2021 Baseball Offseason Roster Turnover Thread

I do this thread every year to aggregate news on roster turnover and track what players will be here in the fall. As always, I welcome help in gathering the info, but prefer no speculation or commentary on players you feel shouldn't be on the roster.

6/25/2021 - LSU officially names Jay Johnson head coach: lsusports.net

Drafted Players/signees:
2-43 Ben Kudrna - signed Royals
2-44 Jaden Hill - signed Rockies
3-78 Carter Jensen - signed Royals
3-80 Landon Marceaux - signed Angels
3-92 Brock Selvidge - signed Yankees
4-103 Ian Moller - signed Rangers

UDFA Signings
AJ Labas - Twins Twitter

Before the season was finished we lost 3 players off the fall roster:
Gus Milligan - OF
Maurice Hampton - OF
Zach Murray - RHP

Transfer Portal
6/22/2021 - Brandon Kaminer - LINK
6/30/2021 - Zach Arnold - Houston
6/30/2021 - Brooks Rice - Aaron Wilson’s Twitter
7/1/2021 - Theo Millas - West Virginia
7/16/2021 - Mitchell Sanford

Here is the list of all current players with the option to return next season (broken down by category):

Players with COVID eligibility remaining:
Ma'Khail Hilliard - RHP - Coming back Instagram
Braden Doughty - C
Devin Fontenot - RHP - Coming back Twitter
Trent Vietmeier - RHP - MLB Draft League - West Virginia

Draft Eligible Current Players:
Jacob Wyeth - C - Wenatchee
Drew Bianco - UT - Northwoods League - Waterloo Bucks
Gavin Dugas - OF - Coming back Twitter
Giovanni DiGiacomo - OF - Coming back Twitter
Cade Beloso - 1B/DH - Summer Stats - Harwich - Cape Cod
Alex Brady - LHP - Summer Stats - Wenatchee - West Coast League
Alex Milazzo - C - Sanford River Rats - Florida League

Non-draft Eligible Current Players:
Hayden Travinski - C - Injured
Cade Doughty - IF - Summer Stats - Winter Park - Florida League
Will Safford - IF - Summer Stats - Charlottesville - Valley League
Collier Cranford - IF - Summer Stats - Seminole County - Florida League
Ty Floyd - RHP - Summer Stats (Team) - Bristol - Appy League
Blake Money - RHP - Sanford River Rats - Florida League
Javen Coleman - LHP - Texas Bandits - 5 Tool Collegiate
Garrett Edwards - RHP
Jordan Thompson - IF
Dylan Crews - OF - Summer Stats - Sanford - Florida League (Also on Team USA CNT)
Will Hellmers - RHP
Tre Morgan - 1B
Brody Drost - OF - Winter Park
Michael Fowler - RHP - Appy League - Bristol
Jacob Hasty - LHP - Danville

Incoming Transfer Portal commits
Jacob Berry - IF
Tyler McManus - C
Eric Reyzelman - RHP - Summer Stats - Harwich - Cape Cod League
Trey Shaffer - LHP
Bryce Collins - RHP - Yarmouth - Cape Cod League
Riley Cooper - LHP

Incoming JUCO commits:
Dawson Gause - RHP - Chatham - Cape Cod
Jason Bollman - RHP - MLB Draft League - State College
Paul Gervase - RHP - Summer Stats (Team) - Bristol - Appalachian League
Brayden Jobert - 1B/DH - Summer Stats (Team) - Bluefield - Appalachian League
Jack Merrifield - IF - Summer Stats (Team) - Battle Creek - Northwoods League

Incoming Freshmen:
Grant Taylor - RHP
Josh Pearson - OF - Summer Stats - Sanford - Florida League
Brant Smith - 1B/DH - Summer Stats - Delray Beach - South Florida League
Cale Lansville - RHP - Coming to LSU Twitter
Luke Leto - OF/DH/1B - Summer Stats (Team Stats) - Kalamazoo - Northwoods League
Samuel Dutton - RHP
Connor Simon - IF - recovering from surgery, enrolling in summer classes The Advocate
Josh Stevenson - OF - Summer Stats - Saugerties - Perfect Game League
Brennan Holt - IF - Summer Stats - Sanford - Florida League
Grant Fontenot - RHP
Blaise Priester - C
Tripp Haddad - IF/OF

We currently stand at 53 players for 40 roster spots. The draft will take a toll on the current roster and the incoming recruits. I don't think we are finished adding to the class at this point either. We don't need to be at 40 until the Spring.

I will update this thread as new information becomes available with the transfer portal, the draft, the new coach, etc. As I have time, I will add links for the guys playing summer ball so you can track their stats easily.

- 6/22 - Kaminer entering the transfer portal, we are at 52/40 for next year.

- 6/30 - Arnold in the portal we stand at 51/40 for next season.

- With Rice in the portal we are at 50/40.

- 7/1 - with the Millas news, we are at 49/40.

- 7/3 - with the addition of Jacob Berry, we are at 50/40.

- with the two transfers on 7/7 we are at 52/40.

- 7/13 at the conclusion of the draft, with the addition of Trey Shaffer and the assumption that every draftee signs, we are at 47/40.

- 7/16 - With Labas signing, we are at 46/40.

- 7/16 - With the addition of Collins we are at 47/40.

- 7/16 - Sanford’s exit puts us at 46/40

- 7/19 - After this weekend's flurry of activity, we are at 48/40.

- 7/23 - We are now at 49/40 with the add of Haddad.