Two Former WVU Pitchers Throw Scoreless Outings In MiLB

The 2025 MLB season might be the season of former WVU players breaking out in minor and major league baseball. Several WVU baseball alumni have had great seasons, great performances, and breakout campaigns in 2025.

Two of WVU baseball alumni who are in the midst of having good and/or breakout seasons are Carlson Reed and David Hagaman. Hagaman has turned some adversity, getting traded at the MLB Trade Deadline, into a very successful season with his new team, the Arizona Diamondbacks. Reed is the Pittsburgh Pirates organization playing for the High-A Greensboro Grasshoppers. And for Hagaman, he is playing for the Hillsboro Hopps, the High-A affiliate of the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Both pitchers appeared in their respective teams’ games on August 27 and had scoreless outings in their appearances. Reed went six innings with zero runs given up, one hit, while recording 10 strikeouts. Hagaman recorded a four-inning appearance, no runs given up, zero hits, and seven strikeouts.

Reed and Hagaman put together solid performances to end the 2025 MiLB season

Reed spent three seasons (2021-2023) in Morgantown before being drafted in the fourth round of the 2023 MLB Draft by the Pirates. While wearing a WVU baseball uniform, Reed posted a 4.98 ERA in 110.1 innings pitched with a 1.677 WHIP. Reed earned seven saves coming out of the bullpen in his junior season in 2023. The Marietta, Georgia, native racked up a whopping 136 strikeouts in his only 110.1 innings pitched, compared to his 64 walks issued.

Hagaman was Reed’s teammate in 2023, as Hagaman played for WVU from 2023-2024 before also being selected in the fourth round like Reed, just in the following year’s draft (2024). Hagaman had a 4.66 ERA with a 1.227 WHIP in 73.1 innings pitched, also getting 89 strikeouts compared to 37 walks in his career.

Now, both pitchers are pitching well as they try to climb up the ladder in the minor league system. Both Reed and Hagaman can greatly benefit from having good seasons at the High-A level. As of right now, Reed has a 4.14 ERA, 1.460 WHIP, 61 strikeouts, while only allowing 50 free passes in 63 innings at the High-A level. Hagaman has a 3.15 ERA, 0.750 WHIP, 27 strikeouts, while allowing only four walks in 20 innings of work.

WVU baseball and WVU fans must be happy to see a couple of former WVU pitchers who spent a couple of seasons or more at WVU have success at the professional level. Seeing Reed and Hagaman have good seasons and good outings represents the WVU baseball program in a great way and shows that WVU baseball produces talent at the next level.