Yomiuri Giants right-hander Tomoyuki Sugano was among seven players added Thursday to the Central and Pacific League All-Star teams through player voting.
Sugano was selected to the All-Star roster for the seventh time after receiving 385 votes from his NPB colleagues. The 28-year-old leads the CL in shutouts (three), innings pitched (97), strikeouts (94) and ERA (2.13).
In the fan vote, Sugano, last year's winner of the Eiji Sawamura Award, finished runner-up behind the Chunichi Dragons' Daisuke Matsuzaka. In the players' vote, Sugano received 320 more votes than the former major leaguer. Sugano has not lost the players' ballot since 2015, when another former major leaguer, Hiroki Kuroda, finished first.