ABCA Player of the Year

The ABCA Player of the Year is an award is given annually to the best baseball player in each division of the NCAA in the USA. The award is sponsored by the American Baseball Coaches Association and was first awarded in 1988. Starting in 2018, the ABCA started awarding both a Pitcher of the Year and Position Player of the Year awards.

Award Winners

Division I 1988-2017

Year	Player	School	Position
1988	Robin Ventura	Oklahoma State	3B
1989	Scott Bryant	Texas	DH
1990	Paul Ellis	UCLA	C
1991	Bobby Jones	Fresno State	P
1992	Brooks Kieschnick	Texas	UT
1993	Brooks Kieschnick	Texas	UT
1994	Jason Varitek	Georgia Tech	C
1995	Todd Helton	Tennessee	UT
1996	Kris Benson	Clemson	P
1997	J.D. Drew	Florida State	OF
1998	Damon Thames	Rice	SS
1999	Jason Jennings	Baylor	UT
2000	Kip Bouknight	South Carolina	P
2001	Mark Prior	Southern California	P
2002	Khalil Greene	Clemson	SS
2003	Rickie Weeks	Southern	2B
2004	Jered Weaver	Long Beach State	P
2005	Alex Gordon	Nebraska	3B
2006	Brad Lincoln	University of Houston	P
2007	David Price	Vanderbilt University	P
2008	Buster Posey	Florida State University	C
2009	Mike Leake	Arizona State University	P
2010	Anthony Rendon	Rice University	3B
2011	Trevor Bauer	UCLA	SP
2012	James Ramsey	Florida State University	OF
	Travis Jankowski	Stony Brook University	OF
2013	Kris Bryant	University of San Diego	3B
2014	A.J. Reed	University of Kentucky	SP/1B
2015	Dansby Swanson	Vanderbilt University	SS
2016	Kyle Lewis	Mercer University	OF
2017	Brendan McKay	University of Louisville	UT/P

Division-I 2018-present

Year	Pitcher of The Year		Position Player of The Year
	Player	School	Player	School	Position
2018	Brady Singer	Florida	Kody Clemens & Andrew Vaughn	Texas & California	2B & 1B
2019	Ethan Small	Mississippi State	Adley Rutschman	Oregon State	C
2021	Kevin Kopps	Arkansas	Tanner Allen	Mississippi State	OF
2022	Cooper Hjerpe	Oregon State	Ivan Melendez	Texas	1B
2023	Paul Skenes	LSU	Jac Caglianone	Florida	1B/P/DH

Division II 1988-2017

Year	Player	School	Position
1988	Tino Martinez	Tampa	1B
1989	Steve DiBartolomeo	New Haven	P
1990	Sam Militello	Tampa	P
1991	Mike Stevenson	Lewis	OF
1992	Michael Tucker	Longwood	SS
1993	Dom Gatti	Adelphi University	OF
1994	Rick Ladjevich	Central Missouri	3B
1995	Brett Tomko	Florida Southern	P
1996	Dave Townsend	Delta State	P
1997	Steve Gotowala	Cal State Chico	1B
1998	Brian Davis	West Georgia	SS
1999	B.J. Leach	Florida Southern	P
2000	Dee Haynes	Delta State	OF
2001	Chris Umphres	Central Missouri	1B
2002	Glenn Woolard	Kutztown State	P
2003	Mike Aviles	Concordia (NY)	SS
2004	Jud Thigpen	Delta State	OF
2005	Danny Powers	Central Missouri	P
2006	Lee Cruz	Tampa	OF
2007	Ben Barrone	Winona State University	C/P
2008	Keith Hernandez	Emporia State University	C
2009	Shannon Wilkerson	Augusta State University	OF
2010	Bryan Fogle	Erskine College	OF
2011	Carter Capps	Mount Olive College	P
2012	Nate Minnich	Shepherd University	1B
2013	Zach Esquerra	California Baptist University	OF
2014	Austin Kaiser	Colorado Mesa University	OF
2015	Craig Brooks	Catawba College	P
2016	Alex Wojciechowski	University of Minnesota-Duluth	1B
2017	Zack Shannon	Delta State University	1B

Division-II 2018-present

Year	Pitcher of The Year		Position Player of The Year
	Player	School	Player	School	Position
2018	David Lebron	University of Tampa	Zack Shannon	Delta State	1B
2019	Ethan Elliott	Lincoln Memorial	Josh Elvir	Angelo State	OF
2021	Zach Parish	Missouri Southern State	Haydn McGeary	Colorado Mesa	1B/C
2022	Baxter Halligan	Point Loma Nazarene	Haydn McGeary	Colorado Mesa	UT
2023	Kade Bragg	Angelo State	Julian Boyd	Colorado Mesa	OF

Division III 1988-2017

Year	Player	School	Position
1988	Ken Ritter	North Central	OF
1989	John Deutsch	Montclair State	1B
1990	Chris Delarwelle	Wisconsin-Oshkosh	3B
1991	Basilio Ortiz	Eastern Connecticut	OF
1992	Eric Owens	Ferrum	SS
1993	Tom D’Aquila	North Carolina Wesleyan	OF
1994	Tim Jorgensen	Wisconsin-Oshkosh	SS
1995	Tim Jorgensen	Wisconsin-Oshkosh	SS
1996	Joe Thomas	Marietta	1B-P
1997	Joe Thomas	Marietta	UT-P
1998	Pat Schultz	Mass-Dartmouth	OF
1999	Glen Braun	Carthage	OF
2000	Matt Gelotti	Southwestern	OF
2001	Matt DeSalvo	Marietta	P
2002	Drew Caravella	Ohio Wesleyan	1B
2003	Vince Mancuso	Wisconsin-Oshkosh	OF
2004	Brady Endl	Wisconsin-Whitewater	UT
2005	Luke Ullman	Wooster	SS
2006	Gerard Haran	New Jersey	C
2007	Kurt Yacko	Chapman University	UT
2007	Shawn Gilblair	Eastern Connecticut	UT
2008	Derek David	McMurry	3B/OF
2009	Shawn Gilblair & Drew Hedman	Eastern Connecticut & Pomona Pitzer Colleges	UT & 1B
2010	Brian Youchak	Johns Hopkins University	2B
2011	Jim Schult & Brian Gasser	Eastern Connecticut & Marietta	UT & P
2012	Bruce Maxwell	Birmingham Southern College	C
2013	Tucker White	University of Southern Maine	OF
2014	Chris Haddeland	Linfield College	P
2015	Sam Dexter	University of Southern Maine	INF
2016	Taylor Kohlwey	University of Wisconsin-La Crosse	OF
2017	Pete Grasso	Salisbury University	UT

Division-III 2018-present

Year	Pitcher of The Year		Position Player of The Year
	Player	School	Player	School	Position
2018	Connor Reeves	Salisbury	Michael Wielansky	Wooster	SS
2019	Tyler Peck	Chapman	Nick Herzog	UMass Boston	OF
2021	Matt Mulhearn	Webster (MO)	Adam Zebrowski	St. John Fisher	C/1B
2022	Dominic Perachi	Salve Regina	Ryan McCarty	Penn State Abington	MIF/P
2023	Gabe Van Emon	Endicott	Steve Yelin	William Paterson	C