Kirk Nieuwenhuis
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Nieuwenhuis with the New York Mets
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| Milwaukee Brewers – No. 10 | |||
| Outfielder | |||
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Born: August 7, 1987 Santa Monica, California |
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| MLB debut | |||
| April 7, 2012, for the New York Mets | |||
| MLB statistics (through 2016 season) |
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| Batting average | .224 | ||
| Home runs | 30 | ||
| Runs batted in | 116 | ||
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Kirk Robert Nieuwenhuis, also known sometimes as Captain Kirk or Nieuwy (born August 7, 1987) is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Milwaukee Brewers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for the New York Mets and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
Nieuwenhuis attended Denver Christian High School in Lakewood, Colorado where he played football, basketball and baseball. As a football player, Nieuwenhuis was an elusive running back who led Denver Christian to a state championship and received scholarship offers from Colorado, Colorado State and Air Force. However, Nieuwenhuis feared that he lacked the size to succeed as a football player at the next level and that he would be converted to a wide receiver and made to redshirt as a freshman. He therefore decided to focus on baseball.
As a high school baseball player, Nieuwenhuis was a lightly recruited second baseman and pitcher whose fastball reached 90 miles per hour. Nieuwenhuis played three seasons of baseball at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, California. There he led the Cougars to back-to-back NAIA World Series appearances in 2007 and 2008 and set school career records in runs scored, with 190, and triples, with 12.
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