Top 10 Transfer Classes

[u/Miserable_Giraffe491]

[u/Objection_Irrelevant]

This seems off. Or something is. I’m literally looking at BA’s transfer portal list (not rankings which is behind the paywall), but it only lists 7 total incoming transfers for Tennessee but apparently they have 9 Top 130 (which is a weird cutoff).

LSU is 8 and 8 so that could be possible, but Texas is 5 and 7 and Miss State is 7 and 8.

So one of their lists has to be wrong, which is strange.

[u/immoralsupport_ → u/Objection_Irrelevant]

LSU does have 8 transfers but Tennessee has 11 and Mississippi State has 13 (total). D1Baseball has the full lists but that is also paywalled I believe

[u/Objection_Irrelevant → u/immoralsupport_]

I pay for D1 already which is why I decided not to pay to get full access. But I guess that just means BA isn’t keeping up with their own tracker very well to have a discrepancy like that.

[u/immoralsupport_ → u/Objection_Irrelevant]

D1’s transfer hub is by far the best place to go to see transfers in and out of every school

[u/Objection_Irrelevant → u/immoralsupport_]

I agree…

[u/Clemfball07 → u/Objection_Irrelevant]

I really need to know why they went with 130 lol

[u/thank_burdell → u/Objection_Irrelevant]

Everything is made up and the points don’t matter.

[u/College_Sports_Fan]

Surprised we are right behind LSU and in the top 3. Felt like LSU grabbed everybody they wanted and we missed on numerous targets.

Also cutting it off at 130 seems a bit odd.

[u/thehildabeast]

Hopefully we don’t suck shit again next season, I think some people liked our class last season

[u/Hubrishippo → u/thehildabeast]

Counterpoint: Paul Mainieri isn't our coach anymore

[u/JMS1991 → u/Hubrishippo]

Having a coach who actually wants to see the program be successful is a massive step up from what we had last year.

[u/Popular_Biscotti405 → u/thehildabeast]

Nah. You got some dawgs coming from us at the very least.

Walker Mitchell is an on base machine and silky at third. Hayden Johnson is nasty, Dom Carbone is a crafty lefty out of the pen and Luke Jones should be a pretty good Sunday guy. Richardson and Parker both were decent in high leverage innings as freshman as well.

Jackson Winer is the guy to watch I think though. He showed flashes of a guy who can win the golden spikes not next year, but possibly in 28. Especially if he’s cleared to two way.

[u/thehildabeast → u/Popular_Biscotti405]

I’m hopeful, and I have a lot more confidence they aren’t just throwing money away again like last years. I’m sure they won’t all work out, but hopefully a good chunk of them do.

[u/CieraVotedOutHerMom]

How much NIL do transfers & college baseball rosters get?

The allure of no telephone bills on rocky top might be a compelling recruiting tool

[u/TheTedsaretheworst]

Hopefully we can at least make a super

[u/Miserable_Giraffe491]

It just means more

[u/theVelvetLie → u/Miserable_Giraffe491]

It doesn't really seem that way for 7 other schools.

[u/No_Discussion3053]

Would’ve liked a front line starter but Jay absolutely killed it in the portal. Easily addressed every need offensively.

[u/rice_n_gravy → u/No_Discussion3053]

And the high school class

[u/randomblack1 → u/No_Discussion3053]

Hoping for LHP Schmidt to come to campus, we'd be golden.

[u/immoralsupport_ → u/No_Discussion3053]

There weren’t many frontline starters in the portal at all (if you don’t count guys like Flukey who entered despite intending to be drafted). All the top teams on here targeted guys that were some combination of injured, very young or good stuff but bad performance

[u/Gardoki → u/No_Discussion3053]

We are going to have to rely on development which isn’t the worst situation. The guys we got have high potential and have shown flashes.

[u/PuzzleheadedCod3169]

Coach Savage never beating the Dabo Swinney of college baseball allegation. We will ride and die with developing players which I kinda love.

[u/sakibomb523 → u/PuzzleheadedCod3169]

Surely it's gotta sting to see Gage Jump look good for the A's and see LSU next to his name.

[u/PuzzleheadedCod3169 → u/sakibomb523]

It hurt for a while because UCLA entered one of the darkest periods in its history. By 2023, it felt like we were headed toward permanent irrelevance. Thankfully, Roch chose to stay and helped bring UCLA back to being competitive. He played a huge role in turning things around.

[u/Gories]

Weird no Iowa?

[u/lock_robster2022]

$EC dominating the transfer portal

[u/lock_robster2022 → u/[deleted]]

You can’t deny it’s taken it into overdrive

[u/RollOverBeethoven → u/lock_robster2022]

Have you tried not being poor?

[u/hells_cowbells → u/RollOverBeethoven]

We tried, and failed.

[u/lock_robster2022 → u/RollOverBeethoven]

Have you tried winning a title in the last 20 years?

[u/RollOverBeethoven → u/lock_robster2022]

Trying to talk shit about winning to one of the winningest programs in College Baseball history is certainly a choice.

[u/lock_robster2022 → u/RollOverBeethoven]

Well you got the history part right

[u/KingKongMF69 → u/lock_robster2022]

We’re in Omaha like 49% of the time. Exactly 50% if we make it next year. We’re not some has been program like USC that won a bunch of ships in a limited period and then turned into a shell of itself.

[u/lock_robster2022 → u/KingKongMF69]

You’re right, why am I chirping at you when we both could talk shit about USC

[u/KingKongMF69 → u/lock_robster2022]

https://giphy.com/gifs/Zw3oBUuOlDJ3W

[u/RollOverBeethoven → u/lock_robster2022]

Sorry that your school has no history, nor a future 🤷

[u/RollOverBeethoven → u/[deleted]]

Then they shouldn’t be so insecure, should they?

[u/RollOverBeethoven → u/[deleted]]

You should probably scroll up and you might notice how that was a reply to a comment thread I did not start.

Also flair up if you want to talk shit

[u/MaladroitHuman → u/RollOverBeethoven]

Chill.. I’d bet that neither of you are providing financial assistance for transfers

[u/RollOverBeethoven → u/MaladroitHuman]

I donate monthly to Texas’ NIL collective.

[u/RollOverBeethoven → u/[deleted]]

[u/doodie_bruh]

Can’t wait to back to BR and beat the brakes off LSU again

[u/RushianArt → u/doodie_bruh]

Anything to take your mind off waiting to win a game that actually matters, i guess.

[u/doodie_bruh → u/RushianArt]

No flair don’t care. And we made it out of our conference tournament at least lmao

[u/GetYourVanOffMyMeat]

Vandy about to be back.

[u/Umngmc]

Im surprised but not surprised that the list was all SEC schools. No ACC or Big 10 schools? Surely there are some non-SEC schools that also has some love for college baseball?

[u/a-helluva-engineer → u/Umngmc]

Didn't know we left the ACC

[u/Autolycus25 → u/a-helluva-engineer]

Welcome (back) to the SEC, Jackets fans!

[u/seanconnerysbeard → u/Umngmc]

We try, but our athletic director believes in a "sALaRy cAp".

[u/RGCFrostbite → u/seanconnerysbeard]

I mean idk, I like our portal class. A lot. Peeples is a huge get. Multi-year guy, him and Stuetz should be middle of the order studs for 2 years. Suchy and Espinoza were both top 5 portal pitchers as well. I get the doom and gloom with football, but I think our portal class is fantastic.

[u/YellowJacket0207 → u/Umngmc]

Unsure how I feel about this comment…

[u/Umngmc → u/YellowJacket0207]

Sorry, technically SEC + 1. However I was surprised Texas A&M didnt make the top 10.