Jack Leathersich, the left-handed Mets farmhand/phenom known to his Twitter followers as the Leather Rocket, says he likes it here in the minor leagues—for now, anyway. 

Players on the Double-A Binghamton Mets have to slap together their own peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich if they want a snack and must watch a prehistoric rear-projection TV in the visitors' clubhouse if they want to kill time, but Leathersich is thriving, and the B-Mets are in first place

Leathersich sat in the dugout after batting practice Tuesday and said he thinks about pitching in the big leagues someday, but, almost in the next breath, he said of looking too far into the future, "I feel like all that does is put your head in the wrong place."

View the rest of Dave Caldwell's piece in the Wall Street Journal