BACKGROUND
Timothy Adam Hudson was born on July 14, 1975, in Columbus, Georgia. He grew up in Salem, Alabama, a small community just outside of Phenix City.
EDUCATION
Tim attended Chattahoochee Valley Community College for two years where he played baseball for Coach B.R. Johnson. Tim then signed at Auburn University and played for two years under Coach Hal Baird.
BASEBALL CAREER
Tim retired from major league baseball in 2015 after 17 seasons. He played for the Oakland Athletics (1999-2004), the Atlanta Braves (2005-2013), and the San Francisco Giants (2014-2015).
Tim was named to the MLB All-Star team four times in his career, twice with Oakland, once with Atlanta, and once with San Francisco.
Before retiring in 2015, Tim was the winningest active Major League pitcher, as well as one of four active pitchers with at least 200 wins. Tim finished with a career record of 222-133.
With a win against the Oakland A’s in July of 2015, he became only the 15th pitcher in Major League history to win a game against all 30 Major League teams.
Tim is one of only twenty-one pitchers in Major League history to win at least 200 games, strikeout 2,000 batters, and have a win-loss percentage above 0.600. Of those twenty-one pitchers, fourteen of them are in the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
In 2014, Tim became a World Series Champion with the San Francisco Giants.
In 2018, Tim was named to the Atlanta Braves Hall of Fame and the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame.
PERSONAL
In his free time, Tim enjoys traveling with his family and spending time at Kenteska Plantation, their family farm. Tim and his family worship at Church of the Highlands in Auburn.