18</td> <td>0</td> <td>173.1</td> <td>183</td> <td>22</td> <td>97</td> <td>94</td> <td>99</td> <td>5.15(21) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: right;"> <td>1971</td> <td><b>51</b></td> <td>3</td> <td>0</td> <td>8</td> <td><b>16</b></td> <td>0</td> <td>221.1</td> <td>198</td> <td>20</td> <td><b>133</b></td> <td>109</td> <td>92</td> <td>3.75(17) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: right;"> <td>1972</td> <td>55</td> <td>13</td> <td>2</td> <td>18</td> <td><b>25</b></td> <td>0</td> <td><b>309.2</b></td> <td><b>313</b></td> <td><b>37</b></td> <td>122</td> <td>171</td> <td><b>126</b></td> <td>3.66(15) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: right;"> <td>1973</td> <td rowspan="4" style="text-align: center;">Taiheiyo Club Lions </td> <td>48</td> <td>14</td> <td>5</td> <td>15</td> <td>14</td> <td>0</td> <td>257.2</td> <td><b>250</b></td> <td>22</td> <td><b>114</b></td> <td>104</td> <td><b>94</b></td> <td>3.29(14) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: right;"> <td>1974</td> <td>27</td> <td>7</td> <td>1</td> <td>6</td> <td>9</td> <td>0</td> <td>123.0</td> <td>116</td> <td>12</td> <td>53</td> <td>58</td> <td>47</td> <td>3.44 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: right;"> <td>1975</td> <td><b>54</b></td> <td><b>25</b></td> <td><b>4</b></td> <td><b>23</b></td> <td><b>15</b></td> <td>7</td> <td><b>317.2</b></td> <td><b>287</b></td> <td>14</td> <td>70</td> <td><b>154</b></td> <td>84</td> <td>2.38(3) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: right;"> <td>1976</td> <td>43</td> <td>15</td> <td>2</td> <td>13</td> <td>11</td> <td>5</td> <td>243.1</td> <td><b>256</b></td> <td>14</td> <td>59</td> <td>93</td> <td><b>86</b></td> <td>3.19(14) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: right;"> <td>1977</td> <td rowspan="2" style="text-align: center;">Crown Lighter Lions </td> <td>42</td> <td>17</td> <td>1</td> <td>11</td> <td><b>20</b></td> <td>4</td> <td>241.2</td> <td><b>259</b></td> <td><b>30</b></td> <td>70</td> <td>108</td> <td><b>104</b></td> <td>3.87(20) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: right;"> <td>1978</td> <td>45</td> <td>28</td> <td>1</td> <td>23</td> <td>14</td> <td>1</td> <td><b>303.1</b></td> <td><b>299</b></td> <td>25</td> <td>69</td> <td>126</td> <td>99</td> <td>2.94(8) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: right;"> <td>1979</td> <td rowspan="10" style="text-align: center;">Seibu Lions </td> <td>23</td> <td>10</td> <td>1</td> <td>6</td> <td>13</td> <td>0</td> <td>155.0</td> <td>181</td> <td>19</td> <td>39</td> <td>61</td> <td>78</td> <td>4.53(21) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: right;"> <td>1980</td> <td>33</td> <td>18</td> <td>1</td> <td>17</td> <td>13</td> <td>0</td> <td>235.1</td> <td><b>258</b></td> <td>28</td> <td>53</td> <td>84</td> <td>99</td> <td>3.79(7) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: right;"> <td>1981</td> <td>27</td> <td>11</td> <td>1</td> <td>8</td> <td>11</td> <td>0</td> <td>181.0</td> <td>192</td> <td>24</td> <td>58</td> <td>55</td> <td>77</td> <td>3.83(16) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: right;"> <td>1982</td> <td>28</td> <td>11</td> <td>2</td> <td>10</td> <td>11</td> <td>1</td> <td>183.2</td> <td>179</td> <td>20</td> <td>52</td> <td>59</td> <td>67</td> <td>3.28(9) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: right;"> <td>1983</td> <td>32</td> <td>11</td> <td><b>3</b></td> <td><b>18</b></td> <td>9</td> <td>2</td> <td>213.0</td> <td>198</td> <td>14</td> <td>57</td> <td>72</td> <td>69</td> <td><b>2.92(1)</b> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: right;"> <td>1984</td> <td>32</td> <td><b>20</b></td> <td>3</td> <td>14</td> <td><b>14</b></td> <td>0</td> <td><b>241.1</b></td> <td>227</td> <td>24</td> <td>61</td> <td>84</td> <td>89</td> <td>3.32(3) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: right;"> <td>1985</td> <td>31</td> <td>11</td> <td><b>3</b></td> <td>17</td> <td>3</td> <td>1</td> <td>174.1</td> <td>164</td> <td>19</td> <td>53</td> <td>74</td> <td>64</td> <td>3.30(4) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: right;"> <td>1986</td> <td>31</td> <td>8</td> <td>0</td> <td>12</td> <td>11</td> <td>2</td> <td>168.1</td> <td>183</td> <td>29</td> <td>34</td> <td>52</td> <td>79</td> <td>4.22(13) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: right;"> <td>1987</td> <td>28</td> <td>17</td> <td>3</td> <td>15</td> <td>9</td> <td>0</td> <td>222.2</td> <td>215</td> <td>16</td> <td>35</td> <td>85</td> <td>64</td> <td>2.59(2) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: right;"> <td>1988</td> <td>19</td> <td>5</td> <td>1</td> <td>6</td> <td>9</td> <td>0</td> <td>105.2</td> <td>121</td> <td>21</td> <td>33</td> <td>30</td> <td>57</td> <td>4.85 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: right;"> <th colspan="2">Career Total </th> <td>697</td> <td>247</td> <td>34</td> <td>251</td> <td>247</td> <td>23</td> <td>4086</td> <td>4095</td> <td>412</td> <td>1267</td> <td>1684</td> <td>1588</td> <td>3.50 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Managerial_career">Managerial career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Osamu_Higashio&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Managerial career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Higashio worked as a sports commentator for various television networks before returning to the Lions in 1995 as manager. Higashio drafted several top players, and recruited <a href="/wiki/Darrin_Jackson" title="Darrin Jackson">Darrin Jackson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Orestes_Destrade" title="Orestes Destrade">Orestes Destrade</a> from the major leagues, but ended up in 3rd place in his first two seasons as manager. The emergence of several young players, including <a href="/wiki/Kazuo_Matsui" title="Kazuo Matsui">Kazuo Matsui</a>, put the Lions over the top in Higashio's third year, and the team won consecutive league championships in 1997 and 1998 (the Lions lost the Japanese championship series both years). Pitchers <a href="/wiki/Shinji_Mori" title="Shinji Mori">Shinji Mori</a>, <a href="/wiki/Daisuke_Matsuzaka" title="Daisuke Matsuzaka">Daisuke Matsuzaka</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fumiya_Nishiguchi" title="Fumiya Nishiguchi">Fumiya Nishiguchi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Yui_Tomori" title="Yui Tomori">Denney Tomori</a> also emerged during Higashio's tenure as manager. The Lions placed in 2nd in 1999 and 2000, and fell to 3rd place in 2001, and Higashio resigned from his post at the end of 2001. </p><p>He has currently<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The time period mentioned near this tag is ambiguous. (March 2017)">as of?</span></a></i>]</sup> returned to his role as a sports commentator. In September, 2006, he became the head of the <a href="/wiki/Tokyo_Apache" title="Tokyo Apache">Tokyo Apache</a> Japanese professional basketball team. </p><p>Higashio served as the pitching coach for the <a href="/wiki/Japanese_national_baseball_team" class="mw-redirect" title="Japanese national baseball team">Japanese national baseball team</a> in the <a href="/wiki/2013_World_Baseball_Classic" title="2013 World Baseball Classic">2013 World Baseball Classic</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Osamu_Higashio&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Higashio's daughter, <a 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080409083700/http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1068391/index.htm">"The Pain Of Perfection,"</a> <i>Sports Illustrated</i> (May 15, 1989). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://japanesebaseball.com/writers/display.gsp?id=18781">Archived at JapaneseBaseball.com</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output 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Oshikawa">Kiyoshi Oshikawa</a> (1959)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jiro_Kuji&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jiro Kuji (page does not exist)">Jiro Kuji</a> (1959)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eiji_Sawamura" title="Eiji Sawamura">Eiji Sawamura</a> (1959)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iso_Abe" class="mw-redirect" title="Iso Abe">Iso Abe</a> (1959)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:white; color:#003; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #003, inset -2px -2px 0 #003;;width:1%">1960s inductees</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Victor_Starffin" title="Victor Starffin">Victor Starffin</a> (1960)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yutaka_Ikeda&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yutaka Ikeda (page does not exist)">Yutaka Ikeda</a> (1962)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haruyasu_Nakajima" title="Haruyasu Nakajima">Haruyasu Nakajima</a> 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Nidegawa (page does not exist)">Nobuaki Nidegawa</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shuichi_Ishimoto&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shuichi Ishimoto (page does not exist)">Shuichi Ishimoto</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sadayoshi_Fujimoto" title="Sadayoshi Fujimoto">Sadayoshi Fujimoto</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fumio_Fujimura" title="Fumio Fujimura">Fumio Fujimura</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hideo_Fujimoto" title="Hideo Fujimoto">Hideo Fujimoto</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shigeru_Mizuhara" title="Shigeru Mizuhara">Shigeru Mizuhara</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michio_Nishizawa" title="Michio Nishizawa">Michio Nishizawa</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenjiro_Matsuki" title="Kenjiro Matsuki">Kenjiro Matsuki</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shinji_Hamazaki" title="Shinji Hamazaki">Shinji Hamazaki</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Takehiko_Bessho" title="Takehiko Bessho">Takehiko Bessho</a> (1979)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:white; color:#003; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #003, inset -2px -2px 0 #003;;width:1%">1980s inductees</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hiroshi_Ohshita" title="Hiroshi Ohshita">Hiroshi Ohshita</a> (1980)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Makoto_Kozuru" title="Makoto Kozuru">Makoto Kozuru</a> (1980)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shigeru_Chiba_(baseball)" title="Shigeru Chiba (baseball)">Shigeru Chiba</a> (1980)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tokuji_Iida" title="Tokuji Iida">Tokuji Iida</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoshiyuki_Iwamoto" title="Yoshiyuki Iwamoto">Yoshiyuki Iwamoto</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Osamu_Mihara" title="Osamu Mihara">Osamu Mihara</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shinji_Kirihara&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shinji Kirihara (page does not exist)">Shinji Kirihara</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shigeru_Sugishita" title="Shigeru Sugishita">Shigeru Sugishita</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Katsumi_Shiraishi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Katsumi Shiraishi (page does not exist)">Katsumi Shiraishi</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atsushi_Aramaki" title="Atsushi Aramaki">Atsushi Aramaki</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Takeo_Akuta" title="Takeo Akuta">Takeo Akuta</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shigeo_Nagashima" title="Shigeo Nagashima">Shigeo Nagashima</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaoru_Bettou" class="mw-redirect" title="Kaoru Bettou">Kaoru Bettou</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Masaichi_Nagata" title="Masaichi Nagata">Masaichi Nagata</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saburo_Yokozawa" title="Saburo Yokozawa">Saburo Yokozawa</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yukio_Nishimoto" title="Yukio Nishimoto">Yukio Nishimoto</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Masaichi_Kaneda" title="Masaichi Kaneda">Masaichi Kaneda</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hidenosuke_Shima&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hidenosuke Shima (page does not exist)">Hidenosuke Shima</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katsuya_Nomura" title="Katsuya Nomura">Katsuya Nomura</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jiro_Noguchi" title="Jiro Noguchi">Jiro Noguchi</a> (1989)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:white; color:#003; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #003, inset -2px -2px 0 #003;;width:1%">1990s inductees</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Juzo_Sanada" title="Juzo Sanada">Juzo Sanada</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isao_Harimoto" title="Isao Harimoto">Isao Harimoto</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shigeru_Makino" title="Shigeru Makino">Shigeru Makino</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Osamu_Tsutsui&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Osamu Tsutsui (page does not exist)">Osamu Tsutsui</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kichiro_Shimaoka&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kichiro Shimaoka (page does not exist)">Kichiro Shimaoka</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tatsuro_Hirooka" title="Tatsuro Hirooka">Tatsuro Hirooka</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michinori_Tsubouchi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Michinori Tsubouchi (page does not exist)">Michinori Tsubouchi</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Masao_Yoshida_(baseball)" title="Masao Yoshida (baseball)">Masao Yoshida</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoshio_Yoshida_(baseball)" title="Yoshio Yoshida (baseball)">Yoshio Yoshida</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kazuhisa_Inao" title="Kazuhisa Inao">Kazuhisa Inao</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minoru_Murayama" title="Minoru Murayama">Minoru Murayama</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sadaharu_Oh" title="Sadaharu Oh">Sadaharu Oh</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wally_Yonamine" title="Wally Yonamine">Wally Yonamine</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shosei_Go" title="Shosei Go">Shosei Go</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tadashi_Sugiura" title="Tadashi Sugiura">Tadashi Sugiura</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tokichiro_Ishii&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tokichiro Ishii (page does not exist)">Tokichiro Ishii</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Motoshi_Fujita" title="Motoshi Fujita">Motoshi Fujita</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sachio_Kinugasa" title="Sachio Kinugasa">Sachio Kinugasa</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katsuo_Osugi" title="Katsuo Osugi">Katsuo Osugi</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Futoshi_Nakanishi" title="Futoshi Nakanishi">Futoshi Nakanishi</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoshinori_Hirose" title="Yoshinori Hirose">Yoshinori Hirose</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Takeshi_Koba" title="Takeshi Koba">Takeshi Koba</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sadao_Kondo" class="mw-redirect" title="Sadao Kondo">Sadao Kondo</a> (1999)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:white; color:#003; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #003, inset -2px -2px 0 #003;;width:1%">2000s inductees</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tetsuya_Yoneda" title="Tetsuya Yoneda">Tetsuya Yoneda</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rikuo_Nemoto" title="Rikuo Nemoto">Rikuo Nemoto</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Masaaki_Koyama" title="Masaaki Koyama">Masaaki Koyama</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kazuhiro_Yamauchi" title="Kazuhiro Yamauchi">Kazuhiro Yamauchi</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keishi_Suzuki" title="Keishi Suzuki">Keishi Suzuki</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yutaka_Fukumoto" title="Yutaka Fukumoto">Yutaka Fukumoto</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenjiro_Tamiya" title="Kenjiro Tamiya">Kenjiro Tamiya</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lefty_O%27Doul" title="Lefty O'Doul">Lefty O'Doul</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Masaoka_Shiki" title="Masaoka Shiki">Masaoka Shiki</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toshiharu_Ueda" title="Toshiharu Ueda">Toshiharu Ueda</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Junzo_Sekine" title="Junzo Sekine">Junzo Sekine</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horace_Wilson_(professor)" title="Horace Wilson (professor)">Horace Wilson</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sakae_Suzuka&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sakae Suzuka (page does not exist)">Sakae Suzuka</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akira_Ogi" class="mw-redirect" title="Akira Ogi">Akira Ogi</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Noboru_Akiyama" title="Noboru Akiyama">Noboru Akiyama</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Choji_Murata" title="Choji Murata">Choji Murata</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Masaaki_Mori_(baseball)" title="Masaaki Mori (baseball)">Masaaki Mori</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Masayori_Shimura&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Masayori Shimura (page does not exist)">Masayori Shimura</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hiromitsu_Kadota" title="Hiromitsu Kadota">Hiromitsu Kadota</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morimichi_Takagi" title="Morimichi Takagi">Morimichi Takagi</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hisashi_Yamada" title="Hisashi Yamada">Hisashi Yamada</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yasumitsu_Toyoda" title="Yasumitsu Toyoda">Yasumitsu Toyoda</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hiromori_Kawashima" title="Hiromori Kawashima">Hiromori Kawashima</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Takao_Kajimoto" title="Takao Kajimoto">Takao Kajimoto</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Reiichi_Matsunaga&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Reiichi Matsunaga (page does not exist)">Reiichi Matsunaga</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Koji_Yamamoto_(baseball,_born_1946)" title="Koji Yamamoto (baseball, born 1946)">Koji Yamamoto</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tsuneo_Horiuchi" title="Tsuneo Horiuchi">Tsuneo Horiuchi</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tsutomu_Wakamatsu" title="Tsutomu Wakamatsu">Tsutomu Wakamatsu</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seiichi_Shima" title="Seiichi Shima">Seiichi Shima</a> (2008)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:white; color:#003; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #003, inset -2px -2px 0 #003;;width:1%">2010s inductees</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Osamu Higashio</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hiromitsu_Ochiai" title="Hiromitsu Ochiai">Hiromitsu Ochiai</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mutsuo_Minagawa" title="Mutsuo Minagawa">Mutsuo Minagawa</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manabu_Kitabeppu" title="Manabu Kitabeppu">Manabu Kitabeppu</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tsunemi_Tsuda" title="Tsunemi Tsuda">Tsunemi Tsuda</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yutaka_Ohno" title="Yutaka Ohno">Yutaka Ohno</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hideo_Nomo" title="Hideo Nomo">Hideo Nomo</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Koji_Akiyama" title="Koji Akiyama">Koji Akiyama</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kazuhiro_Sasaki" title="Kazuhiro Sasaki">Kazuhiro Sasaki</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atsuya_Furuta" title="Atsuya Furuta">Atsuya Furuta</a> (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kihachi_Enomoto" title="Kihachi Enomoto">Kihachi Enomoto</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kimiyasu_Kudoh" class="mw-redirect" title="Kimiyasu Kudoh">Kimiyasu Kudoh</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Masaki_Saito_(baseball)" title="Masaki Saito (baseball)">Masaki Saito</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tsutomu_Ito" class="mw-redirect" title="Tsutomu Ito">Tsutomu Ito</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Masaji_Hiramatsu" title="Masaji Hiramatsu">Masaji Hiramatsu</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Senichi_Hoshino" title="Senichi Hoshino">Senichi Hoshino</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hideki_Matsui" title="Hideki Matsui">Hideki Matsui</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tomoaki_Kanemoto" title="Tomoaki Kanemoto">Tomoaki Kanemoto</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kazuyoshi_Tatsunami" title="Kazuyoshi Tatsunami">Kazuyoshi Tatsunami</a> (2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hiroshi_Gondoh" title="Hiroshi Gondoh">Hiroshi Gondoh</a> (2019)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:white; color:#003; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #003, inset -2px -2px 0 #003;;width:1%">2020s inductees</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Koichi_Tabuchi" class="mw-redirect" title="Koichi Tabuchi">Koichi Tabuchi</a> (2020)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kazuo_Sayama&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kazuo Sayama (page does not exist)">Kazuo Sayama</a> (2021)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katsuji_Kawashima" title="Katsuji Kawashima">Katsuji Kawashima</a> (2021)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shigeyoshi_Matsumae" title="Shigeyoshi Matsumae">Shigeyoshi Matsumae</a> (2022)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shingo_Takatsu" title="Shingo Takatsu">Shingo Takatsu</a> (2022)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Masahiro_Yamamoto_(baseball)" title="Masahiro Yamamoto (baseball)">Masa Yamamoto</a> (2022)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alex_Ram%C3%ADrez" title="Alex Ramírez">Alex Ramírez</a> (2023)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Randy_Bass" title="Randy Bass">Randy Bass</a> (2023)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Y%C5%ABji_Koseki" title="Yūji Koseki">Yūji Koseki</a> (2023)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" 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style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Japan_Series_Most_Valuable_Player_Award" title="Japan Series Most Valuable Player Award">Japan Series MVP Award</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">1950: <a href="/wiki/Kaoru_Betto" title="Kaoru Betto">Betto</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1951: <a href="/wiki/Yuko_Minamimura" title="Yuko Minamimura">Minamimura</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1952: <a href="/wiki/Takehiko_Bessho" title="Takehiko Bessho">Bessho</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1953: <a href="/wiki/Tetsuharu_Kawakami" title="Tetsuharu Kawakami">Kawakami</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1954: <a href="/wiki/Shigeru_Sugishita" title="Shigeru Sugishita">Sugishita</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1955: <a href="/wiki/Takehiko_Bessho" title="Takehiko Bessho">Bessho</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1956: <a href="/wiki/Yasumitsu_Toyoda" title="Yasumitsu Toyoda">Toyoda</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1957: <a href="/wiki/Hiroshi_Ohshita" title="Hiroshi Ohshita">Ohshita</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1958: <a href="/wiki/Kazuhisa_Inao" title="Kazuhisa Inao">Inao</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1959: <a href="/wiki/Tadashi_Sugiura" title="Tadashi Sugiura">Sugiura</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1960: <a href="/wiki/Akihito_Kondo" title="Akihito Kondo">Kondo</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1961: <a href="/wiki/Andy_Miyamoto" title="Andy Miyamoto">Miyamoto</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1962: <a href="/wiki/Masayuki_Dobashi" title="Masayuki Dobashi">Dobashi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1962: <a href="/wiki/Masayuki_Tanemo" title="Masayuki Tanemo">Tanemo</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1963: <a href="/wiki/Shigeo_Nagashima" title="Shigeo Nagashima">S. Nagashima</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1964: <a href="/wiki/Joe_Stanka" title="Joe Stanka">Stanka</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1965: <a href="/wiki/Shigeo_Nagashima" title="Shigeo Nagashima">S. Nagashima</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1966: <a href="/wiki/Isao_Shibata" title="Isao Shibata">Shibata</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1967: <a href="/wiki/Masaaki_Mori_(baseball)" title="Masaaki Mori (baseball)">Mori</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1968: <a href="/wiki/Shigeru_Takada" title="Shigeru Takada">Takada</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1969: <a href="/wiki/Shigeo_Nagashima" title="Shigeo Nagashima">S. Nagashima</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1970: <a href="/wiki/Shigeo_Nagashima" title="Shigeo Nagashima">S. Nagashima</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1971: <a href="/wiki/Toshimitsu_Suetsugu" title="Toshimitsu Suetsugu">Suetsugu</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1972: <a href="/wiki/Tsuneo_Horiuchi" title="Tsuneo Horiuchi">Horiuchi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1973: <a href="/wiki/Tsuneo_Horiuchi" title="Tsuneo Horiuchi">Horiuchi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1974: <a href="/wiki/Sumio_Hirota" title="Sumio Hirota">Hirota</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1975: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Takashi_Yamaguchi_(baseball)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Takashi Yamaguchi (baseball) (page does not exist)">Yamaguchi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1976: <a href="/wiki/Yutaka_Fukumoto" title="Yutaka Fukumoto">Fukumoto</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1977: <a href="/wiki/Hisashi_Yamada" title="Hisashi Yamada">Yamada</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1978: <a href="/wiki/Katsuo_Osugi" title="Katsuo Osugi">Osugi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1979: <a href="/wiki/Yoshihiko_Takahashi" title="Yoshihiko Takahashi">Y. Takahashi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1980: <a href="/wiki/Jim_Lyttle" title="Jim Lyttle">Lyttle</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1981: <a href="/wiki/Takashi_Nishimoto" title="Takashi Nishimoto">Nishimoto</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1982: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Higashio</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1983: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Takuji_Ota&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Takuji Ota (page does not exist)">Ota</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1984: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kiyoyuki_Nagashima&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kiyoyuki Nagashima (page does not exist)">K. Nagashima</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1985: <a href="/wiki/Randy_Bass" title="Randy Bass">Bass</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1986: <a href="/wiki/Kimiyasu_Kud%C5%8D" title="Kimiyasu Kudō">Kudō</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1987: <a href="/wiki/Kimiyasu_Kud%C5%8D" title="Kimiyasu Kudō">Kudō</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1988: <a href="/wiki/Hiromichi_Ishige" title="Hiromichi Ishige">Ishige</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1989: <a href="/wiki/Norihiro_Komada" title="Norihiro Komada">Komada</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1990: <a href="/wiki/Orestes_Destrade" title="Orestes Destrade">Destrade</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1991: <a href="/wiki/Koji_Akiyama" title="Koji Akiyama">Akiyama</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1992: <a href="/wiki/Takehiro_Ishii" title="Takehiro Ishii">Take. Ishii</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1993: <a href="/wiki/Kenjiro_Kawasaki" title="Kenjiro Kawasaki">Kawasaki</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1994: <a href="/wiki/Hiromi_Makihara" title="Hiromi Makihara">Makihara</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1995: <a href="/wiki/Tom_O%27Malley" title="Tom O'Malley">O'Malley</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1996: <a href="/wiki/Troy_Neel" title="Troy Neel">Neel</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1997: <a href="/wiki/Atsuya_Furuta" title="Atsuya Furuta">Furuta</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1998: <a href="/wiki/Takanori_Suzuki" title="Takanori Suzuki">Taka. Suzuki</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1999: <a href="/wiki/Koji_Akiyama" title="Koji Akiyama">Akiyama</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2000: <a href="/wiki/Hideki_Matsui" title="Hideki Matsui">Matsui</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2001: <a href="/wiki/Atsuya_Furuta" title="Atsuya Furuta">Furuta</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2002: <a href="/wiki/Tomohiro_Nioka" title="Tomohiro Nioka">Nioka</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2003: <a href="/wiki/Toshiya_Sugiuchi" title="Toshiya Sugiuchi">Sugiuchi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2004: <a href="/wiki/Takashi_Ishii_(baseball)" title="Takashi Ishii (baseball)">Taka. Ishii</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2005: <a href="/wiki/Toshiaki_Imae" title="Toshiaki Imae">Imae</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2006: <a href="/wiki/Atsunori_Inaba" title="Atsunori Inaba">Inaba</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2007: <a href="/wiki/Norihiro_Nakamura" title="Norihiro Nakamura">N. Nakamura</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2008: <a href="/wiki/Takayuki_Kishi" title="Takayuki Kishi">Kishi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2009: <a href="/wiki/Shinnosuke_Abe" title="Shinnosuke Abe">Abe</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2010: <a href="/wiki/Toshiaki_Imae" title="Toshiaki Imae">Imae</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2011: <a href="/wiki/Hiroki_Kokubo" title="Hiroki Kokubo">Kokubo</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2012: <a href="/wiki/Tetsuya_Utsumi" title="Tetsuya Utsumi">Utsumi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2013: <a href="/wiki/Manabu_Mima" title="Manabu Mima">Mima</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2014: <a href="/wiki/Seiichi_Uchikawa" title="Seiichi Uchikawa">Uchikawa</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2015: <a href="/wiki/Dae-ho_Lee" title="Dae-ho Lee">Lee Dae-ho</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2016: <a href="/wiki/Brandon_Laird" title="Brandon Laird">Laird</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2017: <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Sarfate" title="Dennis Sarfate">Sarfate</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2018: <a href="/wiki/Takuya_Kai" title="Takuya Kai">Kai</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2019: <a href="/wiki/Yurisbel_Gracial" title="Yurisbel Gracial">Gracial</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2020: <a href="/wiki/Ryoya_Kurihara" title="Ryoya Kurihara">Kurihara</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2021: <a href="/wiki/Yuhei_Nakamura" title="Yuhei Nakamura">Y. 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Yamamoto</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1952: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Susumu_Yuki&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Susumu Yuki (page does not exist)">Yuki</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1953: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Isami_Okamoto&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Isami Okamoto (page does not exist)">Okamoto</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1954: <a href="/wiki/Hiroshi_Oshita" class="mw-redirect" title="Hiroshi Oshita">Oshita</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1955: <a href="/wiki/Tokuji_Iida" title="Tokuji Iida">Iida</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1956: <a href="/wiki/Futoshi_Nakanishi" title="Futoshi Nakanishi">Nakanishi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1957: <a href="/wiki/Kazuhisa_Inao" title="Kazuhisa Inao">Inao</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1958: <a href="/wiki/Kazuhisa_Inao" title="Kazuhisa Inao">Inao</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1959: <a href="/wiki/Tadashi_Sugiura" title="Tadashi Sugiura">Sugiura</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1960: <a href="/wiki/Kazuhiro_Yamauchi" title="Kazuhiro Yamauchi">Yamauchi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1961: <a href="/wiki/Katsuya_Nomura" title="Katsuya Nomura">Nomura</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1962: <a href="/wiki/Isao_Harimoto" title="Isao Harimoto">Harimoto</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1963: <a href="/wiki/Katsuya_Nomura" title="Katsuya Nomura">Nomura</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1964: <a href="/wiki/Joe_Stanka" title="Joe Stanka">Stanka</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1965: <a href="/wiki/Katsuya_Nomura" title="Katsuya Nomura">Nomura</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1966: <a href="/wiki/Katsuya_Nomura" title="Katsuya Nomura">Nomura</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1967: <a href="/wiki/Mitsuhiro_Adachi" title="Mitsuhiro Adachi">Adachi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1968: <a href="/wiki/Tetsuya_Yoneda" title="Tetsuya Yoneda">Yoneda</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1969: <a href="/wiki/Tokuji_Nagaike" title="Tokuji Nagaike">Nagaike</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1970: <a href="/wiki/Masaaki_Kitaru" title="Masaaki Kitaru">Kitaru</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1971: <a href="/wiki/Tokuji_Nagaike" title="Tokuji Nagaike">Nagaike</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1972: <a href="/wiki/Yutaka_Fukumoto" title="Yutaka Fukumoto">Fukumoto</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1973: <a href="/wiki/Katsuya_Nomura" title="Katsuya Nomura">Nomura</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1974: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Tomehiro_Kaneda&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tomehiro Kaneda (page does not exist)">Kaneda</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1975: <a href="/wiki/Hideji_Kat%C5%8D" title="Hideji Katō">Katō</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1976: <a href="/wiki/Hisashi_Yamada" title="Hisashi Yamada">Yamada</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1977: <a href="/wiki/Hisashi_Yamada" title="Hisashi Yamada">Yamada</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1978: <a href="/wiki/Hisashi_Yamada" title="Hisashi Yamada">Yamada</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1979: <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Manuel" title="Charlie Manuel">Manuel</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1980: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Isamu_Kida&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Isamu Kida (page does not exist)">Kida</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1981: <a href="/wiki/Yutaka_Enatsu" title="Yutaka Enatsu">Enatsu</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1982: <a href="/wiki/Hiromitsu_Ochiai" title="Hiromitsu Ochiai">Ochiai</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1983: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Higashio</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1984: <a href="/wiki/Greg_Wells_(baseball)" title="Greg Wells (baseball)">Boomer</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1985: <a href="/wiki/Hiromitsu_Ochiai" title="Hiromitsu Ochiai">Ochiai</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1986: <a href="/wiki/Hiromichi_Ishige" title="Hiromichi Ishige">Ishige</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1987: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Higashio</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1988: <a href="/wiki/Hiromitsu_Kadota" title="Hiromitsu Kadota">Kadota</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1989: <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Bryant" title="Ralph Bryant">Bryant</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1990: <a href="/wiki/Hideo_Nomo" title="Hideo Nomo">Nomo</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1991: <a href="/wiki/Kuo_Tai-yuan" title="Kuo Tai-yuan">T. Kaku</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1992: <a href="/wiki/Takehiro_Ishii" title="Takehiro Ishii">Ishii</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1993: <a href="/wiki/Kimiyasu_Kud%C5%8D" title="Kimiyasu Kudō">Kudō</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1994: <a href="/wiki/Ichiro_Suzuki" title="Ichiro Suzuki">Ichirō</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1995: <a href="/wiki/Ichiro_Suzuki" title="Ichiro Suzuki">Ichirō</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1996: <a href="/wiki/Ichiro_Suzuki" title="Ichiro Suzuki">Ichirō</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1997: <a href="/wiki/Fumiya_Nishiguchi" title="Fumiya Nishiguchi">Nishiguchi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1998: <a href="/wiki/Kazuo_Matsui" title="Kazuo Matsui">K. 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