A junior, Eli is an emerging talent, 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.
“Sometimes I look out and I want to say ‘Dan’ instead of ‘Eli,’ ” said Anderson, who has been the Gophers’ coach since 1981.