Well, we tried to keep the Jackson Jobe hype low key this spring, but he just won’t let us. The top pitching prospect in baseball stepped to the mound for the first time in a Detroit Tigers uniform on Tuesday, tasked with holding a 1-0 lead in the ninth inning of a Grapefruit League contest with the Minnesota Twins. Let’s just say the Twins got a look at the future, and they did not like what they saw.
Jobe proceeded to unleash the most explosive sequence of pitches seen from a Tigers pitcher since pre-2014 Justin Verlander.