Matsutaro Shoriki Award

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The Matsutaro Shoriki Award is given annually to the player or manager who contributed the most to Japanese baseball by the Yomiuri Group. It was first given out in 1978 and is named after Japanese baseball and media pioneer Matsutaro Shoriki. In 2004, Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners won a special award. In 2021, Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels and Atsunori Inaba of the Japanese national team won special awards. Ohtani won another one in '23.

Award Winners[edit]

Year Winner Team
1977 Sadaharu Oh Yomiuri Giants
1978 Tatsuro Hirooka Yakult Swallows
1979 Yukio Nishimoto Kintetsu Buffaloes
1980 Takeshi Koba Hiroshima Carp
1981 Motoshi Fujita Yomiuri Giants
1982 Tatsuro Hirooka Seibu Lions
1983 Koichi Tabuchi Seibu Lions
1984 Sachio Kinugasa Hiroshima Carp
1985 Yoshio Yoshida Hanshin Tigers
1986 Masaaki Mori Seibu Lions
1987 Kimiyasu Kudo Seibu Lions
1988 Hiromitsu Kadota Nankai Hawks
1989 Motoshi Fujita Yomiuri Giants
1990 Masaaki Mori Seibu Lions
1991 Koji Akiyama Seibu Lions
1992 Takehiro Ishii Seibu Lions
1993 Katsuya Nomura Yakult Swallows
1994 Ichiro Suzuki Orix BlueWave
Shigeo Nagashima Yomiuri Giants
1995 Ichiro Suzuki Orix BlueWave
1996 Akira Ohgi Orix BlueWave
1997 Atsuya Furuta Yakult Swallows
1998 Kazuhiro Sasaki Yokohama BayStars
1999 Sadaharu Oh Fukuoka Daiei Hawks
2000 Hideki Matsui Yomiuri Giants
2001 Tsutomu Wakamatsu Yakult Swallows
2002 Tatsunori Hara Yomiuri Giants
2003 Sadaharu Oh Fukuoka Daiei Hawks
Senichi Hoshino Hanshin Tigers
2004 Tsutomu Ito Seibu Lions
2005 Bobby Valentine Chiba Lotte Marines
2006 Sadaharu Oh Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
2007 Hiromitsu Ochiai Chunichi Dragons
2008 Hisanobu Watanabe Seibu Lions
2009 Tatsunori Hara Yomiuri Giants
2010 Norifumi Nishimura Chiba Lotte Marines
2011 Koji Akiyama Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
2012 Shinnosuke Abe Yomiuri Giants
Tatsunori Hara Yomiuri Giants
2013 Senichi Hoshino Rakuten Golden Eagles
2014 Koji Akiyama Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
2015 Kimiyasu Kudoh Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
2016 Hideki Kuriyama Nippon Ham Fighters
2017 Dennis Sarfate Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
2018 Kimiyasu Kudoh Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
2019 Kimiyasu Kudoh Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
2020 Kimiyasu Kudoh Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
2021 Shingo Takatsu Yakult Swallows
2022 Satoshi Nakajima Orix Buffaloes
2023 Akinobu Okada Hanshin Tigers