Professional career
The Colorado Rockies drafted Doyle in the fourth round,with the 129th overall selection of the 2019 Major League Baseball draft. [7] He received a $500,000 signing bonus. [8] Doyle was assigned to the Grand Junction Rockies of the Pioneer League,where he led the league with a .383 batting average with 8 home runs,33 RBI,and 17 stolen bases. [9] [10] He did not play in a game in 2020 due to the cancellation of the minor league season because of the COVID-19 pandemic and spent most of the year training in Manassas,Virginia at a baseball complex alongside local college players until taking part in the Rockies' fall instructional league. [11]
Doyle was named the best overall athlete in the Rockies' minor league system going into the 2021 season by MLB.com. [12] He was assigned to the Spokane Indians of the High-A West League for 2021,where he batted .279 with 16 home runs,47 RBIs,and 21 stolen bases in 97 games played and awarded a Minor League Rawlings Gold Glove Award. [3]
Doyle played most of the 2022 season for the Double-A Hartford Yard Goats,appearing in nine games for the Triple-A Albuquerque Isotopes in September. In 132 games,he hit a combined .256/.300/.473 with 26 home runs,77 RBI,and 23 stolen bases. [13] On November 15,2022,the Rockies added Doyle to their 40-man roster to protect him from the Rule 5 draft. [14]
Doyle was optioned to Triple-A Albuquerque to begin the 2023 season. [15] On April 24,Doyle was promoted to the major leagues for the first time. He had hit .306/.404/.633 with 5 home runs and 8 RBIs in 12 Triple-A games prior to his promotion. [16] Doyle made his major league debut later that day,starting in center field and going hitless in three at-bats with one walk and one run scored. [17]
On September 2,Doyle made a throw from center field with a speed of 105.7 mph,the fastest throw by a position player since at least 2015,according to Statcast. [18] Doyle ended his rookie season hitting .203 with 10 home runs and 22 stolen bases in 126 games while winning a Gold Glove Award in center field.
In 2024,Doyle won his second consecutive Gold Glove. [19] He had an 11.4 ultimate zone rating (UZR),the highest among all MLB center fielders and second-best among all MLB players. Doyle was worth 16 Outs Above Average (OAA) and had 14 Defensive Runs Saved. In addition,he won the Fielding Bible Award for center field. He became the first Rockies player to win back-to-back Gold Glove Awards since Nolan Arenado did so in 2019 and 2020. [20]
For the season,Doyle hit .260/.317/.446 with 23 home runs and 30 stolen bases in 149 games. [19] He was named the National League Player of the Month for July,after batting .333 with 19 extra base hits. [21]
In 2025,Doyle batted .235/.284/.394 in 138 games,with most of him offensive numbers declining from the previous year. [19]
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