Recently named Michigan’s Mr. Baseball, the Northville senior was selected No. 27 in Sunday’s MLB Draft.

Northville senior Dante Nori ended his prep career by helping the Mustangs win the Division 1 state championship and being named Mr. Baseball by the Michigan High School Baseball Coaches Association. 

Now he’s a professional baseball player — if he wants to be. 

The Philadelphia Phillies selected the outfielder No. 27 during Sunday’s MLB Draft. Being selected in the first round comes with a slot value of $3.23 million, so now he must choose between playing for Mississippi State in college, where he has been committed for most of his high school career, or developing in the minor leagues. 

“Dante is a guy that we identified as a potential high pick going back to last summer,” Phillies assistant general manager of amateur scouting Brian Barber said, according to MLB.com. “We got to know him very well as a person. We got to know him very well as a player. We saw him play in 20-30 different games last summer. He’s a very good baseball player with good tools and an advanced bat. We just liked the total package. He’s sort of everything you’re looking for in a player.”

The left-handed batter carried a .477 batting average, stole 20 bases and scored 52 runs during the Mustangs’ 32-7 campaign this past spring.

Perhaps his best strength is his speed. The 5-foot-11, 188-pound 19-year-old likely would’ve been a sprint champion had he been on the track and field team. Instead, he used that sprinter’s speed to track balls in center field, leg out ground balls and steal bases. 

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“He did everything for our team,” Northville coach Dan Cimini told Hometown Life after Nori was named Mr. Baseball. “He got on base. He got tons of walks. He got tons of stolen bases. He really just played amazing, spraying the ball all over the place. Like we always said, as he goes, we go. We followed his lead all year long on the offensive side of things. … 

“He just does everything the right way, and that’s going to make him a great pro or college player, wherever he decides to go. Wherever he ends up, he’s going to be a superstar.” 

MLB scouts seem confident he’ll sign with the Phillies, which makes sense because he comes from a family with plenty of experience in the professional ranks. 

His grandfather, Fred, played for the Cubs and Mets organizations before becoming a college coach, while his father, Micah, is currently the lead assistant coach with the Minnesota Timberwolves in the NBA. 

“It adds to who he is,” Barber told MLB.com. “This is a kid who has grown up around the baseball field and now in the NBA clubhouse and getting to be around elite athletes. It helped mature him. It helped add to his elite makeup.”

Brandon Folsom covers high school sports in metro Detroit for Hometown Life. Follow him on Twitter @folsombrandonj.