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Tigers' Draft pick Oliveto brings brains, bat and big heart
This story was excerpted from Jason Beck's Tigers Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox.
Not only does Michael Oliveto bring impressive numbers and athleticism for a high-school catcher to the Tigers system, the supplemental first-round Draft pick from last week also brings a great head of hair. That’s not something he’s used to having heading into the summer months.
For much of his childhood, Oliveto shaved his head each spring for a good cause.
“For the St. Baldrick’s Foundation,” he explained last week on a Zoom call with reporters. “For 12 years, I shaved my head and got donations from people in the community. I’d shave my head in March around St. Patrick’s Day. Did that for 12 years.
“This year, I didn’t, but I did raise money through raffles and stuff. I set it up through my school ball team. We would have people come to the games and buy raffle tickets. We got local businesses to donate gift cards and stuff. Every home game we picked out a raffle winner, and the rest of the money we donated to St. Baldrick’s.
“I’ve had some people who have had cancer that are close to me, and it’s just really cool to be able to be a part of something like that.”
While Oliveto established himself as a high-rising, lefty-slugging catcher up Draft boards last fall with a breakout performance in a World Wood Bat Association tournament in Jupiter, Fla., his high character was established long before that. He had committed to Yale last year before his Draft stock began rising, and scored a 1460 on his SAT to go with a weighted GPA of 102 on a 100 scale.
“I was kind of late to the game with the recruitment part and everything like that,” Oliveto said, “but I got the opportunity to commit to Yale, and I was very, very happy with that. And I’m very proud of that, because I have worked very hard in school my whole life to really get to a point where I could go to a school like that. But playing baseball has always been my dream, to be in MLB.
“[Yale] was a really good fit, high-level baseball, high-level academics. Great fit there.”
Hauppauge's Michael Oliveto is LI's best high school home run hitter, catcher & an MLB prospect. But when said he's a self-taught Rubik's Cube whiz I didn't believe him...until he proved it! Watch his @news12li/ @fourleaffcu Scholar Athlete story tonight. @HPSAthleticspic.twitter.com/rx1D5yRQ3s
The academics and character made an impression on the Tigers as they compiled their Draft board.
“We got to know Michael,” Tigers assistant general manager Rob Metzler said. “I would applaud the job that the staff did since identifying him in Jupiter last fall and getting to know him so well. Makeup is crucial in every position on the field, but certainly I think his intelligence, his makeup is going to help him in particular as a catching prospect who’s going to be responsible both for progressing offensively but also for working with a pitching staff and all the responsibility that the position entails. I think we really like the attributes for him to develop there.”