Ole Miss baseball adds Illinois transfer Ryan Moerman
OXFORD, Miss. — Ole Miss baseball has added another transfer to the team as Illinois junior transfer outfielder Ryan Moerman announced his commitment Tuesday afternoon via his Instagram story.
Ryan Moerman via his Instagram story.
In 2024, Moerman hit .259 with 19 home runs and 53 RBI. Those 19 homers were a team-high for the Second-Team All Big Ten player.
Moerman notched four hits in Illinois’ NCAA Regional game against Indiana State.
🔥 4-for-5
🔥 3 HR
🔥 9 RBIWatch all three of Ryan Moerman’s long balls to take the @bigten HR lead and send @IlliniBaseball to a run-rule win over No. 22 Indiana State. ⤵️ #B1GBaseball x @MoermanRyan pic.twitter.com/cWRLiHbT4s
— Big Ten Network (@BigTenNetwork) May 1, 2024
Moerman, who spent three years with Illinois, finished his career there with a cumulative batting average of .276 with 124 hits, 31 home runs and 104 RBI. Defensively, Moerman’s fielding percentage was .990 last season.
He will join three other transfers, as of now, who have announced they are headed to Oxford: catcher Collin Reuter (BYU), RHP Will McCausland (St. Joseph), and shortstop Luke Cheng (Illinois State).
The Rebels have 13 players from the 2024 team who have entered the transfer portal:
RHP Gabe Smith – Transferring to Missouri State
C Trenton Lyons
RF Seth Farni
LHP Corey Braun – Transferring to Georgia Southern
RHP Cole Tolbert – Transferring to Troy
LF John Kramer – Transferring to Appalachian State
C Eli Berch – Transferring to Louisiana Tech
RHP Grayson Saunier
RHP Kyler Carmack
RF Treyson Hughes
3B Andrew Fischer
RHP JT Quinn
LHP Liam Doyle
Moerman is a nice pickup for Ole Miss as the Rebels lose outfielders Ethan Lege, Ethan Groff and Treyson Hughes (transfer portal) for the upcoming season.
Evelyn Van Pelt
Evelyn has covered sports for over two decades, beginning her journalism career as a sports writer for a newspaper in Austin, Texas. She attended Texas A&M and majored in English. Evelyn’s love for Ole Miss began when her daughter Katie attended the university on a volleyball scholarship. Evelyn created the Rebel Walk in 2013 and has served as publisher and managing editor since its inception.
