{"id":299378,"date":"2026-06-07T19:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T19:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/299378\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T19:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T19:45:10","slug":"florida-state-baseball-transfer-portal-kelvyn-paulino-to-depart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/299378\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida State baseball transfer portal: Kelvyn Paulino to depart"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATE (6\/6, 5:48 p.m. ET) \u2014 Florida State shortstop Gabe Fraser has entered the transfer portal, per D1Baseball\u2019s Kendall Rogers<\/a>. Fraser played in 38 games, starting 35, for FSU in 2026. He hit .303 with eight extra base hits (one home run).<\/p>\n

To follow along with all of Florida State baseball\u2019s offseason roster moves, Warchant members can head to the FSU baseball board thread<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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From Friday, Corey Clark examines the portal entry of Seminoles\u2019 catcher Hunter Carns<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Florida State INF Noah Sheffield and OF Chase Williams plan to enter the transfer portal, per College Baseball Network<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

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Original Story<\/p>\n

Even before Florida State baseball\u2019s season ended Monday afternoon, turbulent times had arrived for the Seminoles and countless other programs across the country.<\/p>\n

The transfer portal is open, and it waits for no Super Regional winner, let alone a College World Series Champion.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe calendar and the landscape is almost unthinkably difficult as to what we have to deal with in baseball with the portal opening today,\u201d Jarrett said Monday evening. \u201cSomebody told me there\u2019s thousands of players in there today.\u201d<\/p>\n

To that end, Florida State received its first bit of portal news Tuesday afternoon. Infielder Kelvyn Paulino Jr. \u2014 a promising high school signee from the 2025 recruiting class \u2014 will enter the transfer portal, per a report from College Baseball Network\u2019s Andrew Riedell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Paulino appeared in 35 games (26 starts) for FSU this season. He hit .276 in 105 at-bats and produced nine extra base hits (one home run, two triples and six doubles). The 6-1, 182-pound freshman was the No. 53 overall player in Perfect Game\u2019s 2025 recruiting rankings.<\/p>\n

This outgoing move figures to be the first of potentially dozens for Jarrett ahead of the 2027 season. Florida State, which finished the year 40-19 after dropping Monday afternoon\u2019s game to St. John\u2019s, could see turnover similar to last season when, per Jarrett, \u201c23 or 24 new players\u201d were added to the program.<\/p>\n

The machinations don\u2019t end when the portal closes on June 30, either.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen the draft in mid-July,\u201d Jarrett said. \u201cAre we talking nine, ten, eleven, twelve \u2014 how many of these guys (are leaving)? In all of my imagination of what it would be like to coach, never could you dream of this is where it\u2019s landed in terms of trying to construct a roster to produce a functional team. It is hard, and the inconsistencies of year to year and who is successful or not, it has escalated to the point of it\u2019s very difficult to even predict.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd even once it\u2019s together, then there\u2019s things that come up that make it extremely hard to have consistency of having three regionals in a row.\u201d<\/p>\n

*Talk about this story with other die-hard Florida State baseball fans in the FSU Baseball Forum<\/a>*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATE (6\/6, 5:48 p.m. ET) \u2014 Florida State shortstop Gabe Fraser has entered the transfer portal, per D1Baseball\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-299378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}