{"id":741216,"date":"2026-07-02T13:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/741216\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T13:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:51:13","slug":"kilen-doyle-to-rep-tennessee-baseball-in-mlb-futures-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/741216\/","title":{"rendered":"Kilen, Doyle to rep Tennessee baseball in MLB Futures Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Tennessee baseball stars Gavin Kilen and Liam Doyle are headed to Philadelphia to take part in Major League Baseball All-Star festivities as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/2026-futures-game-rosters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">National League roster for the Futures Game<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The contest is slated for 12 p.m. ET on July 12 from Citizens Bank Park. The game will be televised on NBC. It\u2019s the seventh year the All-Star Futures Game has taken place in the current format since switching from U.S-World format in 2019. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kilen (Giants) currently plays for the Single-A Eugene Emeralds. In 70 games this season, the infielder is slashing .288\/.360\/.468 with an OPS of .828. The second-year has launched eight home runs with 60 RBI and 46 runs scored this season, walking on 32 occasions with 43 strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>Doyle (Cardinals) currently plays for the Double-A Springfield Cardinals. In 13 games started, the southpaw owns a 1-5 record with a 5.82 ERA over 51 innings pitched. He\u2019s struck out 71, walked 29 and opponents are hitting .266 against him.<\/p>\n<p>Kilen\u00a0was drafted in the first round with the 13th overall pick in the 2025 MLB Draft by the San Francisco Giants.\u00a0The middle infielder hit a team-high .357 and had a 1.112 OPS with a .671 slugging percentage after transferring to Tennessee from Louisville for the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>He hit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/utsports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/gavin-kilen\/21516\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">15 home runs, had 46 RBI and 60 runs scored<\/a>\u00a0on his 75 hits, which included 13 doubles and four triples. He started 52 times in 53 games while missing roughly 12 games with injury midway through the year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Doyle, the 2025 Southeastern Conference Pitcher of the Year, was drafted by St. Louis with the No. 5 overall pick in the 2025 Major League Baseball Draft. The Ole Miss transfer was a dominant pitcher in college baseball last season, finishing with a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/sidearm.nextgen.sites\/utsports.com\/documents\/2025\/2\/14\/2025_UT_Cumes.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">10-4 record in 17 starts<\/a>\u00a0and 19 appearances for Tennessee baseball. He had a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/tennessee-volunteers\/news\/tennessee-vols-baseball-liam-doyle-mlb-draft-first-round\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3.20 ERA, 0.99 WHIP<\/a> and struck out 164 against just 32 walks over 95.2 innings pitched. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Doyle was also named a Finalist for both the prestigious Golden Spikes and Dick Howser Awards in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Like this story0Share article<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleLikeBar_meta__MY_jU\">Members only \u00b7 one like per member<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Tennessee baseball stars Gavin Kilen and Liam Doyle are headed to Philadelphia to take part in Major&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2276],"tags":[5,2291,4,1586,2409,2410],"class_list":["post-741216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb-draft","tag-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball-draft","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-draft","tag-regwall","tag-tennessee-baseball"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116850713258049902","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741216","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=741216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}