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Tigers top draft pick Jackson Jobe cracks Baseball America's midseason top 100 prospects

The Detroit Tigers can boast another top 100 prospect in their farm system.

Baseball America revealed its midseason top 100 on Monday, with the Tigers' first-round pick in this month's MLB Draft, Jackson Jobe, squeaking in at No. 96.

The Tigers selected Jobe, a right-handed pitcher from Heritage Hall High School in Oklahoma City, at No. 3 overall.

"Jobe’s fastball/slider combo piled up strikeouts and eye-popping spin rates last summer and this spring," Baseball America writes. "He joins a Tigers’ pitching group that has recently shown it can produce big league starters.