Paul Martin Rutgers is an Australian and South African baseball player who played with the Minnesota Twins organisation and both South Africa and Australia. Rutgers was signed by the Twins in 2001 and debuted in the minor leagues in 2002 with the GCL Twins, hitting .244/.270/.267 in 31 games as a backup 2B to Jos� Morales. He made his Claxton Shield debut in the 2003 Claxton Shield for the Victoria Aces. In the Gulf Coast League in 2003 he was hitting .353/.388/.443 for the Twins, second in the GCL in average. He was named to the GCL All-Star team as a second baseman. He played again for Victoria in the 2004 Claxton Shield. He was playing for the Swing of the Quad Cities in a pretty dismal 2004 season, betting better back home in the 2005 Claxton Shield, batting .393/.379/.464 and winning the Batting Award. In his final year with the Twins, he batted .230/.304/.291 for the Beloit Snappers. Paul then made his debut for the Australian senior team in the 2005 Baseball World Cup. He hit an impressive .385/.385/.538 as Australia's starting left fielder. In the 2006 Claxton Shield, the Victoria native hit .333/.394/.533 with 6 RBI in 7 games. 

January 17th, 1984 in Melbourne (Age 40)