Danny Davis, Austin American-Statesman
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Texas baseball team won 2005 national championship

Five facts about the 2005 Texas baseball team, which won the Longhorns’ sixth national championship.

As it stands right now, the roster that the Texas baseball team keeps online for its 2025 season has 25 names on it.

That, of course, is inaccurate. Texas actually had 41 players on its roster this past season. In fact, 34 players appeared in at least one game for a Texas team that won the Southeastern Conference championship and secured the No. 2 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament.

But over the past month, Texas has immediately erased the online names and profiles of any player who opted to enter the transfer portal. The portal window for college baseball closed at midnight Tuesday (Yahoo Sports reported Wednesday that an additional window will open later this month for athletes impacted by the roster limits set by the House settlement). This offseason, 16 Longhorns opted to play baseball elsewhere in 2026:

C/INF Cole ChamberlainLHP Chance Covert IIOF Tommy Farmer IVOF Will GasparinoOF Donovan JordanINF Carson LunaRHP Aiden MoffettLHP Bryce NavarreRHP Drew RerickINF/OF Sam RichardsonOF Matt Scott IIC Oliver ServiceINF Jaquae StewartRHP Easton TumisLHP Ace WhiteheadOF Easton Winfield

Tuesday night, Chamberlain announced that he will transfer to Coastal Carolina. He joins Farmer (UC Irvine), Luna (Michigan), Richardson (Jacksonville State), Scott (Oregon), Stewart (Texas State) and Whitehead (USC) as the Longhorns who have already found new homes.

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What did Texas lose in the transfer portal?

Now some of the Longhorns lost to the portal didn’t have major on-field roles in 2025. For example, Rerick’s biggest contribution this season was the introduction of the popular “Skol Chant” to the Texas dugout.

But Gasparino was the team’s starting center fielder in each of the past two seasons while Farmer started 48 times this spring. Winfield opened this past season in left field after his transfer from Louisiana-Monroe, but the second-year outfielder eventually lost his job. Stewart found some playing time as a designated hitter while Navarre and Moffett each pitched sparingly. 

Whitehead redshirted this season while recovering from arm surgery. But during the 2024 season, he went 4-2 with a 4.12 ERA while earning a spot in the weekend rotation. Whitehead will be reunited at USC with Sean Allen, who was the pitching coach at Texas during his freshman year.

Eleven of this offseason’s 16 transfers were recruited to Texas by former UT coach David Pierce. Moffett, Rerick, Stewart and Winfield were all Jim Schlossnagle recruits, and Navarre signed with Schlossnagle at both Texas A&M and Texas.

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Is 16 transfers a lot?

Some attrition at Texas should have been expected this offseason. Roster limits of 34 players are coming to college baseball in the wake of the House settlement, and Schlossnagle is still remodeling the Texas program in his image after getting hired last June. This is also the era of the transfer portal, which makes it easy for players in all sports to find better opportunities and for coaches to recruit over the players on their own roster.

According to the D1Baseball transfer tracker, though, Texas does rank among the SEC leaders in lost transfers.

D1Baseball actually has Texas at 19 transfers since it also counts three players who were not on the team’s spring roster. Of the 15 other SEC teams, only Tennessee (25), South Carolina (21), Missouri (18) and Mississippi State (18) had more than 15 transfers listed.

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Transfers won’t be the Longhorns’ lone losses this offseason

Remember that 25-man roster that Texas currently has posted online? Not all of those players will return to UT for the 2026 baseball season.

First off, Texas still lists players who have exhausted their eligibility like pitchers Jared Spencer and Andre Duplantier II and first baseman Kimble Schuessler. Outfielder Max Belyeu, catcher Rylan Galvan and shortstop Jalin Flores are also rated by mlb.com as top-250 prospects for the MLB Draft, which will take place later this month.

If Belyeu, Flores and Galvan turn pro, Texas will have lost its leading starter at every defensive position but second base (Ethan Mendoza) and third base (Casey Borba).

But of the 10 pitchers who threw at least 25 innings in 2025, only Spencer and Duplantier are departing. Utility player Adrian Rodriguez and outfielder Jonah Williams also carved out roles during their freshmen years. Texas will additionally welcome in a new freshman class and a trove of transfers headlined by former Notre Dame catcher Carson Tinney and ex-Seton Hall outfielder Aiden Robbins.

So, there are reasons to be optimistic about the Longhorns despite this offseason makeover. In fact, when D1Baseball released its early predictions for the 2026 baseball season on Monday, eight of the publication’s 10 experts picked Texas to reach the College World Series. 

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