Eli Walker

Weight:
205
Height:
6-0
Position:
RHP
Year:
Redshirt Senior
Hometown:
Gulfport, Miss.
High School:
Gulfport

2026 (Redshirt Senior Season – at Indiana)
Note: Transferred to Indiana in the summer of 2025.

2025 (Redshirt Junior Season – at Mississippi State)
Season: Enrolled in Starkville but missed the entire season through injury … never pitched for the Bulldogs.

2024 (Redshirt Sophomore Season – at Jones College)
Season: Made 13 appearances with 10 starts on the mound … worked a 5-1 record with a 2.74 earned run average … had 52 strikeouts over 49.1 innings on the bump … allowed just 15 earned runs and an opposing batting average of .191 … helped Jones College to the NJCAA Region 23 Tournament … all but one appearance was a multi-inning outing … racked up a season-high eight strikeouts over 6.1 innings against Baton Rouge (2/23) … followed that up with 6.1 innings of one-run baseball and seven strikeouts against Holmes (3/9) … had back-to-back five-strikeout efforts against East Mississippi (3/16) and Coahoma (3/23) … pitched 5.0 innings of no-hit baseball against East Mississippi (5/6) … final outing of the year came against East Central (5/16).

2023 (Redshirt Freshman Season – at Jones College)
Season: Made 12 appearances with six starts in debut college season … held a 4.15 earned run average over 30.1 innings of work … collected 17 strikeouts to just eight walks … allowed just 14 earned runs on the campaign … eight of his outings were multi-inning affairs … opened the season with three-straight 4.0 inning efforts against Copiah-Lincoln (2/14), Illinois Central (2/24) and Coastal Alabama-North (3/4) … collected a season-high strikeouts in the win over Illinois Central (2/24) … allowed zero runs in four appearances between March 25th (Coahoma) and April 8th (Northwest) … season-high 5.0 innings came against Meridian … final outing of the year was a contest against Northeast (5/4).

2022 (Freshman Season – at Jones College)
Season: Missed the entire year with Tommy John surgery.

Prep/Personal
Prepped at Gulfport High School in Mississippi … four-year letterman in his prep days … earned 6A All-Region and All-State honors during his junior and senior campaign … earned additional All-Conference honors … led the team in innings and strikeouts during his final two years of prep baseball … played in the Mississippi High School North/South All-Star game in 2021 … massive fan of the Atlanta Braves … son of Michael and Alice Walker … has three siblings – Neely, Rhodes and Smith … father, Michael, played tennis at Ole Miss … two grandparents and his uncle also played for the Rebels.