Ole Miss Baseball Offseason Tracker: Transfer Portal, Draft Watch and Recruiting Updates

OXFORD, Miss. — As the college baseball off-season heats up, Ole Miss faces a critical summer of transition following a wave of senior departures, draft hopefuls and transfer portal movement.

Here is The Rebel Walk Ole Miss baseball off-season tracker.

Senior departures

The Rebels are saying goodbye to a veteran core that helped anchor the team through multiple seasons. Among the most notable exits are the three everyday outfielders and key arms like Riley Maddox and Mason Nichols, both of whom made a significant amount of starts on the mound. Their leadership and experience will be difficult to replace as Ole Miss reshapes its identity heading into 2026.

• Isaac Humphrey — outfielder
• Ryan Moerman — outfielder
• Mitchell Sanford — outfielder
• Luke Cheng — middle infielder
• Riley Maddox — right-handed pitcher
• Mason Nichols — right-handed pitcher
• Alex Canney — right-handed pitcher
• Connor Spencer — right-handed pitcher

Transfers out

The NCAA Baseball transfer portal opened on June 1, 2025, and will close on July 1, 2025. There is an additional 30-day window in the event of a head coaching change, and graduate transfers can enter the portal at any time. Listed below are players from the 2025 Ole Miss roster that have entered the portal.

• Graduate Connor Chisolm — outfielder
• Freshman Jackson Miller — outfielder
• Redshirt Sophomore Cole Ketchum — pitcher
• Freshman Tyler Acevedo — infielder
• Redshirt Freshman Hudson Mattox — pitcher

2025 MLB Draft

Ole Miss has two players from its 2025 roster — right-handed pitcher Mason Morris and middle infielder Luke Hill — ranked among the top 200 MLB Draft prospects. Infielder Coy James, a standout from Davie County High School in North Carolina, is the highest-rated recruit in the Rebels’ 2025 class and is projected to be selected within the first five rounds. In addition to the departing seniors, left-handed pitcher Hunter Elliott and infielders Judd Utermark and Will Furniss are also expected to be drafted, though they are not currently ranked among the top prospects.

The 2025 MLB Draft will be held on July 13 through July 14 in Atlanta, Georgia during MLB All-Star weekend.

• Infielder Coy James, ranked No. 83 among MLB Draft prospects
• Junior middle infielder Luke Hill, ranked No. 96
• Junior right-handed pitcher Mason Morris, ranked No. 115

Transfers in

As the Summer rolls on, Bianco will look to add to a roster that is losing a lot of their ‘old’ guys. Throughout this past season, the team empathized over and over again that old teams win in college baseball. Losing an entire outfield and possibly all three weekend starters, there is no doubt that Ole Miss will be looking to bring in some fresh faces with power 4 experience once again.

“Sometimes even when it looks like you missed, you might not have missed. Sometimes it just takes a guy a year or two, but in the era of the portal you need kids to impact immediately. A lot of credit has to go to Carl Lafferty. The portal, not to go way down that path today, it changes. It changes week to week on what guys you are getting, what guys are still out there — in last year’s portal, we knew we needed some impact hitters. So, we went after some older guys. We risked it a little with the draft because a lot of those guys may have not made it here. We signed three guys in the outfield from power five schools that have had success at this level. It was a good plan and it worked.” 

~ Bianco on his 2024 transfer portal strategy

Stay up to date with this section of the tracker to keep up with the names added to the 2026 Ole Miss baseball roster as the summer continues into the next athletic year.

• TBD

Class of 2025 newcomers

Bianco is bringing in the nation’s No. 33 recruiting class for 2025, according to Perfect Game. While Coy James is the only top-100 player in the group, the Rebels appear to be addressing key positional needs.

Below are the 10 commitments from 2025 recruiting class and their Perfect Game ratings.

• Coy James — infielder (10 Perfect Game rating)
• Cannon Goldin — outfielder (10 Perfect Game rating)
• Blake Ilitch — right-handed pitcher (10 Perfect Game rating)
• Brayden Bull — outfielder (9.5 Perfect Game rating)
• Evan Farrow —  right-handed pitcher (9.5 Perfect Game rating)
• Grayson Gibson — left-handed pitcher (8 Perfect Game rating)
• Noah Allen — right handed pitcher
• Leo Odom — right-handed pitcher
• Luke Romine — infielder
• Kelven Perera Arellano — catcher

Stay up to date with the 2026 Ole Miss baseball roster turnover at The Rebel Walk.