Pac-12 Conference Baseball Player of the Year

Pac-12 Conference Baseball Player of the Year
Pac-12 Conference Baseball Player of the Year
Awarded for	the most outstanding baseball player in the Pac-12 Conference
Country	United States
First awarded	1978
Currently held by	Travis Bazzana, Oregon State

Last updated September 05, 2024

The Pac-12 Conference Player of the Year is a baseball award given to the Pac-12 Conference's most outstanding player. From 1978 to 1998, an award was given to the most outstanding player in both the North and South divisions, with both pitchers and position players eligible. After the 1999 season, the divisions were eliminated and the Pac-12 Conference Baseball Pitcher of the Year award was created to honor the most outstanding pitcher.

Key

†	Co-Players of the Year
*	Awarded a national Player of the Year award: the Dick Howser Trophy or the Golden Spikes Award
Player (X)	Denotes the number of times the player had been awarded the Player of the Year award at that point

Winners

1999–present

Season	Player	School	Position	Reference
1999	Willie Bloomquist	Arizona State	SS	^[1]
2000	Casey Myers	Arizona State	C	^[1]
2001	Casey Myers (2)	Arizona State	C	^[1]
2002	Alberto Concepción	Southern California	C	^[1]
2003^†	Ryan Garko	Stanford	C	^[1]
2003^†	Dustin Pedroia	Arizona State	SS	^[1]
2004	Jed Lowrie	Stanford	2B	^[1]
2005^†	Trevor Crowe	Arizona	OF	^[1]
2005^†	Jacoby Ellsbury	Oregon State	OF	^[1]
2006	Cole Gillespie	Oregon State	OF	^[1]
2007	Brett Wallace	Arizona State	1B	^[1]
2008	Brett Wallace (2)	Arizona State	3B	^[1]
2009	Jason Kipnis	Arizona State	OF	^[1]
2010	Zack MacPhee	Arizona State	2B	^[1]
2011	Tony Renda	California	IF	^[1]
2012	Alex Mejia	Arizona	SS	^[2]
2013	Michael Conforto	Oregon State	OF	^[3]
2014	Michael Conforto (2)	Oregon State	OF
2015	Scott Kingery	Arizona	2B	^[4]
2016	Brett Cumberland	California	C	^[5]
2017	Nick Madrigal	Oregon State	IF
2018	Andrew Vaughn	California	1B
2019	Adley Rutschman *	Oregon State	C
2021	Aaron Zavala	Oregon	OF / 3B
2022	Jacob Melton	Oregon State	OF
2023	Alberto Rios	Stanford	OF / C	^[6]
2024	Travis Bazzana	Oregon State	IF	^[7]

North Division (1978–1998)

Season	Player	School	Position	Reference
1978	Dave Elder	Washington State	3B	^[1]
1979	Tom Dodd	Oregon	OF	^[1]
1980	Glen Walker	Washington State	OF	^[1]
1981	Al Hunsinger	Oregon State	1B	^[1]
1982	Jim Wilson	Oregon State	1B	^[1]
1983	Jeff Reece	Oregon State	P	^[1]
1984	John Skurla	Washington State	OF	^[1]
1985	Don Lovell	Portland State	OF	^[1]
1986	Dave Brundage	Oregon State	P	^[1]
1987	Ken Bowen	Oregon State	SS	^[1]
1988	John Olerud	Washington State	P/DH	^[1]
1989	Tim Kuykendall	Washington State	OF	^[1]
1990	Dane Walker	Portland State	OF	^[1]
1991	Scott Hatteberg	Washington State	C	^[1]
1992	Geoff Loomis	Portland	3B	^[1]
1993	Scott Christman	Oregon State	P	^[1]
1994	Mason Smith	Oregon State	P	^[1]
1995	Darin Blood	Gonzaga	P	^[1]
1996	Kevin Miller	Washington	SS	^[1]
1997	Kevin Miller (2)	Washington	SS	^[1]
1998	Andrew Checketts	Oregon State	P	^[1]

South Division (1978–1998)

Season	Player	School	Position	Reference
1978	Tim Tolman	Southern California	OF	^[1]
1979	Jim Auten	UCLA	OF	^[1]
1980	Terry Francona *	Arizona	OF	^[1]
1981	Mike Sodders	Arizona State	IF	^[1]
1982	Alvin Davis	Arizona State	1B	^[1]
1983	Erik Hardgrave	Stanford	1B	^[1]
1984^†	Oddibe McDowell *	Arizona State	OF	^[1]
1984^†	Mark McGwire	Southern California	1B	^[1]
1985	Rick Lundblade	Stanford	1B	^[1]
1986^†	Torey Lovullo	UCLA	IF	^[1]
1986^†	Alex Sanchez	UCLA	P	^[1]
1987^†	Torey Lovullo (2)	UCLA	IF	^[1]
1987^†	Chip Hale	Arizona	IF	^[1]
1988	Linty Ingram	Arizona State	P	^[1]
1989^†	Scott Erickson	Arizona	P	^[1]
1989^†	Alan Zinter	Arizona	1B	^[1]
1990	Paul Ellis	UCLA	C	^[1]
1991	David McCarty	Stanford	OF	^[1]
1992^†	Troy Penix	California	1B	^[1]
1992^†	Jon Zuber	California	P	^[1]
1993^†	Paul LoDuca	Arizona State	C	^[1]
1993^†	Ryan McGuire	UCLA	1B	^[1]
1994	Jacob Cruz	Arizona State	OF	^[1]
1995^†	A. J. Hinch	Stanford	C	^[1]
1995^†	Geoff Jenkins	Southern California	OF	^[1]
1996	A. J. Hinch (2)	Stanford	C	^[1]
1997	Troy Glaus	UCLA	3B	^[1]
1998	Eric Valent	UCLA	OF	^[1]

Winners by school

School (year joined) ^a	Winners	Years
Oregon State (1964)	16	1981, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1993, 1994, 1998, 2005^†, 2006, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2022, 2024
Arizona State (1978)	14	1981, 1982, 1984^†, 1988, 1993, 1994, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003^†, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
Stanford (1959)	8	1983, 1985, 1991, 1995^†, 1996, 2003^†, 2004, 2023
UCLA (1959)	7	1979, 1986^†, 1987^†, 1990, 1993^†, 1997, 1998
Washington State (1962)	6	1978, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1989, 1991
California (1959)	5	1992^†, 1992^†, 2011, 2016, 2018
Arizona (1978)	4	1980, 1987, 2005^†, 2012
Southern California (1959)	4	1978, 1984^†, 1995, 2002
Portland State ^b (1982)	2	1985, 1990
Washington (1959)	2	1996, 1997
Gonzaga ^c (1982)	1	1995
Oregon ^d (1964)	1	1979
Utah (2011)	0
Portland	1	1992

Footnotes

^a For purposes of this table, the "year joined" reflects the year that each team joined the conference now known as the Pac-12 as currently chartered. Although the Pac-12 claims the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC), founded in 1915, as part of its own history, that conference disbanded in 1959 due to infighting and scandal. That same year, five PCC members established the Athletic Association of Western Universities (AAWU) under a new charter that functions to this day. The Player of the Year Award was not established until 1978, by which time all of the final members of the PCC except for Idaho were reunited in what was then the Pac-8.
^b Portland State was an affiliate member of the Pac-10 from 1982 to 1998.
^c Gonzaga was an affiliate member of the Pac-10 from 1982 to 1995.
^d Oregon discontinued its baseball program after the 1981 season, re-instating it before the 2009 season.

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