Max Fried

Fried was born and grew up in Santa Monica, California, the middle son of Carrie and Jonathan Fried, and is Jewish. He attended synagogue on High Holidays, and had a bar mitzvah. His younger brother Jake, also a pitcher, attends the University of Arizona.\n', ' For high school Fried first attended Montclair College Preparatory School, in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, where he played baseball, football, and basketball. In 2009, he was a member of the gold medal-winning 2009 Maccabiah Games Team USA Juniors baseball team. \n', ' As a high school sophomore, he was 10-3 with a 1.81 earned run average (ERA), while batting .446 with four home runs and 40 RBIs, and was named the Olympic League MVP and to the All-California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Division V first team. In his junior year he was 7-3 with a 1.31 ERA, with 100 strikeouts in 69 innings, as he also played outfield and batted .360 with four home runs and 30 RBIs. He was named the 2011 So Cal Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Male High School Athlete of The Year.\n', '