Player development in baseball is not linear. It can zig and it can zag. It can take a step forward and two steps back.

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 ...

It was all by design — how the Detroit Tigers have brought Max Clark along slowly, easing him carefully into the spotlight ...