July 19 to July 25 (2011): 11-23, 0 2B, 0 3B, 2 HR, 3 RBI, 2 BB, 5 K, 0/0 SB
Born on August 12, 1988 in Adelaide, the capital city of the Australia’s South Australia state. While soccer, football, rugby and cricket are much more popular sports, Welch was drawn instead to baseball because his father, Darren Welch, was a baseball player himself, having played in the 1988 Olympics on the Australian national baseball team. Following in his father’s footsteps, Stefan began playing ball himself, playing on local amateur teams in Adelaide. His high level of play drew the attention of Tony Harris, a scout who was working for the Mets at the time who was intimately familiar with the Australian baseball scene as a coach on the Australian national team.