Seiya Suzuki of the Major League Baseball Rooks was selected as the best rookie of the month in April of the National League.
It is the first time in four years since Shohei Ohtani in 2018 that a Japanese player has been selected as the best rookie of the month, and this is the seventh player in total.
On the 2nd, the Major League Baseball Organization announced the monthly MVP = best player in April, and Suzuki of the Cubs was selected as the best rookie of the National League.
Suzuki played an active part in the first year of the major league, marking nine consecutive hits from the opening, and won the weekly MVP.
He played 21 games in April with a batting average of 20%, 7 minutes, 9 home runs, 4 home runs, and 14 RBIs.
It is the first time that a Japanese player has been selected as the best rookie of the month since the Angels Otani won the award in April and September in 2018.
The Japanese players who have been selected as the best rookie of the month so far are Ichiro, who won the award four times in 2001, Kazuhisa Ishii in 2002, Hideki Matsui in 2003, Hideki Okajima in 2007, and Yu Darvish in 2012. , Otani, who won the award twice in 2018, is a total of six, and Suzuki is the seventh.