Masaki Saito and Kimiyasu Kudo, a pair of former MVP hurlers, were voted into the Japanese baseball Hall of Fame, the organization announced on Monday.
Saito, an ex-Yomiuri Giants right-hander, garnered 84.6 percent of the 337 valid ballots from the Players Selection Committee, easily above the 75 percent threshold (285 votes), in his ninth year of eligibility.
Kudo was selected in his first year on the ballot. A player becomes eligible five years after his retirement from Nippon Professional Baseball. The southpaw collected 76.6 percent of the votes.
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