The Horned Frogs entered the 2017 season on the heels of three consecutive trips to the
College World Series. The
2016 TCU Horned Frogs baseball team notched a 38–14 (15–9) regular season record to finish third in the Big 12 Conference standings. In the postseason, the Horned Frogs won the
Big 12 tournament Championship with wins over
Baylor,
Oklahoma State,
Texas and
West Virginia, were selected as one of sixteen
NCAA Regional Tournament hosts for the third year in a row and the sixth time in eight years, swept through the Fort Worth Regional with wins over
Oral Roberts,
Gonzaga and
Arizona State; advanced to the Super Regional round of the Tournament for the third straight year, where they faced #4 National Seed
Texas A&M in
College Station, TX for the best-of-three series; won the College Station Super Regional after an 8–2 win, 1–7 loss and 4–1 win; and advanced to their third consecutive
College World Series. At the 2016 CWS, the Frogs notched a 2–2 record, winning their first two games over Texas Tech and Coastal Carolina before losing two consecutive games to Coastal Carolina and being eliminated from the tournament. TCU finished the season with a 49–18 record and ranked third in the final polls. ==Preseason==