Tennessee left-handed transfer pitcher Michael Sharman has found a new baseball home. Sharman committed to Clemson baseball Saturday less than a week after entering the transfer portal.
Sharman spent one season at Tennessee after transferring in from Georgia Highlands Junior College. The tall lefty posted a 3-1 record, 3.18 ERA and 1.19 WHIP in 22.2 innings pitched. Sharman added 25 strikeouts while walking 10 batters.
While Sharman had good overall numbers, he received few opportunities in SEC play. He made just three appearances in SEC play, allowing two earned runs on one hit and two walks while recording just one out. Sharman’s biggest opportunity came in game three against LSU, entering with a runner on third with two-outs in the second inning. Things went sideways in that outing with Sharman allowing one hit and one walk.
Things went poorly for Sharman in SEC play last season but he’s still a talented left-handed pitcher with potential. He joins a Clemson program that has been one of the ACC’s best in recent seasons.
Sharman is one of 20 Tennessee pitchers and 26 total Tennessee players to enter the transfer portal this month. The numbers are so vast in part because of the upcoming roster limits due to the passing of the House Settlement.
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Eight of the 20 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 19 other transfer pitchers combined to throw 7.1 innings in conference play.
The Vols project to return just four pitchers from their 2024 team in RHP Tegan Kuhns, RHP Brayden Krenzel, RHP Anson Seibert and RHP Nic Abraham. Kuhns and Krenzel each had key roles as freshmen in 2025 while Abraham pitched just 4.1 innings. Seibert was the highest rated pitcher in Tennessee’s 2024 recruiting class but missed the entirety of the season after undergoing Tommy John surgery last summer.
Tennessee has landed eight players in the transfer portal to this point in Rice’s Blaine Brown, 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.
