Following his 1.88 ERA last year, Moinelo earned the ERA ERA for the second consecutive year with a 1.46 ERA, securing his second ERA title overall. He is only the 17th player to win the title for two or more consecutive seasons, the first being Yoshinobu Yamamoto (Orix) who won it for three consecutive years from 2021 to 2023. He is also the first foreign pitcher to achieve this feat.

In addition to ERA in the 1.00s, his ERA Avg also risen from .187 to .192 since last year. Among pitcher who have had the best ERA for two or more seasons, he is the first since Yamamoto in 1921-23 to simultaneously have ERA below 2.00 and Avg below .200. The only others are Jiro Noguchi (Tsubasa, Taiyo) in 1940 and 1941 and Kazuhisa Inao (Nishitetsu) in 1956 and 1957. Moinelo is the fourth.

In total, he pitched 630 1/3 innings, ERA 1.80 to Avg-176. Although he specialized in relief work until 2011, he appeared 6th ERA and 1st Avg out of 725 players with a total of 500 inning or more pitcher. However, the top five ERA players were from the one-league era pitcher; after the two-league system in 1950, Yamamoto's 1.82 was the top closer player.

▼... Softbank Hawks won their 23rd championship in two consecutive years (2 in the single league, 21 in the Pacific League). Their 23 championships put them second in total, behind The Giants' 48, and tied with Seibu Lions. Manager Kokubo has now won two consecutive championships, following his first year in charge last year. He is only the fourth manager to win two or more consecutive championships as a rookie.

▼…Makihara Dai hitter for the first time. He only drew seven Walk. This is the first time in 72 years since Britton (Hankyu) drew three walks in 1953 that a player has drawn seven or fewer Walk after reaching the required number of at-bats. This is the first time hitter has drawn single-digit Walk.

▼...Meanwhile, Yanagimachi, who had the highest on-base percentage, drew the most Walk in the league with 62. He forced pitcher to throw the most pitches in the Pacific League with 2,213. Among the 22 players in the Pacific League with enough plate appearances to qualify, Makihara Dai had the fewest average pitch per plate appearance at 3.11, while Yanagimachi had the most at 4.28.

Shuto wins stolen base base title for the third consecutive year, and boasts the highest career success rate in history. ▼...Shuto has won the stolen base title for the third consecutive year and fourth time overall. His career stolen base success rate is .8394, with 230 successful attempts and 44 failures. Among the 81 players with 200 or more stolen base, his success rate is the highest, surpassing that of Haruki Nishikawa (Nippon Ham, Rakuten, Yakult = 343 successful attempts - 66 failures) at .8386.

▼...Arihara won the most wins title for the second consecutive year and the third time overall. He has now achieved 10 or more wins three times each with Nippon-Ham and Softbank Hawks. He is the 11th player to have achieved double-digit win three or more times with multiple teams, and the second player in Seibu Lions to do so with two teams, the other being Kimiyasu Kudo, who achieved it seven times with Seibu and three times with Daiei (he also achieved it three times with The Giants).

▼... With a record of .722 (13 wins and 5 losses), this is the first time an ozeki has achieved the highest winning percentage. He took advantage of his home field advantage with an undefeated 9 wins at his home stadium, PayPay Dome. This is the first time in 13 years that a wrestler has had 9 or more wins in a season at this stadium, since Settsu Tadashi had 9 wins and 4 losses in 2012.

▼...Yutaka Matsumoto won his first Best reliever pitcher, and Sugiyama also won his first Most Saves award. This is the third time the team has had both players win two relief pitching awards, following 2001 and 2017. It is the first time for a Japanese duo to achieve this.

▼...Eight players won titles in a total of eight categories, including pitching and batting. Having eight titleholders is the highest number ever, surpassing the six titleholders achieved The Giants in 2012 and Softbank Hawks in 2017. (Yamato Abe)