Stopper of the Year Award

The Stopper of the Year Award was created in 2005 to honor college baseball's top relief pitcher. The award is administered and voted on by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association.

Stopper of the Year Award

Awarded for	Best relief pitcher in NCAA's Division I
Country	United States
Presented by	National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association
History
First award	2005
Most recent	Tony Pluta, Arizona Wildcats

Past winners

Addison Reed

Key

Year	Links to the article about the corresponding baseball year
Player	Name of the player
School	The player's college when he won the award
‡	Player is active[a]

Winners

Year	Name	School	Ref(s)
2005	J. B. Cox	Texas	[1]
2006	Don Czyz	Kansas	[1]
2007	Luke Prihoda	Sam Houston State	[1]
2008	Josh Fields	Georgia	[1]
2009	Addison Reed	San Diego State	[1]
2010	Chance Ruffin	Texas	[1]
2011	Corey Knebel	Texas	[1]
2012	Stefan Lopez	Southeastern Louisiana	[2]
2013	David Berg	UCLA	[3]
2014	Nick Burdi‡	Louisville	[3]
2015	David Berg	UCLA	[4]
2016	Bryan Garcia	Miami	[5]
2017	Lincoln Henzman	Louisville	[6]
2018	Michael Byrne	Florida	[7]
2019	Holden Powell‡	UCLA	[8]
2020	Not awarded
2021	Kevin Kopps‡	Arkansas	[9]
2022	Tristan Stivors	Texas State	[10]
2023	Cade Denton‡	Oral Roberts	[11]
2024	Evan Aschenbeck‡	Texas A&M	[12]
2025	Tony Pluta‡	Arizona	[13]

See also

• Baseball portal

• List of college baseball awards

Notes

1. A player is considered inactive if he has announced his retirement or not played for a full season.