{"id":733311,"date":"2026-06-23T08:33:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/733311\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T08:33:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:33:45","slug":"jake-mccoy-commits-to-tennessee-baseball-as-south-carolina-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/733311\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake McCoy commits to Tennessee baseball as South Carolina transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gamecocksonline.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/player\/jake-mccoy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake McCoy<\/a> has committed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/tennessee-volunteers\/category\/baseball\/news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tennessee baseball<\/a> as a transfer from South Carolina, the left-handed pitcher announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>McCoy has a 5-5 record and a 7.11 ERA in two seasons at South Carolina, but is a projected early pick in the 2026 MLB Draft in July. He missed the 2026 season after having Tommy John surgery.<\/p>\n<p>McCoy picked UT over LSU and a potential return to South Carolina. He visited Tennessee on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>McCoy was 4-5 with a 6.90 ERA in 14 starts in 2025 before missing last season. He struck out 77 and walked 40 in 60 innings. <\/p>\n<p>He was 1-0 with a 7.88 ERA as a freshman in 2024, pitching in 12 games with one start. <\/p>\n<p>The Vols went 38-22 in coach\u00a0Josh Elander\u2018s first season. They went 15-15 in SEC play with notable series wins against top-10 opponents in Mississippi State and Texas. They were the only program in the nation to go unbeaten in midweek games with a 14-0 record. UT\u2019s season ended in the Chapel Hill Regional after it reached the postseason for the seventh straight season.<\/p>\n<p>Jake McCoy is fifth Tennessee baseball transfer commitment<\/p>\n<p>Braydon Kersey was the first player to commit to Tennessee as a transfer.<\/p>\n<p>The two-way player hit .325 with 21 homers and 67 RBIs in a breakout sophomore season at Mercer. He pitched in 20 games with six saves, a 2-0 record and a 4.95 ERA.\u00a0He hits left handed and can play multiple positions, including first base. He is a right-handed pitcher. <\/p>\n<p>Brody Trosclair was second.<\/p>\n<p>The Northwestern State left-handed pitcher had a 5-1 record and a 1.89 ERA in 10 appearances with four starts as a freshman. He is coming off elbow surgery in April, but is expected to pitch in the 2027 season.<\/p>\n<p>Wyatt Hanoian\u00a0was the third commitment. <\/p>\n<p>Hanoian slashed .357\/.498\/.573 as a freshman second baseman at Air Force, earning Mountain West freshman of the year honors. The 5-foot-9 Hanoian walked 32 times and was hit by 24 pitches while striking out only 21 times.<\/p>\n<p>The switch-hitting Hanoian had 24 extra-base hits with six homers, four triples and 14 doubles. He is a draft-eligible sophomore in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Ricky Ojeda was the fourth commitment.<\/p>\n<p>Ojeda has a 3.60 ERA in 72 appearances with nine starts in three seasons at UC Irvine. The left-handed pitcher has struck out 219 in 180 innings with 74 walks. He is draft-eligible in July and is likely an early draft pick.<\/p>\n<p>Like this story1Share article<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleLikeBar_meta__MY_jU\">Members only \u00b7 one like per member<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake McCoy has committed to Tennessee baseball as a transfer from South Carolina, the left-handed pitcher announced Monday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2276],"tags":[5,2291,4,1586,2409],"class_list":["post-733311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb-draft","tag-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball-draft","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-draft","tag-regwall"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116798501946428564","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}