Hunter Andrew Pence is a Major League Baseball outfielder with the Philadelphia Phillies. Pence stands 6 feet 4 inches tall and weighs 210 pounds . He bats and throws right-handed. Pence attended Arlington High School in Arlington, Texas. After playing outfield his first three years, he moved to shortstop his senior year, and wore #8.He attended Texarkana College for a year and was DH on the baseball team. He transferred to the University of Texas at Arlington where he returned to the outfield. Despite missing 15 of UTA's 30 Southland Conference games as a junior in the 2004... season—due to an injury at mid-season—he was still named conference player of the year. Pence was drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers but didn't sign. But, then, in the first year player draft, Hunter was drafted in the second round of the 2004 draft by the Houston Astros out of the University of Texas–Arlington. In 2006 with the AA Corpus Christi Hooks, Pence batted .283 and hit 28 home runs, with 95 RBIs. He had 17 stolen bases, while being caught stealing only 4 times.
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