Matt den Dekker
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den Dekker with the Washington Nationals
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| Detroit Tigers | |||
| Outfielder | |||
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Born: August 10, 1987 Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
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| MLB debut | |||
| August 29, 2013, for the New York Mets | |||
| MLB statistics (through 2016 season) |
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| Batting average | .236 | ||
| Home runs | 7 | ||
| Runs batted in | 29 | ||
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| Men's Baseball | ||
Representing  United States
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| World University Championship | ||
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2008 Brno | National team |
Matthew Gerrit den Dekker (born August 10, 1987) is an American professional baseball outfielder in the Detroit Tigers organization. He has played in MLB for the New York Mets and Washington Nationals.
Matt den Dekker was born to Gerrit and LouAnn den Dekker in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He has an older brother, Brandon, and a younger sister, Jessica. The den Dekker family traces its roots back to Indonesia, formerly a longtime host to Dutch colonies. Gerrit den Dekker was born in the Netherlands before emigrating by boat with his ten siblings to the United States.
In 2014, Matt married Christine McNamara in Palm Coast, Florida.
After his freshman year of high school, den Dekker transferred from Coral Springs Christian Academy to Westminster Academy Christian School in Fort Lauderdale, in order to play outfield and pitch alongside his cousin, Westminster's ace pitcher, Kevin Chapman. den Dekker also played with future Washington Nationals teammate Michael A. Taylor at Westminster when the former was a senior and the latter was a freshman. As a junior, den Dekker finished with a .350 batting average and was named to the Miami Herald's All-Broward County First Team. However, the few college recruiters who showed interest were mostly small schools that wanted him to pitch. Den Dekker's only Division I scholarship offer came from a University of Florida recruiter who had attended Westminster's practices and games only to scout Chapman.
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