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Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401
Meet The Kernels — Zander Wiel
Name: Zander Wiel
Number: 21
Position: First Base
Bats/Throws: Right/Right
Height/Weight: 6-foot-3, 232 pounds
Age: 23
Hometown: McBrayer, Tennessee
Noteworthy: Played 13 games last season for Rookie-level Elizabethton, hitting .194 with a home run and eight RBIs. A 12th-round draft pick of the Minnesota Twins in 2015 out of Vanderbilt. Hit .316 with 15 home runs as a senior. Won a national championship with the Commodores as a junior. Father, Randy, played college basketball at North Carolina and was a head coach at North Carolina-Asheville and Middle Tennessee State.
Cedar Rapids Kernels first baseman Zander Wiel (21) waves off the pitcher as he runs to first base for an out during the second inning of their game at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Cedar Rapids on Thursday, Apr. 7, 2016. (Stephen Mally/The Gazette)
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