Jackson Jobe Called Up

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00:00I've been still no announcement regarding Max Clark.

00:02He has not been called up yet.

00:04Jackson Jobe did get called up yesterday and Gator.

00:06It is created quite a buzz.

00:08This is a guy who some consider the number one prospect,

00:11pitching prospect in baseball. And

00:15I mean, Scott, we've been watching and it most levels

00:19he will settle in and become just a wipeout pitcher, not so much a triple A.

00:25He had two appearances in Toledo, went nine innings, gave up 12 hits,

00:29five walks, so 12 hits and five walks and just nine innings,

00:32struck out seven and gave up six earned runs.

00:37But if you look at the formula,

00:40minor league stats have little to do

00:44with major league success in this organization.

00:46They have almost nothing to do with it.

00:49Yeah. Which is kind of interesting, unless you're well, even if you're a hitter

00:53like Wetzel Perez wasn't doing anything in Toledo when the Tigers brought him up.

00:57Yeah. And and so here we go with Jackson Jobe,

01:03who I mean, look, he's he's hit one.

01:05I think I saw he hit one on one eight at spring training with his fastball

01:12through his minor league stint this year.

01:14He put 91 and two thirds at West Michigan Area in Toledo.

01:19His ERA at those three stops, two point three six.

01:23Ninety six strikeouts and 91 and two thirds, but 45 walks.

01:27He's been known to walk people.

01:29Well, that's new this year, though.

01:31He didn't walk anybody last year.

01:34So that's like a little that that's a wrinkle this year that they got to

01:37they got to fix iron out. Yeah. At some point.

01:40That's what you do with a wrinkle. You bring it.

01:41It'll fix the wrinkle. Fix that wrinkle.

01:44OK. No, you aren't in there.

01:46So the point is, does he make an impact?

01:50I think he can absolutely make an impact because he's a swing and miss guy

01:53because he throws so hard and he's got secondary pitches

01:56that have great movement and

01:59scouts rave about this guy.

02:01He's the number one prospect in baseball for a reason.

02:03And you think about putting him in a leverage situation

02:07when you need a strikeout.

02:09Here comes Jackson Joe, right?

02:11He can get that done.

02:13So I don't know if he's going to be a guy who's going to pitch multiple innings

02:18or if he's just a one inning guy or, hey, we we need to get this last out

02:22in the eighth inning. Can you do that?

02:23And then, you know, he just pitches to one batter.

02:26Of course, that's the only way you can do it is if you get the last

02:28out of the inning with new rules of baseball.

02:30But I'm so excited about this

02:33because I mean, talking to guys in the morning show,

02:37it felt like A.J.

02:38Hinch left that door just a little bit ajar

02:41when they talked to him about it a few weeks ago and said, you know,

02:44what's the plan for Jackson Jobe?

02:45And Scott Harris said, well, he's got a he's got a pitch in a minor.

02:49Still got to pitch triple A.

02:52Well, then he he got sent to triple A.

02:54And he immediately got called up to play.

02:56OK, well, he's got to go to play before he comes to the Tigers.

02:58Is it still shot? Is that never going to happen?

03:01Well, I mean, he's got he's got a lot of things to do, but, you know.

03:05But he didn't say no.

03:07And in the back of my mind, there was like this 3% chance.

03:11I'm like, is he ever going to get this chance?

03:13I doubt it. Come on.

03:15That's not going to happen. It's improbable.

03:17Well, so is this Tiger season.

03:19So it feels like anything is possible with this team.

03:24But I mean, it's it's I don't think it was the easiest decision to make,

03:30either with Shelby Miller being the guy who's going to be DFA.

03:33Now, Shelby Miller has had ups and downs on the season.

03:36But one thing Shelby Miller does is get lefties out.

03:42Lefties hit 122 against Shelby Miller with a 417 OPS.

03:46That's remarkably great.

03:49And yet righties kill him.

03:51Yeah. And he's a and he's a right handed pitcher,

03:54so he's got the reverse splits that don't make any sense.

03:56So you're getting rid of a guy who does have value.

04:01Now, the value might be from baseball five years ago more than it is today

04:05because the rules have changed.

04:06And you have to face at least three hitters in the inning the whole bit.

04:08You're no longer just a lefty specialist.

04:11But there's still some value there.

04:12So they're giving up on that to bring in a guy who can reach triple digits

04:17and get swings and misses.

04:20So the other part of this, though, is.

04:23Hi, kid, welcome.

04:24Here's the baseball we need and out in the playoffs are dependent on it.

04:29Like that's it's a huge ask for a 22 year old.

04:32And people talk about pitchers, makeups and all that.

04:36You really don't know how you're going to react.

04:40In this kind of situation, until you're in this kind of situation.

04:43And yet this whole team is guys like that.

04:45I mean, maybe not to this point, because nobody else has been

04:48called up right before the playoffs.

04:50But these guys have all they're all so young

04:53and they seemingly they're not oblivious to what's going.

04:57They know full well what's going on here, but they're young enough

05:00to to just being enjoying it here

05:04and maybe not knowing any better than to act the way that you've always act.

05:09I get it. But nobody this is a different kind of ask.

05:13This is a big ask for a really

05:16obviously an incredibly green.

05:19It is young, but you're not asking him to come in and pitch game three.

05:24Of the playoffs to start, and we need seven innings out of you.

05:28That's not what you're asking him to do.

05:30More clearly, but it's a huge difference, though,

05:32because I think typically you would think if this team had

05:36hadn't shown what they've shown over the last two months

05:39where they're using, well, they're open starts.

05:42And I think you would assume that he's coming in to start

05:44and he's going to have to go several innings and he's not.

05:46No, if your point is, there could be more stressful situations.

05:50Of course, there could be more stressful situations.

05:52I'm just saying this is one hell of a stressful situation

05:55for a kid to be handed the baseball, and he will likely get handed

05:58the baseball sometime in the next six games.

06:00But, you know, again, makeup and reaction and maturity level.

06:05All those things. I got a kid who's 22, OK?

06:09I just keep thinking about that's how old Jackson Job is.

06:11It is amazing that he will be on the Hill

06:15in one of these next six games in Detroit with potentially everything on the line.

06:19He also could be a guy gets a Sunday start because they've already clinched

06:21and it doesn't really matter.

06:22Go eat up some innings and get some experience right now.

06:25That would be the best. That would be awesome.

06:27That would be the best, best, best way to use them.

06:29So the magic numbers at six other games are going to be watching

06:32throughout the day, Miami at Minnesota.

06:36Go fish.

06:38Kansas City's at Washington.

06:41We're rooting for the Nationals.

06:42They are Baltimore's in New York.

06:47And Houston's at Seattle.

06:50Houston won that game.

06:52Seattle won that game last night, so they're a game and a half back.

06:54So they should not be discounted here either.

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