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Where Tennessee Baseball Lands In Various Preseason Rankings

By Ryan Schumpert
- Feb 7, 2024

Tennessee Baseball Zane Denton — The Tennessee baseball team warming up in the fall. Photo by RTI/Ric Butler.

With the college baseball season just over a week away, every different outlet has released its preseason rankings and polls.

There’s a lot of reason for excitement for Tennessee baseball ahead of the 2024 season and the preseason rankings indicate just that as the Vols come in between No. 5 and No. 11 in the five different outlets.

The Vols are coming off a strong 2023 season that saw them advance to the College World Series for the second time in three seasons and earn their first College World Series victory since 2001. Tony Vitello’s sixth Tennessee team struggled the first half of the season before turning it around and making an adversity filled run to Omaha.

Tennessee returns a number of key players from last seasons team including position starters Blake Burke, Christian Moore and Hunter Ensley and high-level starting pitcher Drew Beam. The Vols also brought in an impressive transfer portal haul including Clemson’s Billy Amick, North Carolina State’s Cannon Peebles and Wichita State’s Nate Snead.

Moore, Amick and Beam were consensus preseason All-Americans while sophomore pitcher A.J. Russell landed on NCBWA’s Preseason All-American team and Blake Burke landed on Baseball America’s Preseason All-American team.

Here’s a look at where Tennessee lands nationally and in the SEC in the preseason rankings.