Andrew Toles, son of former UT linebacker Alvin Toles, has committed to play baseball for Tennessee next year.
Toles is a left-handed-batting outfielder with good defensive skills from Sandy Creek High School in Tyrone, Ga.
The 5-foot-9, 180-pound Toles is also an aggressive base-runner who had 26 stolen bases as a junior, while hitting .450.
Andrew Toles plays summer ball for the East Cobb Braves. He projects to be drafted next summer. How high will depend on his senior year at Sandy Creek.
His father, Alvin Toles, was a hard-hitting linebacker at Tennessee from 1981-84. He played several years for the New Orleans Saints in the NFL.
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Comments » 9
ETNTigerFan writes:
My travel team used to play East Cobb Braves. Dang they were good.
gnm53108 writes:
Welcome Alvin.
Baseball...top story?
Please Coach Kiffin...call somebody something.Mr Slive is just asking for it.
gnm53108 writes:
My bad.
Welcome Andrew.
Volunatic writes:
I hope Andrew Toles actually does play for the Vols. Too often Raleigh gets "commitments" from guys who get drafted in the early rounds, and the MLB $$$ is too good to refuse.
mbible1utk#324980 writes:
Baseball could use some kind of rule where you have to either declare officially for the draft, or officially declare for college. Baseball has the hardest recruiting road to hoe. If they are "too good" you'll lose them to the draft, but if you don't take that chance, you'll have a team full of mediocre players. There needs to be a more cut and dry system.
mbible1utk#324980 writes:
to clarify... a rule where they must declare before their senior year whether they are going into the pro draft, or to college. That would benefit both the MLB and colleges... MLB players wouldn't have to worry about wasting a draft pick on a player that decides to go to college, and colleges don't have to waste a scholarship offer on a player who is going pro. The current system does not work.
PennVol writes:
Can he throw a football to someone wearing orange?
Intheknow30 writes:
It would benefit everyone except the players who would lose all leverage in a sport where even great players spend sometimes years climbing through the minor leagues.
Thats part of recruiting. You have to understand who is going where in the draft, how likely they are going to get what they want and how much they want to go to school. UNC has typically 2 or 3 of the top 30 guys in the draft every year. They know that the players are probably going pro. If all their signees came on campus they would have all kinds of problems based on the new rules on how teams can spend scholarship money.
baseballguy writes:
You idea is a very bad idea and would never work. Most players would like to sign if they could get a boat load of money. But the player will have no idea until the draft in what round he will be picked in if at all. If a high school player is not drafted in the first 2 rounds then he probably should go to college and try and be a higher pick in 3 years.
What would make the process better is that MLB should move the signing deadline to June 30 from August 15. That way the college would have more time to recruit if they have a player who does sign. Trying to find a replacement for a player who signs the week school start their fall term make it very difficult for any school.
GO VOLS
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