Max Fries

Max Fries is a Chili Peppers first baseman who built his following one short video at a time. Visit Mesa's write-up of Cosmic Baseball says he played five years at Earlham College and started posting baseball tips and drills on TikTok and Instagram, with one video passing half a million views in a week. An Earlham alumni magazine story from fall 2024 adds that he began posting over a winter break to have fun and to help other players with skills and conditioning.

Those posts opened doors. Earlham's story says a recruiter found him through TikTok and he signed with the Savannah Bananas organization, joining its Visitors developmental team and traveling to events. Earlham's athletics site also announced the signing in June 2024.

In early November 2026 his TikTok, @max.fries, shows about 198 thousand followers and 12.4 million total likes, and its bio mentions Cosmic and lists him as a Jax Athletics athlete. His Instagram, @maxfries3, has about 112 thousand followers and tags @gochilipeppers in the bio.

He also joined Cosmic founder Chris Martin on Visit Mesa's City Limitless podcast, episode 31, The Glow-Up: Cosmic Baseball Arrives in Mesa, talking about how the black-light game grew from 18 custom lights in its first year to more than 100.

To follow along, search @max.fries on TikTok and @maxfries3 on Instagram.