{"id":796169,"date":"2026-07-12T20:46:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T20:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/796169\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T20:46:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T20:46:26","slug":"sean-dunlap-will-play-for-tennessee-baseball-turn-down-mlb-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/796169\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Dunlap will play for Tennessee baseball, turn down MLB Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/milb\/prospects\/draft\/sean-dunlap-828985\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Dunlap<\/a> will play for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/tennessee-volunteers\/category\/baseball\/news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tennessee baseball<\/a>, he told Volquest on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>Dunlap was ranked as the No. 49 prospect in the draft by ESPN and the No. 124 draft prospect by MLB.com.<\/p>\n<p>Dunlap, the top-ranked high school prospect from Indiana according to Perfect Game, was the lone catcher in UT\u2019s signing class. Perfect Game tabbed Dunlap as the No. 2 high school catcher and No. 38 recruit nationally.<\/p>\n<p>Top-ranked high school catcher Will Brick was drafted in the fourth round by the Toronto Blue Jays, paving the way for Dunlap to be the top-ranked freshman catcher in the nation next season.<\/p>\n<p>Dunlap making it through the draft and coming to campus makes it three straight seasons in which the Vols had a major win with a catcher in the draft. Levi Clark got to UT from the 2024 class and Trent Grindlinger did likewise in the 2025 class. <\/p>\n<p>The Vols went 38-22 in coach\u00a0Josh Elander\u2018s first season. They went 15-15 in SEC play with notable series wins against top-10 opponents in Mississippi State and Texas. They were the only program in the nation to go unbeaten in midweek games with a 14-0 record. UT\u2019s season ended in the Chapel Hill Regional after it reached the postseason for the seventh straight season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sean Dunlap will play for Tennessee baseball, he told Volquest on Sunday. Dunlap was ranked as the No.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,1808,85],"class_list":["post-796169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-regwall","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}