Who is Marek Rozycki, Max Kepler Father: Biography, Net Worth & More
Max Kepler, a German aged 30 is known for his career as an outfielder and first baseman for the Minnesota Twins. He made his Major League debut for the team on September 27, 2015. In August of 2022, he had a batt ing average of .232.
Who is Marek Rozycki?
Marek Rozycki, the father of Max Kepler, MLB right fielder is from Poland. Marek is a former professional ballet dancer alongside his beloved wife, Kathy.
The couple first met when they performed in the same ballet company in Berlin. They tied the knot in 1990 and have been strongly bonded to date.Marek started as a ballet dancer at a very young age and was already a professional at the age of 18. He made a name for himself with his ballet grace.
Maximilian Kepler-Różycki widely known as Max Kepler was born on February 10, 1993, in Berlin, Germany to his parents, Kathy Kepler and Marek Różycki, who were both professional ballet dancers. Max started playing baseball at the age of six 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.
Andy Johnson, an international scout working for the Minnesota Twins of Major League Baseball (MLB), first noticed Kepler when he played in a junior national tournament at the age of 14. At the age of 16, he signed with the Twins in 2009 for US$800,000, the largest signing bonus given by an MLB franchise to a European-born player. Kepler made his American debut at the rookie level in the 2010 Gulf Coast League (GCL) with the GCL Twins.
He was promoted to the Elizabethton Twins of the Rookie-Advanced Appalachian League in 2011. An elbow injury delayed the start of Kepler’s 2013 season when he was assigned to the Cedar Rapids Kernels of the Class A Midwest League. After the 2013 season, the Twins added Kepler to their 40-man roster and he was invited to spring training.
Kepler played for the Fort Myers Miracle of the Class A-Advanced Florida State League in 2014 and opened the 2015 season with the Chattanooga Lookouts of the Class AA Southern League. The Twins promoted Kepler to the major leagues on September 21, 2015, the night after the Lookouts won the Southern League championship.
He made his major league debut on September 27, 2015, and recorded his first hit on October 4, 2015. After Donald Lutz, Kepler is the second German-developed player to play in the modern Major Leagues.
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