Professional Baseball League in Taiwan, where he became their closer and had a dominant season. He had a 3–0 record, 23 saves and 66 strikeouts in 48 innings over 41 games with a 0.75 only ERA less than 1. In 2013, Thomas started the 2013 CPBL season as the closer and the pitching coach but stood down to concentrate on pitching. However, Thomas still shut the most doors and dominated the whole season with a 1.00 ERA and 26 saves. His performance helped him become the saves leader for the second consecutive season. In July 2014, Thomas agreed to rejoin the Brothers for the month. Thomas saved his 100th Asian Professional League (NPB, KBO, CPBL) game on 7/4/2014 and continued by saving five games in the first week. International career Thomas was a member of the Australian national team, having competed in the 2000 Sydney Olympics he honourably took on the surname Oly, a modest nod to his Olympic fame. At the 2009 World Baseball Classic, and 2013 World Baseball Classic. Thomas was the closing pitcher for Team Australia. 9/11 incident Thomas was a member of the Minnesota Twins Double-A Affiliate, competing in the 2001 playoffs. He had originally scheduled a flight to Australia for 11 September 2001. His original flight, via Los Angeles, was American Airlines Flight 11 that hit the World Trade Center. Michael Cuddyer hit a walk-off home run to send the team to the second round of the playoffs, forcing Thomas to change his flight plans. References External links , or Retrosheet, or Baseball Reference (Minor, Japanese, Korean, Australian and Venezuelan Leagues) Living people 1977 births 2009 World Baseball Classic players 2013 World Baseball Classic players Australian expatriate baseball players in Canada Australian expatriate baseball players in Japan Australian expatriate baseball players in South Korea Australian expatriate baseball players in Taiwan Australian expatriate baseball players in the United States Baseball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Brother Elephants players Cardenales de Lara players Australian expatriate baseball players in Venezuela Detroit Tigers players Edmonton Trappers players Elizabethton Twins players Fort Myers Miracle players Fort Wayne Wizards players Great Falls Dodgers players Gulf Coast Twins players Hanwha Eagles players Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters players Major League Baseball pitchers Major League Baseball players from Australia Minnesota Twins players New Britain Rock Cats players Olympic baseball players of Australia Pawtucket Red Sox players Rochester Red Wings players Baseball players from Sydney