
Three more Tennessee baseball reserves entered the transfer portal Tuesday. Freshmen Dane Morrow, Brooks Wright and Ben Martin all hopped in the portal after not playing in their freshman seasons at Tennessee.
Morrow is an infielder and Wright is a catcher and Knoxville native who played his prep baseball at Bearden. Martin is a right-handed hitter. Both Morrow and Wright had moments during fall practice before redshirting their freshman seasons in Knoxville.
Twenty-four Tennessee players have now entered the transfer portal in the last month including 18 pitchers. The numbers are vast in part because of the upcoming roster limits due to the passing of the House Settlement.
Only one of the six position players to enter the portal played for Tennessee last season and senior Colby Backus totaled just 16 at-bats. On the mound, eight of the 18 pitchers didn’t pitch in a game for Tennessee this past season. Rising junior left hander Dylan Loy was a serious loss for the Vols, throwing 20.1 innings in SEC play last season. The 17 other transfer pitchers combined to throw 7.1 innings in conference play.
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RHP Austin Breedlove and LHP Andrew Behnke are Tennessee’s only transfer pitchers to total more than an inning pitched in SEC play besides Loy.
Tennessee has landed seven players in the transfer portal to this point in Virginia’s Henry Ford, Big South Pitcher of the Year Clay Edmondson (UNC Asheville), SoCon Pitcher of the Year Brady Frederick (ETSU), Kennesaw State’s RHP Bo Rhudy and MIT’s RHP Mason Estrada and Bowling Green utility man Garrett Wright and Bowling Green two-way star DJ Newman.
The Vols will still have to survive the MLB Draft to get Ford, Edmondson, Estrada and Newman to campus. Ford and Edmondson are particularly strong draft risks.
The complete list of Tennessee players to enter the transfer portal this offseason include Martin, Morrow, Wright, RHP Austin Breedlove, LHP Andrew Behnke, RHP Beau Revord, LHP Michael Sharman, RHP Andrew DuMont, RHP Tanner Wiggins, LHP Brayden May, LHP Luke Payne, LHP Dane Bjorn, RHP Stratton Scott, RHP JJ Garcia, LHP Dylan Loy, RHP Bryson Thacker, infielder Robinson Martin, RHP Austin Hunley, OF Colby Backus, LHP Brayden Sharp, RHP Thomas Crabtree, RHP Ryler Smart, infielder Alex Perry and 1B Jack Jones.