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Pirates Release Outfielder Clark Eagan

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The Pittsburgh Pirates released outfielder Clark Eagan on Saturday. The 23-year-old was drafted in the ninth round of the 2016 draft and spent the 2017 season with the West Virginia Power.

Eagan hit .277/.311/.375 in 30 games for Morgantown after he was drafted in 2016. He then moved up a level and hit .261/.317/.388 in 119 games last year. He had a lot of similarities in size and overall tools/skills to Ryan Nagle, a corner outfielder from the 2015 draft, who was released last week. They also got the same exact signing bonus amount. Both players were squeezed out of outfielder jobs this year due to the depth in the system, although neither was able to establish themselves as a prospect during their short time with the Pirates.

The Pirates signed 28 players during the 2016 draft and now nine of them are no longer in the system. Eight have retired or been released, while Matt Frawley was traded away to the New York Yankees last year. Eagan is the highest draft pick among that group now and his $160,000 bonus was the highest among the nine players.

John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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