St. Louis Cardinals select Liam Doyle with No. 5 pick
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The St. Louis Cardinals selected Tennessee LHP Liam Doyle with the No. 5 pick in the 2025 MLB Draft, making him the highest-drafted pitcher under Tony Vitello.
Highest pick for Cardinals since 1998, Doyle led NCAA in strikeout rates this past season and had 101 more strikeouts than hits allowed for the Volunteers.
PHOENIX -- 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.
The day after New Hampshire native Liam Doyle was taken in the top five of the MLB Draft, another New England southpaw came off the board Monday. The Tigers took University of Maine lefthander Caleb Leys, a native of Middletown, R.I., in the fourth round on Monday.