“For me, it’s just the relationship him and I have," he said. He finds it difficult to describe what makes his dad so cool. "It'll be good just to see him,” Darren said.ĭusty Baker, a two-time All-Star during a playing career from 1968-86, is known for his relationships throughout the sport, his habits that include chewing Tea Tree Therapy Toothpicks and a sartorial style with elements including custom wristbands designed by James Mims that picture Baker from his days as a player.ĭarren prefers designer arm sleeves under his jersey - Saturday's had a thunderbolt.
He will fly to Los Angeles to manage the AL in Tuesday's All-Star Game, and Darren will stick around. You can start looking too far into these things and then it comes time to compete and they're still kind of in your head.”Īl Leiter was on hand Saturday but Dusty was in Houston for the Astros' game against Oakland. "I think it's easy sometimes to get away from that, when you're looking into spin rates and the shape of your slider, what the TrackMan said about your curveball that outing, my release point was 0.2 inches whatever lower than it was earlier in the season. “It's balancing all the awesome information that we get with competing," he said. Leiter has had to adapt to the inundation of information in modern baseball. Leiter is 2-7 with a 6.30 ERA in 14 games.
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Texas selected him second overall last year after Pittsburgh picked catcher Henry Davis, and he started his pro career this season at Double-A Frisco. Leiter went to Vanderbilt rather than sign with the Yankees, who took him in the 20th round in 2019. Jack attended Delbarton School in Morristown, New Jersey, where he was teammates with Yankees shortstop prospect Anthony Volpe, also on Saturday's AL roster. Same facial features, same vocal cadence, same opinions - pitch clocks OK with no runners but not with men on base. Leiter looks like a right-handed clone of his left-handed dad, who pitched from 1987-2005.
“It’s more just just the grind of playing every day," he said.
273 with two homers, 25 RBIs and 10 stolen bases. This year he is at Wilmington of the South Atlantic League, a higher Class A, and is batting. Darren played four games at the rookie level Florida Complex League Nationals and 18 at Class A Fredericksburg. Washington, the team his father managed in 2016 and ‘17, drafted him in the 27th round in 2016 and in the 10th round with the 293rd pick in 2020, signing him for slot value of $146,800. 327 with 28 stole bases in 34 tries, though with no homers and 17 RBIs. Just ahead, Sunday's amateur draft could see Druw Jones (son of Andruw), Justin Crawford (Carl) and Jackson Holliday (Matt Holliday) become first-round picks.īypassed in a 2020 draft shortened to five rounds due to the coronavirus, Darren Baker remained at Cal for his senior year and hit a team-best. They are part of baseball's generational pipeline of families made famous by the Bells, Boones, Colemans and Hairstons. “I feel like it's always seen that way a little since it happened,” Darren said before the game.
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