Awards Announced
The 2009 season is in the books, and the MVPs go to Yu Darvish in the Pacific League, with Alex Ramirez receiving the honor for the Central League. Darvish earns the award for the second time in his career and Ramirez obtains the award for the second straight season.
The Rookie of the Year award is received by Tokyo Yomiuri Giants outfielder Testuya Matsumoto, the first time in 51 years that two players from the same team received the RoY in consecutive years (Giants reliever Tetsuya Yamaguchi took the prize last year). The Pacific League award goes to reliever Tadashi Settsu of the Softbank Hawks.
The Best Nine Awards have also been announced and the winners are as follows:
| Central | Pacific | |
| P | Dicky Gonzalez | Yu Darvish |
| CA | Shinnosuke Abe | Hidenori Tanoue |
| 1B | Tony Blanco | Shinji Takahashi |
| 2B | Akihiro Higashide | Kensuke Tanaka |
| 3B | Michihiro Ogasawara | Takeya Nakamura |
| SS | Hayato Sakamoto | Hiroyuki Nakajima |
| OF | Seiichi Uchikawa | Teppei |
| OF | Norichika Aoki | Yoshio Itoi |
| OF | Alex Ramirez | Atsunori Inaba |
| DH | Takeshi Yamazaki |