The end-of-year accolades keep pouring in for Florida junior right-hander Brady Singer. The Friday starter for the Florida Gators was just named the 32nd recipient of the Dick Howser Trophy as college baseball’s Player of the Year on Friday live on the MLB Network.

The Dick Howser Trophy, given in memory of the former Florida State University All-America shortstop and Major League player and manager who died of brain cancer in 1987, is regarded by many as college baseball's most prestigious award. Criteria for consideration for the trophy include performance on the field, leadership, moral character, and courage, qualities which were exemplified by Dick Howser's life.

Singer is a consensus First-Team All-American in this, his junior year, and has been dubbed the Player of the Year by Baseball America and D1Baseball. The SEC also named Singer the Pitcher of the Year in the conference.

Singer was the Saturday starter in 2017 where he led the team with 126.0 innings with 19 starts and a 9-5 record. In last year’s College World Series he picked up two wins and threw 14.0 innings while notching 21 strikeouts to earn a spot on the 2017 CWS All-Tournament Team.

In 2018, Singer holds a 12-1 record as his team prepares again for the College World Series with the first matchup with Texas tech on Sunday. Singer ranks first in earned run average in the SEC (2.30), opposing batting average (.187). The 12 wins have him tied for the third most in the country in 2018.

An overall 23-8 record with a 3.15 ERA in his three year career at Florida, Singer ranks seventh in school history with 274 career strikeouts to his name.

Singer is the second Florida player to win the Dick Howser Trophy, following Mike Zunino in 2012. He was also selected 18th overall by the Kansas City Royals in the 2018 MLB Draft.

The College Baseball Foundation was established in 2004 and has inducted 71 greats into the College Baseball Hall of Fame in Lubbock. The group promotes the highest ideals and recognition of greatness on college baseball diamonds in the 150-plus years since the first intercollegiate contest in 1859 between Amherst and Williams.

The unsolicited team leader for the Gators, Singer missed two starts this year, both in the last SEC series of the season against Mississippi State and in the SEC Baseball Tournament. The Gators, who had won every three-game series of the year prior to the MSU one, went 0-3 against the Bulldogs and bowed out early in the SEC Tournament going 1-2.

He returned to form in the Regionals and Super Regionals, winning both contests and the Gators have gone 5-2 since his return to health and on the mound.