A trio of Tennessee baseball reserves entered the transfer portal Wednesday afternoon ahead of the Vols trip to Arkansas for the Fayetteville Super Regional. Redshirt freshman pitcher Bryson Thacker, freshman infielder Robinson Martin and first baseman Jack Jones entered the transfer portal.
Thacker made five appearances for Tennessee this season, allowing no earned runs on one hit and four walks while striking out seven batters in 4.1 innings pitched. All five of the left-handed pitcher’s appearances came in midweek games with the last one coming in the Vols’ loss against ETSU.
Jones never played for Tennessee in his lone season in Knoxville. The Praire Village, Kansas native dealt with an injury in the fall and never found his footing inside the Vols’ program. Martin is a Memphis native who got consistent work in the fall but redshirted and has not played at all during the regular season.
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None of the three player has been on Tennessee’s travel roster this season so them entering the transfer portal before the Vols’ weekend series at Arkansas is of little importance. The transfer portal officially opened on Monday and the two quickly entered afterwards.
The Vols are back in the super regionals for the fifth straight season. No other program has made it to more than three straight super regionals. Tennessee went 3-1 in the Knoxville Regional over the weekend, defeating Wake Forest in a decisive game seven to keep its season alive.
They now face an incredibly tall task this weekend when they face No. 3 overall seed Arkansas in a three-game series in Fayetteville. The Vols dropped two of three games in a mid May series at Arkansas earlier this season as Tennessee looks to flip the script.
