Meet Your Hall of Famer: Shane Giles

 

Bio:   Shane Giles was born in Monson, MA (Pop. 8150 Suburb of Springfield, MA) where he attended Shepherd Hill High School (nickname: Rams). Giles was the baseball player of the year in Division 2 in Massachusetts.  He was also a Super-Stater for being a part of the All-State team despite division.  He set a state record with 119 strike outs in just 45 innings of work.

Draft: Was the 20th pick in Season 10 by Florida (strang).   Signed for $4,700,000 Million.

Scout Lawrence Wright- “He has above average command to go along with his above average velocity.  He is extremely tough on right handers because of the run on his fast ball.  His curveball is his best pitch with a great 12 to 6 break.  Could project to be a number 2 or 3 starter.” 

Career Earnings: $203,604,000

Career: Shane Giles was the 20th pick in Season 10 by Florida (strang). He played for a total of 9 cities in his 20-year career.  He made his Major League debut in Season 12 with Norfolk.  During his career, he was a 5-time All-Star, won a Cy Young with Boise (Season 22) and one World Series Ring with Syracuse in Season 28.  Even though he won the Cy Young in season 22, his best season was Season 24 in Boise. In that year he won 20 games, in 200.2 INN.  He had 160 K’s, .213 OAV, .270 OBP, 1.05 WHIP and 2.51 ERA.  Over his career he racked up 252 wins, 2924 K’s, .217 OAV, .283 OBP, 1.12 WHIP and 3.04 ERA. 

Speech Highlight- “I was blessed to play in 9 different cities.  Or maybe I was not good enough to stay in 1 city for a long time (chuckle). Either way I have experienced a lot of the great traditions of this game.   Those are the memories I will remember of my time in this game.”

          Another Saturday night drinking with the scouts at the Barleymoe

      Tonight Elijah Craig is joined by George Dickell, Jose Cuervo, and Clyde May

George: Why is Clyde here, Elijah? This isn't our normal group.

Elijah: Clyde saw something on the chat board and he wanted to bring it to our attention. Clyde, why did you ask to join one of our meetings.

Clyde: I saw that chat from that jackass croninkin about the magical mystery tour and thought we should consider if we should drug test some of the players.

Jose: Que decir? Excuse me that is so far out there I reverted to Spanish. SAY WHAT, Clyde.

Clyde: The damn fool, croninkin, all but admitted to cheating. I'm thinking his team was eating some of those Willie Nelson mushrooms. 

George: Clyde, we aren't exactly the temperance union here.

Clyde: I know that George. For generations ball players have been known for drinking our products. Occasionally a guy has a bad experience...

Jose: Oh my god Clyde are you talking about Ed Delahanty. Are we really going to drag all of baseball's sordid history in to the Barleymoe?

Clyde: It's that players can drink a little and it helps our business. If the players start smoking or eating products to release the incredible pressure of a Stickball League schedule we could see it hit our bottom line.

Elijah: So you have a list of guys you think should be tested.

Clyde: The first guy I'd like to bring to your attention is Bobby Quinlan. His regular season stats were a .272 batting average with a.737 OPS. In the playoffs the stats were .383 with an OPS of .946. How do you explain that Jose?

Jose: A lot of teams had players excel in the playoffs. Ottawa's Vince Fonville  had season stats of .272 with an ops of .822. In the playoffs he's hitting .381 with an OPS of 1.22. Madison had Del James hit .278 during the season with an OPS of .850. In the playoffs against Burlington and Ottawa, James had stats of .286 and OPS of 1.429.

George: You might have a crazy idea about mushrooms but if you look at the history of baseball some guys are just clutch. Who do you think were the guys who we think were clutch.

Clyde: On El Paso  Hector Skipworth after a .260/.683 season was .371/.905 in playoffs, also on the same team Guilder Gabriel was .268/.735 until he was  .33/1.210 in the  playoffs.

Jose: So you're only drug testing Boise and El Paso? No other teams

Clyde: There  were also irregular stats in Ottawa Vince Fonville had a season total of, .272/,882 ;but exploded of in the playoffs with a .381/1.22 line.

George: I suppose you have one for Vegas?

Clyde: YES! PitcherA J Moreno had an ERA of 2.42 and an OPS allowed  of .623 . In the playoffs his line is 1.07 and .444.

Elijah: So none of these guys are clutch, Clyde? You think they are all on the juice. Time that we had another drink ,fellows maybe it will sober Clyde up.