MLB Reacts to Max Fried News After Yankees Game originally appeared on Athlon Sports. New York Yankees ace Max Fried is in his first full season with the club after debuting in 2017 with the Atlanta Braves.

With less than a month to go before the All-Star Game, Max Fried has to like his chances of starting it.

Max Fried was the most coveted free agent on the market. He was a rising senior, enjoying a carefree SoCal summer, when a hurricane hit his mailbox, casually mentioning that his high school, Montclair Prep, would be dropping its athletics department. As classmates scouted colleges, the nation’s top-rated southpaw searched for somewhere to graduate.