Jon Deeble (born 18 May 1962 in

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) is the head coach of the Melbourne Aces of the Australian Baseball League and the former manager of the Australian national baseball team.

Career

Deeble was a

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on the national team he now coaches from 1983 to 1995, a playing career which included the 1988 Olympics and an Australian Baseball League championship with the Melbourne Monarchs in 1993. He later went on to be a minor league

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in North American professional baseball, working in the

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and

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organizations. After spending 15 seasons (2002–16) as coordinator of

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for the Pacific Rim region for the Red Sox, Deeble joined the

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' organization in October 2016. Deeble managed the Australian squad at the

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and 2004 Olympics, leading the team to a silver medal in the latter Games. Deeble was Australia's manager, as well, in the 2006 World Baseball Classic and

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. With the Red Sox organization, he was

of the Lowell Spinners in 2003 – earlier, he had spent four seasons (1997–1999; 2001) as manager of the Rookie-level Gulf Coast Marlins – and was a coach for the Boston Red Sox during the 2005 season. As a scout, Deeble has signed countless young Australian hopefuls through the Australian

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Academy, however, in Asia, he has signed such names as Daisuke Matsuzaka and Hideki Okajima.Sygall, D. (29 April 2007)
Scouts get their man
''The Age''. Accessed 10 August 2009

References

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