List of Nippon Professional Baseball earned run average champions explained

The List of Nippon Professional Baseball champions.

Winners

Japanese Baseball League (1937–1949)

Year	Player	Team	ERA
1936 (Fall)			0.79
1937 (Spring)			0.81
1937 (Fall)		Osaka Tigers	1.48
1938 (Spring)	Yukio Nishimura	Osaka Tigers	1.52
1938 (Fall)		Tokyo Kyojingun	1.05
1939		Osaka Tigers	1.09
1940			0.93
1941	Jiro Noguchi		0.88
1942			1.01
1943		Tokyo Kyojingun	0.73
1944	Tadashi Wakabayashi		1.56
1945	Season suspended
1946	Hideo Fujimoto	Tokyo Kyojingun	2.11
1947			1.74
1948			1.84
1949	Hideo Fujimoto	Yomiuri Giants	1.94

Nippon Professional Baseball (1950–present)

Year				Pacific League
	Player	Team	ERA	Player	Team	ERA
1950			2.03			2.06
1951		Yomiuri Giants	2.01			2.08
1952			1.71	Susumu Yuki	Nankai Hawks	1.91
1953		Yomiuri Giants	1.85			1.98
1954			1.39		Nankai Hawks	1.58
1955		Yomiuri Giants	1.33		Mainichi Orions	2.08
1956		Osaka Tigers	1.45		Nishitetsu Lions	1.06
1957			1.63	Kazuhisa Inao	Nishitetsu Lions	1.37
1958	Masaichi Kaneda	Kokutetsu Swallows	1.30	Kazuhisa Inao	Nishitetsu Lions	1.42
1959		Osaka Tigers	1.19		Nankai Hawks	1.40
1960		Taiyo Whales	1.75		Daimai Orions	1.98
1961		Chunichi Dragons	1.70	Kazuhisa Inao	Nishitetsu Lions	1.69
1962	Minoru Murayama	Hanshin Tigers	1.20			2.12
1963		Chunichi Dragons	1.70			2.36
1964		Hanshin Tigers	1.89		Tokyo Orions	2.15
1965	Masaichi Kaneda	Yomiuri Giants	1.84		Nankai Hawks	1.57
1966		Yomiuri Giants	1.39	Kazuhisa Inao	Nishitetsu Lions	1.79
1967		Hanshin Tigers	1.40			1.75
1968			1.94		Nankai Hawks	1.61
1969		Hanshin Tigers	1.81		Lotte Orions	1.72
1970	Minoru Murayama	Hanshin Tigers	0.98		Nankai Hawks	2.05
1971		Hiroshima Toyo Carp	1.71		Hankyu Braves	2.37
1972		Yakult Atoms	2.08		Kintetsu Buffaloes	2.36
1973	Takeshi Yasuda	Yakult Atoms	2.02		Hankyu Braves	2.47
1974		Yomiuri Giants	2.28	Michio Sato	Nankai Hawks	1.91
1975		Hanshin Tigers	1.91		Lotte Orions	2.20
1976		Chunichi Dragons	2.98	Choji Murata	Lotte Orions	1.82
1977		Yomiuri Giants	2.32	Hisashi Yamada	Hankyu Braves	2.28
1978	Hisao Niura	Yomiuri Giants	2.81		Kintetsu Buffaloes	2.02
1979		Taiyo Whales	2.39		Kintetsu Buffaloes	2.49
1980		Yakult Swallows	2.35		Nippon Ham Fighters	2.28
1981		Yomiuri Giants	2.29		Nippon Ham Fighters	2.70
1982		Taiyo Whales	2.07		Nippon Ham Fighters	1.84
1983		Hanshin Tigers	2.62		Seibu Lions	2.92
1984		Hiroshima Toyo Carp	2.20		Hankyu Braves	2.93
1985		Chunichi Dragons	2.65		Seibu Lions	2.76
1986		Hiroshima Toyo Carp	2.43		Hankyu Braves	2.83
1987		Yomiuri Giants	2.17	Kimiyasu Kudoh	Seibu Lions	2.41
1988		Hiroshima Toyo Carp	1.70		Nippon Ham Fighters	2.38
1989		Yomiuri Giants	1.62	Choji Murata	Lotte Orions	2.50
1990	Masaki Saito	Yomiuri Giants	2.17		Kintetsu Buffaloes	2.91
1991		Hiroshima Toyo Carp	2.44		Seibu Lions	2.35
1992		Taiyo Whales	2.05		Kintetsu Buffaloes	1.80
1993		Chunichi Dragons	2.05	Kimiyasu Kudo	Seibu Lions	2.06
1994		Chunichi Dragons	2.45		Seibu Lions	2.91
1995		Yakult Swallows	2.33		Chiba Lotte Marines	2.53
1996	Masaki Saito	Yomiuri Giants	2.36	Hideki Irabu	Chiba Lotte Marines	2.40
1997	Yutaka Ohno	Hiroshima Toyo Carp	2.85		Chiba Lotte Marines	2.49
1998		Chunichi Dragons	2.34		Nippon Ham Fighters	2.73
1999		Yomiuri Giants	2.09	Kimiyasu Kudo	Fukuoka Daiei Hawks	2.38
2000		Yakult Swallows	2.61		Orix BlueWave	3.27
2001	Shigeki Noguchi	Chunichi Dragons	2.46		Chiba Lotte Marines	3.26
2002	Masumi Kuwata	Yomiuri Giants	2.22		Orix BlueWave	2.50
2003		Hanshin Tigers	2.80		Fukuoka Daiei Hawks	2.83
					Seibu Lions
2004	Koji Uehara	Yomiuri Giants	2.60	Daisuke Matsuzaka	Seibu Lions	2.90
2005		Yokohama BayStars	2.52		Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks	2.11
2006		Hiroshima Toyo Carp	1.85	Kazumi Saito	Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks	1.75
2007		Yomiuri Giants	2.75		Chiba Lotte Marines	1.82
2008		Tokyo Yakult Swallows	2.68			1.87
2009		Chunichi Dragons	1.54		Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters	1.73
2010		Hiroshima Toyo Carp	2.21	Yu Darvish	Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters	1.78
2011		Chunichi Dragons	1.65		Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles	1.27
2012	Kenta Maeda	Hiroshima Toyo Carp	1.53		Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters	1.71
2013	Kenta Maeda	Hiroshima Toyo Carp	2.10	Masahiro Tanaka	Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles	1.27
2014		Yomiuri Giants	2.33		Orix Buffaloes	1.98
2015		Hiroshima Toyo Carp	1.85		Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters	2.24
2016	Tomoyuki Sugano	Yomiuri Giants	2.01		Chiba Lotte Marines	2.16
2017	Tomoyuki Sugano	Yomiuri Giants	1.59		Saitama Seibu Lions	1.97
2018	Tomoyuki Sugano	Yomiuri Giants	2.14		Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles	2.72
2019		Chunichi Dragons	2.58		Orix Buffaloes	1.95
2020	Yūdai Ōno	Chunichi Dragons	1.82		Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks	2.16
2021		Chunichi Dragons	2.20		Orix Buffaloes	1.39
2022		Hanshin Tigers	2.05	Yoshinobu Yamamoto	Orix Buffaloes	1.68
2023		Hanshin Tigers	1.75	Yoshinobu Yamamoto	Orix Buffaloes	1.21

References

General

See also

• List of top Nippon Professional Baseball strikeout pitchers
• Nippon Professional Baseball#Awards
• Baseball awards#Japan