Tennessee baseball is expected to promoting from within and hire Josh Reynolds as the program’s new pitching coach, Baseball America’s Jacob Rudner first reported and a source confirmed to RTI on Wednesday night. Reynolds replaces Frank Anderson, who is expected to leave for a position on Tony Vitello’s staff with the San Francisco Giants.

Anderson has spent eight years on Tennessee’s staff as pitching coach and was widely viewed as one of the  sport’s best. Tennessee’s staff has ranked in the top 20 nationally in team-ERA the last seven seasons, including multiple years in the top 10.

Reynolds joined Tennessee’s staff following the 2024 season as the Director of Baseball Operations and Pitching Performance. He had already slid fully into the Director of Pitching Performance role this offseason with Adam Low fully taking over Director of Baseball Operations responsibilities.

Anderson had not been an active recruiter for Tennessee over the last few years and Reynolds helped in that regard over the last year following assistant coach Richard Jackson’s departure to the private sector.

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Multiple Tennessee transfer portal pitching additions discussed Reynolds while talking about their recruitment.

Reynolds was the pitching coach at Cincinnati during the 2024 season before coming to Tennessee. He was also the pitching coach and recruiting coordinator at Northwestern from 2016-22. Reynolds was also an assistant coach at Kansas State from 2011-15 where he was a coach for Tennessee assistant coach Ross Kivett.

Tennessee has now lost two assistants to the Giants since the MLB franchise hired Vitello as its new manager. San Francisco hired Tennessee strength and conditioning coach Quentin Eberhardt as its new Director of Performance. Elander quickly hired Milwaukee Brewers assistant strength coach Keegan Knoll to replace Eberhardt.

The other hire Elander has made to this cycle is hiring Florida associate head coach Chuck Jeroloman as Tennessee’s new associate head coach.