Inside The Recruitments Of The Transfer Class That Propelled Tennessee Baseball Back To Omaha
There were valuable tips from summer ball coaches and twelve-hour drives through the night. Heavy-hitting recruiting battles and impressive evaluations. Tennessee baseball landed commitments from seven players in the transfer portal last summer with six of them making it to campus. The three hitters have combined for 33 home runs and 113 starts while the […]
Tennessee Baseball Promotes Volunteer Assistant To Third Paid Assistant Coach
It’s a new day in college baseball with the NCAA approving a third paid assistant coach position ahead of the 2024 season. Tennessee head coach Tony Vitello is staying in house to fill the position, promoting volunteer assistant coach Richard Jackson to fill the role. Jackson has served as Tennessee’s volunteer assistant coach since the […]
AJ Russell’s Path From Unheralded Recruit To Reliable Freshman For Tennessee Baseball
At 6-foot-6, 200 pounds, Tennessee freshman AJ Russell looks like he was born to pitch a baseball. Watching Russell on the mound this spring it’s easy to think Tony Vitello and the Vols beat out half the SEC for the former Franklin High School standout. However, Russell was anything but a high end recruit coming […]
Friendship, Loss And Dutch Breathing Practices: Will Mabrey’s Rise To One Of The SEC’s Best Relievers
Tennessee pitcher Will Mabrey received a Snapchat last June as the Vols marched towards their first College World Series appearance since 2005. It was then-Tennessee Smokies pitcher Ethan Roberts providing a suggestion on a new grip for Mabrey to try as the sophomore pitcher continued tinkering with a cutter/slider to add to his repertoire. That […]
Tennessee Strength Coach Leaving For MLB Job
Tennessee baseball strength and conditioning coach Quentin Eberhardt is leaving UT to become the head major league strength and conditioning coach for the Chicago Cubs, Knoxville News Sentinel’s Mike Wilson first reported and Eberhardt confirmed with RTI Wednesday. New head coach Tony Vitello tabbed Eberhardt as his strength and conditioning coach in October of 2017. […]
Walsh Talks Vols’ Historic 2021 Season
Tennessee reliever Redmond Walsh remembers the days when you could count the number of fans in Lindsey Nelson Stadium on gameday in seconds. Those games were plentiful when the lifelong Vol fan was growing up and in his first two seasons as a Tennessee pitcher. That perspective made Tennessee’s magical 2021 season, one that saw […]
Tony Vitello Names New Volunteer Assistant Coach
Tony Vitello didn’t waste any time on naming the new Volunteer assistant baseball coach. On Saturday, it was announced that Vitello has promoted former Tennessee pitcher Richard Jackson to the role, as he will take over for Ross Kivett. “The secret sauce, if any, to our program is that we have some of the best […]
Vols Give Gutsy Effort, but Season Ends in Regional Final
The Vols fought back from an early deficit, but they couldn’t overcome one-seed North Carolina, and UT’s season comes to an end.
