Clemons played his first professional season with the Rookie league
Gulf Coast League White Sox and Class A
Hickory Crawdads in . He made his major league debut in 1997 with the White Sox, and appeared in five games for Chicago that year. After the 1997 season, he was selected by the
Arizona Diamondbacks in the
1997 Major League Baseball expansion draft, and spent the 1998 and 1999 seasons with the
Triple-A Tucson Sidewinders. ==Coaching career==