| Chase Dollander | |
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| Colorado Rockies | |
| Pitcher | |
| Born: October 26, 2001 Evans, Georgia, U.S. | |
Bats: Right Throws: Right | |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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Tyler Chase Dollander (born October 26, 2001) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Colorado Rockies organization. He previously played college baseball for the Tennessee Volunteers and Georgia Southern Eagles.
Tyler Chase Dollander was born on October 26, 2001, in Evans, Georgia.[1] He attended Greenbrier High School in Evans where he played baseball. In 2018, his sophomore season, he went 5–3 with a 2.36 ERA.[2] As a junior in 2019, he went 6–1 with a 0.79 ERA and 71 strikeouts over 61+2⁄3 innings.[3] He went unselected in the 2020 Major League Baseball draft, and enrolled at Georgia Southern University to play college baseball.[4]
As a freshman at Georgia Southern in 2021, Dollander made 11 starts in which he went 4–3 with a 4.04 ERA and 64 strikeouts over 49 innings.[5] After the season, he transferred to the University of Tennessee.[6][7] He spent the 2022 season in their starting rotation, although he missed three weeks during the season after being hit by a line drive.[8][9] Over 16 games (14 starts) for the season, he went 10–0 with a 2.39 ERA and 108 strikeouts over 79 innings.[10] He was named the Southeastern Conference Baseball Pitcher of the Year.[11][12][13] Dollander entered the 2023 season as a top prospect for upcoming MLB draft.[14][15] For the 2023 season, he started 17 games and went 7-6 with a 4.75 ERA and 120 strikeouts over 89 innings.[16]
Dollander was selected by the Colorado Rockies in the first round with the ninth overall pick in the 2023 Major League Baseball draft.[17] He signed with the Rockies on July 17, 2023 for $5,716,900.[18]
Dollander's brother, Hunter, was a pitcher at Georgia Gwinnett College and was last playing within the Chicago White Sox farm system in 2023.[1]