Conference champion Texas Tech highlights the 2016 All-Big 12 baseball awards as the Red Raiders collect eight all-conference selections, Tim Tadlock unanimously earns Big 12 Coach of the Year and Eric Gutierrez takes home Big 12 Player of the Year.

Gutierrez, who also becomes a three-time All-Big 12 First Team honoree, is the first Red Raider to win the Big 12 Player of the Year since Tech's last Big 12 regular season championship in 1997 (Joe Dillon). The senior first baseman led the Big 12 in conference-only games in home runs, RBI, total bases and slugging percentage. His 14 multi-RBI games on the year are the most in the league. He is the league's active career leader in games played, at-bats, hits, runs, RBI, doubles, home runs, total bases and walks. In overall games this season, he sits in the league lead for runs and RBIs.

Tadlock, a unanimous selection for the honor, took a Texas Tech team predicted to finish fifth in the preseason coaches' poll to its first Big 12 regular season title since the league's inaugural season in 1997. In his fourth year at the helm, Tadlock has produced the winningest senior class at TTU, guided the Red Raiders to an 8-0 record in Big 12 series openers and finished the conference season with the fourth-best win percentage in league games in conference history (19-4, .792). The Red Raiders won seven of their eight conference series and strung together a school-record 11-game Big 12 win streak. Tech went 10-2 in Big 12 play on the road, becoming just one of 12 teams to record double-digit away wins in conference history.

Oklahoma State and TCU repeat with the Pitcher and Freshman of the Year honors, respectively, as the Cowboys' Thomas Hatch wins the Big 12 Pitcher of the Year and the Frogs' Luken Baker is the Big 12 Freshman of the Year. Jake Scudder (K-State) wins the Big 12 Newcomer of the Year.

The team and awards are voted on by the league's head coaches, who are not allowed to vote for their own players.

Texas Tech and Oklahoma State pace league teams with four All-Big 12 First Team honorees while Kansas and TCU also place multiple members on the first team.

The Red Raiders tallied a total of eight All-Big 12 selections between the first and second teams, with TCU totaling seven and Oklahoma State five. Twelve of the 17 first team selections were unanimous choices with 14 of the members earning their first All-Big 12 First Team distinction.

Gutierrez, Tanner Gardner, Stephen Smith and Davis Martin were selected to the All-Big 12 First Team, while Tyler Neslony, Cory Raley, Steven Gingery and Hayden Howard were named to the second team.

On the All-Freshman Team, TCU led the way with four honorees, including Baker's unanimous nod. Tech's Davis Martin, an All-Big 12 First Team honoree, was also a unanimous choice. Dalton Horton (TCU), Steven Gingery (Texas Tech) and Darius Hill (West Virginia) were named to the All-Freshman Team, as well as selected to the All-Big 12 Second Team.