Fifteen years later Brad Thomas still cannot find the words.
Words of thanks. Words of reflection. Words of a home-run life well lived.
“It’s a miracle. Somebody was watching out for me,’’ Thomas, 38, a left-handed reliever who spent five seasons in the majors with the Twins and Tigers, told The Post this week from his home in Sydney, Australia.
In the late summer of 2001, fate arrived for Thomas in the form of the powerful right-handed bat of his minor-league teammate, then-22-year-old Michael Cuddyer.