{"id":321229,"date":"2026-06-03T17:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/321229\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T17:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T17:49:13","slug":"first-baseball-transfer-for-longhorns-is-texas-techs-linkin-garcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/321229\/","title":{"rendered":"First baseball transfer for Longhorns is Texas Tech&#8217;s Linkin Garcia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While preparing for its upcoming super regional against Oregon, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/hookem\/baseball\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Texas\u00a0baseball<\/a> team has also addressed an offseason need.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DZID3TTjue0\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">former Texas\u00a0Tech infielder Linkin Garcia<\/a> announced that he is transferring to Texas. Garcia becomes the first player that Texas has snagged this year from the transfer portal, which opened for baseball players Monday.<\/p>\n<p>As a freshman this spring, Garcia started in all 55 of Texas Tech&#8217;s games. The California product hit\u00a0.338 with 59 RBIs and 53 runs scored.<\/p>\n<p>Defensively, Garcia split his starts between third base (24) and shortstop (31). He posted a .944 fielding percentage with nine errors.<\/p>\n<p>Since Adrian Rodriguez is just a sophomore, Texas is set at the shortstop position next season. But fifth-year senior\u00a0Temo Becerra, who started at three different spots in the infield while also not missing a game this season, is nearing the end of his collegiate career. Junior infielders Casey Borba and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/college\/longhorns\/baseball\/article\/texas-baseball-ethan-mendoza-dylan-volantis-21303230.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ethan Mendoza<\/a> are also eligible for the MLB Draft.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While preparing for its upcoming super regional against Oregon, the\u00a0Texas\u00a0baseball team has also addressed an offseason need. On&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2845,80924,46466,27,29,537,20340,28],"class_list":["post-321229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-college-baseball","tag-linkin-garcia","tag-ncaa-transfer-portal","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-longhorns-baseball","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}