The Story of Max Kepler

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  • čas přidán 9. 09. 2024
  • Creator: Matt
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    Twins slugger Max Kepler had a breakout 2019 season. Let's talk about what makes him such a unique guy.
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Komentáře • 156

  • @DerDieb19
    @DerDieb19 Před 4 lety +154

    Thank you for this video!
    As a german baseball fan, I love seeing you talking about Max. He’s giving this wonderful sport a face here in Germany. When the twins reached the play offs German media focused a lot more on it, because of him.
    Baseball is very far from being popular here, which is really sad. But I hope that he can stay healthy and have an amazing career. Having someone who is good at a non European sport helps pushing its popularity.
    Keep up the good content! Can’t wait for Spring Training and finally being able to watch baseball again

    • @ricardovaldez6716
      @ricardovaldez6716 Před 4 lety +6

      That’s awesome! Does Germany have a league of their own when it comes to baseball?

    • @domchuchi1250
      @domchuchi1250 Před 4 lety +5

      @@ricardovaldez6716 they have the baseball bundesliga look up at the buchbinder legionaere here in youtube

    • @ace9602
      @ace9602 Před 4 lety +1

      I live in Russia :/

    • @christianpaljusaj5635
      @christianpaljusaj5635 Před 4 lety +5

      Max hat schon sehr viel getan um diesen klasse Sport in Deutschland voranzutreiben und populärer zu machen

    • @noah_that_bills_fan1613
      @noah_that_bills_fan1613 Před 4 lety +1

      @@christianpaljusaj5635 what is that in English? Just wondering

  • @nygtilldeath
    @nygtilldeath Před 4 lety +140

    Like if you knew about Max Kepler before the 2019 season.

    • @yvngtay4970
      @yvngtay4970 Před 4 lety +2

      MLB the show taught me😂

    • @alijaferrer6163
      @alijaferrer6163 Před 4 lety +1

      I met him when he was 14 in Germany and I had a Crush on him... I was 10

    • @flijk6083
      @flijk6083 Před 4 lety

      Known about him since his debut, Twins fan flex

    • @lasseortmann7927
      @lasseortmann7927 Před 4 lety

      Ich hab ihn 2017 getroffen. Mein Vater kennt ihn

    • @alijaferrer6163
      @alijaferrer6163 Před 4 lety

      @@lasseortmann7927 nice. Mein Vater hat mal gegen ihn gepitched

  • @Arman1lakha
    @Arman1lakha Před 4 lety +88

    He’s definitely underrated

  • @SportStorm23
    @SportStorm23 Před 4 lety +76

    I think it's great to see more countries be represented in the MLB, especially European nations.

    • @timdixon32
      @timdixon32 Před 4 lety +1

      bbonner422 Ryan O’Rourke is Irish and was on the Mete

  • @goskateminnesota7256
    @goskateminnesota7256 Před 4 lety +4

    I was so stoked back in 2009. We signed Kepler, Polanco, and Sano all at 16 years old. All within about a week of eachother.

  • @viktufiscchhege2336
    @viktufiscchhege2336 Před 4 lety +35

    as a german baseball fan, i just have to say thanks for this viedeo!
    i am playing baseball too and i just can‘t imagen how other baseball players from this area would get to the mlb....
    the level here is just too low so kepler really made something incredible happen👍

  • @CheeseMasterSports
    @CheeseMasterSports Před 4 lety +5

    I'm a Reds fan, but the look of absolute disbelief on Bauer's face is priceless

  • @JoelLinus
    @JoelLinus Před rokem +3

    As a German, I just found Baseball for myself because of Bill Burr's love for the sport and I've been wondering which team I should be rooting for, because finding any thing on CZcams about German Baseball is actually very hard, since there is nothing out there to look at from this country, but now I know what team to root for, the one Max Kepler's in :)

  • @brennanroy7842
    @brennanroy7842 Před 4 lety +3

    Not sure if this was mentioned earlier, but the Berlin Wall only separated Berlin into East and West Berlin, and not Germany itself. The city of Berlin was actually situated entirely within East Germany. West Berlin was effectively a democratic enclave within East Germany.

  • @AidanSheehan05
    @AidanSheehan05 Před 4 lety +18

    I'm a huge twins fan so I've always had much respect for Max Kepler

  • @Benjaminalmeida2
    @Benjaminalmeida2 Před 4 lety +56

    Story of Jose Fernandez

  • @ricardovaldez6716
    @ricardovaldez6716 Před 4 lety +17

    I don’t know if you know, but the MLB apparently started a European initiative in hopes to draft more European players.

  • @Tu_Padre31
    @Tu_Padre31 Před 4 lety +11

    They need to do a Berlin Series like the london series between the Twins and either the white sox, Indians, or Yankees

  • @averyhamilton4945
    @averyhamilton4945 Před 4 lety +9

    I got to see him play when he was in the Minors (AA Chattanooga Lookouts), and he looked pretty good. Him, Sano, and Buxton. The spine of the new look Twins.

    • @thebosskingreturns
      @thebosskingreturns Před 4 lety

      I got to see him play in (AAA) Rochester i remeber him hitting probably the longest home run ive even seen i person on my birthday a couple years back

  • @josephprzybilla4831
    @josephprzybilla4831 Před 4 lety +5

    I’m a die hard twins fan. Kepler is my favorite player

  • @ortonjasone
    @ortonjasone Před 4 lety +8

    Only OG’s remember when it got uploaded originally

  • @jackn.1120
    @jackn.1120 Před 2 lety +1

    German Marquez and Max Kepler are definitely my two favorite German MLB players.

  • @troyjuhn7346
    @troyjuhn7346 Před 4 lety +13

    Ah yes when Kepler broke Bauer I was at the game where he hit the two home runs in two straight innings

  • @ronaldcammarata3422
    @ronaldcammarata3422 Před 4 lety +7

    Bauer means farmer in German. I wish there was some way to use that fact to say something clever or ironic given how Kepler treated him, but I can't think of anything.

    • @kvltizt
      @kvltizt Před 4 lety +5

      His field got plowed.

  • @MauiMedicineMan
    @MauiMedicineMan Před 4 lety +1

    As a Twins fan, I've been a Max fan since seeing him as a rookie. The boy definitely has talent!

  • @bobbysamson1
    @bobbysamson1 Před 4 lety +1

    Max Kepler is very underrated he has great speed , contact , power, and fielding and no one even talks about him

  • @noahsimpson6240
    @noahsimpson6240 Před 4 lety +2

    I love these stories. They’re very unique and interesting

  • @andrewwinslow9315
    @andrewwinslow9315 Před 4 lety +4

    Edwin Jackson: I'm the best player from Germany, even though I'm a military brat!
    Max Kepler: Chump

  • @thesportingblog23
    @thesportingblog23 Před 3 lety +1

    Thanks for the vid! Very useful, in fact so useful we featured it in one of our articles!

  • @ChristopherM720
    @ChristopherM720 Před 4 lety +1

    First off, a ballet dancer is an athlete. My track/CC coach at uni had us take ballet. It is hard, very athletic and better balance. Yes, he had all of us on the men's team do it. Not sure if he had a side deal with the ballet teacher.
    Love the way Kepler plays. And anyone who can make Trevor "Drone" Bauer break, I'm a fan!

  • @lhalden
    @lhalden Před 4 lety +1

    i go to the school that he went too, and he came and visited us in 2019

  • @henrylarcoran9082
    @henrylarcoran9082 Před 4 lety +1

    Good to see someone talk about the twins for once

  • @ghostofury9755
    @ghostofury9755 Před 4 lety +2

    1:12
    germany's biggest sport is football
    *shows footage of them conceding a goal*

  • @TheTEN24
    @TheTEN24 Před 3 lety +1

    Never knew about his success on Bauer damn, impressive story

  • @ticnatz
    @ticnatz Před 4 lety +1

    As an American living in Germany, + a huge baseball fan, I've been aware of, and intrigued by, Max Kepler for a few seasons now. He went to John F. Kennedy high school in Berlin, so I assumed that was where he was exposed to baseball, but the tie in with his mother's American experience makes that exposure more interesting. Is she an American or not? One of her parents must have been in the American military. Maybe not...

  • @jonahkuske4252
    @jonahkuske4252 Před 4 lety +2

    He is pretty new on the national scene, but his 2019 season was no surprise to Twins fans.

  • @kevingohdcantgo10_0
    @kevingohdcantgo10_0 Před 4 lety

    The Kepler -Sano - Cruz -Rosario combo is nasty

  • @hexitree2311
    @hexitree2311 Před 4 lety +2

    he went to my school in germany

  • @fallendude94
    @fallendude94 Před 4 lety

    Man I'm starting to love your videos, kuddos at your work from an expos/nats fan!

  • @Pnellymedia
    @Pnellymedia Před 4 lety +1

    Great vid. My favorite player

  • @nickbachman663
    @nickbachman663 Před 4 lety

    Thanks for bringing back memories of Wii Sports. 2:19

  • @seanmaertens8483
    @seanmaertens8483 Před 4 lety

    You really need to add the tweet Bauer had about Kepler's HR streak against him. Pure comedy gold.

  • @pandoralover21
    @pandoralover21 Před 4 lety

    if he hadn't got hurt last season he would really have been known. like many of the other Twins he was hitting home runs left and right. Also I got to see that game against Bauer and the look on his face after the 5th one was amazing and led to some great memes

  • @Espado24
    @Espado24 Před 4 lety

    for anyone intersted this are his statistics for his last season in berlin: G 4; Pa 11; AB 6; R 7; RBI 3; H 4; 1B 3; 2B 1; BB 5; SB 5; AVG 0667; OPB 0,818; SLG 0,833; OPS 1,652

  • @sampilcher7196
    @sampilcher7196 Před 3 lety

    The wii sports home run calls 😂😂😂

  • @gwaptiva
    @gwaptiva Před 4 lety +1

    And there is Bauer moaning about his record against Machado :D

  • @gavinkhoury3794
    @gavinkhoury3794 Před 4 lety

    Great vid guys, loved the ending 😅😅😅

  • @paulmcgartney1606
    @paulmcgartney1606 Před 4 lety

    I always liked Max Kepler, he had a nice swing even when he was just a rookie

  • @salsim5774
    @salsim5774 Před 4 lety +1

    "Baseball isn't Germany's most popular sports" haha, that's such an understatement. I'm sure more than 99% op the German people aren't able to tell you the name of a single baseball player.

    • @reintaler6355
      @reintaler6355 Před 4 lety +1

      So 99% of their population still aren't aware of Max?

    • @alijaferrer6163
      @alijaferrer6163 Před 4 lety

      @@reintaler6355 yes and that's very sad. He could walk on any german road all day and if he gets lucky one person recognizes him

    • @reintaler6355
      @reintaler6355 Před 4 lety

      @@alijaferrer6163 how about Leon Draisaitl?

    • @alijaferrer6163
      @alijaferrer6163 Před 4 lety

      @@reintaler6355 well I'm not really into Eishockey but it's much more popular here and there are actually professional Teams like the Mannheimer Adler

  • @ntil8602
    @ntil8602 Před 4 lety +2

    How did you not know Kepler before the 2019 season? He literally played three full seasons before the 2019 season.

  • @kyleganning7441
    @kyleganning7441 Před 4 lety +1

    Edwin Jackson is still active and he was born in West Germany I believe

  • @grantzastrow8620
    @grantzastrow8620 Před 4 lety

    Yeah go twins Max is so underrated

  • @owenmaze3164
    @owenmaze3164 Před 4 lety

    Us twins fans love max

  • @aaronyoung137
    @aaronyoung137 Před 4 lety +2

    At 2:06 it’s 2 Germans facing each other

  • @srsmatt7272
    @srsmatt7272 Před 4 lety +6

    For the love of god youtube please work

    • @bubblerman
      @bubblerman Před 4 lety

      SRSMatt it did the same thing to foolish baseballs new video

    • @srsmatt7272
      @srsmatt7272 Před 4 lety

      I saw that. CZcams’s gotta fix that.

  • @evanschoenfelder2870
    @evanschoenfelder2870 Před 4 lety

    The funny thing is that now the twins will be playing the reds because of the 60 game season.

  • @sethsegal8333
    @sethsegal8333 Před 4 lety

    2020: causes Trevor Bauer to have to play the AL Central in the regular season again
    Trevor Bauer: *sweats profusely*

  • @HamsterK37
    @HamsterK37 Před 4 lety

    Bauer went over these at bats on his channel

  • @sportsmaniac4623
    @sportsmaniac4623 Před 4 lety

    When he say Kepler didn't want to be a balle dancer he wants to be a athlete

  • @hexitree2311
    @hexitree2311 Před 4 lety +1

    i gave him a card when he went to my school and met him he was visiting his old school

  • @christophaltmann8711
    @christophaltmann8711 Před 3 lety

    Max Kepler was Trevor Bauers nightmare during the 2019 season.

  • @something3492
    @something3492 Před 4 lety +1

    Hey looked it re-rendered!

  • @mattbierly914
    @mattbierly914 Před 4 lety

    I knew who max was back in 2016 when he hit his first hr as a walk off

  • @JoseVargas-pp8tr
    @JoseVargas-pp8tr Před 4 lety +1

    Aight

  • @BDS-ACAB
    @BDS-ACAB Před 4 lety

    Cool story

  • @saltykurtfan5560
    @saltykurtfan5560 Před 4 lety

    I heard of him in 2016

  • @EqualsPeach
    @EqualsPeach Před 4 lety

    Dude. How did you know Das Bat was my favorite player on my favorite baseball team?

  • @austinhallberg1736
    @austinhallberg1736 Před 4 lety

    Amazing video

  • @archstanton4365
    @archstanton4365 Před 2 měsíci

    If only Max was the worst thing that ever happened to poor Trevor. I actually like TB, he's crazy but he's pretty good at his job, too.

  • @Adam130694
    @Adam130694 Před 4 lety

    What's so hard? Maksymilian Kepler-Różycki

  • @nickbedard3084
    @nickbedard3084 Před 4 lety

    And he has to play us again (twins)

  • @nate_kang
    @nate_kang Před 4 lety +1

    0:00 what about Edwin Jackson?

  • @greorytreeves
    @greorytreeves Před 3 lety

    My friend his cousins with Max Kepler

  • @samueldeyle819
    @samueldeyle819 Před 3 lety

    I think you forgot to mention that Kepler homered off of Bauer 3 times in 1 game in 2016

  • @JoeNathanLucroy
    @JoeNathanLucroy Před 4 lety

    And Edwin Jackson

  • @paolaestefaniaparada6371
    @paolaestefaniaparada6371 Před 4 lety +1

    Nothing to do with the video, I just want to say I wanna marry Max. That’s it. That’s the fact

  • @christianfarrace5230
    @christianfarrace5230 Před 4 lety +1

    Can we please get an updated if baseball players were honest for the cheating scandals

    • @srsmatt7272
      @srsmatt7272 Před 4 lety

      You’ll most likely be getting an episode on 2 straight days before Opening Day, but I’m not sure what players are gonna be included. We’ll see...

  • @GoKnightsGo
    @GoKnightsGo Před 4 lety

    3:45 Robert D Manfred Jr.

  • @cw10allstar
    @cw10allstar Před 4 lety

    As an Indians fan watching Kepler absolutely destroy Bauer was a known inevitable

  • @nicolesibiski59
    @nicolesibiski59 Před 3 lety

    He gets a vid over Ruth and ryan

  • @DecoyOctopus741
    @DecoyOctopus741 Před 4 lety

    0:49 Umm, dancers are athletes too!

  • @jamesdroz566
    @jamesdroz566 Před 4 lety +3

    Why was the old vid removed

  • @chiebele9443
    @chiebele9443 Před 4 lety

    Max kepler of blue life matters, you are bonkus init?

  • @eddygilbert8908
    @eddygilbert8908 Před 4 lety

    I feel like you have to be a pretty good athlete to do ballet. It looks hard af

  • @cyberattack3242
    @cyberattack3242 Před 3 lety

    Tehe see you later in the majors

  • @Ryan-zl3bn
    @Ryan-zl3bn Před 4 lety

    Edwin Jackson was born in Germany

  • @samuelhuntington7635
    @samuelhuntington7635 Před 4 lety

    baseball is so much better with wii sports noises

  • @binghamtonblows
    @binghamtonblows Před 3 lety

    You know who else single-handedly broke Trevor Bauer? His drone

  • @professorphil9834
    @professorphil9834 Před 4 lety

    Great video, but that at bat wasn’t even the first time Kepler hit 3 homers in a game. He also did in 2016 at progressive field

    • @srsmatt7272
      @srsmatt7272 Před 4 lety

      DARN. I messed that up. That’s so cool, I didn’t know that. That would’ve been cool to talk about in the video.

  • @heitorramos1481
    @heitorramos1481 Před 4 lety +1

    Yan Gomes

  • @cajunboi4888
    @cajunboi4888 Před 4 lety

    The Astros will be the number 1 leader in HBP and If that happens that will be fucking pathetic to watch.

  • @realghosted1444
    @realghosted1444 Před 4 lety

    Why was this taken down and put back up

    • @StarkRavingSports
      @StarkRavingSports  Před 4 lety

      First one was glitched

    • @leosilbert237
      @leosilbert237 Před 4 lety

      Because for at least some people it was stopping at the 1:47 mark and wouldn’t play further.

  • @Leon_der_Luftige
    @Leon_der_Luftige Před 4 lety +2

    Sadly absolutely nobody cares about Baseball in Germany.

  • @kurumauzamaki2731
    @kurumauzamaki2731 Před 4 lety

    Forgot both kepler parents were both ballet dancers

  • @Mythicalswr
    @Mythicalswr Před 4 lety

    2:16 Bauer clearly didn't learn his lesson, 3 of those homers where he pitch are on the same places

    • @jonahkuske4252
      @jonahkuske4252 Před 4 lety

      Trevor Bauer did a full 30 minute breakdown of the 5 at bats on his youtube channel.

  • @dandychiggins7370
    @dandychiggins7370 Před 4 lety

    What about Edwin Jackson? He was born in East Germany, right? Maybe he just happened to be born there to American parents.

  • @ballsonyourmomschin1781

    Max Kepler isn’t really German. He was just born there to an American and a polish couple. He has an American accent and says he isn’t even fluent in German

  • @brycebarnez3323
    @brycebarnez3323 Před 4 lety +1

    AARON ALTER NC DINOS

  • @kalestew456
    @kalestew456 Před 4 lety

    👏

  • @judefinkelstein6805
    @judefinkelstein6805 Před 4 lety

    Ballet isn't for everyone
    he wanted to be an athlete

  • @danielswanson949
    @danielswanson949 Před 4 lety

    Finally people have noticed the max you should do a video on Eddie Rosario

  • @jonathanbarber1643
    @jonathanbarber1643 Před 4 lety

    hi

  • @Mac-gp6mh
    @Mac-gp6mh Před 4 lety

    The view total went from 666 to 557
    WTF

  • @Ianwarner
    @Ianwarner Před 2 lety

    The Trevor Bauer comment did not age well

  • @danielsaucedo2277
    @danielsaucedo2277 Před 4 lety

    Honestly who is really the only person who disliked this 😐