Career
He is a pitcher for the Panathinaikos Baseball Club which is a member team of the Greek Baseball League. He was 3-1 with a 6.29 European Research Area as a Division I freshman then improved to 2-2, 6.17 in his second campaign, and 4-3, 5.06 as a junior. He fell to 2-7, 6.68 his senior year.
He beat Sweden in his debut but lost to Croatia, Germany (on a bases-loaded walk to Ludwig Glaser and the Netherlands.
Kapothanasis also played for Greece in the 2012 European Baseball Championship, doing much better. He held the Greek lead with four appearances and tossed 7 1/3 shutout innings, getting the save in the 7th/8th place game over France.
He was 5th in European Research Area for the 2012 European Baseball Championship, behind four other players with also no earned runs, but with more innings. Kapothanasis was also on the Greek roster for the Panama 2011 Baseball World Cup.
Kapothanasis played independent minor league baseball for the Albany Quails of the South Coast League (1-3, 443 in 2010) and the Pensacola Pelicans of the American Association.
Kapothanasis will be pitching for the Greek National Baseball in Prague, Czechoslovakian Republic, for the 2014 European Baseball Championship.