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# Detroit Tigers put these 27 players on prospect roster for 2025 Spring Breakout game

And he was selected to be on the Tigers prospect team that will play the Atlanta Braves at 4:05 p.m. Sunday at CoolToday Park in North Port, Florida, as part of the MLB Spring Breakout, the league’s prospect showcase for all 30 teams. The game will be broadcast on MLB Network and streamed on MLB.TV and MLB.com.

There are 27 players on the roster, including 18 prospects from the Tigers’ top-30 list (as ranked by MLB Pipeline): Clark (No. 2), Kevin McGonigle (No. 3), Bryce Rainer (No. 4), Thayron Liranzo (No. 5), Josue Briceño (No. 6), Hao-Yu Lee (No. 8), Jaden Hamm (No. 9), Troy Melton (No. 13), Franyerber Montilla (No. 14), Enrique Jimenez (No. 17), Jake Miller (No. 18), Josh Randall (No. 19), Joseph Montalvo (No. 20), Michael Massey (No. 21), Roberto Campos (No. 23), Max Anderson (No. 24), Carson Rucker (No. 25), Tyler Owens (No. 29).

Right-hander Jackson Jobe, the Tigers’ No. 1 prospect, is not competing in the Spring Breakout game. Rather, Jobe is focused on winning a spot in the Tigers’ Opening Day starting rotation.

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There were 616 players selected in the 2022 MLB draft but Alba wasn’t one of them; he feared his baseball career was over.

About a half hour later, the Tigers called with an interesting offer.

OK, it was his only offer: A free-agent deal.

“At that point they were my only option,” Alba said. “So, I was like, absolutely, I’m gonna take it, especially because I knew that they had been interested in me in years past, so I knew that they were gonna give me a chance.”
He signed with the Tigers on July 26, 2022.

For Alba, it was a last chance.

For the Tigers, it was a no-risk flyer on somebody they had watched for years.

And since then?

Well, he was put through the Tigers pitching laboratory and came out looking completely different. He increased his velocity, added some pitches, tweaked some others and learned how to be a professional.

In 2024, Alba climbed to High-A West Michigan, striking out 63 in 57⅓ innings of work, while walking just eight

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Clark, the Tigers’ No.1 positional prospect, was not invited to big-league camp, which would have put him into an instant fishbowl of media attention. Instead, they brought him in quietly, letting him work on the backfields, getting up to game speed.

But finally, he was invited to a big-league game on March 7 — a day he’ll never forget.

“It was a special feeling,” he told me the next afternoon, standing outside the Tigers minor league clubhouse. “Being surrounded with guys like that, a manager like that — it was special.”

He got into the game in the fifth inning, taking over center field at a point in the game when Riley Greene was in left and Kerry Carpenter in right — oh, the pure poetry of it all.

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All of this has impressed Tigers manager A.J. Hinch — not just Clark’s talent and skill, but how much he loves baseball.

“Max is a baseball junkie,” Hinch said Sunday morning sitting in the dugout in Joker Marchant Stadium. “I will reference games earlier in the camp, and he will have already watched it, or I’ll reference seeing something last night on TV, on one of the broadcasts, and he was locked in on that game. So I think he watches baseball as much as any young player in our organization, and I think that’s awesome.”

In other words: Clark already speaks Hinch.

Flash with the substance

The first thing you probably notice about Clark is the giant, sparkling chain around his neck. Or maybe it’s the tattoos down both arms.

And if you judge him only by that — thinking he is nothing but flash — you are missing the competitor inside.

“He’s got a great style to him, but he’s also got a great way about him — that he’s about the competition,” Hinch said. “He’s not trying to make a statement that ever exceeds what he wants to do on the field.”

Hinch’s point: Beyond the sparkle and style, there is nothing but good, old-fashioned desire.

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read alot about this guy but never saw him until that game on the 7th. The chain seems so out of character! Man, Green, Meadows, Clark and Carpenter – (I’m a huge Meadows fan), that’s one helluva an outfield in 2026+.

PS cant read the FP articles, which are usually behind a paywall, so summaries are appreciated!

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that’s a great story. he seems to have had the physical ability but form was terrible or something. I’m just surprised that nobody else took a chance.

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new links for full articles.

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One of the reasons I love minor league baseball is the stories of the players/prospects. Compared to NBA and NFL the MLB prospects have the toughest road to get to the top level with a high level of failure.

These kids chase a dream which can lead to generational money or a later start on a different career. Albeit with tough lessons learned that can help them through life.

The Alba stories, Miller etc are so much fun.

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Nice to see Tram still involved with the Tigers.

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These prospect games… Aren’t all spring training games prospect games? :thinking:

Good heavens they play enough of them.

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To a small degree yes but even in ST only certain MiLB players are invited to the MLB camp. One example for Detroit is T Liranzo, C they got from the Dodgers last deadline. Tigers wanted him to work with MLB coaches and spend time with the starting catchers. Prepare him for what they want in the major league club when he gets there. Helps him take the lessons to the minors when he is sent down to the minor league camp.

Max Clark and McGonigle were not invited to the big league camp.

The prospect games are just top prospects from each team, no big leaguers are playing. One of the few things the current MLB commissioner started that I have enjoyed, last year was the first year of this.

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Roger that. It makes sense now that you explained it. Every spring fans get excited about an aging vet hitting homers off some 20 year old minor leaguer. That’s why I rarely watch. But prospects only games makes some sense.

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I thought you were a youngster. .

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He is…barely 40

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39 with several years of extra experience I like to say :smiley:

But good heavens makes me old?

I pray every day to the good heavens.

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My oh my, heavens to betsy!

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@socko :wink:

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