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Tigers No. 1 prospect Max Clark, Hao-Yu Lee selected for 2024 All-Star Futures Game

Max Clark isn't advancing from Low-A Lakeland to High-A West Michigan, but he is representing the Detroit Tigers in the 2024 All-Star Futures Game on July 13 at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas.

Clark, whom the Tigers selected No. 3 overall in the 2023 draft, is hitting .269 with five home runs, 43 walks and 52 strikeouts across 64 games at the Low-A level, posting a .753 OPS. He has 23 stolen bases in 25 attempts. He also has a large audience on social media with 412,000 followers on Instagram, which he uses to post pictures of his life in baseball.

Double-A Erie infielder Hao-Yu Lee, one of the youngest players in the Eastern League, is joining Clark at the All-Star Futures Game, representing the Tigers.

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Detroit Tigers outfielder prospect Max Clark works out during spring training at TigerTown in Lakeland, Fla. on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024.
Detroit Tigers outfielder prospect Max Clark works out during spring training at TigerTown in Lakeland, Fla. on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024.

Lee, 21, is hitting .295 with 11 home runs, 30 walks and 52 strikeouts across 65 games, posting a .877 OPS. He hit .385 with a 1.131 OPS in June. All 295 of Lee's plate appearances in Double-A have occurred against pitchers who are older than him.

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The Tigers acquired Lee, who plays second base and third base, in a trade with the Philadelphia Phillies in exchange for right-hander Michael Lorenzen on Aug. 1, 2023, the Tigers' lone player-for-player transaction at last year's trade deadline.

Clark is the Tigers' No. 1 prospect, according to MLB Pipeline, while Lee ranks No. 13. Clark also ranks No. 10 among MLB Pipeline's top 100 prospects in baseball.

Clark, a left-handed hitter, had the worst month of his Low-A 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 May. After a bad June, he blasted a home run in his first game of July.

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In Lakeland, Clark has been overshadowed by fellow 19-year-old prospect Kevin McGonigle.

The Tigers selected McGonigle, a left-handed hitter who plays shortstop and second base, with the No. 37 overall pick in the 2023 draft. He ranks as the Tigers' No. 4 prospect, as well as the No. 65 prospect in baseball.

McGonigle didn't make the All-Star Futures Game, but he is having an All-Star-caliber season that warrants a promotion to High-A West Michigan. He is hitting .326 with three home runs, 29 walks and 21 strikeouts across 50 games, posting an .879 OPS.

In the previous three years, the Tigers have been represented at the All-Star Futures Game 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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This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Tigers prospects Max Clark, Hao-Yu Lee selected for Futures Game