A junior at the University of Minnesota, Eli Wilson is an emerging talent behind the plate, likely to be drafted after the season. He will be playing in the Seattle Baseball Showcase at T-Mobile Park this weekend.
Sometimes when University of Minnesota baseball coach John Anderson watches the Gophers’ catcher, Eli Wilson, his mind plays tricks on him.
Eli’s mannerisms, his body language, even the way he throws the ball back to the pitcher — for Anderson, it’s like seeing an old video of Minnesota’s All-American catcher from the late 1980s. Except this video is playing in his head.