Max Kepler
- Legionaries of Regensburg (2008-2009)
- GCL Twins (2010)
- Elizabethton Twins (2011-2012)
- Cedar Rapids Kernels (2013 )
- Glendale Desert Dogs ( 2013)
- Fort Myers Miracle (2014)
- Best Baseball Batter DM Jugend 2007
- Best Pitcher Länderpokal Baseball Youth 2007
- Most Valuable Player Länderpokal Junior Baseball 2009
- Baseball America All-Star 2012
- Appalachian League All-Star in 2012
- Appalachian League Champion
- Minnesota Twins Player of the Month July 2012
Maximilian Kepler - Rozycki (born 10 February 1993 in Berlin ) is a German baseball player who has been employed since 2009 at the Minnesota Twins under contract. The outfielder, which is sometimes also used as a first baseman, is considered one of Europe's biggest talents of all time. Kepler - Rozycki, who had a total of sixteen offers from MLB teams, including the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Phillies, was alone for his signature at the Twins called a signing bonus of $ 800,000. This was until the year 2013, the highest sum ever paid for a player outside the U.S. or Latin America.
Life
Max Kepler - Rozycki is the son of native Texan Kathy Kepler and the Polish-born Marek Rozycki, both of which belonged to the first guard of the German Opera Berlin, where she also met each other. Kepler - Rozycki began playing baseball during his time at the John F. Kennedy School, a German - American school in Berlin- Zehlendorf, which he attended together with the later professional football player John Anthony Brooks. Besides baseball, he also ran other sports active, such as tennis. Among other things, he was football goalkeeper in the youth of Hertha BSC, describes himself nevertheless as fans of Borussia Dortmund.
Career
Regensburg Legionaries
As of 2008, visited Kepler - Rozycki Baseball boarding of Regensburg legionnaires and was early for the team in the Baseball Bundesliga and the 2nd Bundesliga active. Overall, he brought it to 61 missions, 21 in the first and 40 in the second team. In addition to its standard position in the outfield played Kepler - Rozycki also three times as a pitcher for the Legionaries. Here, he cashed in six innings a single run.
Minnesota Twins
In 2009, Kepler - Rozycki signed a contract with the Minnesota Twins. As of August 2009, he lived in Fort Myers, Florida, where he attended high school and played for the GCL Twins. In his first season in the U.S. came Kepler - Rozycki, who is out there in official statistics and media reports regularly only by the family name Kepler, 37 times used. For the 2011 season he moved to the Elizabethton Twins, another rookie minor league team of the Minnesota Twins. Originally peilte in their own words to make the leap into the Major Leagues in 2014. In the 2012 season, but the Twins beließen him for another year in Elizabethton. There he was able to draw attention to themselves by outstanding performance.
In 2013, initially prevented elbow injury Kepler's use. It was not until the end of June he was able to intervene into the game again. The Minnesota Twins designated him to their Class A minor league team Cedar Rapids Kernels, which Kepler came up the next step on the career ladder. Various experts counted Kepler in 2013 among the ten best young players who are at the Minnesota Twins under contract. In the rankings of the season in late 2013 Kepler was able to maintain this placement. Following the regular season, the Twins sent him to the Arizona League event, regularly the greatest talents of the teams used in the. In Arizona Kepler played at first base for the Glendale Desert Dogs.
In November 2013, the Minnesota Twins Kepler invoked in their 40 -man squad. With this strategic decision, the Twins were sure that they do not lose him in the ways of the Rule 5 Draft to another team. In the pre-season 2014 Kepler was the first time in the first team of the Minnesota Twins used. He played seven games as outfielder and made with a batting average of .500 (50%) attracted attention before he was assigned to the farm team Fort Myers Miracle on 9 March 2014. For this he plays 2014 in the Class A Advanced Florida State League.