Jason Giambi

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Jason Gilbert Giambi (born January 8, 1971) is an American former professional baseball first baseman and designated hitter.

Giambi played for the Oakland Athletics, New York Yankees, Colorado Rockies, and the Cleveland Indians during his Major League Baseball (MLB) career, which began in 1995.

He is the older brother of former MLB player Jeremy Giambi. Giambi, the American League (AL) MVP in 2000, was a five-time All-Star, who led the AL in walks four times; in on-base percentage three times; and in doubles and slugging percentage once per capita; and in doubles and slugging percentage twice; and he twice received the Silver Slugger Award.

Giambi has apologised for using performance-enhancing drugs during his time as a professional.

Early years

Giambi attended Sacred Heart Private Catholic School in Covina, California. He then attended South Hills High School in West Covina, where he was a three-sport standout. Giambi was on the baseball team, who had also included his brother Jeremy and three other potential major league players: infielder Shawn Wooten, pitcher Aaron Small and Cory Lidle. During his three years of varsity baseball, he batted.386, leading his team to the state finals as a senior. In both baseball and basketball, he was named MVP. He was an All-League quarterback in American football. During the 1989 MLB draft, Giambi was drafted in the 43rd round (1,118th overall) by the Milwaukee Brewers. He didn't sign up and went on to attend college.

Personal life

Kristian was born on February 2, 2002. Brulee's wife is the designer and owner of a lingerie and loungewear business. Giambi is one of the owners of Casa Cielo (also owned by SCC Development's Scott Deskins of Austin, Texas) in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. On the roof of the Pedregal monument, it is a 18,000-square-foot (1,700 m2) home. In 2019, his co-owned house was up for auction. Jeremy Giambi, a former major-leaguer who died in 2022, and Julie Robert, a sister.

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Major league career

In 1995, Giambi made his Major League debut with the Athletics. Giambi, who had worked as an outfielder, third baseman, and first baseman, earned the first base job for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1997. Giambi led the team in 1998 with 27 home runs, 110 runs batted in, and a.295 batting average. Giambi finished with 33 home runs, 105 walks (second in the league), and 123 RBIs (sixth). He came in eighth in MLB Most Valuable Player Award voting.

In Oakland's 2000 season opener on April 3, Giambi struck two home runs, the first Athletics player to do so. He led the league in on-base percentage (.476; leading the majors) and walks (137); a personal record and the most walks in the AL since 1991). He hit.333 (seventh in the league) with 43 home runs (second; a career high), 137 RBIs (fourth; a career high), 108 runs (10th), and a.647 slugging percentage (third). Giambi came close to winning the American League Most Valuable Player Award over Frank Thomas.

His 2001 season was nearly identical. For the second year in a row, he led the league in both on-base percentage (.477; a career high, and still the highest OBP in the AL since 1995) and walks (129). He also led the league in slugging percentages (.660; a career high), doubles (47; a career high), times on base (320), and extra base hits (87). He batted.342 (second in the American League; a career high), 109 runs (sixth), and 120 RBIs (eighth). He was second in the league in intentional walks (24), the first time he had seen him in the top ten in this group. He came in second in MVP voting to Ichiro Suzuki, and he was named the Silver Slugger Award.

Both years, he led the Athletics to the post-season, both years losing in the American League Division Series to the New York Yankees in five games.

Giambi signed a seven-year contract with the New York Yankees on December 13, 2001. Giambi shaved his goatee and shaved his long hair in keeping with Yankee team guidelines. Many Athletics supporters were dissatisfied by the departure of their team's chief, which left many Athletics followers feeling betrayed. Giambi became an object of the A's fans' wrath when New York visited Oakland. On his way back to the dugout, he was given a beer by an unruly fan.

In 2002, Giambi began slugging with New York. He led the league for the second year in a row (300 runs), had 109 walks (second), and a.598 slugging percentage (fourth); and was third in the league with both a.435 OBP and 15 HBP, as well as a career high). He came in fifth in AL MVP voting and then won the Silver Slugger Award once more. In a rain-soaked extra-inning game that won the game 13–12, he also hit a "absolute grand slam"— a walk-off grand slam against the Twins.

Despite his low average rise to.250 in 2003, he led the league in walks (129) for the third time in his career and HBP (21) and percent of plate appearances (41th) had 107 RBIs (eighth). He also placed second in the national leagues in fly ball percentage (52.0%). He remained one of the top hitters in the majors. He also led the league in strikeouts (140), the first season in which he has even been in the top ten in the league in that category.

Giambi had a benign tumor, placing him on the disabled list, according to the test findings published on July 30, 2004. He was hospitalized for the tumor and rejoined the team for their game against the Kansas City Royals on September 14. Despite being voted in as the starting first baseman in the 2004 MLB All-Star Game, Giambi was still the year's best baseman with a.208 batting average and just 12 home runs. Giambi's 2004 debut was so poor that he was not recalled to the Yankees' postseason roster.

Giambi saw a revival in his career near the middle of the 2005 season. Esteban Yan of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim made his 300th home run on July 31. This was his 14th home run of the month, tying Mickey Mantle for the Yankee record for home runs in July. Giambi spent his fifth season in the major leagues, leading the American League in walks (20.6%), batting in OBP for the fourth time in his career (109), and second in baseball to Todd Helton) and finished fifth in the AL, with a.975 average. He made 32 home runs (13.0), his seventh home run in his career in which he has surpassed 30 or more, and fourth in HBP (19) and at-bats per home run (13.0). Giambi was named the Best Comeback Player of the Year by the Alabama Comeback Player of the Year.

Giambi was named Younger Player of the Month for April 2006, hitting.344 with nine home runs and driving in 27 runs. However, he was kept off the 2006 American League All-Star roster. Despite playing in only 139 games (half of them at DH and the other in 1B), Pitches Taken (64.4), second in walks (110), HBP (162), and fifth in slugging percentage (.558), sixth in RBIs (113), fifth in intentional walks (2.54), fifth in on-base percentage (14), ninth in baseball (119), fifth in bats per home run (2.76), fifth in home runs (37.2), seventh in intentional walks (16. He had as many RBIs as hits, and for the third time in his career, he had more walks than strikeouts.

Giambi's numbers dropped precipitously in the 2007 season due to an injury in which he reached just.236 with 14 home runs and 39 RBIs. He appeared in 83 games, 53 of which as a designated hitter. Giambi got off to a rocky start in the 2008 season, falling below.200 for more than a month. However, by June, he had turned his season around and become one of the team's most versatile players.

Giambi stepped into a toilet door in his hotel room while in Florida before playing against the Tampa Bay Rays on September 3, 2008. The accident caused him to break his eyelid open, but he recovered later that night and went 1-for-4 with one RBI, helping the Yankees win their second game of the season.

Giambi hit Brett Gardner with an RBI single on September 21, 2008, the final strike in Yankee Stadium.

Giambi concluded the season with a home run every 14.3 at bats, beating out Alex Rodriguez to lead the team by a small margin. He was also one of only three players to hit a home run while pinch hitting in 2008, and the only one to do it twice. However, the Yankees ruled against Giambi for the 2009 season, making him a free agent.

Giambi decided to join the Oakland Athletics on January 6, 2009. The next day, he rejoined the A's and was given his old No. 16 jerseys were used in this case. On April 25, 2009, Giambi made his first home run since returning to the Athletics.

Giambi scored in 8–7 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks on May 23, 2009, his 400th home run in his career. On July 20, he was put on the disabled list. Giambi had the lowest batting average in the majors at the time and the fourth-lowest slugging percentage in the American League at 4. He was released by the A's on August 7, 2009.

The Colorado Rockies agreed to a pact with Giambi on August 23, 2009, wishing for a veteran bat to help with their playoff push. He had been assigned to the Colorado Springs Sky Sox, the company's AAA affiliate. Giambi opted for the number 23 for his jersey number. In his first plate appearance with the Rockies on September 1, 2009, he was promoted to the club following roster expansion earlier this day. He had many good hits this year, which kept the Rockies in contention for the National League Wild Card. He was a fan favorite in Colorado straight away.

Giambi and the Rockies reached an agreement on January 23, 2010. Giambi recorded a walk-off home run against the Arizona Diamondbacks on September 12, extending the Rockies' winning streak to ten games.

With a spring training invite for the 2011 season, the Colorado Rockies announced on January 17, 2011 a deal to place Giambi in the team's minor league league team. Giambi pulled the 2011 Opening Day roster from spring training.

Giambi scored three home runs in one game against the Philadelphia Phillies on May 19, 2011, his first game for him in his career. In his first three at-bats, the three home runs were present in his first three at-bats. Stan Musial, age 41, was the first player to reach three home runs in a single game on July 8, 1962.

Giambi became a free agent following the 2012 season and was a finalist for the Rockies big league managerial opening, which eventually went to Walt Weiss. Giambi was considered to be Colorado's hitting coach, but he turned down the opportunity.

On February 9, 2013, the Cleveland Indians signed Giambi to a minor league deal. Following spring training, Giambi made the Indians' major league roster. Giambi became the oldest player to reach a walk-off home run on July 29, 2013. In a season-saving victory over the White Sox on September 24, 2013, he tied for the oldest player to reach a walk-off home run.

Giambi was re-signed by the Indians on October 31, 2013 to a one-year minor league contract. Spring Training was included in the agreement. On March 7, 2014, Giambi was struck by an Edwin Jackson pitch. Giambi missed the first 18 games of the season due to a broken rib. On April 21, he was activated.

Giambi gave up his 25 jersey number to Jim Thome on August 2, 2014 to have it unofficially withheld by the Indians; Giambi changed his jersey number to 72. Giambi wrote a letter to Thome, saying, "Jim, It was an honor to be the last person to wear your uniform number in Cleveland Indian history." Jason Giambi" It was kept a mystery by the fans, the players, Thome himself, and his family's relatives, who departed from Thome's family and his family after the first pitch was thrown out, according to Thome.

Giambi announced his resignation on February 16, 2015.

Giambi was identified by FBI agents investigating the Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative (BALCO) as one of the baseball players suspected of receiving anabolic steroids from trainer Greg Anderson late in 2003.

In December 2004, the San Francisco Chronicle announced that it had seen Giambi's 2003 grand jury testimony in the BALCO probe. Giambi confessed to using several different steroids during the off-seasons from 2001 to 2003, as well as injecting himself with human growth hormone during the 2003 season, according to the journal. Giambi apologised to the media and his followers in a press conference prior to the 2005 season, but he did not say what for. The counsel who mistakenly leaked the information later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 2 and a half years in jail.

On May 16, 2007, Giambi apologised again, this time for using steroids, and encouraged others in the sport to do the same. He told USA Today, "I was wrong for using that stuff." "We should have done a long time ago was stand up—players, ownership—everyone—and we said, 'We made a mistake.'" When asked why he used steroids, Giambi replied, "Maybe one day, I'll write about it, but not right now." After being coerced to do so by Bud Selig, Giambi did communicate with George J. Mitchell. Giambi and his brother Jeremy Giambi, who also admitted to using steroids during his career, were included in the Mitchell Report in December 2007.

Both Jason and Jeremy Giambi were expected to testify against Bonds in his March 2009 trial, according to the prosecution.

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