Jalen Deluca Character Analysis

Jalen DeLuca is a young kid that is twelve years old, that is a huge baseball fan. Him and his dad run a restaurant called the “Silver Liner Diner” that doesn’t get many customers causing Jalen and his dad to be poor. Jalen's mom ran away, because they weren’t making enough money. Now, Jalen wants to get onto the city’s travel baseball team, but his father cannot pay what the cost is ($1,000), so then Jalen decides to steal baseballs from a major leaguer so he can sell them. Does Jalen have what it take to get away safely with the baseballs to join the team?
Jalen Deluca is a kind, athletic, but not a very popular kid at school with two friends, Daniel, and Cat. Although he is a polite kid, he has a rival with the coach's son who thinks he’s “all that” type of kid. He loves the game of baseball, and …show more content…
Jalen is a below-average kid when it comes to height. Though, he does come to average when it comes to weight. But really, he acts and looks at himself as the tallest kid in the whole school. Although, he will get nervous when he’s in situations where the half the school is looking at him. Even if he’s nervous when it comes to talking, acts like he isn’t afraid of anything.
The whole reason that the book is called “Baseball Genius”, is because he has a special talent with something to do with baseball. A type of talent that you would have to see to believe. Jalen can guess the pitch that the pitcher will throw and get it perfectly correct every time. Here's the funny but weird part, Jalen doesn’t know how he does it. He just randomly says a pitch, and its correct. In the future though, it comes down to the wire.
When James Yager is in a slump, him and Jalen team up, and if Jalen gets him out of his slump, James said that he would pay the fee for Jalen to play on the city travel team. You’ll have to read the book to find out what