The 2021 MLB draft is set to kick off on Sunday evening, and there’s been an unusually low amount of consensus on exactly what will happen in the first few picks. The Tigers’ pick is one of the disputed selections, as experts can’t seem to agree which of a handful of prospects are the team’s preference after prep shortstop Marcelo Mayer. One of the players involved in that conversation is high school right-hander Jackson Jobe.
Jobe’s eventual draft position largely hinges on whether the Tigers decide to pull the trigger on drafting him with the third overall pick.