Clint Frazier has fewer than 300 big league games to his name, but he’s already seen firsthand a fair amount of both the good and bad that professional baseball has to offer.
A first round pick of Cleveland’s in 2013, Frazier has since seen just about everything. He’s dealt with the pressures of being a top-five pick, been traded and released, cheered at home and then booed by the same fans. Of course, he’s dealt with health struggles too, most notably concussion symptoms.
The talent has always been there for Frazier, it was just a matter of getting all the necessary stars to align simultaneously. At one point, it seemed like Frazier was going to become a star. But now he’s with the White Sox, trying to prove himself as a big leaguer on his third organization since getting released by the Yankees in 2021.
It's been quite the ride for Frazier, who named what he considers to be the lowest and highest points of his career on Audacy’s “Baseball Isn’t Boring.”
“I think the lowest point for me was all the time spent on the IL with my concussion symptoms," Frazier said. "Still, to this day, it changed my life. It changed my career in ways. No one can really understand what that experience is like until you go through it. So that was the lowest for me.
“The highest was – it’s hard to pinpoint one moment. But I would just say probably around my debut time. I did what I wanted to do, which was to play in the big leagues -- and then I got to play in the big leagues for the New York Yankees. My first week of the season was insane, dude.
“I mean, I hit a walk-off my first week, I homered in my first game, there were a lot of things going on at that time that I don’t think I fully grasped what was happening until it happened. So for me to be able to do some of those things was pretty cool.”
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