Wes Timmons will enter his 10th season in 2025 as head baseball coach at Shorter University, after a productive 2-year stint at North Carolina A&T and 10-year professional playing career. Drafted by the Atlanta Braves in the 12th round of the 2002 First-Year Player Draft, Timmons spent eight seasons in the Braves organization, before signing with the Oakland A's in September 2010, where he spent the final two years of his career.
Timmons made his professional debut with the Braves affiliate in the Gulf Coast rookie League in 2002 before being promoted to Macon. He also competed for the Rome Braves, Myrtle Beach Pelicans, Mississippi Braves, Richmond Braves, and the Gwinnett Braves before joining the Sacramento River Cats in the Oakland A's organization.
A majority of his more than 1,000 games played in the minor leagues was spent playing third base. For his last seven seasons starting in 2005, he competed at the Triple A level. He split the 2011 season at Triple-A Sacramento and Double-A Midland before capping his professional career with the Sacramento River Cats in 2012. Timmons set career highs in batting average (.341), home runs (8), RBI (62) and slugging percentage (.468) in 2011. It was the 10th highest average among all full season minor leaguers.
Timmons finished his professional career with a .280 average, 202 doubles, 12 triples, 48 home runs and 409 RBI in 1,047 games in 10 seasons. He also has a career on-base percentage of .389.
Timmons, a native of Jacksonville, Fl., attended Appalachian State University and Bethune-Cookman College. As a senior with the Wildcats in 2002, Timmons batted .425 (91-for-214) in 61 games. He collected 22 doubles, 40 stolen bases, a triple, 10 home runs and 64 RBI that season, while striking out just 12 times that season. He ranked 13th in the nation for batting average, and was 10th in the nation for runs per game. He was also the seventh hardest batter to strike out in the country, striking out once every 17.8 at-bats, which led to his MEAC Player of the Year honors.
Timmons and his wife, Randi, have six children; Kallyn, Irelyn, Cross and Bayr, Oak, and Kaemyn Dae.
