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**Trent Oeltjen**
Trent Oeltjen
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	Milwaukee Brewers — No. --
	Outfielder
	Born: February 28, 1983 (age 26); Sydney, New South Wales
Bats: Left	Throws: Left
MLB debut
	August 6, 2009 for the Arizona Diamondbacks
Career statistics; (through November 1 , 2009)
Batting average	.243
Home runs	3
Runs batted in	4
Stolen bases	3
Teams
	Arizona Diamondbacks (2009);
Career highlights and awards
	Australian national team selection (2004 Olympics, 2005 World Cup, 2006 World Baseball Classic, 2007 World Cup, 2009 World Baseball Classic); World Cup All-Star team selection (2007); All-Star Futures Game selection (2006);

Trent Carl Wayne Oeltjen (pronounced /trɛnt ɒltʃaɛn/; born February 28, 1983 in Sydney, Australia) is an outfielder in the Milwaukee Brewers organization. He is 6'1" (185 cm) tall and weighs 190 pounds (86 kg). In 2004, he was part of the Australian Olympic baseball team, who achieved a Silver Medal in the baseball tournament at the Athens Olympics. In the 2009 season, Oeltjen played baseball for the Triple-A Reno Aces as an outfielder where he currently leads the Pacific Coast League in triples. He was called up to the majors on August 6, 2009, when Justin Upton was injured.^[1]

[edit] Professional career

Oeltjen was signed by the Minnesota Twins organization in 2001. He hit at a .321/.387/.418 clip in his debut year for the GCL Twins and was quickly promoted to the Elizabethton Twins before the end of the season. The following year, Trent continued to excel and was promoted to the Class A Quad City River Bandits. He continued to improve and by the end of 2003 he was batting just under .300 in 123 games for Quad City and was promoted to the Fort Myers Miracle for the '04 season where he missed games to play for the Australia national baseball team in the 2004 Athens Olympics. Oeltjen would go on to represent Australia at the 2005 Baseball World Cup and 2006 World Baseball Classic.^[2]

Trent was impressing critics as he continued to rise through the ranks, batting at .300 with the AA team New Britain Rock Cats in 2006 and was picked for the World team in the 2006 All-Star Futures Game.^[3] Following this success, he was promoted to AAA in 2007 for the Rochester Red Wings and although struggled in the regular season, he was perhaps the most outstanding individual player in the 2007 Baseball World Cup where he hit at a 523/.580/.614 clip to lead averages, steals (7) and runs (9) and was picked in the Cup All-Star team.

In 2008, he moved to the Arizona Diamondbacks system and hit .317/.357/.466 for the Tucson Sidewinders. His consistent performances continued when Oeltjen was with Australia for the 2009 World Baseball Classic and batted 6 for 12 in the tournament. In the 2009 season he was batting over .300 and slugging .505 for the Reno Aces which lead to his call up to the 'Bigs' late that season.^[4]

[edit] Playing career

[edit] Arizona Diamondbacks

On August 6, 2009, Oeltjen recorded his first major league hit against Pittsburgh Pirates' pitcher Kevin Hart. Oeltjen then proceeded to steal his first major league base. He then hit his first major league home run off Pittsburgh Pirates' pitcher Jesse Chavez in the top of the 8th inning, a blast over the right field wall. Oeltjen finished the game 2 for 6 with an RBI and two stolen bases.

In his third game, he hit a lead-off home run against the Washington Nationals, as well as one against the New York Mets in his fourth game. Oeltjen has hit his first three home-runs in only 20 at bats^[5] He also came one hit shy of the cycle in a four hit game on August 11.^[6] The four hits meant that he became the fifth player in the "expansion era" since 1961 to have twelve hits in the first five major league games played.^[7]

On August 29, Oeltjen was optioned back to Reno for Chris Young as only had hit 5 times in his last 55 at-bats.^[8] He was recalled only 10 days later,^[9] and on September 10 as a pinch runner, was the winning run against the Los Angeles Dodgers in a base-on-balls walk-off.^[10]

[edit] Milwaukee Brewers

Oeltjen signed a minor league contract which included an invitation to spring training with the Milwaukee Brewers on December 4, 2009.^[11]

[edit] References

^ Trent Oeltjen makes his Major League debut, Baseball Queensland. August 7, 2009.
^ Trent Oeltjen profile. Australian Baseball Federation
^ Trent Oeltjen selected in World Team to play in All-Stars Futures Game. Australian Baseball Federation
^ Trent Oeltjen at the Baseball Cube
^ Sedgman, Cassandra (10 August 2009). "Good Day for Aussies in Major League". Gold Coast, QLD Australia: Australian Baseball Federation. http://baseball.com.au/default.asp?Page=56160. Retrieved 11 August 2009.
^ Nageshwar, Pranesh (11 August 2009). "Trent Oeltjen Makes Dream Debut". Castle Hill, NSW Australia: Hills Shire Times. http://hills-shire-times.whereilive.com.au/sport/story/trent-oeltjen-makes-dream-debut/. Retrieved 11 August 2009.
^ Haller, Doug (12 August 2009). "Notes: Garland makes no excuses". Phoenix, AZ United States: AZCentral. http://www.azcentral.com/sports/diamondbacks/articles/2009/08/12/20090812dbnotesgarland0813.html. Retrieved 14 August 2009.
^ Singer, Tom (29 August 2009). "Young returns to Majors". MLB.com. http://arizona.diamondbacks.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090829&content_id=6683796&vkey=news_ari&fext=.jsp&c_id=ari. Retrieved 30 August 2009.
^ Gilbert, Steve (8 September 2009). "D-backs recall pair from Triple-A Reno". MLB.com. http://arizona.diamondbacks.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090908&content_id=6859862&vkey=news_ari&fext=.jsp&c_id=ari. Retrieved 10 September 2009.
^ Gilbert, Steve (10 September 2009). "D-backs walk off ninth over Dodgers". MLB.com. http://arizona.diamondbacks.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090909&content_id=6880280&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&c_id=ari. Retrieved 10 September 2009.
^ "Gregg Zaun agrees to deal with Brewers". Associated Press (USA Today). December 4, 2009. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/nl/2009-12-04-3267332569_x.htm. Retrieved 04 December 2009.

[edit] External links

Twins Prospects Interview
Oeltjen first Home run on MLB.com

[0] Trent Oeltjen makes his Major League debut, Baseball Queensland. August 7, 2009.

[1] Trent Oeltjen profile. Australian Baseball Federation

[2] Trent Oeltjen selected in World Team to play in All-Stars Futures Game. Australian Baseball Federation

[3] Trent Oeltjen at the Baseball Cube

[4] Sedgman, Cassandra (10 August 2009). "Good Day for Aussies in Major League". Gold Coast, QLD Australia: Australian Baseball Federation. http://baseball.com.au/default.asp?Page=56160. Retrieved 11 August 2009.

[5] Nageshwar, Pranesh (11 August 2009). "Trent Oeltjen Makes Dream Debut". Castle Hill, NSW Australia: Hills Shire Times. http://hills-shire-times.whereilive.com.au/sport/story/trent-oeltjen-makes-dream-debut/. Retrieved 11 August 2009.

[6] Haller, Doug (12 August 2009). "Notes: Garland makes no excuses". Phoenix, AZ United States: AZCentral. http://www.azcentral.com/sports/diamondbacks/articles/2009/08/12/20090812dbnotesgarland0813.html. Retrieved 14 August 2009.

[7] Singer, Tom (29 August 2009). "Young returns to Majors". MLB.com. http://arizona.diamondbacks.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090829&content_id=6683796&vkey=news_ari&fext=.jsp&c_id=ari. Retrieved 30 August 2009.

[8] Gilbert, Steve (8 September 2009). "D-backs recall pair from Triple-A Reno". MLB.com. http://arizona.diamondbacks.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090908&content_id=6859862&vkey=news_ari&fext=.jsp&c_id=ari. Retrieved 10 September 2009.

[9] Gilbert, Steve (10 September 2009). "D-backs walk off ninth over Dodgers". MLB.com. http://arizona.diamondbacks.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090909&content_id=6880280&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&c_id=ari. Retrieved 10 September 2009.

[10] "Gregg Zaun agrees to deal with Brewers". Associated Press (USA Today). December 4, 2009. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/nl/2009-12-04-3267332569_x.htm. Retrieved 04 December 2009.

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