{"id":2207,"date":"2025-05-01T21:47:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T21:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/2207\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T21:47:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T21:47:06","slug":"updated-mlb-prospect-ranking-for-former-vol-christian-moore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/2207\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated MLB prospect ranking for former Vol Christian Moore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vol <a href=\"https:\/\/volswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/volunteers\/baseball\/2025\/05\/01\/former-vol-christian-moore-starts-at-designated-hitter-in-game-2-knoxville-smokies\/83384331007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Moore<\/a> played his first baseball game in Knoxville on Tuesday since the 2024 NCAA Tournament super regional.<\/p>\n<p>The former Tennessee second baseman and Rocket City are playing a six-game series, Tuesday-Sunday, against the Smokies at <a href=\"https:\/\/volswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/volunteers\/baseball\/2025\/04\/16\/knoxville-smokies-baseball-covenant-health-park-attendance-first-game\/83125233007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Covenant Health Park<\/a>. Rocket City is a Double-A affiliate of the Angels.<\/p>\n<p>Moore opened the series with a three-hit <a href=\"https:\/\/volswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/volunteers\/baseball\/2025\/04\/29\/christian-moore-returns-to-knoxville-with-rocket-city-trash-pandas-versus-smokies-baseball\/83355842007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">performance<\/a> against the Smokies, including one home run.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/milb\/prospects\/angels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">top-rated prospect<\/a> in the Angels&#8217; farm system and projects to make his MLB debut this season. The former Vol is the No. 4 second base prospect and No. 64 overall prospect in MLB.<\/p>\n<p>Moore was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/volswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/volunteers\/baseball\/2024\/07\/14\/christian-moore-selected-los-angeles-angels-baseball-in-first-round\/74403893007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">selected<\/a>\u00a0by the\u00a0Angels\u00a0in the first round (No. 8 overall) of the 2024 MLB draft.<\/p>\n<p>He played at Tennessee from 2022-24 and appeared in 186 games, totaling 61 home runs, 160 RBIs and 179 runs.<\/p>\n<p>Moore appeared in 72 games for the Vols in 2024. He recorded a .375 batting average, 34\u00a0home runs, 74 RBIs, 83 runs and 38 walks during Tennessee\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/volswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/volunteers\/baseball\/2024\/06\/26\/photos-of-tennessee-vols-college-baseball-celebrating-2024-national-championship\/78950263007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">national championship<\/a>\u00a0season.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Vols Wire on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VolsWire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/VolsWire\" rel=\"nofollow\">X<\/a>\u00a0(formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Vol Christian Moore played his first baseball game in Knoxville on Tuesday since the 2024 NCAA Tournament&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[290,291,5,1696,1693,648,1703,1700,1704,356,1698,289,56,1695,1199,1204,4,1586,306,319,1694,1702,169,300,316,301,939,943,185,317,1200,930,941,940,1699,1697,304,1701,931],"class_list":{"0":"post-2207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-angeles","9":"tag-angels","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-college","13":"tag-college-baseball","14":"tag-college-sports","15":"tag-colleges","16":"tag-colleges-u0026-universities","17":"tag-draft","18":"tag-knoxville","19":"tag-los","20":"tag-los-angeles-angels","21":"tag-mens","22":"tag-milb","23":"tag-milb-teams","24":"tag-mlb","25":"tag-mlb-draft","26":"tag-national","27":"tag-national-sports","28":"tag-ncaa","29":"tag-ncaa-mens-basketball-tournament","30":"tag-news","31":"tag-overall","32":"tag-overall-positive","33":"tag-positive","34":"tag-smg","35":"tag-smg-timely","36":"tag-sports","37":"tag-sports-news","38":"tag-teams","39":"tag-tennessee","40":"tag-tennessee-volunteers-baseball","41":"tag-timely","42":"tag-tn","43":"tag-tournament","44":"tag-u0026","45":"tag-universities","46":"tag-volunteers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}