OTF Premium Baseball: Transfer portal update with another departure (Tuesday, 9:33 p.m.)

[Jeff Howe]

Texas catcher/infielder Cole Chamberlain has entered the transfer portal, OTF has learned. Chamberlain's profile has already been removed from the program's online roster.

Zachary Symm of Orangebloods first reported the departure of Chamberlain, who played in 22 games as a freshman for the Longhorns. Chamberlain went 5-for-37 with two doubles, nine RBI, 15 walks and 15 strikeouts.

With Chamberlain's departure, here's the updated list of outgoing transfers from the 2025 squad:

C Oliver Service

C/INF Cole Chamberlain

INF Carson Luna

INF/OF Sam Richardson

INF Jaquae Stewart

OF Tommy Farmer IV

OF Will Gasparino

OF Donovan Jordan

OF Matt Scott

LHP Chance Covert II

LHP Ace Whitehead

RHP Easton Tumis

The following is the updated list of incoming transfers Jim Schlossnagle and the Longhorns have added through the transfer portal:

C Carson Tinney (Notre Dame)

INF Temo Becarra (Stanford)

INF Josh Livingston (Wichita State)

UTIL Kaleb Freeman (Georgia State)

OF Jack Moroknek (Butler)

OF Aidan Robbins (Seton Hall)

LHP Luke Dotson (Mississippi State)

LHP Cal Higgins (Western Kentucky)

[McCoy2Shipley]

Dang I really like his approach at the plate for a true freshman. I’ll take the trade though 

[Drunk randoke]

Who’s backup catcher this coming year?  Freeman?

Edited 18 hours ago by Drunk randoke

[hookem1]

2 hours ago, Drunk randoke said:

Who’s backup catcher this coming year?  Freeman?

Or incoming freshman Presley Courville out of Barbe HS in Lake Charles, Louisiana. 

[.45s]

Hate to see him go.  I wonder if it was mutual?  He seems to be doing well in summer ball and I saw some indications that he could be a good hitter.  I didn't see him enough behind the plate to judge how good he might be.  I know Galvan improved a lot.

[Jeff Howe]

43 minutes ago, .45s said:

Hate to see him go.  I wonder if it was mutual?  He seems to be doing well in summer ball and I saw some indications that he could be a good hitter.  I didn't see him enough behind the plate to judge how good he might be.  I know Galvan improved a lot.

Word is Texas wanted Chamberlain to stay.

[.45s]

10 minutes ago, Jeff Howe said:

Word is Texas wanted Chamberlain to stay.

I guess he wants to be a starter this year.  Good luck to him.  Now we need a backup.  Oliver Service is still pretty much an unkown to us on the outside.  Hopefully the incoming freshman comes in hot.

[Sundancekid]

Do we take  as many transfers as we lose ideally?

[Bevohorns]

6 minutes ago, Sundancekid said:

Do we take  as many transfers as we lose ideally?

No I don’t think we are doing that but we aren’t done adding transfers 

[marathon]

46 minutes ago, .45s said:

I guess he wants to be a starter this year.  Good luck to him.  Now we need a backup.  Oliver Service is still pretty much an unkown to us on the outside.  Hopefully the incoming freshman comes in hot.

Oliver Service entered the portal in early June IIRC. I am too lazy to look it up though…lol

[Jeff Howe]

1 hour ago, Sundancekid said:

Do we take  as many transfers as we lose ideally?

No, and that has a lot to do with the roster size dropping from 40 to 34 following the House settlement.

[Jeff Howe]

52 minutes ago, marathon said:

Oliver Service entered the portal in early June IIRC. I am too lazy to look it up though…lol

He did.

[Ojeezy]

Some really good players still entering the portal late. Guys like this and DiMartini entering after LSU wraps up their season makes me a bit nervous. 
 

I guess we are in the market for at least a back up catcher now but seems like we could potentially improve on our two INF takes so far. 

[Jeff Howe]

4 minutes ago, Ojeezy said:

Some really good players still entering the portal late. Guys like this and DiMartini entering after LSU wraps up their season makes me a bit nervous. 
 

I guess we are in the market for at least a back up catcher now but seems like we could potentially improve on our two INF takes so far. 

By and large, Texas has addressed the most pressing needs through the portal. They're not done looking though.

[Ojeezy]

10 minutes ago, Ojeezy said:

 

I guess we are in the market for at least a back up catcher now 

Scratch that!