Loading ...I wanted to pass along Thomas’ thoughts about his career with the Reds and his future plans:
Tell everyone thanks for all the support. ihad a lot of fun with this adventure and it was nice to know people were behind me regardless of whether i was healthy or hurt. i also wish i could have made the reds investment in me worth it and i feel like i let them down, but i did everything i possibly could and my arm just couldn’t come around. the reds have been great to me the whole time though. as for my future, i’m really excited about the next phase of my life. i applied to harvard business school and am pursuing a chemical engineering job with a start up tattoo ink company called freedom 2 ink. they created the product that i’ve had the idea for since college but hadn’t been able to act on because of baseball, so now i at least can possibly join in their entrepreneurial adventure. could be fun, but i know for a fact it won’t be as fun as playing ball. i might even keep throwing too. who knows. thanks again.
I’m sure that everyone joins me in thanking Thomas for being involved with Redleg Nation and wishes him nothing but success in his future endeavors.
Best of luck Thomas with whatever you end up doing.
Good luck in life, Thomas!
No wonder you blew your arm out ! Whomever was in charge of your development should be shot or sued ! I would consider both actually.
Lets see, you averaged 35 – 2/3 innings pitched per season in college and then they tack on another 47 innings in 2003 after they drafted you and you had just pitched 39 innings for Princeton and then they have you throw 121 plus innings in 2004 ! Pure genius I tell ya , pure genius right there !
Link to Thomas’s pitching stats.
I feel for the kid. Looks like he had a great baseball future ahead of him!
http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/P/thomas-pauly.shtml
The only problem with your logic is by Thomas’ own admission (see the RN Radio interview with him) he hurt his arm the first time while lifting weights.
Bill,
You actually buy that load of crap story ? You don’t think the Reds maybe had to pay out an injury settlement and maybe this was the story used to cover their incompetent pitching developing asses?
” Now Thomas, here is your 250 thousand dollar settlement, this is what happened to your arm, you were bowling, no wait a minute , you were working out , lifting weights , yeah that’s right, lifting weights” and you completely blew out your arm LIFTING WEIGHTS” Give me a break!
I believe what the man told me. I have no reason to believe otherwise.