Baseball

2018 MLB Draft: Selected as a junior by the defending World Series champion Houston Astros in the 18th round of the MLB First-Year Player Draft ... First Div. III position player selected in the draft ... Was assigned to the Astros' short-season Single A affiliate Tri-City ValleyCats.

2018 Wooster: Second player in program history to earn the ABCA's Player-of-the-Year honor, joining W Association Hall of Famer Luke Ullman '05 ... Consensus first-team All-American and Mideast Region Position Player-of-the-Year by the ABCA and D3baseball.com … Became the third player in program history to earn first-team ABCA All-American honors in back-to-back years and the first to do so in 21 years … Earned first-team all-region certificates from the ABCA and D3baseball.com and tabbed to the all-conference first-team for the third straight year … CoSIDA Academic All-District® first-team selection for the second consecutive year … Became the second known player in Div. III history to log 200 hits, 200 runs, and 150 RBI before the end of his junior year, joining former Southwestern (Texas) standout Matt Gelotti ’00 … Capped the milestone with his 200th career run against Wabash (May 17) in the opener of the Mideast Regional … Led Div. III in scoring for the second straight year with a career-high 76 runs, the third-most in program history and three shy of the single-season program record … Hit .401 (79-for-197) on the year and finished with 50 RBI, 40 walks, 20 doubles, 17 stolen bases, seven triples, and six home runs … Sported a .966 fielding percentage and made eight errors in 233 chances … One of the big keys in helping Wooster lead the nation in fielding percentage (.978), hits (658), runs (516), and doubles (139), while also ranking in the top five as a team in average (.349), slugging (.538), home runs (55), and triples (27) … Individually, ranked sixth in Div. III in total bases (131) and walks, 11th in hits, 12th in walks, 14th in doubles, and 47th in RBI … Within the NCAC, finished as the league-leader in five statistical categories and ranked in the top six in every major offensive stat … Became the second player in program history to record his 200th career hit before the end of his junior year doing so against La Roche (April 26), and finished the year with 79 base knocks for the second straight season … Broke the program’s all-time record for assists during the NCAC Tournament (May 10-12), and ended the year at 461 … Became the program’s all-time leader in triples during a sweep over Hiram (April 5), and went on to tally four more three-baggers the rest of the year … Key in helping Wooster to a 20-game winning streak (March 21 – April 21), and was part of the program’s first No. 1 ranking since 2008 … NCBWA Honorable Mention Hitter-of-the-Week and named to the D3baseball.com Team-of-the-Week for games played April 16-22 … During that week, slashed .655/.688/1.172, went 19-for-29 with nine extra base hits, 16 runs, and 13 RBI as Wooster went 5-1 during the six-game stretch … Scored at least one run in 39 of the team’s 50 games, including 18 straight games from March 31 – April 26 … During the 18-game scoring streak scored at least three times in nine games.

2017 VBL: MVP of the Valley Baseball League, one of the country’s premier summer collegiate wood bat leagues … Perfect Game/Rawlings Summer Collegiate All-America first-team selection … Led the VBL with a .432 (67-for-155) average, one of the top averages since the league became a NCAA-sanctioned summer league in 1961 … Led the VBL with a .489 on-base and a .677 slugging percentages, and topped the league leaderboard in hits, runs (38), and doubles (18) during the 42-game regular season … Part of the VBL’s all-star team selected for the Southern Collegiate Showcase, and competed in the VBL’s All-Star Game … Ranked as the fourth-best prospect out of the VBL by Perfect Game and ninth by Baseball America.

2017 Wooster: Turned in an absolutely phenomenal year on the diamond with trophy haul culminating with prestigious ABCA/Rawlings Gold Glove Award for Div. III shortstops … First player in program history to earn a Gold Glove … Voted a first-team All-American by the ABCA, and was the ABCA’s Mideast Region Position Player-of-the-Year … First-team all-region by the ABCA and second-team by D3baseball.com … All-NCAC first-team … CoSIDA Academic All-District® first-team selection … Led Div. III with 69 runs, and helped the Scots rank first in the country in runs per game … Hit .425 (79-for-186) on the year and finished with 54 RBI, 20 stolen bases, 15 doubles, 10 home runs, and six triples … Sported a .986 fielding percentage and made three errors in 216 chances … Ranked second in Div. III in total bases (136), sixth in hits, 14th in RBI, 14th in triples, and 16th in slugging percentage (.731) … Led the NCAC in eight offensive categories, including average and slugging, and was third in the league in on-base percentage (.509), while ranking second on the team in the latter stat … 69 runs and 79 hits are tied for the fifth- and eighth-most respectively in a single season in the tradition-rich program’s history … Strung together a 19-game hitting streak between March 21 and April 19 …Logged 25 multi-hit games on the year, including 12 with at least three hits … Reached base safely in first 11 plate appearances in Florida … Earned NCAC Player-of-the-Week honor on March 20 after an 11-for-21 week at the plate … Went 10-for-15 with 11 RBI, six runs, two homers, a double, and a triple in the Hiram series (April 30-May 1).

2016 Wooster: Consensus second-team all-region pick by the ABCA and D3baseball.com … NCAC Newcomer of the year and first-team all-conference … Reached base safely in the final 45 games of the season … Set a NCAC and program record with 173 assists, while sporting a .953 fielding percentage overall … Played a key role in Wooster ranking second nationally in fielding percentage at .977 … Fifth in Div. III, and tops in the NCAC in runs with 61 … 21st in Div. III and second in the NCAC behind teammate Jamie Lackner in hits with 73 … Hit .374 (73-for-195) on the year with 52 RBI, 18 doubles, seven homers, and five triples … Swiped a conference-best 22 bases … Logged a 14-game hitting streak between April 27 and May 13, and had a 13-game one earlier in the season … Named to the all-tournament team at the NCAC Championships after going 10-for-22 with nine runs scored, five RBI, and two homers.

Prior to Wooster: Third-team all-state as a senior, while prepping for Rob Garrett at Ladue Horton Watkins High School … Three-time all-conference pick, including the league’s player-of-the-year as a senior … Earned varsity letters in baseball and soccer.

Personal: Born March 18, 1997 … Son of Steve and Linda Wielansky … Majoring in business economics.