Charles Thomas

Charles Wesley Thomas

• Bats Left, Throws Left
• Height 6' 0", Weight 190 lb.
• School Western Carolina University
• High School Asheville High School
• Debut June 23, 2004
• Finale Game June 8, 2005
• Born December 26, 1978 in Fairfield, CA USA

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Biographical Information

Charles Thomas looked like he would be a good player when he broke in the majors with the Atlanta Braves in 2004, and hit .288 and slugged .445 in 83 games. The Braves had started the season by moving Chipper Jones to left field, but switched gears in June, trying a couple of different players there before calling up Thomas near the end of the month. He hit well and kept the job for the rest of the season and in the postseason, when the Braves lost to the Houston Astros in the Division Series. It's not as if he had come out of nowhere, either, as he was hitting .358 in 61 games for the AAA Richmond Braves at the time of his call-up to Atlanta. That December, he was involved in a blockbuster trade, going to the Oakland Athletics alongside pitchers Juan Cruz and Dan Meyer in return for starting pitcher Tim Hudson.

Things did not work out for Charles in Oakland however. He spent the first two months of the 2005 season with the A's but hit just .109 in 30 games, without a single extra-base hit. He was sent back to AAA in early June, never to return to the majors. He continued to struggle in AAA, hitting .227 in 75 games for the Sacramento River Cats of the Pacific Coast League the rest of the way. He bounced back a bit in 2006, hitting .274 in 114 games for Sacramento, but after a slow start in 2007, he was traded to the Milwaukee Brewers for J.D. Closser on May 4th. He continued to do poorly with the Nashville Sounds, hitting .233 in 69 games, and called it a career after that. He later coached in the minors.

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