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 Mitsui Golden Glove Award 

The Mitsui Golden Glove Award, "三井ゴールドグラブ賞" in Japanese was originally called the Diamond Glove Award until the Mitsui company became a partner with NPB and changed the name to its current name. This award is awarded annually to the players in the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) players who were the most impactful and were deemed to be the best defensive player at their position. The position breakdowns are; centre, left, and right field for outfield, first, second, third base and shortstop for infield, as well as one catcher and one pitcher. Similar to Major League Baseball, the NPB is divided into two leagues: Central & Pacific. In a season there are a total of 18 players that are selected for this award unless there are more than one player that receives the same number of votes. The players receive a gold plated replica of their exact glove model mounted on a wooden platform with their name, face, team, and position engraved on a gold plate.

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Eligibility Requirements per Position

The eligibility and requirement to be selected for this award varies depending on the position. Depending on the role of the pitcher, some may not throw as many innings as others so there are two ways that pitchers become eligible for the award. The pitcher can either make an appearance in 1/3 of the regular season games (47) or can pitch the minimum number of innings prescribed by the league. For an infielder, they are required to play any of the positions for at least 1/2 of the regular season games (71). As for outfield and catchers, they are required to play at least 1/2 of the games at their specialized positions to be eligible.

Voting System

Compared to the voting system in the MLB where the managers of each club votes for the best defensive players excluding those on their own team, the NPB voting is done by reporters and journalists. For these reporters, journalists, and analysts to be eligible and for their votes to quality they must have a minimum of five years of experience in baseball coverage. The reporters will submit their votes through an online method as many of the players share similar characters in their names making some handwriting difficult to read. These votes are then tallied electronically and the results are presented at the award ceremony following the conclusion of the post season.

2021 Season Winners

Central League P: Nobuhito Morishita (1) C: Yuhei Nakamura (3) 1B:Sho Nakata (4) 2B:Ryosuke Kikuchi (10) 3B:Kazuma Okamoto (2) SS:Hideki Nagaoka (1) OF:Yasutaka Shiomi (1) OF:Yuki Okabayashi (1) OF:Koji Chikamoto (2)

Pacific League

P:Yoshinobu Yamamoto (2) C:Kai Takuya (6) 1B:Akira Nakamura (3) 2B:Shota Tonosaki (2) 3B:Yuma So (2) SS:Sousuke Genda (5) OF:Eito Takabe (1) OF:Ryosuke Tatsumi (2) OF:Shuhei Fukuda (1)

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