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Pirates Sign 14th Round Pick Julian Bosnic

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The Pittsburgh Pirates announced that they have signed 14th round pick Julian Bosnic, a 22-year-old left-handed pitcher from the University of South Carolina. The deadline for signing players just ended (5 PM today), so it appears as if their draft signing class will be complete at 19 of 21 players signed. Announcements have come in more than an hour after the deadline, but the Pirates announced over the weekend that they didn’t expect to sign any of their three remaining unsigned picks, so Bosnic is a pleasant surprise. While he is a senior, he still has a year of eligibility and he was transferring to Arkansas if he didn’t sign.

Here’s his selection announcement and his player page.

Here’s our draft signing tracker. The Pirates spent their entire bonus pool, but they still had their allowed 5% overage, on top of the set slot amount for picks after the tenth round. That overage, which they have used almost every year since the draft bonus pool was instituted, allowed them to spend upwards of $1M if they were able to sign all three players today.

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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