Big Ten Conference Baseball Player of the Year

The Big Ten Conference Player of the Year is a baseball award given to the Big Ten Conference's most outstanding player. The award was first given following the 1982 season, with both pitchers and position players eligible. After the 1994 season, the Big Ten Conference Baseball Pitcher of the Year award was created to honor the most outstanding pitcher.

Big Ten Conference Player of the Year
Awarded for	the most outstanding baseball player in the Big Ten Conference
Country	United States
First awarded	1982
Currently held by	Josh Kuroda-Grauer, Rutgers

Key

*	Awarded a College National Player of the Year award: the Dick Howser Trophy or the Golden Spikes Award
†	Major League Baseball All-Star
‡	Member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame

Winners

Season	Player	School	Position	Reference
1982	Jim Paciorek	Michigan	OF	[1]
1983	Terry Steinbach† Rich Stoll	Minnesota Michigan	3B P	[1]
1984	Barry Larkin‡	Michigan	SS	[1]
1985	Barry Larkin‡ (2)	Michigan	SS	[1]
1986	Casey Close	Michigan	OF	[1]
1987	Darrin Fletcher†	Illinois	C	[1]
1988	Jim Abbott	Michigan	P	[1]
1989	Bubba Smith	Illinois	1B/P	[1]
1990	Mark Dalesandro	Illinois	IF/C	[1]
1991	Brent Gates	Minnesota	SS	[1]
1992	Brett Backlund Mike Smith	Iowa Indiana	P SS	[1]
1993	Mark Loretta†	Northwestern	SS	[1]
1994	Mark Merila Jonathan Sweet	Minnesota Ohio State	2B C	[1]
1995	Shane Gunderson Scott Weaver	Minnesota Michigan	C OF	[1]
1996	Josh Klimek	Illinois	SS	[1]
1997	Dan Seimetz	Ohio State	1B	[1]
1998	D.J. Svihlik	Illinois	2B	[1]
1999	Robb Quinlan	Minnesota	1B	[1]
2000	Mike Campo	Penn State	OF	[1]
2001	Jack Hannahan	Minnesota	3B	[1]
2002	Luke Appert Kennard Jones Bob Malek	Minnesota Indiana Michigan State	2B OF OF	[1]
2003	Luke Appert (2)	Minnesota	2B	[1]
2004	Steve Caravati	Ohio State	OF	[1]
2005	Drew Davidson	Illinois	OF	[1]
2006	Ronnie Bourquin	Ohio State	3B	[1]
2007	Lars Davis	Illinois	C	[1]
2008	Nate Recknagel	Michigan	1B	[1]
2009	Dan Burkhart	Ohio State	C	[1]
2010	Alex Dickerson	Indiana	OF	[1]
2011	Jeff Holm	Michigan State	1B	[1]
2012	Kevin Plawecki	Purdue	C	[1]
2013	Justin Parr	Illinois	OF	[2]
2014	Sam Travis	Indiana	1B	[3]
2015	David Kerian	Illinois	1B	[4]
2016	Matt Fiedler	Minnesota	OF	[5]
2017	Jake Adams	Iowa	OF	[6]
2018	Bren Spillane	Illinois	1B/OF	[7]
2019	Jordan Brewer	Michigan	OF	[8]
2021	Spencer Schwellenbach	Nebraska	SS/P	[9]
2022	Chris Alleyne	Maryland	OF	[10]
2023	Matt Shaw	Maryland	SS	[11]
2024	Josh Kuroda-Grauer	Rutgers	SS	[12]

Winners by school

School (year joined)	Winners	Years
Illinois (1896)	10	1987, 1989, 1990, 1996, 1998, 2005, 2007, 2013, 2015, 2018
Michigan (1896)	9	1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1995, 2008, 2019
Minnesota (1896)	9	1983, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2016
Ohio State (1912)	5	1994, 1997, 2004, 2006, 2009
Indiana (1900)	4	1992, 2002, 2010, 2014
Michigan State (1953)	2	2002, 2011
Iowa (1900)	2	1992, 2017
Maryland (2014)	2	2022, 2023
Northwestern (1896)	1	1993
Penn State (1993)	1	2000
Purdue (1896)	1	2012
Rutgers (2014)	1	2024
Wisconsin (1896)a	0	—

Footnotes

• ^a Wisconsin discontinued its baseball program after the 1991 season.

References

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