Former Wake Forest pitcher Haiden Leffew commits to Texas baseball

Former Wake Forest LHP Haiden Leffew has committed to Texas out of the NCAA transfer portal, he announced on social media. Leffew spent two seasons with the Demon Deacons.

This past season, Leffew went 4-1 with a 4.46 ERA this spring. He had 34.1 innings pitched, gave up 35 hits, 22 runs (17 earned), issued 18 walks and had 59 strikeouts. His strikeouts per nine innings pitched was 15.5 this past season.

Leffew appeared in 18 games and made three starts as a freshman. He recorded 38 strikeouts in 35.1 innings of work and finished the season 3-0 while holding opposing hitters to a .221 batting average against.

He started in his first collegiate game at UNCG (Feb. 20), recording a career high of eight strikeouts. He picked up his first career win against North Carolina A&T (Feb. 27) and also pitched 1.2 scoreless innings out of the bullpen at Liberty (March 26) to pick up his second win of the season.

He’s joining a team who finished the 2025 baseball season with a 44-14 record with a 22-8 mark against SEC competition. In the end, Texas would earn a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament, but saw their season end prematurely in the Austin Regional. Despite the disappointing end to his first year with the program, head coach Jim Schlossnagle was able to reflect on his first season at the helm of the Texas baseball program.

“I feel like that compared to where we started to where we are today, this program is in really good shape and headed in the right direction. I feel confident that our coaching staff, given the situation, got the most out of our team,” Schlossnagle said following the Longhorns’ elimination from the NCAA Tournament. “… Our coaching staff’s job is to put ourselves in position to get to Omaha. We did that, but we just didn’t execute in the games needed to win the regional.”

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On3’s Nick Kosko contributed to this report.