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.
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.
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.
