Torsten Stender

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 6' 1", Weight 174 lb.

• Born December 28, 1964 in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg Germany

Biographical Information

Torsten Stender has played in the Bundesliga and for the German national team.

Stender appeared for West Germany in the 1979 European Junior Championship. By the 1984 B-Level European Championship, he had made it onto the senior team, going 3 for 6 with a double, walk, steal, two runs and a RBI. He was 1 for 4 with a run when Germany won the 1986 B-Level European Championship. In the 1987 European Championship, he went 0 for 4. He was 0 for 13 with a walk, two runs and a RBI in the 1989 European Championship, fielded .750 and allowed 22 hits, 10 walks and 26 runs (22 earned) in 6 2/3 IP. He did not have Germany's highest ERA; that was Ralf Bläß, nor did have the most errors, as Frank Jäger had more (though with a better percentage).

Germany fell back to the 1990 B-Level European Championship, where he hit .417/.563/.583 with six runs in four games. When Germany won the 1992 B-Level European Championship, he produced at a .438/.500/.688 clip with five runs and six RBI in five games. He was 0 for 5 with two walks in the 1993 European Championship. He had hit .421 in four B-Level Euros but was 0 for 22 in his three European Championships. Through 2010, he was tied for 7th in German NT history in Euros (A and B combined), even with Wolfgang Loos, Hans-Norbert Jäger, Matthias Winterrath and Hans Grünzinger. He also tied Winterrath and Ralf Schmidt for 8th in team history with 12 errors.

Bundesliga-1 stats are only available online for his final two seasons. He hit .458/.658/.667 with 19 runs in 13 games for the 1994 Mannheim Tornados as they won the title. Had he qualified, he would have been 5th in the Bundesliga-1 in average and led in OBP, edging out Harold Littlejohn. In '95, he batted .159/.316/.206.

Source: German Baseball and Softball Federation