It was not that long ago when many of the Detroit Tigers faithful were clamoring for the team to select Jack Leiter from Vanderbilt. That, of course, wasn’t an option but that doesn’t leave the organization Leiter-less. Those bloodlines currently have a station in Toledo with Mark Leiter Jr., who is Jack’s cousin.
The Tigers signed Leiter Jr. before the start of the 2021 season. He’s a 30-year-old veteran who’s amassed over 100 MLB innings. With the way things are going in Toledo, he may get a chance to add to that total — through his five starts in July, he totaled 25 innings, striking out 32, and allowing just two runs, including a stretch of 16 scoreless innings to end the month.