How Detroit Tigers prospect Jackson Jobe performed in Triple-A Toledo debut

Detroit Tigers right-hander Jackson Jobe made his Triple-A Toledo debut .

It wasn't a start to remember.

Jobe allowed four runs on eight hits and two walks with three strikeouts across four innings in Saturday's 6-5 loss to the Omaha Storm Chasers, the Triple-A affiliate of the Kansas City Royals, at Werner Park in Omaha, Nebraska. Jobe, 22, needed 83 pitches to complete four innings.

In the second inning, he allowed a two-run home run to Devin Mann on a middle-middle 97 mph fastball.

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Jobe worked around a single and a walk in the first inning, but the Storm Chasers scored in the other three innings, tallying two runs in the second, one run in the third and one run in the fourth.

The former No. 3 overall draft pick ranks as the Tigers' No. 2 prospect (behind Max Clark), according to MLB Pipeline , and the No. 6 prospect in baseball. He is the highest-ranked pitching prospect on MLB Pipeline's top-100 prospect list.

For his 83 pitches, Jobe threw 30 four-seam fastballs (36.1%), 22 sweepers (26.5%), 19 cutters (22.9%) and 12 changeups (14.5%). He generated nine whiffs on 42 swings — a 21.4% whiff rate — with three fastballs, three sweepers, two cutters and one changeup.

His fastball averaged 96.4 mph, maxing at 98.4 mph.

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The Storm Chasers averaged a 93.9 mph exit velocity on 16 balls in play against Jobe, meaning they hit him hard. (Tigers rookie right-hander Keider Montero, for comparison, ranks in MLB's 40th percentile with a 89.2 mph average exit velocity against him.)

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Before the Triple-A promotion , Jobe posted a 1.95 ERA with 38 walks (12.7% walk rate) and 81 strikeouts (27.1% strikeout rate) across 73⅔ innings in 16 starts in Double-A Erie. He also had a 2.00 ERA with two walks and eight strikeouts across nine innings in High-A West Michigan during a three-start rehab assignment.

Jobe could be in the mix for a spot in the Tigers' Opening Day starting rotation in 2025 , but he won't pitch for the Tigers this season.

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