page_title: Atlantic Sun Conference baseball awards
section_title: Player of the Year
hierarchical_section_title: Atlantic Sun Conference baseball awards / Player of the Year
caption_attribution_description: Daniel Murphy
context_page_description: At the end of each regular season, the Atlantic Sun Conference, branded since the 2016–17 school year as the ASUN Conference, names major award winners in baseball. Currently, it names a Coach, Pitcher, Player, Freshman, and Defensive Player of the Year. The Coach of the Year award, which dates to 1979, is the oldest. The others—Player, Freshman, Pitcher, and Defensive Player —were added later. Through the 2001 season, the then-existing awards were known as the major awards of the Trans America Athletic Conference, the ASUN's former name.
  Through the end of the 2019 season, Stetson has won 29 major awards, the most of any school in the conference.
  On six occasions, a team has won swept the major awards given out in a season: Mercer in 1983, Georgia Southern in 1986 and 1987, Stetson in 1989, Florida International in 1995, and Florida Atlantic in 1999. All six instances came before 2001, when only the Coach and Player of the Year awards existed.
  Four individuals have won more than one of the awards.
context_section_description: The conference's Player of the Year award is given annually to the best position player in the ASUN, as chosen by a vote of the conference's head coaches at the end of each regular season.  It was first awarded in 1982.  Until 2004, when the Pitcher of the Year award was instituted, both pitchers and position players were eligible.  Before the conference was renamed, the award was known as the Trans America Athletic Conference Player of the Year award from 1982 to 2001.
  Two players, both from Stetson, have won the award twice: shortstop Wes Weger in 1991 and 1992 and catcher Chris Westervelt in 2002 and 2004.
  Five of the award's winners—Florida Gulf Coast's Jake Noll, Georgia Southern's Todd Greene, Jacksonville's Daniel Murphy, and Stetson's George Tsamis and Kevin Nicholson—have gone on to appear in Major League Baseball.
caption: 2006 recipient Daniel Murphy.
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