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2011 Big 12 Baseball Individual Award Winners and All-Big 12 Teams

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Channel: Big 12 Conference · 2011 · Sports

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The Big 12 baseball regular season concludes with co-champions Texas and Texas A&M earning the top seeds for the 2011 Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Championship. It's time to meet the All-Big 12 individual and team award winners for the 2011 regular season. 

Big 12 player of the year is Texas A&M outfielder Tyler Naquin. The sophomore from Spring, Texas led the Big 12 in overall batting with a 404 batting average, 488 on-base percentage, and a Big 12 best 42 hits. Naquin was a key contributor to an Aggie offense that led the Big 12 in team batting. He also topped the Big 12 in runs-scored, and reeled off a 27 game hitting streak midway through the year. 

Big 12 Pitcher of the year goes to Texas righty Taylor Jungmann. The junior from Temple, Texas posted a microscopic 1.12 ERA in Big 12 play and led the league in wins, innings pitched, and strikeouts. As a team, UT finished second overall in team pitching as Jungmann held opposing hitters to just a 172 batting average, helping the Longhorns clinch a third-straight Big 12 regular season title. He also earned three Big 12 pitcher of the week honors. 

Big 12 Newcomer of the year is Oklahoma State junior Zach Johnson. The San Ramon, California native led the Cowboys with a .351 batting average. He finishes the regular season ranked among Big 12 leaders in doubles, slugging percentage, and double plays fielded. Over the full season, he batted in 56 runs and pounded out 11 homers. 

Big 12 Freshman of the year is Texas infielder Erich Weiss. A native of Brenham, Texas, Weiss led all Big 12 hitters in walks and on-base percentage, and ranked among league leaders in batting average and average with runners in scoring position. This season, he set a new school record for triples, and led the Longhorns at the plate with a .371 batting average. 

Big 12 Co-Coach of the year awards go to Texas A&M's Rob Childress and Texas' Augie Garrido. Childress piloted the Aggies to their first regular season championship since 2008. A&M appeared in the top-25 nationally every week this season, including a stretch of 7 weeks where the Aggies earned top-ten votes. This is the second Big 12 coach of the year honor for Childress. Augie Garrido's Texas Longhorns picked up their third-straight Big 12 regular season crown, finishing 40-13 overall and 19-8 in the Big 12. Under Garrido's leadership, the UT pitching staff led the nation in strikeouts per 9 innings with 8.5 and posted the lowest earned run average, a microscopic 2.17. This is Garrido's fifth Big 12 coach of the year honor.

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