As UConn baseball waited out a rain delay during the 2019 Oklahoma City Regional, pitching coach and recruiting coordinator Josh McDonald decided to pull out his phone and check the transfer portal. He noticed a new name that had been in for all of five minutes and immediately called the player. Roughly a month later, he committed to UConn.
The player was Erik Stock, UConn’s left fielder who currently leads the team with 257 at-bats, 94 hits and 23 doubles and ranks second with a .366 batting average and 1.042 OPS.
The Huskies’ 2019 squad that fell in the Oklahoma City winner-take-all final featured a single transfer from a four-year school — catcher Paul Gozzo.