Breaking Down The Nats' Pick of Eli Willits

The Sports Junkies

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🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Hour 1: Breaking down the Nats first overall draft choice

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0:00.0	We're talking about the national selecting Eli Willits, a shortstop, high school shortstop, 17 years old, which kind of came out of nowhere.
0:13.7	Everybody expected them either to take Ethan Holiday or the pitcher from LSU, Kate Anderson.
0:24.9	Instead, they took Willits.
0:26.6	I have to say, I have no beef with it.
0:28.5	I could care less.
0:29.6	You got to trust your front office, right?
0:32.1	You know what I mean?
0:32.8	Even if it had major upheaval a week before the draft.
0:35.8	Well, I mean, those guys are still there.
0:37.3	Sure, of course.
0:38.2	But the scouts.
0:39.4	I have no idea.
0:40.5	You can't question it.
0:42.6	You can't question it.
0:42.8	You can question whatever you want.
0:44.6	No, no, no.
0:45.1	The fact that they took a kid overall because he's willing to take less money at number one.
0:52.1	That's a fear.
0:52.8	Factors to your decision.
0:54.9	Yeah, I mean, if that, I think that that's kind of bogus, if that's why they did it.
0:59.1	If, if, if, let's say, I'm hoping they did it because they thought he was the best player,
1:01.9	like the Bartolo said.
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