In honor of its 100th year of existence, the Pac-12 is releasing its All-Century teams for its respective sports. On Monday, it released its All-Century baseball team with six Trojan players and one coach making the cut. USC also earned special recognition for Player of the Century and Coach of the Century with pitcher Mark Prior and legendary Trojan head coach Rod Dedeaux earning those honors respectively.
Prior dominated the conference in the early 2000s, winning 25 games and averaging 11.5 strikeouts with just 2.1 walks per nine innings. He was only the second collegian to sweep every National Player of the Year award in 2001 and was also the first Trojan to win the Golden Spikes Award in 2001 for setting a Pac-10 record with 202 strikeouts and just 18 walks.
Rod Dedeaux is a Trojan legend, coaching USC to 11 NCAA titles from 1942-1986 and finishing his coaching career as the winningest baseball coach in NCAA Division 1-A with a record of 1,332 wins, 571 losses and 11 ties. Throughout his career, Dedeaux was named the Coach of the Year by the College Baseball Coaches Association six times and eventually was inducted into its Hall of Fame in 1970.
Click here for the full list of players on the baseball Pac-12 All-Century team.
The Trojans are represented by Dedeaux and Prior along with pitchers Tom Seaver and Randy Johnson, outfielder Fred Lynn, second baseman Bret Boone, and first baseman Mark McGwire.
