Junior pitcher Andrew Behnke has found a home in the transfer portal. Behnke committed to Georgia baseball Monday evening, just under two weeks after he officially entered the transfer portal.
Behnke spent three seasons at Tennessee, posting a 5-1 record and 3.52 ERA in 46 innings pitched in his career. The left-handed pitcher was a fringe bullpen arm during the Vols’ run to the 2024 national championship.
The Nashville native posted a 3-1 record and 3.54 ERA in 28 innings pitched. Behnke pitched four times in the NCAA Tournament and twice in the College World Series, combining to record six outs while allowing two earned runs. The expectation was for Behnke to step into a bigger role in his junior season but it didn’t come to fruition.
Behnke posted a 5.11 ERA in 12.1 innings pitched during the 2025 season. He recorded just six outs during SEC play in his junior season and his role at Tennessee looked uncertain entering his senior season.
The Nashville native joins a Georgia program that’s been solid in the first two seasons of the Wes Johnson era. Georgia lost in a home super regional in 2024 and entered 2025 ranked in the top five nationally. After a strong regular season, Georgia failed to make it to the Athens Regional final.
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Behnke is one of 20 Tennessee pitchers and 26 total Tennessee players to enter the transfer portal this month as the Vols go through an overhaul on the mound in part due to the coming roster limits under the House Settlement. Behnke is one of four pitchers to land at power four schools with Ryler Smart headed to LSU, Michael Sharman headed to Clemson and Bryson Thacker headed to West Virginia.
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 nine players in the transfer portal to this point with six of them being POs (pitcher only) while two more are two-ways. The list of portal additions include Rutgers RHP Landon Mack, Rice two-way Blaine Brown, Virginia outfielder 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, MIT’s RHP Mason Estrada and Bowling Green utility man Garrett Wright and Bowling Green two-way star DJ Newman.
