• Freshman All-America, First Team (D1Baseball, NCBWA; 2025)
• Freshman All-America, Second Team (Perfect Game, 2025)
• SEC All-Freshman Team (2025) 
• USA Baseball Collegiate National Team (2025)
• SEC Freshman of the Week, week 7, 3/31/25
• Midseason Freshman All-America, First Team (Perfect Game)
• Brooks Wallace Award Watch List (2025)
• No. 13 Freshman, 2025 (Baseball America, Perfect Game)
• No. 31 freshman on campus (Perfect Game, 2024)
• No. 16 freshman SEC prospect (Perfect Game, 2024)
• 2nd round draft pick, No. 66 overall (Tampa Bay Rays, 2024)

SUMMER 2025

Spent the first few weeks of his summer on the Cape tuning up for his month with the United States Collegiate National Team, the first Kentucky player to play for USA Baseball since Zack Thompson (2019)…Batted .316 in 19 at bats with Harwich in the Cape Cod League, smacking three of his six hits for extra bases…Drove in two, walked twice and stole two bases…Joined the USCNT on its international trip to Japan, delivering three hits and three RBI with five walks.

2025

Played in 56 games, reaching base safely in 54 of them, including his first 27 career games and another 24-game streak…Batted .296 in 226 AB with a team-best 51 runs and team-high 46 RBI…Led the team with 17 doubles, added two triples and 10 homers…Was 11-of-16 on steal attempts…Drew a combined 35 walks and HBP…Had a .907 OPS…First freshman since at least 2005 to have multiple four-hit games…Had 17 multi-hit games and 11 multi-RBI games…Had 14 two-out RBI…Had a career-long 11-game hit streak…Made just six errors in 214 chances…Was the only Wildcat to hit over .300 in SEC play (.318)…Hit his first home run on Feb. 22 at Belmont as part of a four-RBI day…Had four RBI on three occasions…On March 29 at Texas A&M he went 4-for-4 with 4 RBI, a double and a home run…Was a freshman All-American and Freshman All-SEC…Played for the Collegiate National Team after the season…Wrote his name all over the UK freshman record book: home runs (1^st), at bats (2^nd), runs (2^nd), total bases (2^nd), doubles (3^rd), HBP (3^rd), hits (4^th), slugging (4^th), stelas (4^th), games (5^th), triples (5^th) and walks (9^th).

HIGH SCHOOL
One of the nation’s most highly regarded prep players in the 2024 class…Prep Baseball ranked him the nation’s No. 13 overall recruit and the No. 2 player in Illinois…Perfect Game ranked him No. 59 overall, No. 2 in Illinois and the nation’s No. 15 shortstop…2023 WWBA World Championship…2023 Area Code Games and AC Games All-Tournament Team…2022 Midwest Top Prospect Games…2024 MLB Draft Combine…2023 PBR All-America Game…Perfect Game’s No. 31 freshman nationally to arrive on campus in the 2024 class…PG’s No. 16 freshman recruit in the SEC…Super 60 participant…2024 Perfect Game Preseason All-American…2022 and 2023 Preseason Perfect Game Underclass All-American…drafted No. 66 overall (2nd Round) in the 2024 MLB draft by the Tampa Bay Rays…Played for Eric Brauer at Lincoln-Way East, the same school that produced former UK Gold Glover shortstop Ryan Ritter…Also played hockey.

PERSONAL
Full name is Tyler Jacob Bell…Born in Bloomington, Illinois…Son of Shane and Sara…Has two sisters, Kailey and Alyssa…Dad also played college baseball…Major is Communications.