AL Central: Are the stars aligning for a Clark call-up?
Jun 18 2026
Max Clark and Kevin McGonigle entered this season as two of the best hitting prospects in baseball (ranking 8th and 2nd, respectively, on the HQ100), both having finished 2025 at Double-A. But McGonigle was widely considered to be more polished and ready for the majors, an assessment that has already proven accurate.
Clark, meanwhile, was assigned to Triple-A, with the hope that if he hit well enough, he too might get called up sometime this season. And at first, that hope looked like it might come to fruition, as Clark got off to a red-hot start, batting .377/.444/.565 with a 1.00 Eye over his first 81 PA. That was through April 17; Parker Meadows fractured his left arm on April 9, and so it looked like there might be an...
Almost!
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