Of the pieces the White Sox got back in yesterday’s Lance Lynn/Joe Kelly trade, reliever Jordan Leasure has garnered the least attention so far. Despite that fact, he could have the highest upside of the two prospects Los Angeles dealt to the Sox for their pair of veteran righties.
Leasure was a relative late bloomer in college baseball. In his first three seasons with the Division II Tampa Spartans, he averaged 28 innings pitched per campaign with 35 punchouts per season. While those figures aren’t inherently bad — and Tommy John surgery in 2019 followed by the pandemic in 2020 limited his sample size — his 4.