{"id":795301,"date":"2026-09-03T02:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T02:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/795301\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T02:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T02:03:14","slug":"a-look-at-a-talented-two-way-freshman-for-the-tennessee-volunteers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/795301\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look at a Talented Two-Way Freshman for the Tennessee Volunteers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perfectgame.org\/players\/playerprofile.aspx?ID=921415\">Cole Koeninger<\/a> is heading to Knoxville to play for the Tennessee Volunteers. He went undrafted in the 2026 MLB Draft. <\/p>\n<p>World Baseball Network takes a look at why the Volunteers have an intriguing player on their hands in Koeninger. <\/p>\n<p>Koeninger and his high school profile<\/p>\n<p>According to Perfect Game, Koeninger is a top-20 player in the 2026 high school class. He played baseball for Keller High School in Texas and was also the number two overall player from the Lone Star State. <\/p>\n<p>The only player who was ranked higher from Texas was Grady Emerson, who was selected second overall in the 2026 MLB Draft by the Tampa Bay Rays. <\/p>\n<p>Koeninger is a legit two-way player that Tennessee can tinker with. He played shortstop and was also a right-handed pitcher in high school with Keller. <\/p>\n<p>When it comes to his pitching, two big pitches Koeninger has in his arsenal are a mid-90s fastball and a curveball. <\/p>\n<p>In Perfect Game&#8217;s scouting report, Koeninger&#8217;s curveball was &#8220;an elite level pitch with power and nasty biting life.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Koeninger led Keller High School to a 40-4-2 overall record, and the team also won its first-ever state championship. <\/p>\n<p>During the season, he showed off his ability to hit, much like his ability to pitch. He had a .440 batting average with Keller and six home runs as well. <\/p>\n<p>Koeninger is bringing big-time two-way talent and championship DNA to the Tennessee Volunteers in 2027. This makes him one of the freshmen people have to watch out for in college baseball this upcoming season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cole Koeninger is heading to Knoxville to play for the Tennessee Volunteers. He went undrafted in the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2289],"tags":[5,648,1694,2341],"class_list":["post-795301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-college-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-college-baseball","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-baseball"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117204654827251096","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795301","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=795301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}