Eli Willits goes to nationals in MLB draft

ELI Willits in high school has become the latest teenager takes a big step in making professional basbol dreams real.

the Washington is citizens Willits selected with General Selection No. 1 of MLB amateur draft Sunday evening.

Click here for more sports coverage on FoxNews.com

At the age of 17, he was the youngest player to hold the first rank since Ken Grivi Junior in 1987 with Seattle Marines.

He is the son of the former wage for Ligge Rigi Wilts, who played with Los Angeles Angeles and was a coach in New York Yanxiz.

Play Willits Basement game at Fort Cobb-Broxton Secondary School in Oklala. It is a short shorts that is expected to put more power in its fluctuation while it is evolving.

“I feel good susceptibility, and I will take it to the next level,” Wiltz said of his strengths. “I feel that my strength has ended, but I needed to enter an organization like citizens who can help develop this and take this to the next level.”

Welts is 17 years old and 216 days. Graphi was at the age of 17 and 193 days when Marines chose him No. 1. Tim Foley, who was the best choice in 1968, was the youngest of 17 years old, 180 days, according to MLB.com.

2025 MLB All-Star Game: Building a collection at all for all thirty teams

The choice of citizens came after a week The organization launched Dave Martinez Director and General Manager Mike Rizu.

But the citizens of the interim general manager, Mike Deparulo, maintained that Wiltz was the best man in the board of directors.

“It is one of those gentle things where he sees scouts and analysts in the same way in the same way and saw him as the best hunger in the draft, the best player in the draft with great makeup, great work ethics and all incisive.” Via mlb.com.

Click here to get the Fox News app

Welts reached 473 with OPS from 912 in his last year of high school.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Fox News Digital’s Sports coverage on x And subscribe to Newsletter of Fox News Sport Hold.