MINNEAPOLIS — Former University of Tennessee baseball player Alerick Soularie has signed with the Minnesota Twins.
Soularie, an outfielder for the Volunteers, was a preseason All-American and preseason All-Southeastern Conference selection in 2020.
He was Minnesota’s second-round pick in the recent 2020 Major League Baseball draft. The Twins drafted him with the 59th overall pick.
Soularie received a $900,000 signing bonus when he joined the Twins organization late last month. The bonus was below his slotted value of $1.19 million.
During his playing career with the Diamond Vols, Soularie batted .336 over two seasons.
He came to Knoxville after playing his freshman season in the community college ranks for San Jacinto in Texas.
He helped the Big Orange make its first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2005 as a sophomore in 2019.
The Vols, who were 15-2 when the coronavirus pandemic brought a premature end to the 2020 campaign, went 40-21 in 2019.