{"id":745589,"date":"2026-07-07T15:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/745589\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T15:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:54:14","slug":"transfer-portal-texas-baseball-get-commitment-from-ucla-bruin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/745589\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer portal: Texas baseball get commitment from UCLA Bruin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During his junior season, Brennan was a starter for the Bruins and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/uclabruins.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/season\/2026\/player\/payton-brennan\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">finished the year<\/a> with a .290 batting average. He also had 63 hits, 51\u00a0RBIs, 11 doubles, three triples and nine home runs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>UCLA had a dominant season. The Bruins went 52-8 and won their first Big Ten title in an 11-inning thriller over Oregon. While the Bruins were awarded the No. 1 overall seed in the postseason, they were eliminated in the Los Angeles Regional in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/brackets\/baseball\/d1\/2026\/regionals\/101\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the loser&#8217;s bracket 6-5<\/a> against St. Mary&#8217;s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brennan brings a bit more offensive experience as a rising senior. Texas&#8217; power was on display at various points throughout the season but in its final game against Georgia to keep the season alive, the Longhorns mustered only four hits<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiJguSG5MCVAxW3mGoFHTbvBJ0QFnoECBgQAQ&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.statesman.com%2Fsports%2Fcollege%2Flonghorns%2Fbaseball%2Farticle%2Ftexas-longhorns-score-today-georgia-bulldogs-22307569.php&amp;usg=AOvVaw0KvqVgWcddXUHuD-0iJiUA&amp;opi=89978449\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> in the 2-0 CWS shutout<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During his junior season, Brennan was a starter for the Bruins and\u00a0finished the year with a .290 batting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2289],"tags":[52949,5,12278,648,9092,1694,2341,60978,3794,20401,5080],"class_list":["post-745589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-college-baseball","tag-athlete-recruiting","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-recruiting","tag-college-baseball","tag-cws","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-baseball","tag-ncaa-transfer-portal","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-longhorns-baseball","tag-ucla-bruins"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116879508372151913","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745589","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=745589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/745590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}