Max Kepler | |||
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Kepler with the Minnesota Twins
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Minnesota Twins – No. 26 | |||
Outfielder | |||
Born: Berlin, Germany |
February 10, 1993 |||
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MLB debut | |||
September 27, 2015, for the Minnesota Twins | |||
Career statistics (through May 25, 2017) |
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Batting average | .243 | ||
Home runs | 22 | ||
Runs batted in | 84 | ||
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Maximilian "Max" Kepler-Rozycki (born February 10, 1993) is a German professional baseball outfielder for the Minnesota Twins of Major League Baseball (MLB). Before signing with the Twins, he played for Buchbinder Legionäre Regensburg of Bundesliga. He is left-handed.
Kepler was born in Berlin, Germany. His parents, Kathy Kepler and Marek Rozycki, were both professional ballet dancers; they met when they performed in the same ballet company in Berlin. His mother is from San Antonio, Texas, while his father is from Poland. Kepler is 1.92 metres (6 ft 4 in) tall and weighs 98 kilograms (216 lb). Max has one sister.
At the age of six, Kepler started baseball at the Little League level with the John F. Kennedy School in Berlin. Though he received a scholarship at age seven to the Steffi Graf Tennis Foundation, he decided he preferred baseball. Kepler attended John F. Kennedy School, and the St. Emmeram Academy in Regensburg in 2008, where he was able to train in baseball more than the average American teenager. He played association football with Hertha BSC, and played baseball for Buchbinder Legionäre Regensburg of Bundesliga, the highest baseball league in Germany.