2025 Tennessee baseball preview: Alex Perry

Tennessee will open its 2025 baseball season on Feb. 14 versus Hofstra at Lindsey Nelson Stadium. The Vols will host Hofstra for a three-game nonconference series.

Tennessee will also compete in the 25th annual Astros Foundation College Classic at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas.

Tennessee, Texas A&M, Arizona, Mississippi State, Oklahoma State and Rice will make up the field. The Astros Foundation College Classic will be contested Feb. 28-March 2.

The Vols will play Oklahoma State on Feb. 28, while facing Rice on March 1 and Arizona on March 2.

Alex Perry enters his second season at Tennessee in 2025. The 6-foot-4, 206-pound senior infielder bats right-handed and throws right-handed.

Perry appeared in seven games for the Vols in 2024, including one start versus High Point.

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He recorded a .286 batting average, .286 slugging percentage, .500 on-base percentage, three RBIs, two runs, two hits, three walks, two strikeouts and one stolen base in seven at-bats.

Perry also totaled two pickoffs, five assists, zero errors and a 1.000 fielding percentage defensively.

He transferred to Tennessee from Pearl River Community College after the 2023 season. Perry committed to the Vols over Ole Miss and LSU.

He is from North Pike High School in Summit, Mississippi.

Tennessee enters the 2025 campaign after winning the College World Series, SEC Tournament and the SEC regular-season championship in 2024.

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Alex Perry. Photo by Dan Harralson, Vols Wire