Michael Wielansky

Michael Eric Wielansky

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 6' 2", Weight 175 lb.
• School College of Wooster
• High School Ladue Horton Watkins High School

• Born March 18, 1997 in St. Louis, MO USA

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Biographical Information

Michael Wielansky has played as high as AAA and been on the Israeli national team.

Wielansky was his conference player of the year as a high school senior and also played soccer. He hit .370/.456/.615 with 59 runs, 53 RBI and 22 steals (in 24 tries) in 48 games as a college freshman. He was second in the North Coast Athletic Conference in hits (73), led in steals and not only led in assists (173) but set a NCAC record in that department. He was All-Conference. His sophomore season, he was even better - .425/.509/.731, 6 3B, 69 R in 46 G. He was named first-team All-American by the American Baseball Coaches Association and won the RBCA/Rawlings Gold Glove for NCAA Division III at shortstop (fielding .986), the first player in school history to take a Gold Glove. He led Division III players in runs, was second in total bases (136) and 6th in hits. He led the NCAC in average, slugging and six other categories. He was MVP of the Valley Baseball League that summer.

He remained stellar in 2018 at .401/.508/.665 with 76 runs, 7 triples and 40 walks in 50 games. He set school career records for assists and triples, was 6th in Division III in total bases and walks and led the NCAC in five categories. He fielded .966 in another strong defensive turn. He was three runs shy of the school record and was the second known Division III player to reach 200 hits, 200 runs and 150 RBI by the end of his junior year, following Matt Gelotti. He was again All-American and was also named the ABCA Player of the Year for Division III. The Houston Astros took him in the 18th round of the 2018 amateur draft and he signed for a $75,000 bonus. He struggled in his pro debut, batting .204/.302/.314 for the Tri-City ValleyCats. After his defensive success in college, he was used as a utility infielder as a pro.

In '19, he improved to .254/.345/.364 for the Quad Cities River Bandits, again in a utility role. The 2020 minor league season was wiped out by the COVID-19 pandemic. He returned in 2021 to play for the Corpus Christi Hooks (5 for 32, 7 BB) and Sugar Land Skeeters (0 for 7, 2 BB). Let go by Houston, he played for the independent Long Island Ducks and Southern Maryland Blue Crabs in 2022, hitting a combined .269/.384/.424 with 64 runs in 83 games. Playing for the Federales de Chiriquí in the 2023 Caribbean Series, he hit a two-run homer off Randy Consuegra of Colombia and banged out a three-hit game against Cuba. He batted .333/.394/.533 for the event, tying for 9th in hits (10) and tying for 5th in doubles (3). He did not make the All-Star team for the event as Francisco Acuña was picked at second.

He then made Israel's roster for the 2023 World Baseball Classic. His first game, he replaced Ty Kelly at short. Coming to bat with the bases loaded against Jonathan Loáisiga, he hit into a force at home. His other game, he started against Venezuela and went 2-for-4 with hits off Jesús Luzardo and Enmanuel De Jesus. He thus outperformed starter Kelly, who was 0-for-6 in the Classic. He hit .320/.400/.660 with 25 runs and 8 homers for the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs to begin the summer. Following that performance, he was signed by the San Francisco Giants, but only appeared in 10 games for their chain.

Back with the Blue Crabs in 2024, he slashed .304/.420/.465 with 77 runs in 96 games. That winter, he batted .329/.434/.502 with 41 runs in 61 contests for the Charros de Jalisco. He was third in the Mexican Pacific League in average (after Jasson Atondo and Eric Filia), second in OBP (.013 behind Carlos Sepulveda), 3rd in slugging (behind Esteban Quiroz and Joey Meneses), 2nd in OPS (6 behind Quiroz), 4th in runs (between Rudy Martin and Filia), ranked 6th in hits (70, between Meneses and Fabricio Macias), tied Reivaj García for the most triples (6) and was 5th with 37 walks (between Jesus Castillo and Bobby Bradley). He then hit a solid .318/.400/.409 for them in the 2025 Caribbean Series, being named the All-Star second baseman in the event. He joined Yamaico Navarro, Jack Mayfield and Kelvin Gutiérrez as the All-Star infielders.

Jalisco also played as a summer team, in the Mexican League. Remaining with them for the summer, he hit .365/.438/.483 with 27 steals in 30 games. He was 6th in the LMB in swipes, between Herlis Rodríguez and Matt McDermott. Back with them in the winter, he produced at a .303/.408/.412 rate with 46 runs in 60 games. He was 5th in runs and 3rd with 21 steals (behind J.P. Martinez and Allen Córdoba). He was named Caribbean Series MVP when the Charros de Jalisco won their first ever title at the 2026 Caribbean Series. Playing second base for the team, he hit .538 with a 1201 OPS. He had four hits in their opener against the Leones del Escogido, had 3 hits versus Santurce and started the winning 7th-inning rally in the semifinals against Santurce. He scored the tournament-winning run on February 7th, in the bottom of the 10th inning, when Lupe Chávez of the Tomateros de Culiacan threw a wild pitch with two outs while he was on third base. His 14 hits tied the Caribbean Series record shared by Pedro Formental (1953), Randy Ready (1986), Roberto Alomar (1995) and Emilio Bonifacio (2023). Mexico hadn't won a Caribbean Series in 10 years. The last second baseman to win Series MVP had been Alomar in 1995.