Niklas Rimmel

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Niklas Sean Rimmel (born July 5, 1999 in Berlin ) is a German baseball player on the position of pitcher . On September 22, 2017, Rimmel signed a professional contract with the Minnesota Twins and has since been active for the franchise in the minor leagues .

Life

Niklas Rimmel attended the Buchbinder Legionaries' sports boarding school in Regensburg and graduated from the Werner-von-Siemens-Gymnasium there in 2018. As a child he mainly played soccer , but his father made him aware of the sport of baseball and finally began to play baseball himself with the Fürth Pirates . Rimmel's father was active with the Cologne Cardinals and the Berlin Sluggers in the baseball league .

Career

Fürth Pirates

Rimmel began his baseball career with the Fürth Pirates , where he also trained with his father.

Buchbinder Legionnaires Regensburg (2014 to 2018)

At the age of 15, Rimmel moved to the Regensburg baseball boarding school. He played for both the youth team and the 1st men's team of the Buchbinder legionaries.

Minor league career with the Minnesota Twins (since 2017)

On September 22, 2017, Rimmel signed a professional contract with the Minnesota Twins . He played eight games in the Golf Coast League, a rookie league , for the Golf Coast League Twins in the 2018 season .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Perform Media Deutschland GmbH: MLB: Interview with Niklas Rimmel: First the homework, then baseball . December 5, 2017 ( spox.com [accessed September 8, 2018]).
  2. ^ A b c nordbayern.de, Nuremberg, Germany: Baseball: Niklas Rimmel before the big throw . ( nordbayern.de [accessed on September 8, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Mittelbayerische.de: Niklas Rimmel: The big hit in front of your eyes . In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung . ( Mittelbayerische.de [accessed on September 8, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Niklas Rimmel Stats, Highlights, Bio | MiLB.com Stats | The Official Site of Minor League Baseball. Retrieved September 8, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Rimmel, Niklas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rimmel, Niklas Sean (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German baseball player
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1999
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin