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.
Jack Leiter coming out of the chute strong pic.twitter.com/RN5Xo0Gq3Z
— Teddy Cahill (@tedcahill) February 18, 2020
Seriously, look at this breaking stuff.
First Kumar, now Jack Leiter. Vandy's getting spoiled with all this first round prep pitching talent they are getting to campus. https://t.co/CeFOEtSGwQ
— Carlos Collazo (@CarlosACollazo) February 19, 2020
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.
Jack Leiter's college debut for Vandy: 5 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 12 SO, 52 strikes in 80 pitches.
— JJ Cooper (@jjcoop36) February 19, 2020
Hard to do much better in your first game.
It's no surprise Rocker and Leiter rank one and two in Baseball America's 2021 college MLB Draft power rankings.
Kumar Rocker is the No. 1 prospect in our 2021 college MLB Draft rankings.
— Baseball America (@BaseballAmerica) February 19, 2020
Jack Leiter is No. 2.
Just saying. https://t.co/X7RJMteHx4
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.