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Jay Johnson confirms top LSU baseball transfer pitcher addition suffered torn ACL

The Tigers could be without one of their top offseason additions for the 2025 season.

The LSU baseball team is still several months from the beginning of the 2025 season, but when the spring rolls around, it could be without one of its top offseason additions.

Transfer pitcher [autotag]Deven Sheerin[/autotag] has suffered a torn ACL, according to coach Jay Johnson. The injury is not new, as Johnson said it occurred during the summer, but it casts doubt on his availability for the 2025 season. Johnson said there currently is not a timetable for his return.

It’s a major loss for an LSU pitching staff that lost quite a few pieces from last season including starters [autotag]Gage Jump[/autotag], [autotag]Luke Holman[/autotag] and [autotag]Thatcher Hurd[/autotag] as well as top bullpen arm [autotag]Griffin Herring[/autotag].

Sheerin, a native of Reading, Pennsylvania, earned MAAC Rookie of the Year and First Team All-MAAC honors as a freshman at Mount St. Mary in 2024. He finished the season with a 4.76 ERA and 6-5 record while striking out 109 batters compared to just 32 walks.

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If Sheerin is not able to go by the start of the season, the Tigers will have to lean on other arms in a talented transfer pitcher class that also includes [autotag]Anthony Eyanson[/autotag], [autotag]Jacob Mayers[/autotag], [autotag]Chandler Dorsey[/autotag] and [autotag]Zac Cowan[/autotag].

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9 LSU baseball transfers make Baseball America top 100

Jay Johnson has been recruiting at an incredibly high level since stepping foot on the Bayou.

[autotag]Jay Johnson[/autotag] has been recruiting at an incredibly high level since stepping foot on the Bayou. He has had a top-five recruiting class every season and that is just the high school recruits.

With the new landscape of college baseball, you have to be able to re-tool your team with some of the best transfer players in the country. Johnson did just that this year as he has signed nine of the top 100 collegiate transfers according to Baseball America.

[autotag]Daniel Dickinson[/autotag] appears at No. 2 on the list. He is an infielder who played at Utah Valley where he was a star for the last two seasons. [autotag]Anthony Eyanson[/autotag] comes in at No. 4 on the list. Eyanson is a right-handed pitcher who transfers to LSU after spending time at UCSD. [autotag]Deven Sheerin[/autotag] is a right-handed pitcher from Mount St. Mary’s who comes in at No. 8 on the list.

[autotag]Jacob Mayers[/autotag] is a right-handed pitcher who comes in at No. 17 on the list, [autotag]Chandler Dorsey[/autotag] is a right-handed pitcher who comes in at No. 22 on the list, [autotag]Zac Cowan[/autotag] is a right-handed pitcher who comes in right behind him at No. 23, [autotag]Luis Hernandez[/autotag] is a utility player who comes in at No. 32 on the list, outfielder/left-handed pitcher [autotag]Dalton Beck[/autotag] is No. 34 on the list and outfielder [autotag]Chris Stanfield[/autotag] is at No. 79.

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LSU baseball lands a commitment from coveted pitcher transfer

The Tigers added another impressive transfer portal arm on Friday.

The LSU baseball team has seen quite a few pitchers enter the transfer portal since the end of the 2024 season, but it has supplemented those losses well, adding Wofford’s [autotag]Zac Cowan[/autotag] and South Florida’s [autotag]Chandler Dorsey[/autotag].

The Tigers added another impressive arm to that group on Friday, landing a commitment from Mount St. Mary’s pitcher [autotag]Deven Sheerin[/autotag]. The 6-foot-5 right-handed freshman from Reading, Pennsylvania, made 18 appearances with two starts this past season, pitching 70 innings.

He finished with a 6-5 record and 4.76 ERA, striking out 109 batters while walking 32. Sheerin has an impressive arm with a fastball that has been clocked at 98 MPH.

Sheerin, a rising sophomore, won’t be draft-eligible until 2026, meaning the Tigers could have him for at least two years.

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LSU baseball lands star Wofford pitcher transfer Zac Cowan

The Tigers added a big-time portal arm on Tuesday.

In less than an hour, the LSU baseball team landed two starting pitchers from regional foe Wofford.

The latest was [autotag]Zac Cowan[/autotag], a sophomore right-hander from Blythewood, South Carolina. After seeing 15 appearances with one start as a true freshman, turning in an ERA over six, he improved markedly in his sophomore season.

He made 17 starts, earning a 10-2 record while cutting his ERA down to 3.35. He struck out 124 batters in 24 while walking just 29, earning All-SoCon honors in the process.

Previous reports also indicated that fellow Wofford pitcher Camden Wicker would be joining Cowan in Baton Rouge, but The Advocate’s Koki Alexander reported that Wicker has not committed to the Tigers.

With LSU potentially set to lose its top two weekend starters in [autotag]Gage Jump[/autotag] and [autotag]Luke Holman[/autotag], adding pitching help was a major need this offseason. LSU has done just that, adding three portal arms so far. Cowan is the most accomplished of the bunch and likely projects as a weekend starter in 2025.

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