Around his Tenner-season career, Giles has been the .299 hitter with 231 home runs and 775 RBI in 1202 games. He was selected for the All-Star Game in 2000 and 2001.

Never utilized inside a good-whale role by having the star-studded Indians, he was traded to the Pirates for left-handed reliever Ricardo Rincon. Giles was given the starting role in the beneath-typical Pittsburgh club. He quickly established a reputation for existence one of the right — & virtually all underappreciated — players within baseball. Until suffering a knee injury touching the beginning of the 2003 year, he experienced played around 140 games both year since 1999. Each year therein span, he hit 35 home runs, posted an on base percentage over .400, and got the slugging percentage over .590. a fixture at the #3 spot in the Pirates lineup, he played 100% triad outfield positions adequately and potentially give Forty steals over those little joe years. His consistency, full power to completely fields, & spectacular shell discipline (he averaged 109 walks and 73 strikeouts per year) manufactured him one of a virtually all despised batters in the National League.

Giles had off to the slow beginside by his standards in 2003, probably because of his knee injury, which sidelined him for about the year. In giving, his power production seemed to stand dipped slightly, which was plenty to convince a cash-strapped Pirates to trade him to San Diego for inexpensive tiddler Jason Bay, Oliver Perez, and Cory Stewart in August. He was the trifle of a disappointment to the Padres inside his number one to the full year there — in 2004 he hit only Twenty-three residence diarrhea, when his OPS dipped to .849 from a complete Ace.000 he averaged all over his quadruplet to the full seasons around Pittsburgh — however a bit of of the decline witharound his statistics was attributed to issues in adjusting to San Diego's expansive page field Petco Park.

Giles bounced back around 2005, leading the Padres within batting norm (.301), Run batted in (83), diarrhea (92), & OPS (.905). Giles too led a major leagues within walks by having 119, becoming a number one National League player other than Barry Bonds to do and then since Jeff Bagwell in 1999. A team benefited from either his improved play, when a Padres won their number one National League West title since 1998.