Liam Doyle (baseball)
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| Liam Doyle | |
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 Doyle with Tennessee in 2025 | |
| St. Louis Cardinals | |
| Pitcher | |
| Born: June 3, 2004 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | |
Bats: Right Throws: Left | |
| Stats at Baseball Reference | |
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Liam Shannon Doyle (born June 3, 2004) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the St. Louis Cardinals organization.
Doyle was born in Boston but grew up in New Hampshire.[1] He attended Pinkerton Academy in Derry, New Hampshire.[2] Over his junior and senior seasons in high school he combined to go 15–2 with a 0.68 earned run average (ERA) with 226 strikeouts in 113 innings.[3]
Doyle started his college baseball career with Coastal Carolina University in 2023. He appeared in 23 games with seven starts and went 3–1 with a 4.15 ERA and 69 strikeouts in 56+1⁄3 innings.[4] After the season, Doyle played collegiate summer baseball with the Bourne Braves of the Cape Cod Baseball League,[5] and entered the transfer portal and transferred to the University of Mississippi.[6] In his lone season at Ole Miss in 2024, he started 11 of 16 games, going 3–4 with 5.73 ERA and 84 strikeouts in 55 innings.[7] Doyle entered the transfer portal after the season and transferred to the University of Tennessee.[8]
Doyle entered the 2025 season as Tennessee's number one starter.[9] In March 2025, Doyle was ranked by Keith Law of The Athletic as the top prospect in the 2025 Major League Baseball draft.[10][11] Against the St. Bonaventure Bonnies, he combined with four other pitchers to throw the first no-hitter for Tennessee since 2002.[12][13] Doyle appeared in 19 games (with 17 starts) for Tennessee, going 10-4 with a 3.20 ERA and 164 strikeouts and was named the Southeastern Conference Baseball Pitcher of the Year.[14]