A healthy right arm is the top priority for Jackson Jobe. But he wants to pitch as a pro this season.
The No. 3 overall pick in the 2021 MLB draft discussed his future from a hotel room at the Courtyard by Marriott in Lakeland, Florida, where he is stationed with the other draftees near the Detroit Tigers’ spring training facility.
There were a few uncertainties.
“As far as the plan moving forward, we haven’t talked a ton about that,” Jobe said Friday. “I think we’re just kind of taking it day-by-day, and we’ll figure it out as it comes.