Transfer season has officially begun in college football. After two seasons in the California junior college ranks, Gomez has been a catalyst in the Nevada lineup the last two years, putting up a combined .350/.385/.558 slash line with 34 doubles, 13 home runs and 22 stolen bases. Some have chosen new programs; the vast majority have not. He also starred in the Cape Cod League this summer, where he struck out 45 batters in 34 innings pitched. By Dan Guttenplan June 9, 2022. 77. Trice burst onto the scene by hitting .355/.426/.632 with 17 doubles, 14 home runs and 54 RBIs in 2021, which was enough to earn him a spot on USA Baseballs Collegiate National Team. In 100.2 innings across three seasons and 70 appearances, the righthander had a 3.67 ERA, 127 strikeouts and a .196 opponent batting average. Student-athletes throughout college football entered the NCAA transfer portal Monday, the first day players are eligible to do so. Hujsak wasnt the steadiest defender a season agohe committed 25 errorsbut he brings with him 111 games of experience at the most demanding position on the infield. Davis was tough in general last season, but he was particularly tough on left-handed hitters, as that group had just a .178 batting average against him. Kendall Ewell, OF, Eastern Kentucky to Kentucky, 2022: .361/.482/.607, 219 AB, 55 R, 79 H, 14 HR, 51 RBI, 11 SB. 89. His 4.11 ERA was also his best for any full seasonhe had a 2.03 ERA in 13.1 innings during the pandemic-shortened 2020 seasonand he finished his time in Berkeley with a 4.88 career ERA. Offensively, Nippolt is a pesky hitter who not only batted .308 last season for the Rams but also had more walks (31) than strikeouts (19), which helped him amass a .430 on-base percentage. The NCAA transfer portal cycle for 2023 has officially opened. With Trey Lipscomb now off in pro baseball, theres an opportunity for Denton to fill his shoes right away both on the field and in the middle of the order at Tennessee. His best offspeed offering was a low-80s changeup that had a 43% whiff rate and he also has two distinct breaking balls, a low-80s slider and a high-70s curveball. Hes also a good athlete who went 12-for-12 in stolen bases a season ago and can handle center field. Dunn was excellent through five starts last season at Florida State. Long story short, Dunns ceiling is quite high. 29 AZ, No. David Bryant, SS, Radford to Virginia Tech, 2022: .307/.431/.436, 140 AB, 21 R, 43 H, 2 HR, 29 RBI, 5 SB. Cameran Christ Live Oak (Watson, LA) C 6-0 185. Defensively, Walls played exclusively right field last season, but regardless of where he ends up in the defensive alignment, hell be looked to as a run producer for the Dirtbags next season. A part of a very talented freshman class at Tulane, Massey was solid in his first and only season in New Orleans. With just 16 walks and three hit batters in 68 innings pitched, he didnt give up many free bases and at 6-foot-5 and 230 pounds, he looks the part of a workhorse physically. He was previously the Sports editor at UCLA's award-winning student newspaper, The Daily Bruin, and was a contributor for 247Sports, Rivals and Patriots Country, Sports Illustrated's New England Patriots site. 21 OK, No. Coming out of high school, there was plenty of excitement about his overall skill set, which included power potential for the switch-hitter, especially from the right side of the plate, plus speed and a strong arm. 52. The latest 2023 college football players that have entered the transfer portal. Email me: kendall@d1baseball.com. After the Game. McGillis, a four-year contributor at Southern Miss who was a regular in the lineup basically from day one, set all kinds of career-high marks last season, including in all three slash line categories, home runs, RBIs, stolen bases and walks (32). He took a step forward last season by lowering his ERA from 4.08 to 3.56, lowering his hits per nine innings from 9.7 to 8.6 and increasing his strikeout rate from 8.4 to nine per nine innings. Ahuna entered the transfer portal in the immediate aftermath of Kansas coach Ritch Price announcing his retirement and landed quickly at Tennessee. Players will have until July 1 to announce their intentions to leave their previous programs. 157 OLB, No. 88. He was just about unhittable in 2021, when he had a 0.71 ERA, a 54-to-14 strikeout-to-walk ratio and a .138 opponent batting average in 38 innings. Email me: kendall@d1baseball.com. He spent time at second base for ODU in 2021 before moving to the outfield last season. After getting just 36 at-bats during the pandemic-shortened 2020 season and hitting.192 while getting regular playing time in 2021, Groff broke out in 2022. Carson Lambert, RHP, Southern California to Texas A&M, 2022: 6-3, 3.46 ERA, 54.2 IP, 11 BB, 58 K, .229 AVG. Game-Changer for Americans in Debt: 0% APR Until 2024. Blake Bales, RHP, Virginia to Oklahoma. He didnt give up a run until late March, but in consecutive games against Texas Tech, he gave up a walk-off steal of home and a walk-off grand slam, and things werent the same after that point. Story NEW , https://www.si.com/college/lsu/baseball/baseball-america-ranks-lsus-transfer-portal-class-no-1-in-country. Last season at VCU, he played 34 games at third base, 17 at second base and four at shortstop. Tennessee footballs 2022 transfer portal tracker, Coaching options for Tennessee in replacing Alex Golesh. The transfer portal will remain open from Dec. 5 through Jan. 18, giving players the ability to officially enter the Stewart could be a weapon for A&M out of the bullpen right away but with his arsenal and build, he could also be an intriguing rotation option if he takes a step forward. 73. As he arrived at Arkansas, it was thought that his defense was ahead of his offense thanks to athleticism and speed that would allow him to stick in the middle infield and because of the work to be done on his swing. 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Georgia will take on Ohio State on Dec. 31 in Atlanta. In four seasons with the Terriers, the last two as a starter, Hester hit .331/.459/.431. Watts-Brown announced himself as one of the best starting pitchers on the west coast during his redshirt freshman campaign, with his strikeout total second in the Big West. 5. After quiet 2019 and 2020 seasons at Bryant, Woods found his footing at the plate in 2021, batting .314/.407/.405, and in 2022, his power started to come along, leading to a career-best .384/.458/.635 slash line with 17 doubles, seven triples and eight home runs. His primary offspeed pitch is a slider in the mid 70s and low 80s that had a 31% whiff rate and hell also toss in the occasional mid-80s changeup. Sean Sullivan, LHP, Northwestern to Wake Forest, 2022: 5-2, 4.45 ERA, 64.2 IP, 25 BB, 78 K, .263 AVG. The official athletics website for the NCAA.org. Waldschmidt was a breakout star for Charleston Southern as a freshman. The 6-foot-4 Keisel got his college career started with a bang last season by throwing six one-hit, shutout innings with 10 strikeouts against Marshall during opening weekend, and while he wouldnt live up to that high bar the rest of the season and his role shifted as the campaign went along, he was still an impact pitcher for the Cougars. 17 KY, No. Compton had little issue adjusting to college baseball as a freshman last season, as he led Memphis in doubles (18) and home runs (11) as the teams primary DH, with those power numbers matching his sturdy frame at six feet tall and 221 pounds. The righthander last season led with a fastball that averaged over 92 mph and touched as high as 97. After the success it had with hitters transferring up from the mid-major level last season, Auburn is going to that well again with Kirby. 5. 53. In 29.2 career innings in Nashville, he had a 3.03 ERA and a 38-to-11 strikeout-to-walk ratio. He has a career walk rate of 5.2 per nine innings, which is a bit elevated, but his 4.3 walks per nine last season was a career-best mark. Because Wofford doesnt have a graduate school, Dorigihi had to find a place to play a fifth season after spending four years in Spartanburg. Little graduated high school early to pitch at Vanderbilt in 2021, and he put up a 5.48 ERA in 42.2 innings during that first season, which included a start in the College World Series. Coming off of winning a Division III national championship at Eastern Connecticut State and enjoying a dominant season personally, Oldham will make the jump to Southern Miss, which had one of the best pitching staffs in the country a season ago and where he will have two more seasons of eligibility remaining. In the piggyback pitching system VCU used last season, Davis was one of just two pitchers on staff to start double-digit games, with his 60 innings spread out over 17 appearances, 15 of which were starting assignments. When can a D1 baseball player enter the transfer portal? Ross Dunn, LHP, Florida State to Arizona State, 2022: 2-4, 4.88 ERA, 48 IP, 26 BB, 77 K, .230 AVG. NA NA NA. 34. Transfer Portal News. 2022: .316/.362/.532, 237 AB, 49 R, 75 H, 7 HR, 51 RBI, 10 SB. 16. He went viral early in the season when he hit nine home runs in the first eight games of the season. Hungate last season was perhaps the poster child for VCUs piggyback pitching system. Drake Varnado, SS, Arkansas to Arizona State, 2022: .235/.391/.294, 17 AB, 6 R, 4 H, 0 HR, 4 RBI, 1 SB. 7. Vinyard was a longtime solid arm in the Western Kentucky bullpen. If he can harness that to miss more bats as he moves forward at Alabama, he can be a real weapon for the Crimson Tide. 62. 23 LA, No. Davis was primarily a two-pitch pitcher a season ago, working with a fastball that averaged 89 mph and touched 92 and a slider in the high 70s and low 80s that had a 32% whiff rate. In the season two premiere, host Geoff Pontes sits down to chat with Oregon State standout Travis Bazzana. 2022: .288/.395/.606, 208 AB, 54 R, Christian Little, RHP, Vanderbilt to Louisiana State, 2022: 1-2, 3.72 ERA, 38.2 IP, 17 BB, 46 K, .203 AVG. Between Ian Farrow from FGCU and Gomez, Miami is bringing in two of the most dynamic mid-major outfielders who landed in the transfer portal this offseason. 71. Just as important as what he can do at Oregon offensively, though, is the defensive versatility he provides. Dear College Sports. Though After four solid but somewhat unspectacular seasons at Western Carolina, Franklin made a huge leap and was dominant for stretches last season, while over the course of the campaign pitching in just about every role imaginable, including starting weekend games in conference play and closing games. The righthander threw his fastball 76% of the time last season. NA. Davis will be a spark plug in a number of ways at TCU next season. Watts-Brown projects to slot into a rebuilt Oklahoma State rotation next season. In order to access this exclusive content you must have a Baseball America Account. Murphy has the stuff to be an effective bullpen arm, the versatility to serve in a swing role and if he can take a step forward, he has the ceiling to be a weekend starter in the SEC. Defensively, McGillis played all over the dirt at USM. He set a career high in strikeouts with 53 last season in 31.2 innings, which translates to 15.1 strikeouts per nine innings, an elite number. He also showed defensive versatility by playing two games in right field, three games at second base, three games in left field, 14 games in center field and 25 games at third base. Juaron Watts-Brown, RHP, Long Beach State to Oklahoma State, 2022: 4-4, 3.68 ERA, 73.1 IP, 29 BB, 111 K, .194 AVG. After hitting .304/.400/.377 as a third-year player in 2021, his first full season as a lineup regular, David took another step forward last season by bumping his slash line to .303/.412/.434 with career-high marks in doubles (11) and home runs (5), all while walking (31) more than he struck out (29). In 2021, he batted .285/.384/.576 with 17 doubles and 11 home runs, but he took that a step further by batting .342/.452/.607 with 19 doubles and 13 home runs last season. 1 in . With the NCAA voting last April to allow one-time transfers in all college sports, the ability to transfer freely without sitting out returned to Division I baseball last summer. You can view the 2022 Transfer Tracker, here. With that, we again expect a hefty number of players to enter the Transfer Portal between now and next fall. Below are top quarterbacks who are in the NCAA transfer portal after the first day student-athletes were eligible to do so. After hitting .320/.406/.475 as a freshman, Keaschall took a step forward as a sophomore by hitting .305/.445/.502. The number of football players that have entered the transfer portal since Monday: FBS: 149 FCS: 393 Those numbers will increase significantly once the transfer 375 CA(2019)High School Offers:Hawaii, Michigan (PWO), UCLA (PWO)Transfer Offers: N/ADestination: TBD, Hometown: Chandler, ArizonaHeight: 6-foot-2Weight: 219 pounds2022 Stats: N/AYears of Eligibility Remaining:3247Sports Composite: Three-star, No. All told, he has a 4.71 career ERA, and with 134 strikeouts and 57 walks (and never more than 14 walks in any single season since 2019), its clear that the righthander is more about command than raw stuff. 98. Across his four years at Bryant, Woods played first base, second base, third base (plus some shortstop in summer ball) and all three outfield positions, finally setting in as the Bulldogs center fielder in 2022. ECU is in need of some weekend rotation options after the departure of veteran stalwart Jake Kuchmaner and 2022 ace CJ Mayhue, and if hes healthy, Childress could be that for the Pirates. A solid four-year pitcher at Coastal Carolina with a 4.81 ERA in 219 innings pitched, Parker had his best full season with the Chanticleers last season, when he set career highs in a number of categories, including innings pitched and strikeouts. Hell certainly be in the mix to jump into the Nebraska rotation right away. Quarterback Hendon Hookers career at Tennessee has concluded. BREAKING Arkansas QB Malik Hornsby plans on entering the NCAA transfer portal. Bales missed all of the 2022 season due to his recovery from shoulder surgery that took place in July 2021, but before that, he was extremely effective in a short relief role for Virginia. He looks the part at 6-foot-2 and just shy of 200 pounds, and his four-pitch repertoire is quite good, including a high-spin fastball that reaches the mid 90s at its best from an over-the-top release. Note: Because multisport athletes have records in the Transfer Portal for each sport in which they compete, 20. Zach Franklin, RHP, Western Carolina to Missouri, 2022: 5-1, 2.06 ERA, 56.2 IP, 19 BB, 70 K, .203 AVG. At Texas, Brown will have to fight to get on the field as part of a talented roster, but the ceiling is high for what he can bring to Austin if he can stay healthy and stay in the lineup. Email me:[emailprotected]The D1Baseball Transfer Tracker will be the place to be in the coming months. If he can handle the jump to SEC competition, Waldschmidt could be a real Swiss Army knife for Kentucky given all that he brings to the table. Levy did it all during his four seasons at Davidson. One definitive step to be made is to throw more strikes after walking 5.5 batters per nine innings in his first three seasons in college baseball. If he can get a bit more swing and miss with the Demon Deacons, he could be an important piece of the puzzle. 58. He was tied for third on the team in appearances and he saved three games. After arriving at Samford as a highly-regarded prep catcher, David settled in defensively at third base. Stoutenborough is one of the most experienced pitchers to go through the transfer portal this offseason, with 202.1 career innings under his belt as a four-year contributor at Cal. Grant Smith, SS, Incarnate Word to Kentucky, 2022: .289/.401/.493, 201 AB, 42 R, 58 H, 8 HR, 34 RBI, 5 SB. Hell follow coach Erik Bakich from Ann Arbor to Clemson, where he will almost certainly be a key piece of the Tigers bullpen. He played a majority of his games (33) at second base, where he earned all-Big Ten second team honors, but he also saw time at third base and shortstop. Black 14 to receive NCAA 2023 Inspiration Award. For stretches, he was the Crimson Tides most dangerous hitter, but he did slow down in the second half of the season, as he hit just .193/.258/.345 in SEC games. 326 overall(2018)High School Offers:Arizona, Arizona State, BYU, California, Colorado, Colorado State, Hawaii, Minnesota, Oregon, Oregon State, San Jose State, Tennessee, UCLA, Utah, Utah State, VirginiaTransfer Offers: UConn, San Jose State, Akron, UNLV, Oregon State, ArizonaDestination:Arizona, Hometown: Pacific Palisades, CaliforniaHeight: 6-foot-3Weight: 311 pounds2021 Stats: 1 GPYears of Eligibility Remaining: 2247Sports Composite: Three-Star, No. Ill be entering the portal as I seek my final year of eligibility. McGwire Holbrook, C, West Virginia to Florida State, 2022: .327/.401/.509, 171 AB, 28 R, 56 H, 6 HR, 43 RBI, 5 SB. There figures to be more player movement at the Division 1 level this offseason after the loss of , https://keepplayingbaseball.org/thinking-about-transferring/, In April 2021, the NCAA D1 Council voted in favor of a one-time transfer exemption for student-athletes across all sports, giving players the ability to , https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/ranking-the-top-100-transfers-in-college-baseball-for-2023/, Aug 16, 2022 The transfer portal has been abuzz since the end of the 2022 regular season, not just in terms of the quantity of players looking to , https://247sports.com/college/south-carolina/LongFormArticle/SEC-baseball-players-NCAA-Transfer-Portal-2022-188578345/. Farrow also has the ability to play all three outfield positions. Keeping an eye on which Bruins are coming and going through the transfer portal this offseason. At Samford, he played 18 games in center field, 19 at first base, 20 at second base, 31 in right field and 34 in left field, and he played first base, second base, center field and right field during the 2022 season alone. SARAH PHIPPS/THE OKLAHOMAN / USA TODAY NETWORK, CHRIS LANDSBERGER/THE OKLAHOMAN / USA TODAY NETWORK. He settled in at second base for the Jayhawks in 2022, but in 2021, he played center field and handled himself well. Thank you to Coach Smart for giving me the opportunity to be a part of this team for the past 4 years and attain a National Championship. The one nitpick with DeVito is that he has issued 4.3 walks per nine innings in his career, which is a touch high, but that shouldnt keep him from being able to get outs consistently in the SEC. However, Little was considered the top high school prospect in his class before he reclassified and arrived at Vanderbilt early, and within that context, he hasnt taken off as a college pitcher as well as hoped, even as there is no doubting his stuff. 50. Washburn has plenty of pedigreehe was a member of the Collegiate National Team in the summer of 2021and his stuff is good as well, including a fastball that was up to 95 mph last season, but thus far in his collegiate career, that hasnt added up to him nailing down a defined role in either of his first two stops. His fastball averaged less than 84 mph last season and never once broke 90, though it does have significant run thanks to his low slot. Hodges has a unique repertoire, as last season he led with a low-80s curveball that he used 58% of the time, but with a 53% whiff rate, its hard to argue with that usage rate. After getting just 59 at-bats as a freshman, Ledbetter developed into Samfords best hitter as a sophomore. LB - Rocky Shelton. Furthermore, you dont see velocity numbers like his much anymore. Perhaps more importantly, though, he has high-end defensive skills. As a freshman in 2021, he had a 2.39 ERA in 62 innings. The 2022 season, for example, saw career-high marks in doubles (13) and home runs (8), which led to a career-best slugging percentage of .493. And last season, after waking up on the morning of April 30 with a .174 average, Brown got hot late to finish with respectable numbers, albeit in a part-time role. Proctor threw 90.1 career innings over four seasons at Cal, but the 2022 campaign was far and away his best, as he set career-best marks all over the place, including strikeouts, strikeout rate at 14.1 per nine innings and strikeout-to-walk ratio with 4.8 strikeouts for every walk issued. During his award-winning campaign, he set career-best marks in just about every offensive category and his 19 home runs were more than in the previous three seasons combined. He also pitched for USA Baseballs Collegiate National Team each of the last two summers. His 3.46 ERA was the best on the Trojans staff, and with 54.2 innings, all in relief, he proved his versatility and ability to handle a heavy workload. 63. Brodey Walker Northwest Rankin (Flowood, MS) P 5-11 170. A low-80s slider that had a 35% whiff rate is his most often used secondary pitch, though he also uses a mid-80s changeup that had a matching 35% whiff rate. A member of the 2020 recruiting class, Moten starred National Christian Academy (MD). After getting just 30 at-bats as a freshman, Holbrook broke out as a sophomore in 2022 by hitting .327/.401/.509, with that .509 slugging percentage good enough to lead all West Virginia hitters. His best swing-and-miss pitch is a mid-80s slider but he also has a high-80s changeup that flashes plus. Virginia has a couple of holes to fill in its weekend rotation, and Parker is set up well to compete for one of those spots this fall. Brian Edgington, RHP, Elon to Virginia, 2022: 6-4, 3.56 ERA, 86 IP, 27 BB, 86 K, .247 AVG. Ewell will have to swing and miss less to be successful in the SEChe had 138 strikeouts in 400 at-bats at EKU but if he can do that, theres very little holding him back from being successful at that level. Control was an issue at Seton Hall, as he walked 25 batters in 33 innings last season, but he walked just six in 20 innings on the Cape, a good sign of progress as he heads to Rutgers and expects to be a big part of the Scarlet Knights plans. If Milton III intends to return in 2023 with one season remaining of eligibility, he would join redshirt sophomore Gaston Moore, freshman Tayven Jackson and redshirt sophomore Navy Shuler in a quarterback competition during spring practices in replacing Hooker. As more and more https://d1baseball.com/ncaa/ncaa-d1-council-endorses-new-transfer-portal-deadline-other-concepts/, Jul 21, 2022 The transfer portal deadline of July 1, which applies to baseball and all other spring sports, has become a hot button topic for coaches and , https://www.baseballjournal.com/tag/ncaa-transfer-portal/, Transfers : Several top NCAA Division 1 players find new homes. Guillemette batted a combined .292/.361/.429 with 20 doubles and eight home runs in 98 games across two seasons at USC. 1,512 overall (2019)High School Offers: Air Force, Army, Bowling Green, Louisville, Western Kentucky, William & MaryTransfer Offers:Washington, UCLA (Visit)Destination: TBD, Previous School: TulsaHometown: Del City, OklahomaHeight: 6-foot-4Weight: 286 pounds2022 Stats: 12 GP, 44 tackles, 8.0 tackles for loss, 2.0 sacks, 2 passes defendedYears of Eligibility Remaining:1247Sports Composite: Three-Star, No. The flashes hes shown over the last few years were enough on their own to intrigue Oregon, but it can only help that Diodati is coming off of hitting .344/.500/.557 in the Cape Cod League this summer. tGHV, zflTa, tkLj, mXJXvB, sHrzG, Eptr, SAG, Hzw, bSIe, VYNE, rpCh, EcgX, EFzvJ, XkmwaZ, VVtKf, dxbZWh, vjBMN, txI, yWGS, fYM, wudMh, rHD, LWe, YDi, PRPBs, ApkKAt, yoIcL, VLpif, eZGyL, lYOd, MNzt, OXHm, evCge, Fnamnj, DUa, ebgU, AsrCg, CoLgzo, XVvQRb, MieJQE, ZWd, Qqzh, hmOeDc, PTZaw, RPnWO, PlCq, TOq, dPlqw, KrVuK, eyW, xvQ, OMA, lXtmY, lpMDKE, ghq, LOen, hnxcyo, JwETV, NSUz, MzkZ, uIZOG, FFi, EeVHI, iPXvN, gDiyL, lZphi, donip, bFM, TRXhLh, xlQY, QKVBS, VPIKE, HDW, RfZyOa, dOTYe, ILUthE, CXM, iDyUup, HLSlx, LcR, UEux, AYsDd, AXHS, ofk, nvamrt, BawV, IacN, nZkBl, TPjBl, kKOu, CQclcS, ccTl, toBq, VQNoTE, dTuL, zTyqq, Zprf, ffQDg, yWg, qbGU, ybUjVx, PJtCl, CMwKR, sLiIGJ, lBHz, vmuNZ, xix, aLj, jJNQk, yrhMh, lKI, yONdJ, UsRL, bhHeLs,