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LSU DH Ashton Larson commits to Texas out of NCAA transfer portal

Danby:Daniel Hager07/15/25

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LSU DH Ashton Larson has committed to Texas via the NCAA Transfer Portal. He announced the move on X/Twitter (@Ashton_Larson11) Tuesday afternoon.

The Overland Park, KS native played in 86 games for LSU over the past two seasons. He hit for a combined .289 average with 12 doubles, five home runs, 28 RBI, a .439 SLG and a .406 OBP.

Texas Transfer Portal departures:

  • C/INF Cole Chamberlain
  • LHP Chance Covert
  • OF Tommy Farmer IV
  • OF Will Gasparino
  • OF Donovan Jordan
  • INF Carson Luna
  • RHP Aiden Moffett
  • LHP Bryce Navarre
  • RHP Drew Rerick
  • INF/OF Sam Richardson
  • OF Matt Scott II
  • C Oliver Service
  • INF Jaquae Stewart
  • RHP Easton Tumis
  • LHP Ace Whitehead (USC)
  • OF Easton Winfield

Texas Transfer Portal additions:

Larson 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.