VIDEO: Jack Leiter's Vanderbilt Debut Was Absolutely Filth-Packed
By Adam Weinrib
Back to back years, Vanderbilt's baseball team appears to have come away with the most pro-ready arms of their respective classes. First, it was power-packed beefy righty Kumar Rocker who captured our imagination in 2019, flat-out dominating in the NCAA baseball tournament, becoming the eighth pitcher ever to throw a no-hitter at that level of competition. Now, Al's son Jack Leiter would like to join the accolade party, please. The younger Leiter, a Yankees' first-rounder who was never coming, threw five no-hit innings and whiffed 12 in a casually dominant mid-week debut for Vandy.
Seriously, look at this breaking stuff.
If you told me Jack was, in fact, Mike Soroka, and was ready to waltz into a big-league rotation battle right now, I'd be rather easily fooled.
Can't see many ways his initial unveiling could've gone any better.
It's no surprise Rocker and Leiter rank one and two in Baseball America's 2021 college MLB Draft power rankings.
Vanderbilt's no stranger to owning the top polished arms in the country, boasting a long, recent lineage from David Price to Sonny Gray to Walker Buehler, and on and on.
But Rocker and Leiter look like a special breed, already over this by minute one. We can't wait to watch them grow in tandem.