NPB title holders, 2000–2025
Every year, Japan’s two leagues hand out titles to the guys who finish first in the big categories. This section lists who won them from 2000 through 2025, for both the Central League and the Pacific League. When two or more players tied for first, they all got the title, so they’re all listed here.
We cover seven titles: batting average, home runs, RBIs, stolen bases, wins, ERA and strikeouts. Pick a stat to see its winners year by year, or pick a season to see all 14 champions at once.
New to Japanese baseball? Start with how NPB works and how NPB compares with MLB. A lot of these names later turned up in the majors, which is covered in NPB players in MLB and the posting system. Some of them first got noticed as teenagers at Koshien; there’s a guide to that too: Koshien explained.