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Dominic Leone

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Born
1991 (32 years old)

Birth Place

Norwich, Connecticut, USA

Position
Pitcher

Status
Active

Ethnicity
White

Team Number
55

Height
5' 10"

Weight
215

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Baseball

Team
Chicago White Sox

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League
MLB

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Dominic Joseph Leone (born October 26, 1991), nicknamed Dominator, is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Chicago White Sox organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners, Arizona Diamondbacks, Toronto Blue Jays, St. Louis Cardinals, Cleveland Indians, San Francisco Giants, New York Mets, and Los Angeles Angels. Leone played college baseball for the Clemson Tigers. The Mariners selected Leone in the 16th round of the 2012 Major League Baseball draft.

High school and college
Leone attended Norwich Free Academy in Norwich, Connecticut, where he played for the school's baseball team. Undrafted out of high school, he enrolled at Clemson University, where he pitched for the Clemson Tigers baseball team.

When he was a true freshman, the Tigers turned to Leone in a game in which they faced postseason elimination; Leone won the game, which sent the team to the 2010 College World Series. A strained shoulder in his sophomore year led him to develop his off-speed pitches. After the 2011 season, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Chatham Anglers of the Cape Cod Baseball League. In his junior year, he had a 7–4 win–loss record and a 5.25 earned run average (ERA). While struggling in his junior year, Leone taught himself to throw a cutter by watching YouTube videos of Mariano Rivera.