2024 Baseball Roster
Roster
Hogart, Jonathan
Jersey Number 15
Jonathan Hogart
- Position:
- Outfield
- Height:
- 6-1
- Weight:
- 205
- Class:
- Redshirt Junior
- Hometown:
- Madisonville, Ky.
- High School:
- Madisonville-North Hopkins HS
- Prev School:
- Louisiana Tech
Bio
2025:
2024:
Before MSU:
- Was part of an amazing 2025 season in which the racers on a school record 44 games, tied for the Missouri Valley Conference regular season championship, and advanced all the way to the college World Series.
- Earned All-Missouri Valley Conference First Team and was a candidate for the Joe Carter MVC Player of the Year trophy.
- In the postseason, was named to the MVC All-Tournament Team and to the NCAA Oxford Regional Team.
- Was named to the D1 Baseball All-America Third Team.
- Hit .338 on the season and started all 61 games in centerfield for the Racers in the 2025 season.
- In the MVC, he was first in doubles (26), first in at-bats (260), first in runs scored (80), second in hits (88), second in home runs (22), second in OPS (1.146), third in RBIs (65), fourth in slugging percentage (.700)
- eighth in on base percentage (.446) and 10th in batting average.
- Set new Murray State single season records for at bats (260) and tied the all-time single-season home run record with 22, the same number that Wes Cunningham posted in 2010.
- Was second at MSU for single-season hits behind only teammate Dustin Mercer who had 92 hits and Hogart was second in season doubles with 26.
- Had two streaks during the season of three straight games with a home run.
- The first streak came against Missouri State, Belmont, and Southern Illinois from May 15 to the 22nd and the second run came in the postseason at the Oxford Regional from May 30 to June 1 as Hogart
- homered against Ole Miss, Georgia Tech, and Ole Miss again as the Racers won the Oxford Regional.
- Had four multi-homer games in the season with two each at Little Rock (March 2) home (March 12) against Lindenwood, home against Kentucky State (April 9) and at Duke in the NCAA Super Regional (June 9).
- His .700 slugging percentage makes him just the 15th Racer above 700 in program history and he's the first to do it with more than 250 at bats.
- Hit an NCAA best eight lead off home runs during the season (Southern Indiana (March 16), Bradley (April 6), Kentucky State (April 9), Valparaiso (April 18), Missouri State (May 15), Ole Miss (May 30),Â
- Duke (June 8 & 9).
- Hogart‘s lead off Homer in the Oxford Regional installed was Murray State's first home run in the NCA tournament since 1979 when Greg Tooley Homer at the Starkville Regional against Mississippi State.
2024:
- Started and played in all 57 games
- Batted .304Â with 14Â home runs, 12 doubles and a triple
- Plated 66 runs, which are the sixth-most scored by a Racer in a season
Before MSU:
- Joined the Racers after spending the 2023 at Louisiana Tech where he played in 16 games total with 53 AB for a .226 batting average with two home runs in a season that was cut short by injury..
- Played two Wabash JC in 2021 and 2022.
- Was the Great Rivers Athletic Conference Freshman of the Year for Wabash Valley and Secodn Team NJCAA All-America in 2022.
- In 2022, played in 68 games with a stat line of: .463 BA, .710 SLG and .544 with an OPS of 1254 with 13 doubles and 12 home runs with 85 RBIs with 43 walks and only 23 SO.
- Was the KHSAA Region-2Â Player of the Year at Madisonville High School.
- Born on May 1, 2002, son of Jody and Leigh Ann Hogart.
- Majoring in Business Management.
- Has one brother, AJ.
Coach Jody Wright | Racer Football Press Conference 9/02/2025
Tuesday, September 02
Dylan Rowsey | Racer Football Press Conference 9/02/2025
Tuesday, September 02
Carson Garner, Jonathan Hogart, Dustin Mercer | CWS vs Arkansas Post Game Interview 6/16/2025
Monday, June 16
Coach Dan Skirka | CWS vs Arkansas Post Game Interview 6/16/2025 | Racer Baseball
Monday, June 16