Michael Thomas hails from Elizabethtown, Kentucky and is one of the team’s catchers. Thomas hopes to follow the successful path trailblazed by another Kentucky catcher, Michael Williams who excelled for Danbury in 2010 and was drafted by the San Francisco Giants in 2011. Thomas played 25 games last summer for the Lexington Hustlers in the Great Lakes League, and is well-poised to call pitches for the Westerners this summer. He also placed on the SEC Academic Honor Roll in 2011.