page_title: Nippon Professional Baseball Most Valuable Player Award
hierarchical_section_title: Nippon Professional Baseball Most Valuable Player Award
caption_attribution_description: 王貞治
context_page_description: The Most Valuable Player Award is an annual Nippon Professional Baseball award given to two outstanding players, one each for the Central League and Pacific League.
  Each league's award is voted on by national baseball writers. Each voter selects three players: a first-place selection is given five points, a second-place selection three points, and a third-place selection one point. The award goes to the player who receives the most overall points. The winners are announced every year in November during Nippon Professional Baseball's awards ceremony called NBP Awards.
  The first recipient of the award was Eiji Sawamura. The most recent winners, in 2019, are Hayato Sakamoto, from the Central League, and Tomoya Mori, from the Pacific League. In 1940, Victor Starffin became the first player to win the award consecutively and multiple times. Eiji Sawamura and Kazuhisa Inao are the youngest players to receive the awards in 1937 and 1957, respectively, at the ages of 20. In 1988, Hiromitsu Kadota became the oldest player to receive the award at the age of 40.
context_section_description: The Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award (最優秀選手, Saiyūshūsenshu) is an annual Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) award given to two outstanding players, one each for the Central League (CL) and Pacific League (PL).
  Each league's award is voted on by national baseball writers. Each voter selects three players: a first-place selection is given five points, a second-place selection three points, and a third-place selection one point. The award goes to the player who receives the most overall points. The winners are announced every year in November during Nippon Professional Baseball's awards ceremony called NBP Awards.
  The first recipient of the award was Eiji Sawamura. The most recent winners, in 2019, are Hayato Sakamoto, from the Central League, and Tomoya Mori, from the Pacific League. In 1940, Victor Starffin became the first player to win the award consecutively and multiple times. Eiji Sawamura and Kazuhisa Inao are the youngest players to receive the awards in 1937 and 1957, respectively, at the ages of 20. In 1988, Hiromitsu Kadota became the oldest player to receive the award at the age of 40.
caption: Sadaharu Oh, nine-time winner—more wins than any other player
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