{"id":5446,"date":"2026-06-10T20:49:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/star-freshman-pitcher-shane-brinham-first-to-enter-transfer-portal\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T20:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:49:09","slug":"star-freshman-pitcher-shane-brinham-first-to-enter-transfer-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/star-freshman-pitcher-shane-brinham-first-to-enter-transfer-portal\/","title":{"rendered":"Star freshman pitcher Shane Brinham first to enter transfer portal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-611530\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few weeks after the end of the season for the Michigan baseball team, its first player to enter the transfer portal is freshman left-hander Shane Brinham, per <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/i\/status\/2064132539237982357\">Jacob Rudner<\/a> of Baseball America.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During his first season with the Wolverines, Brinham had a remarkable breakout game against then-No. 15 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigandaily.com\/sports\/baseball\/shane-brinham-spins-a-gem-for-michigan-against-no-15-oregon\/\">Oregon<\/a> where he threw a seven-inning complete-game shutout. After this start, Michigan flourished with Brinham as its Game 2 starter, persisting into his final game, a nine-inning shutout gem against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigandaily.com\/sports\/baseball\/shane-brinham-stays-in-the-zone-as-michigan-outduels-ohio-state\/\">Ohio State<\/a> in the Big Ten Tournament. These games culminated into a team-low ERA of 3.88, 61 strikeouts to 35 walks, and 60 hits allowed in 65 innings pitched.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brinham\u2019s absence would leave the Wolverines with no returning weekend starters for the 2027 season, with the other two \u2014 senior right-handers Kurt Barr and David Lally Jr. \u2014 having graduated this year. They still have other expected starters, like a healthy version of sophomore right-hander Tate Carey, but Brinham\u2019s potential departure poses an ever-growing challenge in filling starting roles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michigan needed a breakout pitcher to stay relevant in Big Ten play this past season, and Brinham came through. But if they are without him, the Wolverines will be hard-pressed to keep up their skillful mound performances to the same degree as the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-1    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<aside>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related articles<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- .entry-footer --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks after the end of the season for the Michigan baseball team, its first player to enter the transfer portal is freshman left-hander Shane Brinham, per Jacob Rudner of Baseball America. During his first season with the Wolverines, Brinham had a remarkable breakout game against then-No. 15 Oregon where he threw a seven-inning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[4754,4048,451,3902,456,4753,62,455],"class_list":["post-5446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-brinham","tag-enter","tag-freshman","tag-pitcher","tag-portal","tag-shane","tag-star","tag-transfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5448,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5446\/revisions\/5448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}