Tennessee ace and SEC Pitcher of the Year Liam Doyle was the first off the board for the Vols. Doyle became the highest picked Vols under Vitello and becomes the highest-drafted Tennessee player since 2016 when Nick Senzel went No. 2 overall to the Reds.

If you paid attention to college baseball in 2025, odds are that you saw Tennessee’s Liam Doyle. He was likely bounding off the mound after one of his program-record 164 strikeouts, exuberantly celebrating winning another one-on-one battle.