Phillies Hope Jacobson Is Just A Slow Starter Premium Story

Russ Jacobson
By Jay Zenz

Date: Mar 11, 2004

Let’s face it. If you’re drafted in the third round of the draft, you have to have some measure of talent. There must be something that at least a couple of scouts see that gives them reason to suggest that you’re worthy of a third round pick, right? For Russ Jacobson, it was a .380 college batting average and solid defensive skills that gave the Phillies reason to use their third round pick in the 1999 Draft to take Russ Jacobson.

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