How Konnor Griffin Compares To Every Baseball America MiLB Player Of The Year Since 1981

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Baseball America has been awarding a Minor League Player of the Year since 1981. In the 45 times we’ve handed out the award, we have honored multiple Hall of Famers—Derek Jeter, Frank Thomas and Joe Mauer—as well as future Hall of Famers such as Mike Trout.

Scan across today’s MLB rosters, and you’ll see it’s an award that’s been given to many of the game’s biggest stars, with Bobby Witt Jr., Gunnar Henderson, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Ronald Acuña Jr. among past winners.

So, to commemorate the announcement of Pirates shortstop Konnor Griffin as our latest Minor League Player of the Year, we wanted to give our readers a trip down memory lane. In addition to listing out all of our past winners, we’ve also included the statistics from each award-winning season, so you can compare how Griffin stacks up historically.

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We’ve broken up the statistic tables into hitters and pitchers, beginning with Mike Marshall all the way back in 1981.

Minor League Player Of The Year Hitting Statistics

Year	Player	POS	ORG	AGE	AVG	OBP	SLG	AB	R	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS
1981	Mike Marshall	1B	Dodgers	21	.373	.445	.678	467	114	25	7	34	137	57	80	21	8
1982	Ron Kittle	OF	White Sox	24	.345	.442	.752	472	121	22	10	50	144	74	109	5	3
1985	Jose Canseco	OF	Athletics	20	.333	.424	.649	444	88	26	3	36	127	70	121	11	0
1986	Gregg Jefferies	SS	Mets	18	.353	.401	.549	521	96	32	11	16	111	44	41	57	9
1987	Gregg Jefferies	SS	Mets	19	.367	.423	.598	510	81	48	5	20	101	49	43	26	10
1989	Sandy Alomar Jr.	C	Padres	23	.306	.358	.474	523	88	33	8	13	101	42	58	3	1
1990	Frank Thomas	1B	White Sox	22	.323	.487	.581	353	85	27	5	18	71	112	74	7	5
1991	Derek Bell	OF	Blue Jays	22	.346	.424	.532	457	89	22	12	13	93	57	69	27	13
1992	Tim Salmon	OF	Angels	23	.347	.469	.672	409	101	38	4	29	105	91	103	9	7
1993	Manny Ramirez	OF	Guardians	21	.333	.417	.613	489	105	44	0	31	115	72	103	3	3
1994	Derek Jeter	SS	Yankees	20	.344	.410	.463	540	103	27	11	5	68	58	61	50	8
1995	Andruw Jones	OF	Braves	18	.277	.372	.512	537	104	41	5	25	100	70	122	56	11
1996	Andruw Jones	OF	Braves	19	.339	.421	.652	445	115	27	5	34	92	60	97	30	10
1997	Paul Konerko	3B/1B	Dodgers	21	.323	.407	.621	483	97	31	1	37	127	64	61	2	3
1998	Eric Chavez	3B	Athletics	20	.327	.388	.603	529	104	45	1	33	126	54	93	14	7
2002	Rocco Baldelli	OF	Rays	20	.331	.370	.521	478	86	28	3	19	71	23	97	26	13
2003	Joe Mauer	C	Twins	20	.338	.398	.434	509	73	30	2	5	85	49	49	3	0
2005	Delmon Young	OF	Rays	19	.315	.354	.527	558	92	26	7	26	99	29	99	32	12
2006	Alex Gordon	3B	Royals	22	.325	.427	.588	486	111	39	1	29	101	72	113	22	3
2007	Jay Bruce	OF	Reds	20	.319	.375	.587	521	87	46	8	26	89	47	135	8	7
2008	Matt Wieters	C	Orioles	22	.355	.454	.600	437	88	22	2	27	91	82	76	2	2
2009	Jason Heyward	OF	Braves	20	.323	.408	.555	362	69	25	4	17	63	51	51	10	1
2011	Mike Trout	OF	Angels	19	.326	.414	.544	353	82	18	13	11	38	45	76	33	10
2012	Wil Myers	OF	Royals	21	.314	.387	.600	522	98	26	6	37	109	61	140	6	3
2013	Byron Buxton	OF	Twins	19	.334	.424	.520	488	109	19	18	12	77	76	105	55	19
2014	Kris Bryant	3B	Cubs	22	.325	.438	.661	492	118	34	1	43	110	86	162	15	4
2016	Yoan Moncada	2B	Red Sox	21	.294	.407	.511	405	94	31	6	15	62	72	124	45	12
2017	Ronald Acuña	OF	Braves	19	.325	.374	.522	557	88	31	8	21	82	43	144	44	20
2018	Vladimir Guerrero Jr.	3B	Blue Jays	19	.381	.437	.636	357	67	29	1	20	78	37	38	3	3
2019	Gavin Lux	SS	Dodgers	21	.347	.421	.607	458	99	25	8	26	76	61	102	10	6
2021	Bobby Witt Jr.	SS	Royals	21	.290	.361	.575	497	99	35	4	33	97	51	131	29	11
2022	Gunnar Henderson	SS	Orioles	20	.297	.416	.531	407	101	24	7	19	76	79	116	22	3
2023	Jackson Holliday	SS	Orioles	19	.323	.442	.499	477	113	30	9	12	75	101	118	24	9
2024	Kristian Campbell	2B/SS	Red Sox	21	.330	.439	.558	430	94	32	3	20	77	74	103	24	8
2025	Konnor Griffin	SS	Pirates	19	.333	.415	.527	484	117	23	4	21	94	50	122	65	13

And here are the statistics for the pitchers who were our Player of the Year.

Minor League Player Of The Year Pitching Statistics

Yr	Player	Pos	ORG	AGE	W	L	ERA	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO
1983	Dwight Gooden	RHP	Mets	18	19	4	2.50	191	121	58	53	11	112	300
1984	Mike Bielecki	RHP	Pirates	24	19	3	2.97	188	162	70	62	11	88	162
1988	Tom Gordon	RHP	Royals	20	16	5	1.55	186	96	36	32	4	75	263
1999	Rick Ankiel	LHP	Cardinals	19	13	3	2.35	138	98	43	36	9	62	194
2000	Jon Rauch	LHP	White Sox	21	16	4	2.66	166	138	67	49	14	49	187
2001	Josh Beckett	RHP	Marlins	21	14	1	1.54	140	82	29	24	8	34	203
2004	Jeff Francis	RHP	Rockies	23	16	3	2.21	155	108	42	38	12	29	196
2010	Jeremy Hellickson	RHP	Rays	23	9	2	2.42	114	72	35	31	8	29	132
2015	Blake Snell	RHP	Rays	23	15	4	1.41	134	84	24	21	7	53	163