Eiji Sawamura Award






Eiji Sawamura of past days


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 Professional Baseball each year.


The award was originally established by Japanese magazine "Nekkyū" in 1947 to honor the career of Eiji Sawamura, a power pitcher who enjoyed an illustrious career for the Tokyo Giants before being killed in combat during World War II. It is a special award that is independent of the official Most Valuable Pitcher award that is presented to one pitcher in each league (Central and Pacific) each year.




Contents






  • 1 Overview


    • 1.1 Selection process


    • 1.2 Other notes




  • 2 Winners


  • 3 See also


  • 4 References





Overview



Selection process


One starting pitcher in Nippon Professional Baseball is chosen at the end of each season based on the following selection criteria.




  • Games started: 25 or more


  • Wins: 15 or more


  • Complete games: 10 or more


  • Winning percentage: .600 or higher


  • Innings pitched: 200 or more


  • Earned run average: 2.50 or lower


  • Strikeouts: 150 or more


The selection criteria were established in 1982; prior to this, a pool of journalists voted on the pitcher they thought was most deserving of the award without any particular criteria. These simply serve as guidelines; while the pitcher who fulfills the most criteria has the most likelihood of winning, pitchers who do not fulfill all seven criteria have often been presented the award.


In the rare event that another pitcher has a season that is deemed more outstanding, a pitcher may, in turn, fulfill all seven criteria and not win the award. In 2008, Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters starting pitcher Yu Darvish (16-4, 1.88 ERA, 208 strikeouts) fulfilled all seven criteria, but Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles starting pitcher Hisashi Iwakuma won the award despite meeting only six criteria because it was deemed that Iwakuma (21-4, 1.87 ERA, 159 strikeouts) had the better season overall.


The selection committee usually consists of five former pitchers. The 2008 panel consisted of Masayuki Dobashi (chairman), Masaji Hiramatsu, Tsuneo Horiuchi, Choji Murata, and Yutaka Ohno.



Other notes


Because it began as an independent award by Nekkyū, a magazine catered towards Giants fans, only Central League pitchers were eligible to win the award from 1950 (the first year the NPB employed the current two-league format) to 1989. The first pitcher to be bestowed the honors from the Pacific League was Hideo Nomo for the Kintetsu Buffaloes in 1990.


No pitcher was found to be sufficiently deserving of the award in 1971, 1980, 1984, and 2000. The award has been presented to two pitchers in the same season twice (1966, 2003).


While it is sometimes assumed that the award was introduced following the creation of the Cy Young Award in Major League Baseball, the Cy Young was not introduced until 1956, nine years after the creation of the Sawamura Award.



Winners


Bold names indicate pitchers who met all seven criteria (limited to 1982 and later winners)





Hideo Fujimoto, when he won Eiji Sawamura Award in 1949.






















































































































































































































































































































































































Year Player Team Ref
1947 Takehiko Bessho
Nankai Hawks
1948 Hiroshi Nakao
Yomiuri Giants
1949 Hideo Fujimoto
Yomiuri Giants
1950 Shigeo Sanada
Shochiku Robins
1951 Shigeru Sugishita
Chunichi Dragons
1952 Shigeru Sugishita
Chunichi Dragons
1953 Takumi Otomo
Yomiuri Giants
1954 Shigeru Sugishita
Chunichi Dragons
1955 Takehiko Bessho
Yomiuri Giants
1956 Masaichi Kaneda
Kokutetsu Swallows
1957 Masaichi Kaneda
Kokutetsu Swallows
1958 Masaichi Kaneda
Kokutetsu Swallows
1959 Minoru Murayama
Hanshin Tigers
1960 Ritsuo Horimoto
Yomiuri Giants
1961 Hiroshi Gondo
Chunichi Dragons
1962 Masaaki Koyama
Hanshin Tigers
1963 Yoshiaki Ito
Yomiuri Giants
1964 Gene Bacque
Hanshin Tigers
1965 Minoru Murayama
Hanshin Tigers
1966 Minoru Murayama
Hanshin Tigers
Tsuneo Horiuchi
Yomiuri Giants
1967 Kentaro Ogawa
Chunichi Dragons
1968 Yutaka Enatsu
Hanshin Tigers
1969 Kazumi Takahashi
Yomiuri Giants
1970 Masaji Hiramatsu
Taiyo Whales
1971
Not awarded
1972 Tsuneo Horiuchi
Yomiuri Giants
1973 Kazumi Takahashi
Yomiuri Giants
1974 Senichi Hoshino
Chunichi Dragons
1975 Yoshiro Sotokoba
Hiroshima Toyo Carp
1976 Kojiro Ikegaya
Hiroshima Toyo Carp
1977 Shigeru Kobayashi
Yomiuri Giants
1978 Hiromu Matsuoka
Yakult Swallows
1979 Shigeru Kobayashi
Hanshin Tigers
1980
Not awarded
1981 Takashi Nishimoto
Yomiuri Giants
1982 Manabu Kitabeppu
Hiroshima Toyo Carp
1983 Kazuhiko Endo
Yokohama Taiyo Whales
1984
Not awarded
1985 Tatsuo Komatsu
Chunichi Dragons
1986 Manabu Kitabeppu
Hiroshima Toyo Carp
1987 Masumi Kuwata
Yomiuri Giants
1988 Yutaka Ohno
Hiroshima Toyo Carp
1989 Masaki Saito
Yomiuri Giants
1990 Hideo Nomo
Kintetsu Buffaloes
1991 Shinji Sasaoka
Hiroshima Toyo Carp
1992 Takehiro Ishii
Seibu Lions
1993 Shinji Imanaka
Chunichi Dragons
1994 Masahiro Yamamoto
Chunichi Dragons
1995 Masaki Saito
Yomiuri Giants
1996 Masaki Saito
Yomiuri Giants
1997 Fumiya Nishiguchi
Seibu Lions
1998 Kenjiro Kawasaki
Yakult Swallows
1999 Koji Uehara
Yomiuri Giants
2000
Not awarded
2001 Daisuke Matsuzaka
Seibu Lions
2002 Koji Uehara
Yomiuri Giants
2003 Kei Igawa
Hanshin Tigers
Kazumi Saito
Fukuoka Daiei Hawks
2004 Kenshin Kawakami
Chunichi Dragons
2005 Toshiya Sugiuchi
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
2006 Kazumi Saito
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
2007 Yu Darvish
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
2008 Hisashi Iwakuma
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles
2009 Hideaki Wakui
Saitama Seibu Lions
2010 Kenta Maeda
Hiroshima Toyo Carp
2011 Masahiro Tanaka
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles
2012 Tadashi Settsu
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
2013 Masahiro Tanaka
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles
2014 Chihiro Kaneko
Orix Buffaloes
2015 Kenta Maeda
Hiroshima Toyo Carp
2016 Kris Johnson Hiroshima Toyo Carp [1]
2017 Tomoyuki Sugano
Yomiuri Giants
2018 Tomoyuki Sugano
Yomiuri Giants


See also




  • Nippon Professional Baseball#Awards

  • Baseball awards#Japan

  • List of Nippon Professional Baseball earned run average champions


  • Cy Young Award (MLB)


  • Choi Dong-won Award (KBO League)

  • Eiji Sawamura



References





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