On the 13th, the Nippon baseball Organization announced that Softbank manager Hiroki Kokubo had received the Shoriki Matsutaro Award for the first time.

The selection committee for the Matsutaro Shoriki Award, which is given to the manager or player who has made the greatest contributions to professional baseball this season (selection committee members: Sadaharu Oh, Koji Yamamoto, Takamasa Kadota, Shigeru Takada, and Hatsuhiko Tsuji), met on the 13th.

A special award was also presented to pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto (Los Angeles Dodgers).