“Man, if you were 6-2, you’d be a top-five draft pick,” Rich Williams recalls one scout telling his son, Jett.
Jett Williams has always been one of the smaller people on the field. As a youngster, he played on Little League teams with children who were older than him. At a teen, he simply did not grow as much as his teammates on the Rockwell-Heath High School varsity baseball team. Indeed, the biggest knock on Jett Williams is his size. Listed at present at 5’8”, 175-pounds but in likelihood even smaller and lighter, baseball has a bias against smaller players, despite the paradigm being broken to a degree in recent years with numerous highly productive players coming in at less than six feet.