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Cardinals use top draft pick on a strikeout machine Liam Doyle from Tennessee
This season, as a junior at Tennessee, Doyle struck out 164 of the 385 batters he faced, a 42.3 strikeout percentage.
2025 MLB draft grades: Live picks, analysis as selections are made in Atlanta
How will each MLB team fare with its selections at the 2025 MLB Draft? Follow along live with USA TODAY Sports' draft grades.
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Nationals take high school shortstop Eli Willits with No. 1 pick in draft; Padres get high school lefty
The Washington Nationals selected Oklahoma high school shortstop Eli Willits with the No. 1 pick in Major League Baseball’s ...
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Mock draft: MLB Pipeline's final predictions
The Nationals will exercise the first pick in the 2025 Draft in Atlanta tonight shortly after 6 p.m. ET, and they'll probably ...
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Nats surprise with Willits as No. 1 pick
In the end, the Nationals went with the other talented shortstop from Oklahoma whose father played in the big leagues.The Nats selected Eli Willits with the No. 1 pick in tonight’s Major League ...
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MLB Mock Draft 2025, 2-round edition: Kade Anderson leapfrogs Ethan Holliday as Nationals' No. 1 pick
In the year since the 2024 MLB Draft, five first-round picks have already debuted at the MLB level: Chase Burns (No. 2), Nick ...
Nationals take Eli Willits with No. 1 pick in MLB draft, first of record 17 first-round shortstops
The 17-year-old Willits is the youngest player taken No. 1 overall since Ken Griffey Jr. to Seattle in 1987, according to MLB ...