Vanderbilt pitchers Kumar Rocker and Jack Leiter stand across from each other in the outfield before each contest, stretching their pregame warmup from short-range throws to long tosses across the turf. Rocker and Leiter are the latest in a long line of elite pitchers the school has recently produced—All-Stars Walker Buehler, Sonny Gray, Mike Minor and David Price are among the eight former Commodores pitching in the majors—yet neither fits the prototype of a staff ace. Rocker looks best-suited to chase quarterbacks across the SEC. Leiter could reasonably be mistaken for an intramural shortstop on his way to class.
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