ETSU transfer pitcher and Knoxville native Brady Frederick is visiting Tennessee baseball on Tuesday afternoon, a source confirmed to RTI.
Frederick was not a starter for ETSU, making 24 relief appearances in his sophomore season. But that didn’t keep him from totaling 77.2 innings pitched, the most of any pitcher on the Bucs’ staff. Frederick posted an 8-2 record, 2.67 ERA and 0.89 WHIP.
A submarine pitcher with an extremely low arm slot, Frederick posted a 24.4% strikeout rate and a 6.1% walk rate in 2025. Opposing batters hit just .183 against Frederick.
Not only was Frederick ETSU’s top pitcher last season but he was the top pitcher in all the SoCon. Frederick earned SoCon Pitcher of the Year honors for his dominant showing as a reliever in his true sophomore year.
The All-SoCon team was riddled with Bucs after ETSU posted a 41-17 (14-7 SoCon) record. ETSU won the regular season championship and conference tournament before losing in the Nashville Regional.
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The Bucs handed Tennessee its only regular season non-conference loss of the season, knocking off the Vols 7-6 in 10 innings in Knoxville. Frederick was key in the upset win, allowing two earned runs while striking out four in 3.2 innings pitched.
A Knoxville native, Frederick played his high school baseball at Bearden where he graduated in 2023. Frederick entered the transfer portal with a “do not contact” tag on Monday, just over a week after ETSU’s season ended.
Tennessee baseball currently has three pitchers committed in the transfer portal including Big South Pitcher of the Year Clay Edmondson, Kennesaw State’s Bo Rhudy and MIT’s Mason Estrada.
Edmondson is also a submarine pitcher but with his mid-90s fastball is a real MLB Draft risk. The same is the case for Matt Barr. The nation’s top junior college transfer committed to the Vols late last month but ranks in the top 200 of the MLB Pipeline draft prospect rankings and could potentially never make it to campus.
