Colby Thomas Named Oakland Athletics Minor League Player Of The Year

MACON – Former Mercer baseball player Colby Thomas has been named the 2024 Oakland Athletics Minor League Player of the Year by Baseball America, the publication announced today. Thomas, a third-round pick in the 2022 MLB Draft, played for the Double-A Midland RockHounds and the Triple-A Las Vegas Aviators this summer and was one of only six minor leaguers to hit 30 or more home runs.

Thomas is currently ranked as the number seven prospect in the A's organization according to MLB Pipeline. Over 132 games in his two minor league stops this season, Thomas generated a slash line of .277/.342/.563. His 31 home runs ranked sixth across all of Minor League Baseball, while his 44 doubles put him one shy of the minor league lead.

The outfielder's standout 2024 campaign came on the heels of a 2023 season in which he slashed .286/.351/.493 in his first season of professional baseball. In 126 games across Single-A Stockton and High-A Lansing, Thomas clubbed 18 homers and 39 doubles, driving in 82 runs.

Thomas was standout performer for the Bears from 2020-23, earning All-Southern Conference recognition in 2022 by hitting .325 with 17 homers and 14 doubles. The Valdosta native was a SoCon All-Freshman Team pick in 2021, posting a .247 batting average with 23 extra-base hits. Over his three seasons in Macon, Thomas played in 117 games (115 starts), compiling a career batting average of .291 with 72 extra-base hits, 105 RBI and 113 runs scored.

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Colby Thomas Named Oakland Athletics Minor League Player Of The Year

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