Los Angeles Dodgers right-handed pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto earned World Series Most Valuable Player award honors for his otherworldly performance that willed the Dodgers into becoming baseball’s first back-to-back champions in a quarter century.
He rightfully received praise from many around the baseball world, and two stars from the National League West made sure to share some kind words for Yamamoto’s heroics.
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Although many might picture what it felt like for Yamamoto to pitch as much as he did through the Fall Classic, San Francisco Giants right-hander Logan Webb can perhaps relate the most among active pitchers. He has pitched over 190 innings in each of the last four seasons, led MLB in innings pitched in 2023 and 2025, and has led the National League in total innings for the last three seasons.
“Yama is a dawg,” Webb wrote on his Twitter/X account after Game 7. “What a series! See you guys in a couple months.”
San Diego Padres veteran right-hander and World Baseball Classic teammate Yu Darvish also made sure to heap praise on Yamamoto. Darvish is a five-time All-Star and 13-year veteran of MLB, finishing second in Cy Young award voting twice in that span.
“Yamamoto-kun was way too amazing in all sorts of ways” is the English translation of what Darvish wrote.
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For Yamamoto to pitch a complete game, a 96-pitch game to help force a Game 7, and then pitch the final 2.2 innings of Game 7 on no rest is hard to comprehend.
Yamamoto already made quite the case of taking home World Series MVP honors before Game 7, but after saving the season (and starting out in a two-on, one-out scenario in the ninth inning, no less), his fate was inevitable.
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Yamamoto is a SOLDIER!!!!!!
I know dawg is a complement, but I’d call him a horse or a stud. He carried the team at the end.