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LECKENBY'S WASHINGTON STATE CAREER
SOPHOMORE (2012): Made 14 starts and was 4-7 with 4.50 ERA...logged team-high 80 innings...struck out six twice...pitched 6 1/3 innings of shutout ball in win at national champion Arizona, March 16.
FRESHMAN (2011): Appeared in 18 games out of the bullpen...team-best 2.28 ERA among relievers...yielded just 17 hits in 27 2/3 innings...logged nine-straight shutout innings over four outings, April 3-12.
LECKENBY'S HIGH SCHOOL CAREER
Lettered in baseball, basketball and football...honor roll all four years...won state title senior year...Idaho Player of the Year.
PERSONAL
James David Leckenby...age 21...born in Twin Falls, Idaho...father Lance and mother Leslie...four brothers
SOPHOMORE (2012): Made 14 starts and was 4-7 with 4.50 ERA...logged team-high 80 innings...struck out six twice...pitched 6 1/3 innings of shutout ball in win at national champion Arizona, March 16.
FRESHMAN (2011): Appeared in 18 games out of the bullpen...team-best 2.28 ERA among relievers...yielded just 17 hits in 27 2/3 innings...logged nine-straight shutout innings over four outings, April 3-12.
LECKENBY'S HIGH SCHOOL CAREER
Lettered in baseball, basketball and football...honor roll all four years...won state title senior year...Idaho Player of the Year.
PERSONAL
James David Leckenby...age 21...born in Twin Falls, Idaho...father Lance and mother Leslie...four brothers
One of the big reasons the team has struggled to win consistently has been the performance of the pitching staff, which has been inconsistent at best. It's a young group; the rotation features a true sophomore and two true freshman, while two freshmen and a sophomore make up half of the relievers who have made at least 10 appearances. Only one junior or senior -- closer Anthony Drobnick, a junior -- is regularly used in high leverage situations.
Sophomore J.D. Leckenby, the team's Friday night starter, is the leader of that young, talented and inconsistent pack. If you were around the site last season, you know that I made no secret of my infatuation with Leckenby. I pony up the $9.95 a month to watch the team on WSUCougars.com, and I loved what I saw out of him last year.
Here's what I wrote about him at the end of last season:
He throws a hard sinker in the low 90s that induces an insane number of ground balls. His 2.28 ERA out of the bullpen was partly driven by a ridiculously low .181 opponents' BABIP, but still -- at least some of that can be explained by the weak contact he often induces. http://www.cougcenter.com/2012/4/12/2931523/wsu-cougars-baseball-j-d-leckenby-pitcher
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