Mississippi State baseball pitcher Charlie Foster transferring to Ole Miss
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Mississippi State baseball pitcher Charlie Foster is transferring to Ole Miss, he confirmed to the Clarion Ledger on June 20.
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The left-hander from Snellville, Georgia, had a 6.69 ERA and 0-3 record in nine starts and 36⅓ innings with 37 strikeouts and 22 walks.
Foster played two seasons for the Bulldogs and began this season as a weekend starter. However, he fell out of the rotation after struggling but was reinserted following Ryan McPherson's injury.
He started at Ole Miss on March 27, the first series after McPherson's injury, pitching 4⅔ innings with one run allowed on two hits, no walks and three strikeouts. MSU won that game, 5-4, and went on to sweep the series.
But that wound up being one of Foster's best starts of the season. He finished with a 7.18 ERA in SEC play and failed to pitch longer than two innings in his last two starts against LSU and Texas. He pitched one relief inning against Texas A&M on May 16 and never played again the rest of the season.
Foster is the sixth transfer to commit to Ole Miss and the fifth pitcher.
Ole Miss could lose all three starting pitchers — Cade Townsend, Taylor Rabe and Hunter Elliott — to the MLB draft while MSU is expected to return all of its weekend starters in Tomas Valincius, Duke Stone and McPherson.
The transfer portal opened June 1 and closes June 30.
Sam Sklar is the Mississippi State beat reporter for the Clarion Ledger. Email him at [email protected] and follow him on X @sklarsam_.
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