Timothy Scott Baker is an American professional baseball starting pitcher for the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball. He stands 6 feet 4 inches tall and weighs 215 pounds. Previously, he played for the Minnesota Twins and Chicago Cubs. He bats and throws right-handed. Baker grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana, and attended Oklahoma State University. He was drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the second round of the 2003 amateur entry draft and reached the Major Leagues in 2005. In 2006, he made their starting rotation out of Spring Training but struggled and was sent to the minor leagues for most of the rest of the season. Beginning 2007 in the minors, he was called up in May and nearly threw a perfect game on August 31. He went 11?4 in 2008 and posted a 3.45 earned run average. In 2009, Baker logged a career-high 200 innings and started the American League tiebreaker game against the Detroit Tigers which the Twins won to advance to the postseason. He had a 12?9 record in 2010 but battled injuries towards the end of the year and was left out of the Twins' postseason rotation. Injuries limited Baker in 2011 again, but he was the only Twins' pitcher to post a winning record. [More at Wikipedia]

September 19th, 1981 in Shreveport (Age 43)