Tag: Connor Benge

LSU baseball has the No. 1 transfer portal class according to 64Analytics

The Tigers have done a good job flipping the roster so far this offseason.

[autotag]Jay Johnson[/autotag] has always been a great recruiter as far as high school players are concerned. Thanks to the transfer portal, his recruiting style has had to try to find a balance between recruiting kids out of high school and kids who were transferring from other colleges.

According to [autotag]64Analytics[/autotag], he is doing a great job recruiting other college players. After landing [autotag]Connor Benge[/autotag] yesterday, LSU now has the No. 1 recruiting class in the transfer portal. As you can see, the portal rankings are full of SEC teams. Georgia, Arkansas, Kentucky and Duke round out the top five.

LSU has lost 17 players in the transfer portal but they have 10 commitments. Six of the Tigers who left were ranked in the Top250 on 64Analytics leaderboard and nine of LSU’s current transfer portal commitments are in the Top 250.

LSU is nowhere near finished in the transfer portal as the Tigers are still in the hunt for a few players.

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LSU lands Dallas Baptist RHP Connor Benge in the transfer portal

Connor Benge spent 2024 at Dallas Baptist after transferring in from LSU-Eunice.

LSU’s impressive pitching haul via the transfer portal continued on Friday as the team added a commitment from Dallas Baptist right-hander [autotag]Connor Benge[/autotag], according to his Instagram bio.

A native of Montgomery, Texas, Benge made 22 appearances and pitched 33 innings as a sophomore in 2024, finishing with a 1-1 record and 5.73 ERA as he struck out 35 and walked 22. He began his career at the junior college level in Louisiana, pitching for LSU-Eunice in 2023.

Benge was a Third Team All-American that season, ranking second in the NJCAA with 11 wins and leading his team in ERA (2.82), innings pitched (70.1), and strikeouts (86). He now returns to Louisiana after spending the last year in Dallas.

As his 2024 numbers show, Benge is a bit of a raw talent. He ranked as the No. 500 player and 343 right-handed pitcher nationally coming out of high school, but he could break into the rotation for an LSU staff that lost quite a bit of pitching depth to the portal this offseason, in addition to the arms expected to depart in the draft.

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