. . The conference's Len Harlow Player of the Year award is given annually to the best pitcher in the America East, as chosen by a vote of the conference's coaches at the end of the regular season. The award was first presented in 1990 and was known as the North Atlantic Conference Player of the Year award through the 1996 season, after which the conference adopted its current name. It is named for Len Harlow, who worked in athletic communications for
Maine and the conference. In 2012,
Stony Brook outfielder
Travis Jankowski became the first America East Player of the Year award winner to be drafted in the first round of the MLB Draft, and the second America East player overall after Northeastern's
Carlos Peña.
Delaware's
Kevin Mench is the only player to win the award twice. He did so in 1998 and 1999. Five recipients –
Maine's
Mark Sweeney, Delaware's
Cliff Brumbaugh, Mench, Vermont's Matt Duffy, and Stony Brook's Travis Jankowski – have appeared in the MLB.
Winners by season The following is a table of the award's winners in each season since it was inaugurated in 1990.
Winners by school The following is a table of the schools whose players have won the award, along with the year each school joined the conference, the number of times it has won the award, and the years in which it has done so. ==Rookie of the Year==