2023 Baseball Roster
Emerson, Eli

Jersey Number 3
Eli Emerson
- Position:
- Righthanded Pitcher
- Ht./Wt.:
- 6-0 / 172
- Class:
- Redshirt Senior
- Hometown:
- Cold Spring, Minn.
- High School:
- ROCORI
- Bats/Throws:
- R/R
Bio
CAREER NOTES
2022 (COLD SPRING SPRINGERS) | RS-JUNIOR SUMMER:
Summer: Returned to the Minnesota Baseball Association and starred for the Cold Spring Springers, closing out his season with 34.0 straight scoreless innings while leading the club to a Class B State Tournament appearance… made 12 appearances and recorded a 2.42 ERA across 48.1 innings of work…struck out 46 and walked just 21, allowing only 31 hits…
2022 | RS-JUNIOR SEASON:
Season: Made eight relief appearances as a middle reliever, recording a save and logging 6.1 innings while striking out six and pitching to a 8.53 ERA…six of his eight appearances were scoreless…held batters to a .280 average…inherited five runners and allowed none to score for a perfect 100% strand rate…allowed just three extra-base hits, all in his first outing of the season…gave up four hits over his final seven outings, all singles…did not issue a walk in six of eight appearances…seven of eight outings occurred in Huskies wins…
Missouri Western (2/11): Allowed two runs on three hits while recording three outs, striking out one… Wayne State (3/27): Fired a 1-2-3 inning of relief on just nine pitches to finish off a win… Sioux Falls (4/3): Worked around a hit and a walk to log a scoreless inning, striking out one… Concordia-St. Paul (4/11): Struck out the lone batter he faced… Upper Iowa (4/12): Threw 2.0 scoreless innings to earn his first collegiate save, scattering a pair of hits while striking out one batter… Northern State (4/21): Tagged for four runs on a hit and three walks, recording a lone out with a strikeout… Bemidji State (5/24): Retired one of the two batters he faced and did not allow a run… NSIC Tournament (5/11-13): Struck out the lone batter he faced in the tournament opener against Sioux Falls…
2021 (WATERLOO BUCKS) | RS-SOPHOMORE SUMMER:
Summer: Spent the entire summer pitching for the Waterloo Bucks of the Northwoods League, serving as a key middle reliever in the bullpen…helped the Bucks to a Great Plains-East Division Championship as well as a First Half and Second Half Championships…won five games to share the staff lead with Iowa Sunday starter Duncan Davitt…made 15 appearances and owned a 5-1 record, pitching to a 6.53 ERA across 20.2 innings of work…struck out 15 batters and held opponents to a .256 average…gave up just four extra-base hits, tied for second-fewest among Bucks pitchers with at least 10 appearances…made the third-most relief appearances of any Waterloo pitcher…dominated in clutch spots, allowing just two of 15 inherited runners to score for a brilliant 86.7% strand rate…
2021 | RS-SOPHOMORE SEASON:
Season: Made nine appearances as one of the Huskies’ top middle relievers…pitched to a 4.35 ERA with an 11:6 K:BB ratio…owned a 3.24 ERA while holding a .265 batting average against in conference play across seven appearances, striking out 10 in 8.1 frames…finished the second-most games on the staff, slamming the door on five contests…allowed the fewest extra-base hits among Huskies hurlers with at least 10.0 innings pitched, surrendering just three…six of his final seven outings occurred in Huskies wins…four of his appearances were scoreless with five outings featuring zero earned runs allowed…struck out multiple batters four times…did not issue a walk in four appearances…never allowed more than two runs, surrendering one run or less in eight of nine appearances…pitched to a 1.50 ERA in April, striking out five batters and walking just two across five outings…
William Jewell (3/7): Tossed an inning in relief, allowing a lone run on a solo homer …scattered three hits… Minnesota Crookston (3/8): Allowed a lone run on two hits and a walk over an inning of work, striking out one… Concordia-St. Paul (3/30): Punched out a season-high three while retiring a total of four batters in a scoreless appearance, working around a single and walking none… Minnesota State-Mankato (4/2): Retired a pair while allowing one run on two hits… Winona State (4/6): Worked around a pair of free passes while retiring the side, striking out two in a scoreless appearance… Sioux Falls (4/10): Gave the Huskies a strong effort in long relief, retiring seven batters with two strikeouts and no walks while allowing a lone unearned run on four hits… Bemidji State (4/21): Worked a scoreless inning with one punchout, allowing one baserunner on a single… Minnesota Crookston (4/23): Pitched around a walk to fire a shutout inning of relief… Northern State (5/1): Allowed two earned on a hit and a walk in an inning of work, striking out two…
2020 | RS-FRESHMAN SEASON:
Season: Debuted as a long reliever in the Huskies bullpen, appearing in three games…struck out seven over 5.2 innings of work, holding a 21.2% K rate…recorded at least four outs in each of his three appearances…punched out multiple batters in all three outings…hampered by bad ball-in-play luck, recording a 11.12 ERA compared to a 6.10 FIP…
Missouri Southern State (2/16): Did not allow an earned run in his collegiate debut, recording five outs with a pair of punchouts…scattered a pair of hits and walked three… Wilmington (3/5): Called upon in a pivotal long relief spot and exited in line for the win after covering 2.2 innings of two-run ball, striking out three while walking none and scattering four hits… Northern State (3/11): Put away four batters with a pair of strikeouts, allowing five runs on four hits and two walks…
2019 | REDSHIRT SEASON:
Season: Redshirted in his first season with the Huskies…
Prep: A 2018 graduate of ROCORI High School…two-year baseball letterman under coaches Jeff Illies, Sean Terres and Jon Czech…two-time All-Central Lakes Conference honoree…went 5-1 with a 1.86 ERA and 56 strikeouts over 45.0 innings as a senior, leading ROCORI to a Class AAA State Runner-up finish while earning MSHSL Class AAA All-State, St. Cloud Times All-Area and All-Central Lakes Conference honors…invited to play in the MSHSBCA Senior All-Star Series and…three-time football letterman…
Personal: The son of Stacy and Kari Emerson…Marketing major…interns in the Athletic Communications office at St. Cloud State…enjoys fishing year round…
2022 (COLD SPRING SPRINGERS) | RS-JUNIOR SUMMER:
Summer: Returned to the Minnesota Baseball Association and starred for the Cold Spring Springers, closing out his season with 34.0 straight scoreless innings while leading the club to a Class B State Tournament appearance… made 12 appearances and recorded a 2.42 ERA across 48.1 innings of work…struck out 46 and walked just 21, allowing only 31 hits…
2022 | RS-JUNIOR SEASON:
Season: Made eight relief appearances as a middle reliever, recording a save and logging 6.1 innings while striking out six and pitching to a 8.53 ERA…six of his eight appearances were scoreless…held batters to a .280 average…inherited five runners and allowed none to score for a perfect 100% strand rate…allowed just three extra-base hits, all in his first outing of the season…gave up four hits over his final seven outings, all singles…did not issue a walk in six of eight appearances…seven of eight outings occurred in Huskies wins…
Missouri Western (2/11): Allowed two runs on three hits while recording three outs, striking out one… Wayne State (3/27): Fired a 1-2-3 inning of relief on just nine pitches to finish off a win… Sioux Falls (4/3): Worked around a hit and a walk to log a scoreless inning, striking out one… Concordia-St. Paul (4/11): Struck out the lone batter he faced… Upper Iowa (4/12): Threw 2.0 scoreless innings to earn his first collegiate save, scattering a pair of hits while striking out one batter… Northern State (4/21): Tagged for four runs on a hit and three walks, recording a lone out with a strikeout… Bemidji State (5/24): Retired one of the two batters he faced and did not allow a run… NSIC Tournament (5/11-13): Struck out the lone batter he faced in the tournament opener against Sioux Falls…
2021 (WATERLOO BUCKS) | RS-SOPHOMORE SUMMER:
Summer: Spent the entire summer pitching for the Waterloo Bucks of the Northwoods League, serving as a key middle reliever in the bullpen…helped the Bucks to a Great Plains-East Division Championship as well as a First Half and Second Half Championships…won five games to share the staff lead with Iowa Sunday starter Duncan Davitt…made 15 appearances and owned a 5-1 record, pitching to a 6.53 ERA across 20.2 innings of work…struck out 15 batters and held opponents to a .256 average…gave up just four extra-base hits, tied for second-fewest among Bucks pitchers with at least 10 appearances…made the third-most relief appearances of any Waterloo pitcher…dominated in clutch spots, allowing just two of 15 inherited runners to score for a brilliant 86.7% strand rate…
2021 | RS-SOPHOMORE SEASON:
Season: Made nine appearances as one of the Huskies’ top middle relievers…pitched to a 4.35 ERA with an 11:6 K:BB ratio…owned a 3.24 ERA while holding a .265 batting average against in conference play across seven appearances, striking out 10 in 8.1 frames…finished the second-most games on the staff, slamming the door on five contests…allowed the fewest extra-base hits among Huskies hurlers with at least 10.0 innings pitched, surrendering just three…six of his final seven outings occurred in Huskies wins…four of his appearances were scoreless with five outings featuring zero earned runs allowed…struck out multiple batters four times…did not issue a walk in four appearances…never allowed more than two runs, surrendering one run or less in eight of nine appearances…pitched to a 1.50 ERA in April, striking out five batters and walking just two across five outings…
William Jewell (3/7): Tossed an inning in relief, allowing a lone run on a solo homer …scattered three hits… Minnesota Crookston (3/8): Allowed a lone run on two hits and a walk over an inning of work, striking out one… Concordia-St. Paul (3/30): Punched out a season-high three while retiring a total of four batters in a scoreless appearance, working around a single and walking none… Minnesota State-Mankato (4/2): Retired a pair while allowing one run on two hits… Winona State (4/6): Worked around a pair of free passes while retiring the side, striking out two in a scoreless appearance… Sioux Falls (4/10): Gave the Huskies a strong effort in long relief, retiring seven batters with two strikeouts and no walks while allowing a lone unearned run on four hits… Bemidji State (4/21): Worked a scoreless inning with one punchout, allowing one baserunner on a single… Minnesota Crookston (4/23): Pitched around a walk to fire a shutout inning of relief… Northern State (5/1): Allowed two earned on a hit and a walk in an inning of work, striking out two…
2020 | RS-FRESHMAN SEASON:
Season: Debuted as a long reliever in the Huskies bullpen, appearing in three games…struck out seven over 5.2 innings of work, holding a 21.2% K rate…recorded at least four outs in each of his three appearances…punched out multiple batters in all three outings…hampered by bad ball-in-play luck, recording a 11.12 ERA compared to a 6.10 FIP…
Missouri Southern State (2/16): Did not allow an earned run in his collegiate debut, recording five outs with a pair of punchouts…scattered a pair of hits and walked three… Wilmington (3/5): Called upon in a pivotal long relief spot and exited in line for the win after covering 2.2 innings of two-run ball, striking out three while walking none and scattering four hits… Northern State (3/11): Put away four batters with a pair of strikeouts, allowing five runs on four hits and two walks…
2019 | REDSHIRT SEASON:
Season: Redshirted in his first season with the Huskies…
Prep: A 2018 graduate of ROCORI High School…two-year baseball letterman under coaches Jeff Illies, Sean Terres and Jon Czech…two-time All-Central Lakes Conference honoree…went 5-1 with a 1.86 ERA and 56 strikeouts over 45.0 innings as a senior, leading ROCORI to a Class AAA State Runner-up finish while earning MSHSL Class AAA All-State, St. Cloud Times All-Area and All-Central Lakes Conference honors…invited to play in the MSHSBCA Senior All-Star Series and…three-time football letterman…
Personal: The son of Stacy and Kari Emerson…Marketing major…interns in the Athletic Communications office at St. Cloud State…enjoys fishing year round…
St Cloud State Baseball Vs Southwest Minnesota State Game 4
Sunday, March 16
St Cloud State Baseball Vs Southwest Minnesota State Game 3
Sunday, March 16
St Cloud State Baseball Vs Southwest Minnesota State Game 2
Thursday, March 13
St Cloud State Baseball Vs Southwest Minnesota State Game 1
Thursday, March 13