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

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Scout’s note

Drafted in the first round out of Franklin, Indiana, Max Clark debuted July 31 and has put up a .272 average across 51 major-league games with 1.4 WAR. His EV95 of 103.4 lands in the 18th percentile of 406 qualified MLB bats, below the 105.8 median, and his results run 0.0376 ahead of the physics — warm, but shy of the fade line. He sits No. 378 of 406 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20. A rough last four MLB games (.188) hasn't moved that needle.

Note written Oct 7 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

Current signals

The read: Clark is tracked, not flagged: an EV95 of 103.4 (18th percentile of the 406 qualified MLB bats we track; median 105.8) with results 0.038 ahead of the physics — running warm, but shy of the fade line. He sits No. 378 of 406 on the breakout composite; the board takes 20.

PAID — his line has outrun his contact. Where he sits in the league →

EV95 (mph)

103.4

Luck gap (park-adj)

0.0376

Overlay score

-0.3812

WAR (season · MLB calc)

1.4

Balls in play

141

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.

2026 salary

—

Tax hit

—

Service time

0 yr 59 d

Options left

3 / 3

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 September 17, 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