Two Texas A&M baseball players with Knoxville ties enter transfer portal

No. 1 overall seed Tennessee (60-13, 22-8 SEC) defeated No. 3 overall seed Texas A&M (53-14, 19-11 SEC), 6-5, on Monday to win the College World Series at Charles Schwab Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska.

On Tuesday, Texas A&M head coach Jim Schlossnagle resigned to take a same position at Texas .

Following his departure, Texas A&M student-athletes entered the NCAA transfer portal, including two players with ties to Knoxville, Tennessee.

Kaeden Kent, son of former Major League Baseball player Jeff Kent, and Farragut High School graduate Jett Johnston entered the NCAA transfer portal .

Jeff Kent played for Toronto, the Mets, Cleveland, San Francisco, Houston and the Dodgers in Major League Baseball. He also played for the Knoxville Blue Jays in 1991.

He appeared in 139 games for Knoxville and recorded a .256 batting average, 12 home runs and 61 RBIs.

Jeff Kent was selected by the Blue Jays in the 1989 MLB draft in the 20th round.

Kaeden Kent appeared 79 games, including 45 starts, for the Aggies from 2023-24. He recorded a .301 batting average, five home runs, 51 RBIs and 32 runs.

Johnston was a starting third baseman when Farragut won consecutive state titles in Tennessee from 2022-23. He appeared in 13 games, including three starts, as a freshman in 2024 at Texas A&M, recording two RBIs and five runs.

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