George Wood (1858)
Harvey Hendrick (1897)
Johnny Gooch (1897)
Jerry Priddy (1919)
Bob Wren (1920)
Bill Bruton (1925)
Whitey Herzog (1931)
Bob Gibson (1935)
Jim Riggleman (1952)
Teddy Higuera (1958)
Dion James (1962)
Chad Ogea (1970)
Adam Dunn (1979)
Chuck James (1981)
Left-hander Charles Hamilton James appeared in eight games for the Twins in 2011. He was born in Atlanta, went to high school in Mableton, Georgia, and was drafted by Atlanta in the twentieth round in 2002. A starter for most of his minor league career, he did quite well, rose fairly rapidly, and after an outstanding 2005 season in which he excelled at three different minor league levels, he made his major league debut on September 28 of that year. He started 2006 in the majors and was doing well out of the bullpen in a limited role, but apparently got caught in a numbers game and went back to AAA in early May. He was back in the majors by late June, this time in the starting rotation. He did a solid job as a starter, going 11-4, 3.93, 1.27 WHIP with 85 strikeouts in 107.2 innings. He spent all of 2007 with the Braves and was still decent enough, going 11-10, 4.24, 1.38. In 2008, however, he struggled in two of his first three starts and was sent to the minors. He pitched well in AAA, but was only called up briefly a couple of times that year, and has never really gotten another chance. He missed all of 2009 due to injury and when he came back in 2010 it was in the Washington organization as a relief pitcher. He pitched well in the minors, but never got called up, was a free agent after the season, and signed with Minnesota for 2011. He pitched quite well in Rochester, going 3-2, 2.30, 1.21 WHIP in 62.2 innings (38 appearances). He was called up to the Twins twice, for a total of about three weeks, and went 0-0, 6.10, 1.66 WHIP in 10.1 innings (8 appearances). The Twins did not retain him for 2012, so he is once again a free agent. As a left-hander with some history of success, one assumes that he will land somewhere before next season.