Wiggins (Indiana) and Bargo (Tennessee) likely round out the Wolfpack’s position player group heading into 2026
NC State turned a good week in the transfer portal into a great one on Thursday with the additions of outfielder Andrew Wiggins from Indiana and utility man Dalton Bargo from Tennessee. The roster now sits at 32 and likely rounds out the roster of position players as the Wolfpack will likely target a pair of relief pitchers with the remaining two roster spots.
Wiggins was ranked by Perfect Game as the #37 overall player in the high school class of 2023, with ESPN ranking him as the 183rd best prospect in that year’s draft. Despite the lofty rankings and draft interest, the Indiana native decided to stick with his commitment to his home-state school. The lefty hitting Wiggins played in 79 games over two seasons with the Hoosiers, batting .271/.457/.452, 11 2B, 7 HR, 20.3 BB%, 19.5 K%, 7-9 SB over 256 PA. That walk rate is amazing.
Don’t let those stolen base numbers fool you, Wiggins is far more athletic than that. He ran a 6.62 60-yard dash in high school, mostly batted leadoff for Indiana.
While he mainly served in a reserve and DH role as a freshman, his sophomore season in 2025 saw Wiggins serve as Indiana’s primary right fielder. Wiggins is currently playing the Cape Cod League where he’s hitting .255/.426/.353, 2 2B, 1 HR, 23.2 BB%, 29.0 K%, 2-3 SB. A solid season for NC State in 2026 will put the 6’4, 225 lbs Indianapolis native back up high on draft boards. Wiggins was recently listed as the 84th best college prospect for the 2026 MLB Draft by D1 Baseball. (Side note: Jacob Dudan is #50 and Ryan Marohn #55 on that list.)
NC State’s other big portal addition is in the form of Tennessee transfer Dalton Bargo. While he didn’t have the high rankings around him coming out of high school in Nebraska, Bargo started his career at Missouri. He used a big freshman year with the Tigers to facilitate a transfer up to Tennessee where he was a starter on the Volunteers 2024 national championship team. He again started for Tennessee in 2025, but surprisingly went undrafted after the season. That’s NC State’s win.
Across his three seasons of college ball, the l6’1, 195 lbs lefty hitter has posted an overall line of .276/.372/.517, 25 2B, 27 HR, 10.2 BB%, 26.0 K%, 5-8 SB, which includes a line in 2025 of .272/.366/.559, 14 2B, 14 HR, 11.0 BB%, 27.1 K%, 3-5 SB. Strikeouts are clearly the concern here as the power is legit and the walk rate is solid.
After serving primarily as the team’s DH for Missouri in 2023 and Tennessee in 2024, Bargo served as the Volunteers’ primary left fielder in 2025. He also has experience at the collegiate level at 1B (9 games), 3B (25 games), and catcher (4 games). Interestingly, he’s mostly served as a catcher in his college summer league experience, including last summer in the Cape Cod League.
With Ty Head returning as the Wolfpack’s centerfielder for 2026, landing a pair of established high-ceiling corner outfielders is exactly what NC State needed. The added defensive flexibility of Bargo is a plus. The Pack9 now have eight players who can play in the infield and six who can play in the outfield.