Golden Glove Winners
The 2009 Golden Glove Winners have been announced, and Nippon Ham dominated the Pacific League with seven players receiving the award. Tetsuya Matsumoto of the Giants became the first former ikusei player to win a Golden Glove.
| Central League | Pacific League | |
| P | Dicky Gonzalez (Giants) | Hideaki Wakui (Lions) |
| CA | Motonobu Tanishige (Dragons) | Shinya Tsuruoka (Fighters) |
| 1B | Kenta Kurihara (Carps) | Shinji Takahashi (Fighters) |
| 2B | Masahiro Araki (Dragons) | Kensuke Tanaka (Fighters) |
| 3B | Shinya Miyamoto (Swallows) | Eiichi Koyano (Fighters) |
| SS | Hirokazu Ibata (Dragons) | Makoto Kaneko (Fighters) |
| OF | Norichika Aoki (Swallows) | Yoshio Itoi (Fighters) |
| OF | Tetsuya Matsumoto (Giants) | Tomotaka Sakaguchi (Buffaloes) |
| OF | Yoshiyuki Kamei (Giants) | Atsunori Inaba (Fighters) |
12/11/2009 at 11:58 pm Permalink
Wow. The Fighters had quit the defense. 7 of the 9 positions and all of the infield.