Detroit Tigers Top Prospects to Know

You are reading the free version of the Detroit Tigers Top Prospects. In this version, you will get the full writeups on the top prospect in the system, the biggest sleeper, and a player I could see breaking out in 2025.

In this edition, you will see what I offer in the full team reports. For every farm system, you will get my top 50 ranked players and detailed reports on the top 30. Each report includes advanced player data, traditional scouting thoughts from live and video looks, plus thoughts from scouts around the league.

Let’s dive in on what you get in the full report!

Glossary:

FFG = Future Fantasy Grade - essentially, what is the likely long-term outcome for the prospect? This is always going to be more conservative. Handing out ace tags is not something I like to do. So, this is a realistic outcome.

90th Peak = If the player hits their best-case outcome, what does it look like?

Variance = How risky is this player’s profile, and how likely are they to hit their likely outcome? Low variance is good; high means more risky.

Format for report: Name/Position/Age on 2025 Opening Day/Height/Weight/Highest Level

Detroit Tigers Top Prospect

1. Jackson Jobe, RHP, 22, 6’2”/190, MLB

Jobe has evolved impressively as a pitcher since being drafted third in 2021. A converted infielder with a big arm, Jobe showed a high-spinning slider and plenty of heat on his fastball. The refinement over the last three seasons has led Jobe to be one of the top pitching prospects in baseball.

Injuries limited Jobe to 91.2 innings in 2024, but that was a career-best mark. He posted a 2.36 ERA with 96 strikeouts and 45 walks, earning his MLB promotion at season's end. With the Tigers, Jobe tossed four relief innings without allowing a run.

The fastball sits in the mid-to-upper 90s with plenty of carry-up in the zone, averaging over 17 inches of IVB from a 6’0” release height. It touches triple-digits and shows impressive traits, making it a plus offering.

Jobe’s slider is his best pitch, sitting around 82 mph with a ton of sweeping action with spin rates up to 3,200 RPM. The pitch gets anywhere from 12-17 inches of horizontal movement and misses bats at a high clip. Jobe added a cutter to bridge the velocity gap between the fastball and slider, sitting around 90 mph with good carry and five inches of horizontal movement.

One of Jobe's biggest progressions in the last two seasons was the development of his changeup. The pitch sits 84-85 mph with nice depth and consistently 15 inches of fade. It was his best swing-and-miss pitch in 2024.

Jobe has three pitches that grade out as plus, and you could argue that the cutter is also pretty close to a plus offering. After walking just six of the 258 batters he faced in 2023, the walk rate spiked in 2024. Jumping from a 2.3% walk rate to a 12 percent mark in 2024 is notable. The interesting thing is that Jobe’s 65.5 percent strike rate is well above the MiLB average of 62 percent.

Working the corners well and not giving hitters a pitch to hit in counts when he is behind could explain the higher walk rate, but it is still quite unexplainable why it was as high as it was. Natural regression seems likely, and Jobe will likely run a walk rate in the six-to-seven percent range in 2025, when he will be in the Tigers rotation.

FFG: SP2

90th Percentile Peak Outcome: 170 IP/3.25 ERA/200 K

Variance: Medium

Buy/Sell: Buy

Detroit Tigers Sleeper Prospect

29. Gabriel Reyes, LHP, 21, 6’1”/170, A

Reyes’ career got off to a strong start in the DSL in 2021 as a 17-year-old, but an injury limited him stateside in 2022 and caused him to miss all of 2023. Returning to the mound in 2024, Reyes spent most of his season in Single-A, posting a 3.97 ERA across 65.2 innings with 82 strikeouts and 19 walks. His xFIP of 2.70 shows the quality of the pitching performance Reyes posted in Lakeland. A 26.5 percent strikeout minus walk rate also stands out.

Leading with a fastball that sits 92-93 mph but topped out at 95 mph. Throwing from a low, 5’1” release height, Reyes stands on the third base side of the rubber, having a horizontal release point in the center of the rubber. The fastball is a low IVB offering with high spin rates, and the horizontal movement is consistent. There are some solid traits if Reyes can refine the pitch more.

Reyes’s slider is his most used secondary pitch. It has solid depth and an average of six inches of sweeping action. It sits around 85 mph and generated a whiff rate near 47 percent this season. The changeup was used around ten percent of the time, having ten inches of fading action. It averaged 87 mph and missed bats at a 40 percent clip this season.

Reyes throws strikes at an impressive 69 percent clip as well while commanding each pitch. He posted an impressive 17 percent swinging strike rate and one of the highest CSW rates in baseball at 36 percent. I still want to see how Reyes pitches at higher levels, but the Tigers system might have a major sleeper on their hands.

FFG: Backend SP

90th Percentile Peak Outcome: 120 IP/3.80 ERA/120 K

Variance: High

Buy/Sell: Buy in Deep Leagues

Detroit Tigers 2025 Breakout Prospect

12. Owen Hall, RHP, 19, 6’3”/185, HS

The Tigers love this type of arm. Hall is a projectable arm out of Oklahoma who can spin the ball quite well. Selected in the second round of the 2024 draft, the former Vanderbilt commit brings a ton of intruige to the mound.

Hall made major strides during his senior year, seeing his fastball tick up pretty substantially to now touch 98 and sit in the 92-94 mph range. With projection on his frame at 6’3”/185, he could definitely begin to sit in the mid-90s sooner than later.

The slider has two distinct breaking balls, and its plane break is in the low 80s. The curveball is in the mid-70s with incredible depth and sweep. It generates a ton of whiffs and gets plenty of chase out of the zone. Hall will emphasize the changeup development.

FFG: SP4-5

90th Percentile Peak Outcome: 130 IP/3.60 ERA/140 K

Variance: Extreme

Buy/Sell: Buy