SAN FRANCISCO – Oregon State junior catcher Adley Rutschman has been named the Pac-12 Conference's Player of the Year, it was announced on Wednesday.
Rutschman becomes the fifth different Beaver to be named the conference's Player of the Year since the then-Pac-10 unified in 1999. He joins Jacoby Ellsbury (2005), Cole Gillespie (2006), Michael Conforto (2013 and 2014) and Nick Madrigal (2017).
Rutschman was also named the league's co-recipient of the Defensive Player of the Year honor, sharing it with Stanford's Maverick Handley. Rutschman gives the Beavers four consecutive Defensive Player of the Year honors, with Logan Ice (2016), Nick Madrigal (2017) and Cadyn Grenier (2018) also being recognized.