Tennessee LHP Dylan Loy plans to enter NCAA Transfer Portal

Tennessee left-handed pitcher Dylan Loy plans to enter the NCAA Transfer Portal, per Mike Wilson of the Knoxville News Sentinel. Loy has spent two seasons with the Volunteers.

Loy made 33 appearances and one start this season at Tennessee. In 34 innings on the mound, Loy recorded a 3.97 ERA while tallying 36 strikeouts compared to just 11 walks. Loy held opponents to a .180 batting average.

Loy pitched in both games of the Fayetteville Regional. He held the mound for 2.1 innings against Arkansas, giving up two hits and one run.

In his freshman season last spring, Loy amassed 21 appearances and five starts. He posted a 2.37 ERA and 37 strikeouts, holding foes to a .194 batting average. For his efforts, he was named a 2024 NCBWA Freshman All-American Second-Team selection.

Dylan Loy played high school baseball at Pigeon Forge High School (TN). He was the No. 18 overall player and No. 8 left-handed pitcher in Tennessee in the 2023 recruiting cycle, according to Perfect Game.

In high school, Loy was a three-time Perfect Game Preseason Underclass All-American. He led Pigeon Forge High School to two state championship appearances.

Tennessee finished the 2025 campaign with a 46-19 overall record and a 16-14 mark in conference play. The Volunteers won the Knoxville Regional but couldn’t return to the College World Series this season after winning it all last year.

Despite Tennessee’s back-to-back losses against Arkansas in the Fayetteville Super Regional, Volunteers head coach Tony Vitello is proud of his team’s efforts this season. He also understands that Tennessee has a lot of work to do this offseason.

“Gotta go get guys,” Vitello said after Tennessee’s season-ending loss. “We’re very fortunate with quality, maybe not necessarily quantity. That ended up with Gavin [Kilen] and Fish [Andrew Fischer] and Liam [Doyle] and T -Frank [Tanner Franklin]. I think those were our four portal guys. Then, of course, we had the one kid signed in a draft. But last summer was tough.

“We weren’t on our campus. It just didn’t work out as well as we would want to… You always want to recruit better. So, that’s what’s going to go on this summer. And then I think when you have success, I don’t think you loosen the reins or loosen things you do, but you can kind of get caught in a pattern. So, maybe getting shook up a little bit this particular weekend and not going as well as we wanted, which I think is kind of what you’re [reporter] alluding to, will motivate us to do some different things. Or maybe go back to our roots a little bit.”