Mitch Dening
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Dening with Niigata Albirex (23 September 2013)
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| Adelaide Bite – No. 17 | |||||||||||||
| Outfielder | |||||||||||||
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Born: 17 August 1988 Toowoon Bay, New South Wales, Australia |
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| NPB debut | |||||||||||||
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| Batting average | .222 | ||||||||||||
| Home runs | 4 | ||||||||||||
| RBI | 22 | ||||||||||||
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Mitchell John Dening (born 17 August 1988 in Toowoon Bay, New South Wales) is an Australian professional baseball outfielder for the Adelaide Bite of the Australian Baseball League (ABL).
In Australia, he played for the Auburn Orioles and Belmont Baseball Club in the New South Wales Major League and Newcastle Baseball League respectively. He won MVP whilst at the New South Wales Institute of Sport in 2005.
Dening started his overseas baseball career by touring South Africa with the Australian Schoolboys team in 2005. He then signed with the Red Sox in 2005 after being scouted by Jon Deeble at the MLB Academy on the Gold Coast, Australia. In the 2007 Claxton Shield, he averaged .316 for Australian Provincial in a fine debut.
In 2007 in his first season in the United States he had some success, hitting a .301/.372/.375 clip as an OF/1B for the GCL Red Sox.
In 2008, he hit .321/.375/.471 with the Lowell Spinners, coached by Australia national baseball team coach Jon Deeble. Dening was fifth in the New York–Penn League in batting average. Returning to Australian in the off season of 2008, Dening hit.409/.458/.545 in the 2008 Claxton Shield. He then made the Australia roster for the 2009 World Baseball Classic. He went 0–1 in the Classic.
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