It was a no-brainer. The two were simply the most dominant players in the 2015 NPB season.
Tetsuto Yamada of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows and Yuki Yanagita of the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks won this year's Most Valuable Player Awards in the Central League and Pacific League, respectively, on Wednesday.
Both players won Japanese professional baseball's highest individual accolade for the first time in their careers.