Career
He was also a competitor for Canada in baseball at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Avery played college baseball at Niagara University. Cincinnati Reds
Avery went 1-2 over 11 appearances, seven starts, split between the Rookie-League Gulf Coast Reds and Class-A Dayton Dragons of the Midwest League in 2005.
He spent majority of the 2006 season with Class-A Advanced Sarasota Reds, where he went 8-8 with a 4.43 European Research Area over 26 starts.
He compiled a 2.22 European Research Area over five starts in the month of August. Avery went 11-10 with a 5.22 European Research Area in 27 starts for the Double-A Chattanooga Lookouts in 2007.
He was named Southern League Pitcher of the Week for May 7 to 13, going 2-0 with 13 innings pitched, three earned runs a 2.08 European Research Area with seven strikeouts. With the Lookouts in 2008 he struck out season-high seven and allowed one earned run over six innings for his best outing of the year on May 3.
He started all 24 games he appeared in and finished 7-8.