Trent Oeltjen

Oeltjen with the Los Angeles Dodgers

Brisbane Bandits – No. 10

Outfielder

Born: 28 February 1983 (age 33)
Sydney, New South Wales

Batted: Left

Threw: Left

MLB debut

6 August, 2009, for the Arizona Diamondbacks

Last MLB appearance

28 September, 2011, for the Los Angeles Dodgers

MLB statistics

.220

Teams

Arizona Diamondbacks (2009)
Los Angeles Dodgers (2010–2011)

Career highlights and awards

Australian national team selection (2004 Olympics, 2005 World Cup, 2006 World Baseball Classic, 2007 World Cup, 2009 World Baseball Classic, 2017 World Baseball Classic)
World Cup All-Star team selection (2007)
All-Star Futures Game selection (2006)

Medal record
Men’s Baseball
Representing Australia
Olympics
	2004 Athens	National team
Haarlem Baseball Week
	2016 Haarlem	National team

Trent Carl Wayne Oeltjen (/ˈtrɛnt ˈʌltʃɛn/; born 28 February 1983 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Los Angeles Dodgers. He is 6'1" (185 cm) tall and weighs 190 pounds (86 kg). In 2004, he was part of the Australian national baseball team, who achieved a Silver Medal in the baseball tournament at the Athens Olympics.

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.

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