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Top pick Clark’s ‘unreal’ journey continues in Detroit

Max Clark visits Comerica Park earlier than Padres sport

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July twenty first, 2023

DETROIT — Max Clark labored the room on Friday like he’d all the time been in it. A handshake right here, a fistbump there and smiles throughout. He held courtroom with the vets in foul territory and joked with a legend.

He did TV interviews and print interviews and took part in an on-field photograph shoot together with his household. And the Tigers’ high Draft decide did all of it in a full swimsuit on a boiling summer time afternoon with out breaking a sweat.

“It has been,” Clark stated, “unreal.”

Detroit scooped up Clark, the 18-year-old outfielder with a cannon for an arm, with the third total decide within the 2023 MLB Draft on July 9. He reported to the staff’s amenities in Lakeland, Fla., final week to start analysis and exercises for his new group not fairly two months after his highschool profession wrapped up.

The trip has been a whirlwind, he conceded, and it most not too long ago included a visit to Detroit for slightly meet-and-greet and style of the city previous to Friday’s collection opener in opposition to the Padres.

The day included meals at well-liked Woodward haunts The Hudson Cafe and Union Meeting and a tour of Little Caesars Enviornment between, earlier than Clark landed at Comerica Park to rub elbows with Detroit’s roster and take a look at the clubhouse he hopes will probably be his personal at some point.

After spending time together with his new group, Clark fired an ideal strike for his ceremonial first pitch. The catcher? Tigers starter Michael Lorenzen, with whom Clark has already struck up a friendship.

And naturally, no Tigers expertise can be full with no little Miguel Cabrera. Miggy did not disappoint, chiding Clark for not taking batting follow earlier than admitting that his son was a giant fan who’s adopted Clark on social media for fairly a while.

“It took me a second to comprehend that is what he stated,” Clark stated. “I actually form of stood there in awe for a second, and was like, ‘Wait a minute. That is Miguel Cabrera speaking to me. Each childhood dream come true.’ It is so cool. I used to play with him on MLB 2K10 each single day, and simply rake with him, so it is actually, actually cool now to be … part of his group.”

Cabrera’s 11-year-old son Christopher is not Clark’s solely fan by far: Clark has practically 370,000 followers on Instagram, greater than 288,000 on TikTok and one other 50,000 on Twitter.

It is all by design, stated Clark, who even at this younger stage in his profession, already understands the facility of his platform and the significance of constructing an excellent impression.

“There’s numerous youngsters in America and numerous youngsters all over the world who could not have a task mannequin or an inspiration or steerage to look as much as,” he supplied. “There have been occasions the place I used to be form of younger in my comparatively superior baseball profession, the place I wanted any individual to succeed in out to. I wanted to listen to one thing from a big-time participant, no matter it might be.

“I need to be that voice for these youngsters.”

Clark, who’s a three-time Gatorade Participant of the Yr in Indiana and was the Gatorade Nationwide Participant of the Yr this spring, signed with Detroit on Monday for a $7.7 million bonus. His skilled profession will start this summer time with Class A Lakeland.


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