If you asked 100 baseball fans ranging from casual to knowledgeable to list the 10 or 20 best offensive baseball players from 1997 to 2007, how many would write down Brian Giles? I am guessing not to many.
The reason I posed the above question is because Giles retired this week with very little fanfare. Is Giles a Hall of Famer? Absolutely not. But he was a really, really good player for a span of 10 years and I don’t think many people realize how good he actually was.
Unfortunately for Giles he had one major thing going against him in his career—he always played in terrible markets. Let’s be real here. Unless you are a mega-superstar, nobody is going to care about you nationally if you play in Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and San Diego in your career.
As a matter of fact, I am ...
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