Tennessee baseball star Levi Clark announces plans for 2027 season
Published:
Tennessee found out on Sunday that it will be getting one of its best players back for the 2027 season.
Levi Clark announced on his Instagram that he’ll be returning to Knoxville next year to play his junior season with the Volunteers. While spending time at catcher and first base for the past 2 seasons, Clark hit a combined .261, belted 23 home runs and had 78 RBIs for Tennessee.
After originally signing with the Volunteers as the No. 36 overall recruit in the Class of 2024, the Marietta, Ga., product immediately showed why he was so highly sought after coming out of high school. The 6-foot-1 Clark hit .289 with 10 homers and 34 RBIs as a freshman during the 2025 season, which he spent primarily as Tennessee’s designated hitter.
Things didn’t materialize for Clark as quickly this past season as a sophomore, with Clark hitting just .135 going into conference play. But once things got going in the SEC, Clark got going, too, and he ended up hitting .292 in 27 SEC games. Clark was one of the highest-ranked Tennessee hitters in every major offensive category during conference play.
Clark finished with 9 homers and 27 RBIs in SEC play, helping Tennessee tread water in conference play with a 15-15 record in Josh Elander’s first season as head coach.
Things didn’t go smoothly in the postseason though for Clark and the Vols, who finished the 2026 season at 38-22 after being eliminated in the Chapel Hill Regional.
But after helping Tennessee reach the postseason for the seventh straight year, Clark has decided to give it another go-around in Knoxville in 2027. Clark joins Trent Grindlinger and Stone Lawless among offensive players who have confirmed their return to Tennessee for next season.
Clark helped get Tennessee to regionals before the Volunteers’ national title dreams were vanquished. But there are plenty of teams who still have those national championship dreams, and here is what the Kalshi market is currently saying about the odds for those elite teams to be holding the big trophy in Omaha:
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
