Jack Leiter at Rangers camp, eyes 2024 breakthrough

\n\n”,”providerName”:”Twitter”,”providerUrl”:”https://twitter.com”,”thumbnail_url”:null,”type”:”oembed”,”width”:550,”contentType”:”rich”},{“__typename”:”Markdown”,”content”:”With that out of the way — “I’m good on education for now,” he joked — Leiter’s biggest goal has shifted into further focus.\n\n“From a grand scheme of things, the goal always is to pitch every fifth day for the big club and help them out and \\[win it all\\] again this year,” Leiter said. “So I’m doing whatever I can do to make that happen. I know that what that is is to keep it simple, one day at a time, trust in myself and let the results take care of themselves.”\n\nAs he completed his degree, Leiter — the Rangers’ No. 5 prospect, per MLB Pipeline \\-\\- did his offseason workouts at Vanderbilt, as he does every year, hoping to return to the pitcher he knows he can be going into the 2024 season.\n\nFellow Vandy alums Curt Casali and Sonny Gray, among others, trained at the facility as well, giving Leiter a group of guys to lean on throughout the process of refining his mechanics and trusting in his stuff.\n\n“In modern baseball, with all the data and analytics, there’s a lot of numbers you can break down and dissect,” Leiter said. “Sometimes it’s easy to forget how simple the game of baseball really is. This offseason was a good reminder of that, just spending time around some of those big league guys at Vanderbilt. I feel like my mindset has been simplified and there’s a lot more trust involved.”\n\nFor a player drafted as high as Leiter was, his professional career hasn’t been smooth sailing. Tasked with an assignment to Double-A Frisco in his debut season in 2022, the right-hander posted a 5.54 ERA in 92 2/3 innings.\n\nIn 2023, he repeated Double-A and seemed to briefly right the ship after a 1.67 ERA with 33 strikeouts in five May starts. But Leiter would ultimately only post a 5.51 ERA in 15 starts before the Rangers decided to place him on the Development List.”,”type”:”text”},{“__typename”:”Video”,”contentDate”:”2023-05-18T02:08:32.697Z”,”preferredPlaybackScenarioURL({\”preferredPlaybacks\”:\”mp4AvcPlayback\”})”:”https://milb-cuts-diamond.mlb.com/FORGE/2023/2023-05/17/59a24cd8-f9553101-71f8ef03-csvm-diamondx64-asset_1280x720_59_4000K.mp4″,”type”:”video”,”description”:”No. 4 Rangers prospect Jack Leiter sets a career high with 10 strikeouts for Double-A Frisco vs. Amarillo”,”displayAsVideoGif”:false,”duration”:”00:01:11″,”slug”:”jack-leiter-s-10-strikeouts”,”tags”:[{“__typename”:”TaxonomyTag”,”slug”:”minor-league-baseball”,”title”:”Minor League Baseball”,”type”:”taxonomy”},{“__typename”:”TaxonomyTag”,”slug”:”140-affiliate”,”title”:”Rangers affiliate”,”type”:”taxonomy”},{“__typename”:”TaxonomyTag”,”slug”:”mlb-top-prospects”,”title”:”MLB Top…