During a Friday segment on notable deaths in 2023, FOX News included formerAuburn star Frank Thomas, showing video of Chicago White Sox first baseman slamming a hit off Seattle Mariners pitcher Randy Johnson and speaking at the National Baseball Hall of Fame with “1968-2023″ on the screen.

However, Thomas isn’t dead, and “The Big Hurt” confirmed he was alive via social media, posting: “Ladies and gentlemen, I’m very sorry my ex-employer FOX would be this irresponsible on national TV this morning. Yes, I’m alive and doing well. This blows my mind also.”

Thomas worked as an analyst on FOX Sports’ coverage of Major League Baseball before being replaced by Derek Jeter in the 2023 season.

FOX News corrected the inclusion of Thomas during “The Faulkner Focus” program. A baseball all-star named Frank Thomas did die in 2023, but it wasn’t the one in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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The Frank Thomas who died at age 93 on Jan. 16, 2023, was an outfielder/third baseman in 16 Major League seasons from 1951 through 1966. He went to the MLB All-Star Game representing the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1954, 1955 and 1958. Thomas finished fourth in the voting for the National League Most Valuable Player Award in 1958, when he reached career highs with 35 home runs and 109 RBIs, and was a member of the first New York Mets team, which lost 120 games in 1962.

Baseball’s more famous Frank Thomas, who is from Columbus, Ga., went to Auburn on a football scholarship but finished his college career as a baseball player. He left Auburn as the seventh player picked in the 1989 MLB draft and played 16 seasons with the White Sox before finishing his career with three seasons split between the Oakland Athletics and Toronto Blue Jays.

In his first seven full MLB seasons, Thomas became the only batter with seven straight years with a .300 batting average, 100 runs, 100 RBIs, 100 walks and 20 home runs. Thomas hit at least 40 home runs in five seasons on his way to 521 and drove in 100 runs 11 times, with a high of 143.

Thomas was the American League MVP in 1993 and 1994 — the first two of his six consecutive All-Star selections – and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2014 in his first year of eligibility.

Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.