Overview
- NPB announced the season honors in Tokyo, naming Moinelo the Pacific League MVP and Hanshin’s Teruaki Sato the Central League MVP.
- Moinelo went 12–3 over 24 games with a 1.46 ERA, securing the ERA title for a second straight year.
- On June 6 at Jingu Stadium, he struck out 18 against Yakult, setting a SoftBank single-game record.
- In the postseason, he delivered seven innings of one-run ball in the Climax Series and was selected CS MVP.
- The MVP marks SoftBank’s second consecutive recipient after Kensuke Kondo, the franchise’s 26th such honor and 18th individual awardee.