The Eiji Sawamura Award (沢村栄治賞, Sawamura Eiji-shō), commonly known as the Sawamura Award, is an honor bestowed upon the top starting pitcher in Nippon...
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Eiji Sawamura (沢村 栄治; February 1, 1917 – December 2, 1944) was a Japanese professional baseball player. A right-handed pitcher, he played in Japan for...
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Yoshinobu Yamamoto (category Nippon Professional Baseball MVP Award winners)
Buffaloes. Yamamoto is a three-time Pacific League Most Valuable Player, Eiji Sawamura Award, and a three-time Triple Crown winner. Yamamoto is the first player...
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Hiroshima Toyo Carp. Maeda debuted with the Carp in 2008. He won the Eiji Sawamura Award in 2010 and 2015. After the 2015 season, the Carp posted Maeda to...
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1.89 ERA, becoming the first non-Japanese player to receive the Eiji Sawamura Award. Bacque won Game 2 of the Japan Series that year, but lost Game 6...
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Hitters Hall of Fame) Eiji Sawamura Award (top starting pitcher in NPB) Choi Dong-won Award (top starting pitcher in KBO) Baseball awards A The formula is:...
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Tomoyuki Sugano (category Nippon Professional Baseball MVP Award winners)
2017, Sugano won his first Eiji Sawamura Award, becoming the first Giants pitcher to ever win both the Eiji Sawamura Award and Central League MVP since...
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2022-08-20. Nagatsuka, Kaz. "Yakult's Yamada, Softbank's Yanagita win MVP Awards". Retrieved 14 February 2016. "Hawks earn spot in Japan Series". The Japan...
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for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks. He was a two-time winner of the Eiji Sawamura Award (2003, 2006), but did not pitch in a regular season game after October...
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10 times, victories three times, and ERA three times, and won the Eiji Sawamura Award three times. He also held the NPB record for career ejections (eight...
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Shigeru Sugishita (category Nippon Professional Baseball MVP Award winners)
twice (winning at least 23 games each season), and garnering three Eiji Sawamura Awards. Sugishita usually split his time between starting games and pitching...
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Daisuke Matsuzaka (category Nippon Professional Baseball Rookie of the Year Award winners)
losses. He had 15 wins and 15 losses in his 2001 season and won the Eiji Sawamura Award. Matsuzaka spent a considerable portion of his 2002 season on the...
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Minoru Murayama (category Nippon Professional Baseball MVP Award winners)
and also win the first Eiji Sawamura Award of his career. It also ended Masaichi Kaneda's run of three consecutive Sawamura Awards won. Murayama would match...
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Hiroshi Gondoh (category Nippon Professional Baseball Rookie of the Year Award winners)
accolades, including the Central League Rookie of the Year Award and the Eiji Sawamura Award. In 1998, Gondoh became the manager of the Yokohama BayStars...
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Kimiyasu Kudō (category Nippon Professional Baseball MVP Award winners)
all his accolades, he is famously known for having never won the Eiji Sawamura Award, given to Japan's top pitcher. Kudo has been a part of 16 Japan Series...
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are the only players to have won all three awards in the same season. Two players won the Eiji Sawamura Award and the Japan Series MVP in the same season:...
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Hideo Nomo (category Major League Baseball Rookie of the Year Award winners)
Los Angeles Dodgers at the time of the episode's initial airing. Eiji Sawamura Award List of Boston Red Sox no-hitters List of Los Angeles Dodgers no-hitters...
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Hisashi Iwakuma (category Nippon Professional Baseball MVP Award winners)
Eagles in 2005. As the Eagles' reigning staff ace, Iwakuma won the Eiji Sawamura Award in 2008, and was also a NPB All-Star that year. He appeared in the...
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strikeouts 10 times, wins three times, ERA three times, and won the Eiji Sawamura Award three times. Kaneda pitched for the Swallows from 1950 to 1964. In...
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Koji Uehara (category Nippon Professional Baseball Rookie of the Year Award winners)
broke the all-time rookie record, won the Rookie of the Year Award and the Eiji Sawamura Award, and led in wins, ERA, strikeouts and winning percentage.[citation...
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became the first foreign pitcher since Gene Bacque in 1964 to win the Eiji Sawamura Award following a season including a 15-7 record, a 2.15 ERA and 141 strikeouts...
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he went 29-12 with a 2.51 ERA and 16 complete games, winning the Eiji Sawamura Award. The next year he led the league in losses with 20, while still compiling...
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the KBO League each year. Choi Dong-won Cy Young Award Eiji Sawamura Award Baseball awards § South Korea "Bears' ace Miranda wins top S. Korean pitching...
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Yu Darvish (category Nippon Professional Baseball MVP Award winners)
presented with both his first career Eiji Sawamura Award (being the first to meet or exceed guidelines for the award in all seven categories in 14 years)...
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Taiyo Whales / Yokohama Taiyo Whales from 1967 to 1984. He won the Eiji Sawamura Award in 1970. "Masaji Hiramatsu Japanese Leagues Statistics & History"...
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Manabu Kitabeppu (category Nippon Professional Baseball MVP Award winners)
most games on the mound, and was fourth in ERA. He won his first Eiji Sawamura Award that season and also was named to the Best Nine. His streak of All-Star...
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players in NPB history to have won the Most Valuable Player Award, the Eiji Sawamura Award, and the Japan Series MVP in the same season. Ishii attended...
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a 1.94 ERA and 29 complete games, winning the ERA title and the Eiji Sawamura Award. At Aomori Stadium, in 1950 he pitched the first perfect game in...
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and 149 strikeouts (most in NPB) were not enough to receive the Eiji Sawamura Award. Following the conclusion of the 2020 season, Senga once again failed...
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Run Average Champion in 1993, posting a 2.05 ERA. He won the 1994 Eiji Sawamura Award, going 19–8 with 3.49 ERA and 14 complete games. On September 16...
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