Max Clark: Detroit Tigers' Rising Star & Top Prospect

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00:00Max Clark of the Detroit Tigers what makes Max Clark a top 10 prospect in baseball I think he

00:07did just about everything you wanted to see from him last year right I mean he starts to tap into

00:11more power I know I think it was kind of a secret I feel like it didn't get enough press it he was

00:17popping exit velocities north of 110 miles per hour the other side is the contact rates got better

00:22his path improved where he started to produce a lot more against breaking balls and and I think

00:27I know that was something that he specifically trained it was a chase rate south of 20 percent

00:31the defense continues to come along in center field it was everything that you wanted to see from Max

00:36Clark and by the way doing a lot of those things after a promotion up to double a as well so when

00:42I look at you know him in totality I think the way to push the ceiling up was tapping into more power

00:47and he did that whether it's a little bit more in the air pull department with the 14 homers and

00:52five triples but also the EVs where you've got a 90th percentile of 104.5 and again to make that

01:00improvement power wise while also improving drastically against breaking balls I think is

01:06really encouraging next up at number nine JJ Weatherholt of the St. Louis Cardinals and I remember

01:12on draft day you myself Jack the whole room here at Just Baseball was pounding the table draft

01:19Weatherholt number one we were big fans of Bazzana and you are too and you'll find that on this top 100

01:25prospects list it's just JJ Weatherholt had a hamstring injury and I feel like that's what led him to drop

01:31because it wasn't his performance on the field and now we're seeing when healthy a top nine prospect of

01:37baseball I mean the floor is so high I don't I don't think the ceiling maybe is as high as some of the

01:41other guys that we're going to talk about here it's elite swing decisions it's a phenomenal feel to

01:47spray the ball to all fields now because that was you know that was the thing that was interesting

01:51is you know at points he was not you know pulling the ball in the air at the clip that you wanted to

01:55see got back to that this year and you really saw that in the back half of the year you know is he

02:01going to stick and play a great shortstop that's the other question I think he can get by there but

02:06I think it's all about the bat here where you have a guy that's performed well left on left he walked

02:10as much as he struck out this year he flashed he's flashing above average power he just hits the ball hard

02:15consistently and he's really hard to strike out I just you he's just some of his parts type of player

02:20that I think you can really count on to you know give you a really exciting blend of on base and

02:25above average pop uh with it being really hard to find a deficiency in his game and next up Samuel

02:31Basayo of the Baltimore Orioles and it's pretty obvious why he's a top prospect we saw it with the

02:39bat early and the Orioles were so convinced that they gave him a long-term extension so this was

02:45probably one of the easier guys to put in the top 10 because like well he's going to hit for a very

02:50long time and the Orioles a smart organization already paid the man I don't know man he finished

02:55the year oh for 13 with eight strikeouts so it might be over that's why that's why he's eight and not

03:00five yeah it might be over he is and you know I don't love comps but when they're uncanny I'm gonna

03:06throw a couple out in the top 10 here actually I have to like I can't escape him it really is that

03:12Rafael Devers starter kid offensively and if he's doing that like even if it's 80 percent of that

03:17and he's a passable catcher that also plays first base that's just so valuable right so I think we've

03:25seen the defense come along where I think he can catch a couple times a week uh I think he's looking

03:29like a guy that could be athletic enough to play first base ended up catching way more because of

03:32the Adelaide injury uh but I think ultimately you know you probably have him catch a few times per

03:37week uh and then the power is ridiculous the ability to hit balls he's one of the already one of the

03:43better bad ball hitters you know in the major leagues it's a hard hit right north of 53 percent

03:47it's a lead exit velocities and he can elevate easily to all fields he is a monster offensively

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