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Pirates Fail To Reach Agreement With 36th Overall Pick Gunnar Hoglund

By Jeff Todd | July 6, 2018 at 6:35pm CDT

The Pirates failed to line up with competitive balance Round A selection Gunnar Hoglund, Kiley McDaniel of Fangraphs reported on Twitter. This afternoon (5pm CST) represented the deadline to complete deals with drafted players.

Hoglund, a right-handed pitcher from Florida, didn’t crack the top fifty of any draft prospect rankings, topping out at #55 on the Fangraphs board. While he’s not credited with an electric arsenal of pitches, Hogulund is valued for his pinpoint control and increasingly impressive radar gun readings.

The Pittsburgh organization clearly liked Hoglund quite a bit, as it took him with the 36th overall pick. But the Bucs were not able to convince him to join the organization, meaning they’ll instead receive the 37th selection in next year’s draft. Hoglund, meanwhile, is headed to the University of Mississippi.

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  1. hiflew

    7 years ago

    What is with the draft failures this year? 4 in the top 36. That is as much in that range as the past 4 years combined. What is the difference this season?

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    • dcahen

      7 years ago

      I’d never pick a HS player anyway, they end up toiling in the minors for 5 years. Pick the college guys. Pirates have been burned before on this.

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      • Kenleyfornia74

        7 years ago

        Thats pretty ridiculous. Theres more good players that came from high school than college

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        • Daver520

          7 years ago

          WRONG !

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        • dugdog83

          7 years ago

          Yah there’s no way that’s true

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        • Kenleyfornia74

          7 years ago

          Theres more players from college as a whole but many of the all star caliber position players came out of high school.

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      • extreme113

        7 years ago

        You mean like Mike Trout?

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      • sheff86

        7 years ago

        Sooo let me guess Andrew right out of HS….
        Cole as he was leaving college. Yup,they got burned.
        That clown Cole turned down Yankee Money.
        “Oh he’s with Houston.” He’s not with Pitt. They had every chance to build a winner. They didn’t.

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  2. mrgreenjeans

    7 years ago

    Scott Boras

    Folkish for a HS arm to give up millions with all the injuries arm sustain in the college game

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    • JKB 2

      7 years ago

      I would have to agree with you

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    • davidcoonce74

      7 years ago

      Wait, are you arguing that Boras advised his client against taking the deal? Thus forgoing his agent’s commission? That seems odd.

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  3. lilpartialbaldo

    7 years ago

    I can’t see him being good with that name. Just not a baseball name. Sorry, SMH.

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    • aj_54

      7 years ago

      hell only be about as good as Eric skoglund

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      • dugdog83

        7 years ago

        I dunno, a pitcher named Gunnar is fitting.

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    • hiflew

      7 years ago

      He does sound more like a linebacker with that name.

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  4. brewpackbuckbadg

    7 years ago

    Don’t comp picks get just forfeited or am I confusing them with comp picks from the old system?

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    • hiflew

      7 years ago

      I think the only picks that can be forfeited are if you don’t sign someone with a pick you were awarded for not signing someone last year. I could be wrong though.

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  5. brewpackbuckbadg

    7 years ago

    Does MLB traderumors have a list of picks from rounds 1 to 10 that do not sign or is there another site that has that info? MLB? Does someone have a link?

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    • hiflew

      7 years ago

      MLB draft tracker has that info. Just Google MLB draft tracker and you should find it.

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  6. waldfee

    7 years ago

    LOL… three first-rounders each leaving millions on the table to head to the State of Mississippi. What are the odds?

    As I wrote underneath the failed Braves/Carter Stewart signing…

    mlbtraderumors.com/2018/07/braves-fail-to-reach-ag…

    … these Mississippi schools are as desperate as they are unscrupulous in their pursuit of gaining some relevance among their SEC brethren. Ole Miss as well as Mississippi State have recently been caught paying recruits considerable sums, among other things. There’s nothing in this world these programs wouldn’t do for their first national championship in any of the three big college sports (football, basketball, baseball).

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    • Kenleyfornia74

      7 years ago

      They definitely look desperate. If you look at these kids social media feeds you see tons of Mississippi people begging them to go there rather than sign. The coaches like the Vanderbilt one make asinine claims like “you will never play in a bigger baseball game than the college world series” oh lets see how about the real world series

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      • 66TheNumberOfTheBest

        7 years ago

        “You will never play in a bigger baseball game than the college world series” if you never turn pro, that’s true.

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    • Solaris601

      7 years ago

      You are definitely onto something. The fact that this many first rounders are not signing to play in a Mississippi college – and we are NOT talking about Ivy League or anything close to it – tells me there is more incentive at stake than a manager promising nothing more than a trip to the college World Series. Something’s not right here.

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  7. 66TheNumberOfTheBest

    7 years ago

    Let’s hope history shows that Gunnar Hoglund did the Pirates as big a favor as Mark Appel did years ago.

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  8. Darth Alru

    7 years ago

    Let’s hope history shows that Gunnar Hoglund made right decision by not signing a contract with an org that can’t develop a talented player into a major league star.

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    • 66TheNumberOfTheBest

      7 years ago

      …like Mark Appel.

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