Matsutaro Shoriki Award

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

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