Most Valuable Battery Award

The Most Valuable Battery Award is given to the best battery of the NPB annually. First awarded was given in 1991. A pitcher needed to have 10 wins or 20 saves to be eligible for this award.

Award Winners

Year		Central League				Pacific League			Special Award
		Pitcher	Catcher	Team		Pitcher	Catcher	Team
1991		Tatsuji Nishimura	Atsuya Furuta	Yakult Swallows		Kimiyasu Kudo	Tsutomu Ito	Seibu Lions
1992		Yoichi Okabayashi	Atsuya Furuta	Yakult Swallows		Takehiro Ishii	Tsutomu Ito	Seibu Lions	Mitsuo Tatsukawa
1993		Masahiro Yamamoto	Takeshi Nakamura	Chunichi Dragons		Akihito Kaneishi	Fujio Tamura	Nippon Ham Fighters	Atsuya Furuta
1994		Masumi Kuwata	Shinichi Murata	Yomiuri Giants		Toyohiko Yoshida	Koichiro Yoshinaga	Fukuoka Daiei Hawks
1995		Terry Bross	Atsuya Furuta	Yakult Swallows		Masafumi Hirai	Satoshi Nakajima	Orix BlueWave
1996		Masaki Saito	Shinichi Murata	Yomiuri Giants		Fumiya Nishiguchi	Tsutomu Ito	Seibu Lions	Shuji Nishiyama
1997		Kazuya Tabata	Atsuya Furuta	Yakult Swallows		Fumiya Nishiguchi	Tsutomu Ito	Seibu Lions
1998		Kazuhiro Sasaki	Motonobu Tanishige	Yokohama BayStars		Fumiya Nishiguchi	Tsutomu Ito	Seibu Lions
1999		Shigeki Noguchi	Takeshi Nakamura	Chunichi Dragons		Kimiyasu Kudo	Kenji Johjima	Fukuoka Daiei Hawks	Koji Uehara
2000		Ryota Igarashi	Atsuya Furuta	Yakult Swallows		Shuji Yoshida	Kenji Johjima	Fukuoka Daiei Hawks
2001		Shugo Fujii	Atsuya Furuta	Yakult Swallows		Keisaburo Tanoue	Kenji Johjima	Fukuoka Daiei Hawks
2002		Koji Uehara	Shinnosuke Abe	Yomiuri Giants		Kiyoshi Toyoda	Tsutomu Ito	Seibu Lions
2003		Kei Igawa	Akihiro Yano	Hanshin Tigers		Kazumi Saito	Kenji Johjima	Fukuoka Daiei Hawks
2004		Kenshin Kawakami	Motonobu Tanishige	Chunichi Dragons		Koji Mise	Kenji Johjima	Fukuoka Daiei Hawks
2005		Kyuji Fujikawa	Akihiro Yano	Hanshin Tigers		Shunsuke Watanabe	Tomoya Satozaki	Chiba Lotte Marines
2006		Kenshin Kawakami	Motonobu Tanishige	Chunichi Dragons		Kazumi Saito	Naoki Matoba	Softbank Hawks
2007		Hisanori Takahashi	Shinnosuke Abe	Yomiuri Giants		Yoshihisa Naruse	Tomoya Satozaki	Chiba Lotte Marines
2008		Seth Greisinger	Shinnosuke Abe	Yomiuri Giants		Hisashi Iwakuma	Akihito Fujii	Rakuten Golden Eagles	Kyuji Fujikawa
2009		Dicky González	Shinnosuke Abe	Yomiuri Giants		Hideaki Wakui	Ginjiro Sumitani	Seibu Lions
2010		Kenta Maeda	Yoshiyuki Ishihara	Hiroshima Carp		Toshiya Sugiuchi	Hidenori Tanoue	Softbank Hawks
2011		Kazuki Yoshimi	Motonobu Tanishige	Chunichi Dragons		Masahiro Tanaka	Motohiro Shima	Rakuten Golden Eagles
2012		Tetsuya Utsumi	Shinnosuke Abe	Yomiuri Giants		Mitsuo Yoshikawa	Shinya Tsuruoka	Nippon Ham Fighters
2013		Kenta Maeda	Yoshiyuki Ishihara	Hiroshima Carp		Masahiro Tanaka	Motohiro Shima	Rakuten Golden Eagles
2014		Tomoyuki Sugano	Shinnosuke Abe	Yomiuri Giants		Chihiro Kaneko	Hikaru Ito	Orix Buffaloes
2015		Masanori Ishikawa	Yuhei Nakamura	Yakult Swallows		Shohei Ohtani	Shota Ono	Nippon Ham Fighters
2016		Yusuke Nomura	Yoshiyuki Ishihara	Hiroshima Carp		Ayumu Ishikawa	Tatsuhiro Tamura	Chiba Lotte Marines
2017		Tomoyuki Sugano	Seiji Kobayashi	Yomiuri Giants		Yusei Kikuchi	Ginjiro Sumitani	Seibu Lions
2018		Daichi Osera	Tsubasa Aizawa	Hiroshima Carp		Shinsaburo Tawata	Tomoya Mori	Seibu Lions	Tomoyuki Sugano
2019		Shun Yamaguchi	Seiji Kobayashi	Yomiuri Giants		Tatsushi Masuda	Tomoya Mori	Seibu Lions
2020		Yudai Ono	Takuya Kinoshita	Chunichi Dragons		Kodai Senga	Takuya Kai	Softbank Hawks
2021		Yuya Yanagi	Takuya Kinoshita	Chunichi Dragons		Yoshinobu Yamamoto	Kenya Wakatsuki	Orix Buffaloes
2022		Koyo Aoyagi	Ryutaro Umeno	Hanshin Tigers		Yoshinobu Yamamoto	Kenya Wakatsuki	Orix Buffaloes
2023		Katsuki Azuma	Yudai Yamamoto	Yokohama BayStars		Yoshinobu Yamamoto	Kenya Wakatsuki	Orix Buffaloes