Baseball America College Player of the Year Award

The Baseball America College Player of the Year Award is an award given by Baseball America to the best college baseball player of the year. The award has been given annually since 1981. For the first 8 years of the award, a separate position player and pitcher were recognized; however, Baseball America combined them into a single Player of the Year award from 1989-2024. In 2025, Baseball America named LSU pitcher Kade Anderson as the winner of the inaugural College Pitcher of the Year Award after 36 years of having a combined award.

Winners +KeyYearLinks to the article about the corresponding baseball yearPlayer Name of the player and number of times they had won the award at that pointPositionThe player's position at the time he won the awardSchoolThe player's college when he won the awardItalicsDenotes player was the first overall MLB draft pick in the same year^Player won the Rookie of the Year Award§Denotes player also won the Golden Spikes Award or Dick Howser Trophy in the same yearMember of the National College Baseball Hall of FamePlayer is active

+Player of the YearYearPlayerPositionSchoolRef19813BArizona State 1982OF/PFlorida State19833BAlabama 1984OFArizona State 1985OFOklahoma State1986OFMichigan 19873BOklahoma State 19881B/PWashington State

+Pitcher of the YearYearPlayerPositionSchoolRef1981PMiami (FL) 1982PWichita State 1983PTexas 1984PFresno State 1985PTexas 1986PFlorida State 1987PGeorgia 1988PEvansville

+Combined AwardYearPlayerPositionSchoolRef1989PLouisiana State 1990OFArizona State 19911BStanford 19923BCal State Fullerton 1993DH/PTexas 1994CGeorgia Tech 19951B/PTennessee 1996PClemson 1997OFFlorida State 1998PStanford 1999PBaylor 20003BGeorgia Tech 2001PSouthern California 2002SSClemson 20032BSouthern 2004PLong Beach State 20053BNebraska 2006PNorth Carolina 2007PVanderbilt 2008CFlorida State 2009PSan Diego State 20103BRice 2011PUCLA 2012CFlorida20133BSan Diego20141B/PKentucky2015OFArkansasAndrew Benintendi named Baseball America National Player of the Year, The Cincinnati Enquirer. Published June 11, 2015. Retrieved June 12, 2015.2016OFMercer20171B/PLouisville2018PFlorida2019COregon State2020Not awarded2021PArkansas20221BTexas2023PLouisiana State20241B/OFGeorgia

+Player of the YearYearPlayerPositionSchoolRef2025INFUCLA 2026INFArizona State

+Pitcher of the YearYearPlayerPositionSchoolRef2025PLSU 2026PUSC

See also

List of college baseball awards Baseball awards#U.S. college baseball College Baseball Hall of Fame

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References

External links Baseball America official website