“Jack has demonstrated that the bigger the stage, the bigger the performance. He is composed and does all the little things extremely well. He has four pitches that are all plus-plus. He has an extra gear that makes him really tough to hit.”

Bruce Shatel

Head Coach - Head coach of Delbarton School

Athletic Excellence

The 6-foot, 190-pound senior right-handed pitcher had led the Green Wave to a 19-3 record at the time of his selection. Leiter owned a 6-0 record on the mound, also recording a save while posting a 0.54 earned run average through 22 games. He had fanned 69 batters and allowed just 17 hits in 38.2 innings pitched. At the plate, Leiter owned a .364 batting average with four doubles, 13 RBI and a .523 slugging percentage. Ranked as the nation’s No. 18 prospect in the Class of 2019 by Baseball America, and he was the winning pitcher as the USA Baseball Under-18 National Team won the gold medal at the Pan-American Championships in Panama in December.

Academic Achievement

Leiter has maintained an A average in the classroom. He has signed a national letter of intent to play baseball on scholarship at Vanderbilt University this fall but is projected as an early-round selection in June’s Major League Baseball draft.

Exemplary Character

The son of former Major League pitcher Al Leiter, Jack Leiter has volunteered locally with Meals on Wheels and with a Christmas season toy drive.