Tennessee Vols baseball standout listed as the top prospect in the 2025 MLB Draft
A Tennessee Vols baseball standout is already receiving hype as the top prospect in the 2025 MLB Draft. The Athletic's Keith Law revealed his top 30 MLB draft prospects at the start of the season and Tennessee LHP Liam Doyle is at No. 1 on his list. Doyle, 6-foot-2/220 lbs from New Hampshire, transferred to […]
A Tennessee Vols baseball standout is already receiving hype as the top prospect in the 2025 MLB Draft.
The Athletic's Keith Law revealed his top 30 MLB draft prospects at the start of the season and Tennessee LHP Liam Doyle is at No. 1 on his list.
Doyle, 6-foot-2/220 lbs from New Hampshire, transferred to Tennessee ahead of the 2025 season. He previously played at Coastal Carolina and Ole Miss.
Scouting report from The Athletic: Doyle is also a transfer, coming from Mississippi to Rocky Top — after going from Coastal Carolina to Oxford a year earlier — and he’s now sitting 96-98 with plus-plus life, so while he’s got a changeup and a hard slurve that are both above-average, he’s thrown about 75 percent fastballs through three starts because hitters can’t sniff it. In 14 2/3 innings in those three outings, he has walked three batters and struck out 34, an impossible-to-believe 69 percent K rate. The only real question is whether he can do it all spring: he had a 5.73 ERA for the Rebels last year in just 55 innings, missing plenty of bats (35 percent strikeout rate) but with too many walks and less velocity.
Doyle is off to an unreal start for the Vols this season, pitching to a 0.61 ERA with 34 strikeouts and just three walks through his first three starts.
Last week, D1 Baseball suggested that Doyle's fastball is the best pitch in baseball in 2025.
Doyle, by the way, isn't the only Tennessee player that Law has among his top 30 draft prospects.
Law ranks second baseman Gavin Kilen as his No. 6 overall draft prospect and shortstop Dean Curley as his No. 25 overall prospect.
With talent like that on the roster, it's easy to see how the Volunteers are off to an 11-0 start this season.