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Alabama Baseball 2025-26 Offseason Roster Tracker

Moves and status updates for members of the Crimson Tide's 2025 baseball roster, all in one place.
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Alabama baseball players in the dugout at the 2025 Hattiesburg Regional.
Alabama baseball players in the dugout at the 2025 Hattiesburg Regional. | Alabama Athletics

The 2025 Alabama baseball season ended on May 31, with a close 6-5 loss in game three of the NCAA Tournament Hattiesburg Regional. The Crimson Tide won 40 regular season games for the first time since 2002 but went 0-2 in a regional for the second straight year.

Head coach Rob Vaughn and his staff will now be responsible for managing the offseason, with wholesale changes to the sport's scholarship model set to make an impact. Gone is the longstanding 11.7-scholarship limit, replaced by a head-count allowance of 34 with a corresponding cap at that same number on the spring roster (down from 40).

Apart from bringing in new faces via the 2025 signing class, and making the adjustments that come with that, there is also the matter of departures. Among others, veterans like captain Kade Snell and first baseman Will Hodo have used up their college eligibility.

The specter of the MLB Draft is an additional presence in offseason matters. Star pitcher Riley Quick, for example, will be a coveted prospect in that event and selected as such, meaning his college baseball days are over if he signs.

There are other players the program could lose to the pro ranks if those individuals hear their names called as well, like starting outfielders Bryce Fowler and Richie Bonomolo Jr. Star shortstop Justin Lebron is not draft-eligible yet. Weekend starter Zane Adams is. Both were sophomores in 2025.

Whatever takes place, the roster will look different next spring, as happens with the cycle of the offseason. The transfer portal (along with professional pathways for some players) cements that fact even further.

BamaCentral will keep track of personnel moves during the offseason, including incoming and outgoing transfers, providing updates on all of the above items and more. This story will be updated with news as it happens, with markers for dates as new events and changes occur.

Additionally, at the bottom of this page, there will be comprehensive lists of transfers both in and out of the program.

July 5, 2025:

  • Former Virginia Tech right-hander Griffin Stieg's Instagram bio showed Alabama's team handle, illustrating that Tuscaloosa is his transfer destination. He spent 2025 recovering from surgery for a torn UCL, but made 13 starts in 2024 and logged a 4.70 earned run average. He has a career 4-2 record in 29 college appearances.

July 2, 2025:

  • Outgoing Crimson Tide transfer pitcher Nash Wagner shared his commitment to Indiana. Wagner did not pitch this season. He has been working back from a UCL injury, scuttling him from Alabama's 2025 plans.

July 1, 2025:

  • Former Texas Tech weekend starter Tyler Boudreau, who was 1-4 with a 6.65 ERA in 10 starts, committed to Alabama on Instagram. With the MLB Draft expected to bring changes to the Crimson Tide's 2026 rotation, it was a necessary addition.
  • Per a report from College Baseball Central, reliever Packy Bradley-Cooney, a senior who pitched in six games for Alabama in 2025, is transferring. He picked up five strikeouts but issued seven walks and four earned runs, pitching to a 10.80 ERA.

June 30, 2025:

  • Former Southern Illinois catcher John Lemm, who is from Australia, announced a commitment to Alabama on Instagram. Previous reports stated he was going to West Virginia. However, he provides a big offensive boost at his position; he hit 19 home runs and logged a 1.104 OPS as a junior this year.

June 25, 2025:

  • Outfielder Sam Christiansen, who walked 46 times and hit six home runs in 2025 for Oklahoma, announced his commitment to Alabama late Wednesday night. The left-handed hitter scored 36 runs on 42 hits.
  • Former Alabama pitcher Jonathan Stevens, who has been posting admirable numbers this summer, kept it local as he signed with Casey Dunn and UAB. Stevens was one of Alabama's first players to transfer out.
  • Alabama got a portal commitment from former Winthrop right-handed pitcher Owen Sarna, who has two seasons of eligibility at his disposal. Sarna has a 4.97 career ERA and 95 career punchouts. He featured on the 2025 Big South All-Tournament Team.
  • Ex-Crimson Tide outfielder Ahmaad Duff committed to Saint Louis. Duff appeared in one contest for Alabama this year.

June 23, 2025:

  • Former Northern Kentucky outfielder Logen Devenport, who hit .423 with 54 runs batted in, 132 total bases and a 1.316 OPS, committed to Alabama for his final season of eligibility. He led his team in slugging by a wide margin and added 19 steals.

June 22, 2025:

  • Andre Modugno shared that his next stop is California. The two-way player will have four years of eligibility, giving every indication that he also wants to keep pitching. Modugno played in one game this year for Alabama.

June 15, 2025:

  • Former Samford left-hander Evan Steckmesser committed to Alabama for his graduate season. He had solid 2025 numbers for the in-state Bulldogs: 27 games, 56.2 innings, 65 strikeouts (compared to eight walks) and a 3.18 ERA. He made the SoCon All-Tournament Team.

June 10, 2025:

  • Freshman infielder Sean Griggs, who played one game this year with two at-bats, posted a short announcement about being in the transfer portal. Griggs did not record a batting average and struck out once. He did not share specifics about remaining eligibility, but it is possible that he took a redshirt for the 2025 campaign. If not, he would have three years.
  • Two-way freshman Andre Modugno, who got reps at third base last offseason, has placed his name in the transfer portal. The IMG Academy product got into one 2025 game, drawing a walk. He'll have a full four years' worth of eligibility. Modugno is talented, but with a crop of incoming infield transfers and bullpen arms already, those position groups are crowded.

June 9, 2025:

  • Former South Alabama infielder Brennan Holt announced he was coming to Alabama for his final season of eligibility. Holt hit .303 with six home runs and 31 RBIs in 165 at-bats during the 2025 season.
  • Garret Carter, who had ACL surgery earlier this year while a player for Tyler Junior College, shared that he decommitted from Alabama. He was originally going to be a redshirt sophomore in 2025.

June 7, 2025:

  • The first position player of the transfer class made his commitment official in the late afternoon. Justin Osterhouse, who hit .328 with 16 home runs last season for Purdue Fort Wayne, can serve as a superutilityman with 2024-25 starts in the infield and outfield. The Mastodons program was recently discontinued; Osterhouse will have two years of eligibility.
  • Kaden Humphrey, a right-hander by way of North Florida, posted to X (formerly known as Twitter) to share his transfer to Alabama. Humphrey was 2-2 with a 4.30 earned run average, striking out 46 in 29.1 innings. He threw in 24 games, without any starts.

June 6, 2025:

  • Right-handed pitcher Colton Cross, a former Tyler Junior College player in Tyler, Texas, announced he was no longer committed to Alabama and took a medical redshirt in 2025. Three years at most are available to Cross, who never pitched in a Crimson Tide uniform.

June 5, 2025:

  • The first incoming transfer of the 2025-26 class is Texas State right-hander Matthew Tippie, who has one year of eligibility. He worked to a 4.11 ERA and 73 strikeouts in 26 relief appearances.

June 4, 2025:

  • A source indicated to BamaCentral that a pair of pitchers, right-hander Zach Kittrell and lefty Connor Ball, are transferring. Kittrell only spent one season at Alabama, with a 9.64 ERA spread across five games (including a midweek start). Ball spent four years with the program but didn't play in 2024, working to a 9.00 ERA in 11 2025 showings (with just five innings pitched). Ball has appeared in a combined 24 college contests to date.

June 3, 2025:

  • Egan Lowery made his transfer decision official via social media during the evening, adding that he'll be able to play collegiately for up to three more years.
  • Southpaw Jansen Kenty, who was not on the team's roster for the 2025 season, revealed that he was leaving the program and heading to the transfer portal with three years of eligibility. He also included velocity numbers from this past spring. Kenty was 0-1 with a 3.38 ERA in 10 total 2024 appearances.
  • Pitcher Ariston Veasey committed to Clemson, a day after announcing his transfer from Alabama. In doing so, he became the first departing transfer to officially announce a next stop.
  • Egan Lowery became the fifth pitcher from the 2025 squad with intent to transfer, a source informed BamaCentral. Lowery is a sophomore right-hander who was not on the 2024 roster. He bats lefty and caught in high school at McAdory in McCalla, Ala.
  • Staci Banks clarified that the only reason her son, pitcher Hagan Banks, would depart Alabama is if he were to be drafted by a Major League Baseball franchise. He has a season of eligibility left.

June 2, 2025:

  • After six combined games between two seasons, pitcher Ariston Veasey is transferring for his last two years of eligibility. Listed on the team's online roster as a utilityman, he worked 3.2 innings in 2025 and posted a 9.82 ERA with no decisions and six strikeouts. As of his announcement, he was the only officially transferring player on the Crimson Tide's 2025 roster with playing time in both of the last two years.
  • Redshirt junior Hagan Banks' mother, Staci Banks, took to social media to confirm that the pitcher has an extra year due to undergoing elbow surgery in March 2024. Banks did not make any starts in 2025 but did work his way back to the mound in time for opening weekend, posting a 3.72 ERA in 17 appearances. His mother did not confirm that Banks would be heading back to Alabama for the 2026 season, with her message strongly implying that he could play his last year of college baseball elsewhere.
  • Outfielder Ahmaad Duff, who played in one game during his freshman season, decided to transfer and has three years' worth of eligibility remaining (by his own assessment, possibly a fourth). Duff scored a run in the Crimson Tide's Feb. 23 comeback from a 10-run deficit against Ohio State but did not take any at-bats.

June 1, 2025:

  • Right-handed sophomore reliever Sam Mitchell announced in the evening that he would be entering the transfer portal with three years of eligibility to his name. Mitchell did not pitch in 2025 but has a win on his collegiate record from the 2024 campaign, where he put up a 5.87 earned run average in 7.2 innings.
  • Sophomore pitcher Jonathan Stevens, who did not play in any games during either the 2024 or 2025 seasons, became the first member of the 2025 Crimson Tide roster to announce entry into the transfer portal during the offseason. The high school captain and Birmingham, Ala., native will have three seasons of available eligibility.

May 28, 2025:

  • Freshman right-hander Nash Wagner declared his intent to enter the transfer portal prior to season's end. He did not make any appearances after arriving to the program by way of Zionsville, Ind. Wagner will maintain four seasons' eligibility. He spent this year recovering from a torn UCL in his elbow.

Incoming Transfers:

  • Matthew Tippie, RHP (Texas State)
  • Kaden Humphrey, RHP (North Florida)
  • Justin Osterhouse, INF/OF (Purdue Fort Wayne)
  • Brennan Holt, INF (South Alabama)
  • Evan Steckmesser, LHP (Samford)
  • Logen Devenport, OF (Northern Kentucky)
  • Owen Sarna, RHP (Winthrop)
  • Sam Christiansen, OF (Oklahoma)
  • John Lemm, C (Southern Illinois)
  • Tyler Boudreau, RHP (Texas Tech)
  • Griffin Stieg, RHP (Virginia Tech)

Outgoing Transfers:

  • Nash Wagner, RHP, freshman
  • Sam Mitchell, RHP, sophomore
  • Jonathan Stevens, RHP, sophomore
  • Ahmaad Duff, OF, freshman
  • Ariston Veasey, RHP, sophomore
  • Egan Lowery, RHP, sophomore
  • Jansen Kenty, LHP, last rostered as freshman
  • Zach Kittrell, RHP, junior
  • Connor Ball, LHP, redshirt junior
  • Colton Cross, RHP, decommitted junior college transfer
  • Garret Carter, RHP, decommitted junior college transfer
  • Andre Modugno, INF/RHP, freshman
  • Sean Griggs, INF, freshman
  • Packy Bradley-Cooney, RHP, senior

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Will Miller is the primary baseball writer for BamaCentral/Alabama Crimson Tide On SI. He also covers football and basketball. Miller graduated from the University of Alabama in December 2024 with experience covering a wide array of sports.

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