Taylor Baseball Leaps Five Spots to No. 13 in Latest Poll
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – In the midst of a 16-game winning streak – the second longest active streak in the NAIA – the Taylor baseball team (21-4, 12-0 CL) leapt five spots to No. 13 in the second 2025 Baseball Coaches' Top 25 poll of the season. The rating is the highest the program has ever held from an in-season poll.
TU remains the lone Crossroads League team in the Top 25, and it has built a four-game cushion in the league standings over Indiana Wesleyan and Saint Francis.
The Trojans received 338 points in the latest poll, or two points back of a pair of teams tied at No. 11, Loyola and Oklahoma Wesleyan. The top-25 appearance also marks the 11th straight top-25 rating in the poll for the program.
Blazing-hot bats from the NAIA Player of the Week, Sam Gladd, and the likes of Kaleb Kolpien, Mason David, Ben Kennedy and Luke Sutter have positioned the Taylor lineup as the NAIA's 11th-best in slugging percentage (.585) and 10th-most powerful with 46 home runs.
The pitching, too, for Taylor has been elite, ranking 14th in the nation with a 4.18 ERA while limiting baserunners with the sixth-best WHIP of 1.21 behind the eighth-best strikeout rate of 10.69 Ks per nine innings.
No. 13 Taylor looks to continue its winning ways when it hosts Mount Vernon Nazarene (19-7, 7-5 CL) for a series beginning Friday at 3 p.m. at Winterholter Field.