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Tyler Bell
American baseball player (born 2005) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Tyler Jacob Bell (born June 30, 2005) is an American college baseball shortstop for the Kentucky Wildcats.
Career
Bell attended Lincoln-Way East High School in Frankfort, Illinois, where he played on the school's baseball team.[1] As a senior in 2024, he hit .391 with 25 RBI and 30 stolen bases.[2] Bell was selected by the Tampa Bay Rays with the 66th overall pick of the 2024 Major League Baseball draft.[3] He declined to sign with the team, and instead enrolled at the University of Kentucky to play college baseball for the Kentucky Wildcats.[4]
As a freshman at Kentucky in 2025, Bell was named the team's starting shortstop.[5] He played in 56 games and hit .296 with ten home runs, 46 RBI, and 11 stolen bases, earning a spot on the Southeastern Conference All-Freshman Team.[6] After the season, he briefly played collegiate summer baseball in the Cape Cod Baseball League with the Harwich Mariners.[7] He was also named to the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team, the first Wildcat to be selected since Zack Thompson in 2018.[8]
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