{"id":359834,"date":"2026-07-03T11:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T11:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/359834\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T11:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T11:11:08","slug":"gavin-king-transfers-to-texas-baseball-bolstering-longhorns-bullpen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/359834\/","title":{"rendered":"Gavin King transfers to Texas baseball, bolstering Longhorns&#8217; bullpen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/hookem\/baseball\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas baseball<\/a> added its first transfer pitcher of the offseason Tuesday in Middle Tennessee State&#8217;s Gavin King.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-foot-7, 210-pound right-hander struck out 59 batters in 42 innings in 2026 \u2014 although he also posted a 6.00 ERA and issued 32 walks in 19 appearances. Before that, King spent his freshman season at Volunteer State Community College, pitching four times.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his flaws, Texas is betting on his traits and pitching coach Max Weiner&#8217;s ability to smooth out the rough edges of his game.<\/p>\n<p>Texas right-handed pitcher Sam Cozart won the Stopper of the Year Award this past season, but will move into the starting rotation in 2027, according to head coach Jim Schlossnagle. Right-hander Thomas Burns and left-hander Haiden Leffew could also depart for the MLB, leaving Texas&#8217; bullpen lacking quality depth.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from King, Texas added Texas Tech infielder Linkin Garcia, St. Mary&#8217;s catcher Ian Armstrong, Long Beach State outfielder Trevor Goldenetz and Kent State outfielder Sawyer Solitaria through the portal.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas baseball added its first transfer pitcher of the offseason Tuesday in Middle Tennessee State&#8217;s Gavin King. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2845,47365,1771,53178,9330,46466,84117,27,29,537,20340,28],"class_list":["post-359834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-college-baseball","tag-jim-schlossnagle","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-baseball","tag-ncaa-division-i","tag-ncaa-transfer-portal","tag-sam-cozart","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\/359834","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=359834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}