2016 Pacific League Most Valuable Player Award

The 2016 Pacific League Most Valuable Player Award easily went to Shohei Otani, who got 253 of 254 first-place votes and a second-place vote. The Nippon Ham Fighters two-way star, at age 22, would have led the league in ERA and slugging but did not qualify for the leaderboards in either (just missing the ERA qualifiers). Given that there had been no other two-way players in NPB for decades, it was quite a feat.

Voting Results

Finish	Name	Team	Position	1st Place Votes	2nd Place Votes	3rd Place Votes	Points
1	Shohei Otani	Nippon Ham Fighters	P/DH	253	1	0	1,268
2	Brandon Laird	Nippon Ham Fighters	3rd Baseman	0	85	43	298
3	Sho Nakata	Nippon Ham Fighters	1st Baseman	0	50	40	190
4	Tsuyoshi Wada	Softbank Hawks	Pitcher	0	24	28	100
5	Haruki Nishikawa	Nippon Ham Fighters	Outfielder	0	11	11	44
6	Naoki Miyanishi	Nippon Ham Fighters	Pitcher	1	8	12	41
7	Ayumu Ishikawa	Chiba Lotte Marines	Pitcher	0	7	10	31
8	Hirotoshi Masui	Nippon Ham Fighters	Pitcher	0	6	10	28
9	Katsuya Kakunaka	Chiba Lotte Marines	Outfielder	0	5	6	21
10	Seiichi Uchikawa	Softbank Hawks	Outfielder	0	4	7	19
11	Dennis Sarfate	Softbank Hawks	Pitcher	0	2	4	10
12	Yuki Yanagita	Softbank Hawks	Outfielder	0	2	1	7
	Kohei Arihara	Nippon Ham Fighters	Pitcher	0	1	4	7
14	Hirotoshi Takanashi	Nippon Ham Fighters	Pitcher	0	0	4	4
	Dai-Kang Yoh	Nippon Ham Fighters	Outfielder	0	1	1	4
	Yoshio Itoi	Orix Buffaloes	Outfielder	0	0	4	4
17	Kensuke Tanaka	Nippon Ham Fighters	2nd Baseman	0	0	1	1
	Takahiro Norimoto	Rakuten Golden Eagles	Pitcher	0	0	1	1
	Keisuke Tanimoto	Nippon Ham Fighters	Pitcher	0	0	1	1
	Kodai Senga	Softbank Hawks	Pitcher	0	0	1	1
	Hideto Asamura	Seibu Lions	2nd Baseman	0	0	1	1

47 voters did not pick any second-place finisher; 64 did not vote for third place