2013: selected by the Philadelphia Phillies organization in the 22nd round of baseball's annual First-Year Player Draft on June 8, 2013. ... Leiter was selected by the Phillies with the 661st overall pick in the draft, which began on Thursday night and continued through on Friday and Saturday. In being picked, Leiter is the first NJIT student-athlete selected in the Major League Baseball Amateur Draft. .. he follows in a family tradition set in the previous generation by his father Mark, uncle Al, and uncle Kurt. Mark Leiter, Sr., was taken in the fourth round of the 1983 draft and pitched in 11 major league seasons, including two with the Phillies, his son's new organization. Working as a starting pitcher, he won 10 games for the Phillies in 1997 and moving to the bullpen a year later, he appeared in 69 games and led Philadelphia with 23 saves. Al Leiter, who was picked by the Yankees in the second round in 1984, won 162 games in a major league career that spanned 19 seasons. And Kurt Leiter pitched in the Orioles organization. According to The Sporting News, Leiter is one of 18 sons of former major leaguers taken in this year's draft.
A Great West Conference first-team honoree. ...struck out 20 against Chicago State on May 3 for a new school record and the nation's highest single-game total this season in Division I, finished with a 5-9 record with a 4.94 ERA and 103 strikeouts (a NJIT Division I school record and overall record) in 94.2 innings and an opponents' batting average of .243. and strikeout/walk ratio of 101-37... had five complete games and seven or more strikeouts in eight of his starts. ...Leiter was also named to the New Jersey Collegiate Baseball Association Division I All-State second team .... He was Louisville Slugger National Player of the Week, the first NJIT player ever so honored, for his record-setting game vs. Chicago State. In addition to his game against Chicago State, Leiter's conference season was highlighted by a seven-inning complete-game one-hitter in a 2-1 win at eventual regular season champion Northern Colorado. He registered 59 strikeouts in 45.1 conference innings. ...For his career, he won 18 games (18-27), with 360.1 innings pitched, 15 complete games, two shutouts and a school-record 364 strikeouts.
Summer 2012: Ranked 19th as top pro prospects in the Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League. ...Leiter ranked eighth among right-handed pitchers. ... played on the Amsterdam (NY) Mohawks, who ran away with the regular season title, posting a 35-12 record, some eight full games ahead of second-place Glens Falls. Amsterdam's league-record 35 wins and .745 winning percentage earned it recognition as the third-best college summer league team in the country. ...Leiter appeared in five games for the Mohawks, all starts, and posted a 3-0 won-lost record with a stellar 1.55 earned run average. In 29 innings, he allowed just 15 hits, holding opponents to a .160 batting average. He struck out 32 and walked 13, allowing just two doubles and a triple among the 15 hits. He had been a PGCBL all-star in 2011, as well as earning all-Great West Conference honors in 2011 and NJCBA all-rookie honors in 2010.
2012: Ranked second on the team with a 3.56 ERA. ... posted a 5-7 overall record and 3-2 in Great West play. ... pitched 93.2 innings while striking out a team-leading 95 batters. ... Leiter pitched three complete games and one shut-out. ... struck-out a season-high 11 batters vs. NYIT on May 17th.
Summer 2011: First-team all-PGCBL (Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League) for the Amsterdam MoHawks. ... #9 prospect chosen by Baseball America in the PGCBL. ... started 10 games finishing the season with a 2.67 ERA. ... recorded a 4-3 record with one shutout (8-0 vs. Elmira Pioneers; July 14) and 74 strikeouts (which led the league) in 54 innings pitched.
2011: Great West All-Conference second team ... (5-3, 4.76 ERA). ... led the Great West in strikeouts, having fanned 103 in 90.2 innings overall ... GWC Pitcher of the Week twice in 2011. ... set a new NJIT Division I record for strikeouts in a game with 14 in seven innings against Chicago State (May 19). Had shared the previous record with teammate Tripp Davis when they each struck out 13 against eventual GWC champ Utah Valley (Leiter did it on May 8 in 9 innings in which he allowed 4 hits and 3 runs in a game that went 14 innings; Davis struck out 13 in 8 innings, allowing 2 earned runs in a game that went 14, as well) ...reached double-figure strikeout totals in five of his seven conference starts. ...finished with a season total of 103 strikeouts, 41 more than the old school Division I record of 62 set in 2008 by Matt Melody. ...the overall school record had been 105, set by NJIT Hall of Famer Dan MacDonald in 1983, when the Highlanders were a Division III program.
2010: NJCBA Division I All-Rookie team. ... shared the team lead in wins (3) with classmate Tripp Davis and led NJIT in innings pitched (81.1) and strikeouts (60), while accounting for four of his team’s six complete games. His 14 games started also tied Davis for the team lead. ...complete-game, 11-strikeout, 7-inning, 6-1 win over North Carolina A&T; nine-inning, 10-strikeout complete-game win at Chicago State; and, a nine-inning, complete-game win at NYIT.
Prior to NJIT: Star-Ledger 1st-team all-Ocean County; Asbury Park Press 2nd-team all-Shore at Toms River North HS for head coach Ted Schelmag ... played for the Point Pleasant Jersey Shore summer team.
Personal: Mark Edward Leiter, Jr. ... son of Mark Leiter and Allison Leiter ... undecided major ... father, also Mark, is a retired right-handed pitcher who had an 11-year major league career from 1990-99 and 2001. One uncle, Al, is also a retired major league pitcher who pitched in 19 big league seasons and is now an analyst for New York Yankees games on the YES Network, and another uncle, Kurt, is also a retired professional pitcher .... born 3/13/91 in Fort Lauderdale, FL.
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Leiter's Game-by-Game Stats
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