The two are former Vanderbilt aces, who the Texas Rangers drafted second and third overall.
ARLINGTON — They’ve become an inseparable duo. Sure, they’re friends, and they spend plenty of time together outside of baseball, but the narrative and ties that bondSo deep that, on Sunday, at a Kroger some 20 minutes southwest of Globe Life Field, the two sat side by side and signed autographs together for a half hour. There were plenty of trading cards. Someone brought Leiter’s No. 22 college jersey. Then, of course, there’s that“I’ve signed it probably 100 times now,” Leiter said Sunday.
Texas Rangers pitchers Kumar Rocker, and Jack Leiter are pictured during photo day at the team's training facility on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023, in Surprise, Ariz.Both now have legitimate targets to aim for. On the individual front: Rocker shook the elbow surgery rust, proved that his high-heat fastball and magnificent curveball can play in the bigs and is in the midst of his first “normal offseason” since the Rangers drafted him.
There’s an opportunity for the duo to compete for a major league roster spot — if not a rotation spot — in spring training. It’s a fool’s errand to expect a five-man rotation to stay entirely healthy, anyways, and both have a chance to position themselves as Texas’ first call when a starting gig“We’re relying on these guys,” Rangers president of baseball operations Chris Young said Saturday.
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