Tigers No. 1 prospect Max Clark, Hao-Yu Lee chosen for 2024 All-Star Futures Recreation – Detroit Free Press

Max Clark is not advancing from Low-A Lakeland to Excessive-A West Michigan, however he’s representing the Detroit Tigers within the 2024 All-Star Futures Game on July 13 at Globe Life Subject in Arlington, Texas.
Clark, whom the Tigers selected No. 3 overall in the 2023 draft, is hitting .269 with 5 house runs, 43 walks and 52 strikeouts throughout 64 video games on the Low-A degree, posting a .753 OPS. He has 23 stolen bases in 25 makes an attempt.
Clark, 19, is the Tigers’ No. 1 prospect, in keeping with MLB Pipeline, and ranks No. 10 amongst MLB Pipeline’s top 100 prospects in baseball. He additionally has a big viewers on social media with 412,000 followers on Instagram, which he makes use of to publish footage of his life in baseball.
Double-A Erie infielder Hao-Yu Lee, one of many youngest gamers within the Japanese League, is becoming a member of Clark on the All-Star Futures Recreation.
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Lee, 21, is hitting .295 with 11 house runs, 30 walks and 52 strikeouts throughout 65 video games, posting a .877 OPS. He hit .385 with a 1.131 OPS in June. All 295 of Lee’s plate appearances have occurred in opposition to pitchers who’re older than him.
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The Tigers acquired Lee, a right-handed hitter who performs second base and third base, in a trade with the Philadelphia Phillies in change for right-hander Michael Lorenzen on Aug. 1, 2023, the Tigers’ lone player-for-player transaction ultimately 12 months’s commerce deadline.
Lee ranks No. 13 on MLB Pipeline’s Tigers prospect record.
Clark, a left-handed hitter, had the worst month of his season in June, hitting .247 with a .695 OPS. He hit .264 with a .722 OPS in April and .284 with a .781 OPS in Might. After a foul June, he blasted a house run in his first sport of July.
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In Lakeland, Clark has been overshadowed by fellow 19-year-old prospect Kevin McGonigle.
The Tigers chosen McGonigle, a left-handed hitter who plays shortstop and second base, with the No. 37 total decide within the 2023 draft. He ranks because the Tigers’ No. 4 prospect, in addition to the No. 65 prospect in baseball.
McGonigle did not make the All-Star Futures Recreation, however he’s having an All-Star-caliber season that warrants a promotion to West Michigan. He’s hitting .326 with three house runs, 29 walks and 21 strikeouts throughout 50 video games, posting an .879 OPS.
Within the earlier three years, the Tigers have been represented on the All-Star Futures Recreation by Riley Greene and Spencer Torkelson in 2021, Dillon Dingler and Wilmer Flores in 2022 and Colt Keith and Justyn-Henry Malloy in 2023.
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