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.
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.
Liam Doyle's dreams of becoming a professional baseball were realized July 13 when the New Hampshire pitcher was selected fifth overall by the St. Louis Cardinals in the first round of the MLB draft.
Tony Vitello, the De Smet grad who has built a power program in Tennessee, described the struggles the Cardinals' pick had in fall and the promise another showed in spring.
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.