Frog Baseball ranked No. 24 in Baseball America preseason poll
1/4/2007 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
Jan. 4, 2007
FORT WORTH, Texas - For the third straight season, the Horned Frog baseball team finds themselves in the preseason Top 25, as Collegiate Baseball has ranked the Frogs No. 24 in the country. Earlier this year, Collegiate Baseball tabbed the Frogs as the No. 15 team in the country. The ranking comes on the heels of a successful 2006 campaign that saw the Frogs claim both the Mountain West regular season and tournament titles, as well as make their third consecutive appearance in the NCAA playoffs.In 2007, the Frogs will have 22 returners from their championship club and welcome 13 talented newcomers. Included in the class are two four-year transfers, six junior college transfers and five freshmen. Highlighting the returners are All-America pitcher and Team USA gold-medalist, Jake Arrieta, as well as first-team all-MWC honorees, Andrew Walker, Austin Adams and Sam Demel. The newcomers feature Arkansas-transfer, junior outfielder Clint Arnold (.291-3-16) and Texas A&M-transfer, right-handed pitcher Chance Corgan (4-2, 3.83 ERA, 66 strikeouts). Former Arizona State reliever and Navarro Junior College transfer Seth Garrison, who comes to TCU after a successful stint in the Texas Collegiate League in which he was tabbed the fourth top prospect in the league by Baseball America.
The Frogs are one of two Mountain West Conference teams ranked in the top 50 as San Diego State comes in ranked No. 33. The Frogs also have eight other ranked teams on their schedule this season. They will face four of those teams - Oral Roberts (34), Oklahoma (35), Baylor (37) and Texas Tech (41) -- at home this season. The other ranked teams that appear on the Frogs' schedule are Rice (1), a team the Frogs will face in Corpus Christi at the Whataburger Classic, Texas A&M (49) and N.C. State (28) and Notre Dame (45), whom they will face in Conway, S.C. in the Baseball at the Beach Tournament.
The Frogs open the season in Orlando, Fla. on Feb. 9 with a 6:30 match-up against UCF.
Here is the Baseball America Top 50:
1. Rice
2. Miami
3. Clemson
4. Texas
5. North Carolina
6. South Carolina
7. Arkansas
8. Vanderbilt
9. Virginia
10. Wichita State
11. Tennessee
12. Georgia Tech
13. UCLA
14. Cal State Fullerton
15. Tulane
16. Oregon State
17. Nebraska
18. Florida State
19. Pepperdine
20. Arizona State
21. Evansville
22. Oklahoma State
23. Winthrop
24. TCU
25. Mississippi
26. UC Riverside
27. Georgia
28. N.C. State
29. USC
30. Kentucky
31. Stanford
32. San Francisco
33. San Diego State
34. Oral Roberts
35. Oklahoma
36. Auburn
37. Baylor
38. UC Irvine
39. La.-Lafayette
40. Michigan
41. Texas Tech
42. Central Michigan
43. Delaware
44. Elon
45. Notre Dame
46. San Diego
47. Ohio State
48. Miami (OH)
49. Texas A&M
50. LSU
