Max Clark

The Seam

Tracked, Not Flagged — Every published list has Max Clark among the fifteen best prospects in baseball; the one number feverbaseball's engine keeps on him sits in the 76th percentile. This is what we filed before his first major-league at-bat. July 30, 2026

The card rack

FlagshipMax Clark #BST-5 · 2026 Bowman Sterling · 546 recent sales 7N ▼0.2%

$1.15Raw$12.16PSA 9$36.28PSA 10$47.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 46 nights

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The rookieMax Clark #IT-12 · 2025 Bowman Chrome It Came to the League · 590 recent sales 7N ▼0.1%

$2.09Raw$13.85PSA 9$42.05PSA 10$55.00BGS 10PSA 10 · 42 nights

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Scout’s note

Clark debuted July 31 at 21, a first-round pick in 2023 out of Franklin, Indiana, and has 23 games in Detroit. The market ranks him the consensus No. 5 prospect. Our engine grades his Triple-A contact in the 78th percentile of 451 qualified Triple-A bats — EV95 of 106.935 against a 105.0 median. A prospect rank and a contact percentile are different scales; we print both and reconcile neither. Two homers in 23 games are the box score; the contact quality is the story this page tells.

Current signals

The read: The market calls Clark the consensus No. 5 prospect in baseball; our engine grades his Triple-A contact in the 78th percentile of the 453 qualified Triple-A bats we track (EV95 106.9; median 105.0). A prospect rank and a contact percentile are different measurements on different scales; we print both and reconcile neither.

EV95 (mph)

106.935

xVal (MLB grid)

0.3417

Balls in play

294

Age

21

A market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of August 25, 2026.

2026 salary

$0.25Mest

Tax hit

$0.25M

Service time

0 yr 0 d

Options left

3 / 3

Regime read from his service time, not from the sheet — it does not project him past this season. Super Two eligibility is the top 22% of a class and can move this line in a way service time alone cannot see.

Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Detroit Tigers.

A second set of books

The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of August 20, 2026. We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.

Tax AAV

$0.78M

Guaranteed

$0.78M

Term

1 yr

His class

Pre-Arb

The tax AAV above is his number under the CBA’s own rulebook, not the average we work out from Cot’s total. On a contract with deferred money the two come apart on purpose — and neither is subtracted from the other.

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The Bureau on Max Clark

The scouting press, in their own words