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Georgia State 2B Kaleb Freeman commits to Texas out of NCAA transfer portal

Danby: Daniel Hager06/14/25DanielHagerOn3
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Georgia State second baseman Kaleb Freeman has committed to Texas via the NCAA Transfer Portal, D1Baseball’s Kendall Rogers reported on X Saturday afternoon. Freeman was the 2025 Sun Belt Newcomer of the Year and was an All-Sun Belt Second-Team selection.

The Flowery Branch, GA native started 51 games for Georgia State this season, hitting for a .349 batting average with 28 doubles, 16 home runs, 46 RBI, a .732 SLG% and a .504 OBP%. Freeman, who transferred to Georgia State after a season at Auburn, is now returning to the SEC.

After spending 2022 (North Georgia) and 2023 (St. John’s River State) at Division II and NJCAA programs, Freeman played the 2024 season at Auburn and the 2025 season at Georgia State. In two Division I seasons, Freeman boasts a career .333 batting average. He however appeared in just 14 games for Auburn in 2024.

Freeman becomes Texas‘ third addition out of the portal, joining Wichita State second baseman Josh Livingston and Butler outfielder Jack Moroknek.

Texas Transfer Portal departures:

  • OF Matthew Scott
  • OF Donovan Jordan
  • LHP Chance Covert
  • LHP/OF Ace Whitehead
  • 3B/OF Sam Richardson
  • INF Carson Luna
  • C Oliver Service
  • RHP Easton Tumis
  • OF Tommy Farmer IV
  • INF Jaquae Stewart

Texas Transfer Portal additions:

  • INF Josh Livingston (Wichita State)
  • OF Jack Moroknek (Butler)
  • INF Kaleb Freeman (Georgia State)

Freeman will join a Longhorn program that saw a disappointing end to their 2025 season, in which they failed to advance out of the Austin Regional as the No. 2 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament. Coach Jim Schlossnagle‘s team won a conference-leading 20 SEC games this season and compiled a 44-14 record, but lost twice to UTSA in back-to-back days to end their season.

“I think we had a lot of things go our way the first 2/3 of the season,” Schlossnagle said following the end of Texas’ season. “We’d get the two-out hit, we’d make the two strike pitch. The ball gets hit at us and we won a lot of close games. I think about the [Texas] A&M series. I think they had the tying and go-ahead run on base in all three games to end the game. So kind of living in the margins, but that’s where college baseball is.”

“That’s the difference between the teams that advance and the teams that don’t. I haven’t seen everything that went on today but there’s a lot of really good teams that aren’t playing anymore. That just means the game of baseball got them and there’s other good teams. UTSA is really good. I watched Wright State play and they’re good. Just because you’re in the SEC or a power-five league doesn’t mean there isn’t great baseball being played other places. You have to go play well at the right time.”

Over the span of its two games against UTSA, Texas’ offense hit for just a .260 average (19-73) and totaled 23 strikeouts. It also left 23 runners on base over the two games, including a whopping 14 in the 7-4 loss to end the season. Adding some quality bats in Freeman and Moroknek is certainly encouraging.

At the end of the day, offensive execution sunk a Longhorn team looking to make its first appearance in the Men’s College World Series since 2022. For now it’s time to rebuild in the portal, and they are doing just that now.