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born 1998 · South Bend by birth, Granger by upbringing
Nikolos Siade Kavadas was born October 27, 1998, in South Bend, grew up in Granger, and went to Penn High School — which stands in Mishawaka, and is printed as Mishawaka's here as everywhere in this history. At Notre Dame he became the most powerful bat in the program's record: a school-record 22 home runs in his senior season of 2021, 46 home runs and 146 runs batted in across four years with a .286 average, first-team All-Atlantic Coast Conference and a first-team All-American selection by Baseball America. Boston took him in the eleventh round of the 2021 draft, 316th overall, and in 2022 he was the Red Sox organization's Offensive Minor League Player of the Year. On July 30, 2024, he was traded to the Los Angeles Angels, and on August 16 he made his major-league debut batting cleanup — only the second Angel ever to start in the cleanup spot in his debut, after Tim Salmon in 1992. His first major-league hit, on August 24, was a three-run home run against Toronto. His rookie line ran to thirty appearances at .183 with four home runs, and the register carries him with the Angels through 2025: the fourteenth and newest of the city's born-here major leaguers, and the third in this record whose formation also runs through Notre Dame.
Sources
- The Baseball Cube and the standard registers — the South Bend birth, Penn High School in Mishawaka, the Notre Dame career and home-run record, the 2021 draft position.
- Northwoods League and Orange County Register accounts, August 2024 — the Angels trade, the August 16 debut in the cleanup spot and the Salmon precedent, the first hit.