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#Jack leiter series#
Jack was 6 months old in 2000, the year Al reached the World Series against the Yankees with the Mets, and Jack always had an affinity for pitching. “It’s amazing.”Īl didn’t push Jack into baseball. The entire Leiter family, including Al, wife Lori, son Jack and daughters Katelyn, Carly and Lindsay. “He certainly has that kind of stuff to be a top-of-the-rotation pitcher,” said a scout familiar with Jack, who compared him to David Cone because of his frame, no-nonsense mentality and competitive fire. Jack has the potential to be the best of them all, with a fastball in the high-90s, a hammer curve, a quality slider and a changeup.
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He’ll eventually be the latest in a long line of Leiters who have pitched professionally - following Al, his brothers Mark and Kurt, and Mark’s son, Mark Jr. Jack, a 6-foot-1, 205-pound right-hander who grew up in Summit, N.J., is a projected top-five pick in next month’s MLB draft, if he doesn’t return to Vanderbilt. “Oh my God, he’s been the gift that keeps giving,” Al, the former Mets and Yankees left-hander who now works for MLB Network and as an adviser for the Mets, told The Post in a phone interview. So is the ride Al, his wife Lori and their three daughters - Lindsay, Carly and Katelyn - have been on, as Jack has developed into one of the premier baseball prospects in the country. This trip, to the College World Series in Omaha, Neb., with the entire family to watch Jack pitch for defending national champion Vanderbilt, is better than any material gift he could receive. Yankees’ new top prospect’s sudden rise is turning headsĪl Leiter doesn’t want a Father’s Day present from his son, Jack. Two analysts won’t appear at MLB Network studios after refusing COVID jab A-Rod details his Mets vision had he become ownerĮx-Mets ace likes ‘the look’ of this rising young pitcher