 He had a 10–4 record, struck out 174 batters in 140 innings with 4 complete games and one shutout.He also won the Best Nine award as a pitcher and won the Pacific League MVP.He got nearly double as many votes as any other pitcher for the PL for the 2016 NPB All-Star Game; he had 300,025 while #2 Shota Takeda had 158,008.