MLB / Players

Brian Giles

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 195 lb

BornJanuary 20, 1971 · El Cajon, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 16, 1995

Final gameJune 18, 2009

Seasons15 (1995–2009)

Cleveland Indians 1995–1998; Pittsburgh Pirates 1999–2003; San Diego Padres 2003–2009

Percentile snapshot

2008 season — qualified batters

147

47.6

653

70.1

559

59.9

171

71.4

63.9

24.5

RBI

26.5

87.8

94.6

51.7

.306

87.1

OBP

.398

93.2

SLG

.456

46.9

OPS

.854

65.3

wRC+

139.0

90.5

OPS+

134.8

88.4

wOBA

.384

sWAR

4.5

82.3

of 148 qualified 2008 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

137.6

95.1

OPS+

136.2

sWAR

54.5

99.1

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1995	6	9	9	6	5	0	0	1	3	0	1	0	0	.556	.556	.889	1.444	281.3	270.2	.628	0.2
1996	51	143	121	26	43	14	1	5	27	19	13	3	0	.355	.434	.612	1.045	156.9	163.1	.440	1.2
1997	130	451	377	62	101	15	3	17	61	63	50	13	3	.268	.368	.459	.827	114.8	113.0	.366	1.7
1998	112	430	350	56	94	19	0	16	66	73	75	10	5	.269	.396	.460	.856	122.0	120.7	.377	2.0
1999	141	627	521	109	164	33	3	39	115	95	80	6	2	.315	.418	.614	1.032	156.2	157.5	.439	6.5
2000	156	688	559	111	176	37	7	35	123	114	69	6	0	.315	.432	.594	1.026	155.6	156.9	.437	6.7
2001	160	674	576	116	178	37	7	37	95	90	67	13	6	.309	.404	.590	.994	152.2	152.3	.420	6.1
2002	153	644	497	95	148	37	5	38	103	135	74	15	6	.298	.450	.622	1.072	177.8	178.5	.455	7.4
2003	134	609	492	93	147	34	6	20	88	105	58	4	3	.299	.427	.514	.941	149.7	147.0	.412	5.2
2004	159	711	609	97	173	33	7	23	94	89	80	10	3	.284	.374	.475	.849	127.3	126.3	.372	4.0
2005	158	674	545	92	164	38	8	15	83	119	64	13	5	.301	.423	.483	.905	149.5	145.7	.402	5.6
2006	158	717	604	87	159	37	1	14	83	104	60	9	4	.263	.374	.397	.771	111.1	106.8	.349	2.5
2007	121	552	483	72	131	27	2	13	51	64	61	4	6	.271	.361	.416	.777	110.9	108.7	.347	1.9
2008	147	653	559	81	171	40	4	12	63	87	52	2	2	.306	.398	.456	.854	139.0	134.8	.384	4.5
2009	61	253	225	18	43	10	1	2	23	26	31	1	0	.191	.277	.271	.548	50.4	51.6	.256	-1.0

Career totals

1,847

371st-most career G

7,835

316th-most career PA

6,527

389th-most career AB

1,121

252nd-most career R

1,897

352nd-most career H

411

174th-most career 2B

287

185th-most career HR

RBI

1,078

234th-most career RBI

1,183

69th-most career BB

835

109

.2906

388th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3998

67th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.5024

113th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.9022

72nd-highest career OPS

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
2000-04-06	HOU @ PIT Gameday	5	3	5	0	1	2	4	0	13
2002-09-27	PIT @ CHC Gameday	4	5	3	1	0	2	6	2	10
2008-08-10	SD @ COL Gameday	6	4	4	2	0	1	4	0	9
1999-05-03	SF @ PIT Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	5	0	9
2001-07-04	PIT @ CIN Gameday	3	4	3	0	0	2	3	2	9

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.

Honors

2× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.