Eric Thames

Eric Thames is one of those guys who genuinely makes you believe in second acts. He came up through the Blue Jays and Mariners systems but never quite locked down a permanent MLB roster spot, and at that point most players quietly fade out — but Thames packed his bags and headed to South Korea to play for the NC Dinos in the KBO League, and what happened next was one of the more jaw-dropping turnaround stories in recent baseball memory. He absolutely demolished the KBO for three seasons, posting home run and OPS numbers that looked like a video game stat line, and suddenly everyone in Milwaukee wanted to see if it was real. He signed with the Brewers in 2017, came into spring training jacked and confident, and the early stretch of that season was electric — he was launching bombs and drawing walks like a man on a mission. The KBO-to-MLB reinvention arc he pulled off is something I think gets undersold, and honestly, it's a pretty inspiring reminder that detours can sometimes be the whole journey.

Name (English)

Eric Thames

Name (Japanese)

エリック・テームズ

Reading

えりっく・てーむず

Born

November 10, 1986 (age 39)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Tiger

Origin

Santa Clara, California, United States

Height

183 cm

Occupation

baseball player

University

Pepperdine University

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/ericthames/
• Xhttps://x.com/EricThames
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%86%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0%E3%82%BA

Tags

• California
• baseball player

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.