Max Clark will become the 18th player drafted in the first round straight out of an Indiana high school. Of the 17 before him, only three reached MLB.
Despite their"can't-miss" scouting reports, of the seventeen before Clark, only three reached the big leagues .2021, Colson Montgomery, Chicago White Sox, No. 22; Southridge HS
As a high school senior, he hit .535 with 15 home runs and 37 RBIs for a 25-6 team that reached a Class 4A regional final. His four-year totals were .473 with 25 homers and 109 RBIs and he set three single-season and six career records.told IndyStar's Kyle Neddenriep in 2018“We’re going to look back 20 years from now and be able to say we played with Nick Schnell,” said senior outfielder Mark Cobb. “It’s going to be awesome to see what his future looks like.
He signed with the Royals instead of attending Texas A&M and went 0-3 with a 4.21 ERA in 11 starts in Rookie ball in 2015. He threw just two innings in 2016 before stepping away from the game for a"mental break." He struggled with Steve Blass disease, a confidence issue where players inexplicably seem to lose their ability to throw a baseball accurately. He took 2017 and 2018 off and missed 2019 because of Tommy John surgery.
The 2013 USA Today high school player of the year, Ball went 6-0 on the mound as a senior with a 0.76 ERA and 93 strikeouts in 46 innings and added 10 home runs and 29 RBIs from the plate. A $2.75 million signing bonus helped convince Ball to pass on his scholarship to Texas and begin his pro career.
The scouts returned by the dozens the next day against Lapel. “They obviously liked what they saw,” an American League scout told The Star Press' Thomas St. Myer. “If they didn’t, they wouldn’t have come back. Their time is too precious.” “If he ends up not getting to do what he wants to do, it’s not because he hasn’t tried. He has put in the time. I can’t think of anything, growing up or through the course of all this, that I wish he had done a little differently. In my opinion, he’s done everything he could’ve done to make it happen. If it doesn’t happen, it just wasn’t meant to be.”
"This is the way every high school kid wants to end it — undefeated, state champion," he told IndyStar's Nat Newell."It's an awesome feeling."“All the kids around here say, ‘Man, you’re going to be on TV someday,’” Parker said.After landing a $2.1 million signing bonus, Parker began his pro career with Arizona's Class-A affiliate in South Bend, two hours from home. He went 12-5 with a 3.44 ERA and 117 strikeouts in 117 2/3 innings.
Brown passed on a scholarship to Michigan to sign with his dream team."The Yankees were my first choice. That was the call I was waiting on." Brown signed his contact with the Yankees in front of a public audience at Richmond's Tiernan Center. “In 42 years of life that was one of my most memorable experiences, going to Fenway,” Garrett said in 2020. “It was just to get a physical, but I got to go into the Dan Duquette suite and meet Roger Clemens. He gave me some personal advice. I was a little nervous talking to him.”
"To be very honest with you, this surprises me because nobody in their right mind could ever predict that both would be picked in the first round, even though both are really nice kids," said Dennis Kas, a Pittsburgh Pirates scout and longtime Noblesville coach. "The numbers I put up I guess weren't enough," Zapp told The Daily Journal."I'm a free agent and hopefully somebody out there will appreciate me more than the Mariners. What else could I have done?""To this day, I have no regrets signing," Zapp told The Daily Journal's Rick Morwick in 2016."Even though I did not get to the big leagues, I went to four major-league spring trainings and everything, but still no regrets.
Over parts of nine MLB seasons, Thurman hit .243 with 65 stolen bases, 64 RBIs and 194 hits in 424 career games with the Royals , Tigers, Mariners and Mets.As a senior for Carroll, Maki posted a 1.06 ERA with 99 strikeouts in 51 innings, including two no-hitters in a week. "God was with us," Pat said."What better game can you ask for than two brothers pitching against each other and it ending 1-0?"
"He's still pretty young. The Reds hope he can get his confidence back at Tampa. But I'd say his confidence is probably destroyed for now. The Reds may have pushed him too fast. He's just 21. He just wasn't quite ready for Double-A ball."He was out of pro baseball at 21.Not to be confused with the Steve Reed, who played 14 years in the majors, this Steve Reed played none.
"I've always wanted to play pro baseball ever since I was a little kid," Reed said."And I've always wanted to play for the Cincinnati Reds. … This is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me. There's no doubt about it." He dominated in Rookie ball in 1972, going 6-0 with a 1.89 ERA over 38 innings but struggled once he was promoted to Class A.
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