Trio Of Former Tennessee Baseball Players Land On MLB Top 100 Prospects List
Tony Vitello has rejuvenated the Tennessee baseball program in his six-year tenure. The program has claimed two SEC East titles, a SEC regular season and tournament championship and has taken a pair of trips to the College World Series in the last three years. They’re also starting to consistently put players in professional baseball. That […]
Beck, Gilbert Off To Scorching Starts In Professional Careers
Jordan Beck and Drew Gilbert can still hit. The duo of outfielders combined for 72 doubles, 56 home runs and 274 RBIs in their three seasons playing beside each other in Tennessee’s outfield. Both were first round selections in last month’s MLB Draft and both are continuing their collegiate success in their first taste of […]
Estimated Signing Bonus For Tennessee Players Selected In MLB Draft
Tennessee broke a program record with 10 players selected in the 20-round MLB Draft this week. Nine of those 10 players were selected in the first 10 rounds of the draft, giving us an idea of there potential signing bonuses. Each year, the MLB creates a “slot value” for every pick in the first 10 […]
The Rockies Are Fired Up About Drafting Mike Honcho… a.k.a. Jordan Beck
After spending the last three years at the University of Tennessee, former Vol baseball outfielder Jordan Beck became a fan favorite among the Tennessee faithful. Beck’s big bat, motor in the outfield, and rambunctious personality were almost always on display as the Hazel Green, Alabama native gave his all for the Vols. Now, Beck is […]
Colorado Rockies Select Jordan Beck With 38th Pick In MLB Draft
The Colorado Rockies selected Jordan Beck with the 38th pick in the 2022 MLB Draft Sunday night. Beck joins fellow Tennessee outfielder Drew Gilbert as Tennessee’s draft selections in the 2022 draft. The 38th pick was a Compensatory Round A pick, making Beck the second to last player selected in the first round of the […]
Tennessee Baseball Guide To The MLB Draft
The 20-round MLB Draft begins at 7 p.m. ET Sunday night and it’s poised to be a big three days for Tennessee baseball. Tennessee could tie or even break its record — eight — for most draft picks in the history of the MLB Draft. It would be quite the achievement for the 2022 Tennessee […]
Where Five Vols are Projecting for Sunday’s MLB Draft
After an electric and historic season that ended up being cut short, a handful of Tennessee baseball players are hoping to hear their names called in this Sunday’s MLB Draft. In three recent MLB mock drafts from this week, a total of five Tennessee players are accounted for in some form or fashion: Drew Gilbert, […]
What MLB Draft Experts Are Saying About Drew Gilbert, Blade Tidwell, and Jordan Beck
With the Tennessee Volunteers’ baseball season ending in the NCAA Super Regionals round, a few of Tennessee’s players are gearing up for the MLB Draft this summer. The Vols’ SEC Championship-winning team could have three potential first-round draft picks in Blade Tidwell, Drew Gilbert, and Jordan Beck. The three mock drafts that are examined today […]
‘I Don’t Think We Fear Very Many People’: Tennessee Wins Knoxville Regional
KNOXVILLE, Tn — Tennessee baseball faced its second biggest deficit of the season in back-to-back games at this weekend’s Knoxville Regional. Both Campbell and Georgia Tech jumped out to, 4-0, leads in the first four innings against Tennessee. Behind the Vols’, 8-3, loss to Georgia in mid May the four-run deficits were the biggest Tennessee faced […]
PHOTO GALLERY: No. 1 Tennessee Takes Down Alabama State in Knoxville
Top-ranked Tennessee handily defeated four-seed Alabama State by a score of 10-0 in the first round of the Knoxville Regional on Friday evening. Check out Rocky Top Insider’s exclusive photo gallery from the game below. Tennessee/Alabama State: Tennessee Rolls Past Alabama State To Open Knoxville Regional Tennessee Baseball: ESPN Announcers Makes Unsubstantiated PED Claim About […]
