Diamond Vols Podcast: Tennessee baseball parts ways with its pitching coach as portal kicks off
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🗓️ 5 June 2026
⏱️ 77 minutes
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GoVols247's Ben McKee and former Vols pitcher Will Heflin discuss several topics on the latest Diamond Vols Podcast. The two discuss Chad Dallas' major league debut, react to Josh Elander's decision to part ways with pitching coach Josh Reynolds and go over all the different moves that have taken place across Tennessee baseball's roster during the first week of the transfer portal.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome in to the Diamond Balls podcast on Govalls24.com. |
| 0:03.5 | I'm Ben McKee, and I'm joined by former Tennessee baseball pitcher Will Heflin on this Friday, June 5th edition of the podcast. |
| 0:11.6 | And Boy, do we have a lot to discuss on this podcast? |
| 0:15.6 | A lot has taken place since Tennessee season came to a bitter end in the Chapel Hill Regional. |
| 0:24.6 | Some bad things have happened. |
| 0:26.1 | Some good things have happened. |
| 0:27.4 | And we're going to start with the good before we dive into the bad. |
| 0:31.5 | Although I don't know that it's a bad thing that the roster attrition and coaching attrition has begun to take place. |
| 0:40.0 | But we want to talk about Will's guy, Chad Dallas, before we talk about anything else. |
| 0:45.1 | Chad Dallas earning the call earlier this week to the big leagues. |
| 0:50.2 | He found out that he was going up to the big leagues on Lou Gehrig Day, |
| 0:59.8 | just over a year after his father, Tony, passed from ALS. |
| 1:02.1 | That's not a coincidence. |
| 1:05.3 | I loved what Chad said last night in his postgame interview, |
| 1:07.5 | that it was a god wink. |
| 1:16.1 | And I was texting with Chad after all the news came out and had mentioned that to him. |
| 1:17.6 | I told him that that was no coincidence. And he said that there's no doubt about that. |
| 1:19.5 | And he couldn't stop thinking about that all night long. |
| 1:22.6 | I guess that was Tuesday night when he found out. |
| 1:26.7 | So very happy for him and his family. |
| 1:29.4 | Will comes in, makes his big league debut, does a great job. |
| 1:33.5 | First career strikeout. |
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