Baseball Almanac is pleased to present a comprehensive chart of every Vanderbilt University alumni who played baseball at Vanderbilt University AND made it to the Major League level.
"I know (Joey) Cora looks small, but I saw him with his shirt off in the locker room and he has a great body, very toned and athletic." - Ron Fairly
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# | MLB Player Name | Dates Played | Debut | Box |
1. | Charlie Moran (UT) | 1898 - 1903 | 09-09-1903 |
2. | Vin Campbell | 1906 - 1908 | 06-06-1908 |
3. | Wilson Collins | 1909 - 1912 | 05-12-1913 |
4. | Doc Cook | 1905 - 1913 | 08-07-1913 |
5. | Scrappy Moore (GT) | 1911 - 1912 | 06-21-1917 |
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6. | Harvey Hendrick | 1917 - 1922 | 04-20-1923 |
7. | Slim Embry | 1920 - 1923 | 10-01-1923 |
8. | Andy Reese | 1924 - 1925 | 04-15-1927 |
9. | Mal Moss | 1924 - 1929 | 04-29-1930 |
10. | Rip Sewell | 1930 - 1931 | 06-14-1932 |
11. | Mike Willis | 1970 - 1972 | 04-13-1977 |
12. | Scott Sanderson | 1976 - 1977 | 08-06-1978 |
13. | Scotti Madison | 1977 - 1980 | 07-06-1985 |
14. | Joey Cora | 1983 - 1985 | 04-06-1987 |
15. | Josh Paul | 1994 - 1996 | 09-07-1999 |
16. | Mark Prior | 1999 - 1999 | 05-22-2002 |
17. | Matt Kata | 1997 - 1999 | 06-15-2003 |
18. | Jeremy Sowers | 2002 - 2004 | 06-25-2006 |
19. | Jensen Lewis | 2003 - 2005 | 07-16-2007 |
20. | David Price | 2005 - 2007 | 09-14-2008 |
21. | Pedro Alvarez | 2006 - 2008 | 06-16-2010 |
22. | Mike Minor | 2007 - 2009 | 08-09-2010 |
23. | Mike Baxter (Columbia) | 2004 - 2005 | 09-06-2010 |
24. | Antoan Richardson | 2004 - 2005 | 09-04-2011 |
25. | Ryan Flaherty | 2006 - 2008 | 04-07-2012 |
26. | Sonny Gray | 2009 - 2011 | 07-10-2013 |
27. | Josh Zeid (Tulane) | 2006 - 2007 | 07-30-2013 |
28. | Nick Christiani | 2006 - 2009 | 08-23-2013 |
29. | Taylor Hill | 2008 - 2011 | 06-25-2014 |
30. | Curt Casali | 2008 - 2011 | 07-18-2014 |
31. | Drew VerHagen (Navarro) | 2011 - 2012 | 07-19-2014 |
32. | Caleb Cotham | 2007 - 2009 | 07-29-2015 |
33. | Matt Buschmann | 2003 - 2005 | 04-10-2016 |
34. | Drew Hayes | 2008 - 2010 | 04-21-2016 |
35. | Tony Kemp | 2011 - 2013 | 05-17-2016 |
36. | Carson Fulmer | 2013 - 2015 | 07-17-2016 |
37. | Dansby Swanson | 2013 - 2015 | 08-17-2016 |
38. | Walker Buehler | 2013 - 2015 | 09-07-2017 |
39. | Tyler Beede | 2012 - 2014 | 04-10-2018 |
40. | Kyle Wright | 2015 - 2017 | 09-04-2018 |
41. | Bryan Reynolds | 2014 - 2016 | 04-20-2019 |
42. | Mike Yastrzemski | 2010 - 2013 | 05-25-2019 |
43. | Sam Selman | 2010 - 2012 | 08-01-2019 |
44. | Ben Bowden | 2014 - 2016 | 04-02-2021 |
45. | Jordan Sheffield | 2015 - 2016 | 04-02-2021 |
46. | Collin Snider | 2015 - 2017 | 04-09-2022 |
47. | Penn Murfee (Santa Clara) | 2015 - 2017 | 04-29-2022 |
48. | Jason Delay | 2014 - 2017 | 06-14-2022 |
49. | JJ Bleday | 2017 - 2019 | 07-23-2022 |
50. | Connor Kaiser | 2016 - 2018 | 06-19-2022 |
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The Vanderbilt University baseball program started in 1886. Charlie Moran was the first former Commodore player to make it to the Major League level.
The Vanderbilt Commodores play baseball in Charles Hawkins Field in Nashville Tennessee and in their one-hundred five season history they have been in three NCAA Tournaments, accumalated a three-six (3-6) overall record and in 1980, won their first ever Conference Tournament Title.
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