Kopps named CBF pitcher of the year
FAYETTEVILLE — Already the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper’s National Player of the Year, Arkansas
All-american senior pitcher
Kevin Kopps
Thursday was named
National
Pitcher of the Year by the College Baseball Foundation. It is the first of three national awards that could be won by Kopps over two days.
Kopps finishing Arkansas’ SEC championship season with a 12-1 record, 11 saves and 0.90 earned run average, and 131 strikeouts vs. 18 walks in 89.2 innings, is under consideration for two national awards to be announced today, the Dick Howser Trophy for its National Player of the Year, and the Stopper of the Year Award awarded college baseball’s best relief pitcher.
Arkansas’ baseball season is over, but the award season is ongoing for the Razorbacks’ star player in 2021.
The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association will announce the winners of the Dick Howser Trophy, Stopper of the Year Award and Mike Martin Award today.
The Howser Trophy is one of the sport’s two most prominent national player of the year awards, along with the Golden Spikes Award. Stopper of the Year is presented to college baseball’s best relief pitcher, and the Martin Award is for national coach of the year.