{"id":588,"date":"2010-03-11T20:50:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T00:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=588"},"modified":"2010-03-11T20:50:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T00:50:48","slug":"brian-giles-is-the-latest-to-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2010\/03\/11\/brian-giles-is-the-latest-to-retire\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Giles is the latest to retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:right;margin-left:5px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com\/default.aspx?iid=6951489&amp;term=%5c%22brian+giles\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 0pt none\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.picapp.com\/ftp\/Images\/0\/d\/4\/3\/Padres_v_Angels_46aa.jpg?adImageId=11202939&amp;imageId=6951489\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Padres v Angels\" width=\"234\" height=\"380\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Brian Giles is the latest former big league star to announce his retirement. Giles was once a pretty good player for the Pittsburg Pirates and San Diego Padres until injuries caught up with him.<\/p>\n<p>He had 1,897 career hits and a .291\/.400\/.502 batting line.<\/p>\n<p>This follows the same announcement by Nomar Garciaparra yesterday and similar ones from Tom Glavine and Frank Thomas, who while they didn&#8217;t play last year had never announced retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Giles best asset during his big league career was his ability to get on base. He was a bit of a late bloomer not getting an everyday role until he was traded by Cleveland to Pittsburgh in 1999. He went on to hit 30-plus homers for four consecutive seasons before he was traded to San Diego midway though the 2003 at which point his power swing disappeared again.<\/p>\n<p>Last season he appeared in just 61 games compiling a dreadful .191\/.277\/.271 line.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a tough last sixteen months for Giles. Aside from his knee trouble, his name was recently named in Jason Kendall&#8217;s divorce papers as anadderall junkie. He&#8217;s also being sued by his former girlfriend for more then $10 million as she alleges he began abusing her in 2002 and battered her while she was pregnant with Giles\u2019 child, and caused her to have a miscarriage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Giles is the latest former big league star to announce his retirement. Giles was once a pretty good player for the Pittsburg Pirates and San Diego Padres until injuries caught up with him. He had 1,897 career hits and a .291\/.400\/.502 batting line. This follows the same announcement by Nomar Garciaparra yesterday and similar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,98],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":{"0":"post-588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-brian-giles"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}