Jack Leiter on the progress he's made over his rookie season

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Rangers rookie pitcher Jack Leiter joined the GBag Nation to discuss his recent start against the Yankees, how much he feels like he's improved since his first start back in April of this year, and more.

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00:00As Jack Leiter, Rangers rookie pitcher, joining us now here on the fan and a good afternoon,

00:20sir.

00:21How are you?

00:22I'm good.

00:23How are you?

00:24We're doing great.

00:26What's it like taking on the Yankees yesterday?

00:29It was awesome.

00:32Mostly growing up in the New Jersey area and my dad playing for the Yankees, that's a dream

00:38of mine.

00:39Then playing against a former teammate and a really good friend of mine, Anthony Volpe.

00:45Having my cousin in the bullpen for the Yankees, there's just a lot of underlying stories that

00:49made it extra special, I would say.

00:52Okay, so speaking of dad, what did he have to say about your performance yesterday?

00:58I mean, he's a proud dad most of the time.

01:04Even the outings that I'm very much not happy about throughout my career, he understands

01:10how hard this game can be and he's definitely a proud dad.

01:15Now you mentioned your cousin and obviously your dad, your uncle.

01:20Growing up as a Leiter, is it assumed that you're going to be a pitcher if you play

01:26baseball?

01:27Do you consider other positions?

01:29How does that whole thing get sorted out?

01:31I mean, my dad wanted me to be a third baseman.

01:34I don't know exactly why, but that was kind of his dream for me.

01:39Obviously, he wanted me to play baseball, but it wasn't forced upon me or anything like

01:45that.

01:46Just growing up around the game, it's hard not to fall in love with it.

01:50That's what happened.

01:52I fell in love with it.

01:53I always wanted to be a pitcher.

01:57The early parts of high school, I wasn't sure if that was going to happen or if I was going

02:00to play a position in the field, but it just kind of worked out that I ended up a pitcher.

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