Brian Kooiman

• Bats Right, Throws Right

• School San Diego State University, Palomar College

• Born February 16, 1973

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Biographical Information

Brian Kooiman played in the US and Germany.

Kooiman hit .270/.327/.368 for the 1995 Salinas Peppers, fielding .930 at 3B and stealing 9 bases in 12 tries. In 1996, he batted .298/.352/.472 for Salinas, but his fielding percentage at the hot corner fell to .895. He hit 13 home runs and drove in 76 in 89 games. He tied for 6th in the Western Baseball League in dingers, tied David Mowry for third in RBI (behind Carl Nichols and Ray DeLeon) and tied for third with 12 times hit-by-pitch. Frank Valdez was named the All-Star third baseman. Brian split 1997 between Salinas (.293/.364/.525, 45 RBI in 49 G) and the Adirondack Lumberjacks (.258/.365/.474 in 28 G), fielding .898 at 3B and hitting 15 home runs overall. He finished his time in the independent US leagues with a .284/.351/.461 batting line, 29 homers and 169 RBI in 227 games, fielding .904 at 3B.

In 1998, Brian played in Germany. He hit .486/.625/1.029 with 14 home runs, 59 runs and 55 RBI in 39 games for the Cologne Dodgers while fielding .939. He was among the northern Bundesliga-1 leaders in average (2nd to Glen Buckley), home runs (first, 4 ahead of Australian Christopher Bradley), RBI (1st, 3 ahead of Bradley), doubles (13, 10th), runs (2nd, 5 shy of Octavio Medina), walks (36, 2nd to Anthony Florez), hit-by-pitch (8, tied for second behind Volker Kuhlmann), slugging (1st by 75 points over Bradley), OBP (2nd, 9 points behind Buckley) and OPS (1st by 112 points ahead of Bradley). He was named MVP for his efforts.

Sources include Bundesliga stats