Aaron Miles

Infobox MLB player
name=Aaron Miles

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width=250
position=Infielder
team=St. Louis Cardinals
number=12
bats=Switch
throws=Right
birthdate=birth date and age|1976|12|15
debutdate=September 11
debutyear=2003
debutteam=Chicago White Sox
statyear=August 18, 2008
stat1label=Batting average
stat1value=.287
stat2label=Hits
stat2value=575
stat3label=Home runs
stat3value=15
stat4label=Runs batted in
stat4value=165
teams=
*Chicago White Sox (by|2003)
*Colorado Rockies (by|2004-by|2005)
*St. Louis Cardinals (by|2006-current)

Aaron Wade Miles (born December 15, 1976 in Pittsburg, California) is a Major League Baseball infielder for the St. Louis Cardinals.

Pro career

Miles was originally drafted by the Houston Astros in the 19th round of the 1995 amateur draft. As a member of the Colorado Rockies, he finished fourth in the voting for the 2004 MLB Rookie of the Year Award in the National League. He made his major league debut September 11, 2003 and hit .333 with two runs batted in in eight games for the Chicago White Sox.

During the 2004 Summer Olympics Games held in Athens, Greece, Miles, being of Greek heritage (his paternal grandmother was born in Sparta), made the roster of the host nation's Greek Baseball Team, but the switch-hitting rookie second baseman was drafted by the Colorado Rockies and was cut from the Olympic Team.

Miles won a World Series with the St. Louis Cardinals in 2006. In December 2006, the Cardinals announced that he had re-signed to an incentive-laden one-year contract for the 2007 season.

On August 4th, Aaron threw a perfect 8th inning in a 12-1 loss to the Washington Nationals. Of Miles' nine pitches, six were for strikes. It was the first time he had pitched since he was 14 years old. Miles pitched during the game when Cardinals' manager Tony La Russa asked his pitching coach, Dave Duncan, "Who's our shortest reliever?" The tongue-in-cheek answer was Miles, at 5'8". His pitching career took a turn for the worst later that season. On September 20th, he pitched the 9th inning against the Houston Astros and was touched for 3 hits, including a 2-run home run by J.R. Towles. It was Towles' first career major league home run. On June 13, 2008, Miles would make his third pitching appearance, this time against the Philadelphia Phillies. With the Phillies leading 20-2, Miles came in to finish off the game with a perfect 9th inning.

He re-signed with the Cardinals for a one-year deal, January 4, 2008, after a non-tender and short free-agency status in December, 2007. [http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sports/stories.nsf/cardinals/story/32A6EB5DEB7AC69B862573C60063BD37?OpenDocument]

On Sunday, July 20, 2008, Miles got his first walk-off hit, a 1 out grand slam to beat the San Diego Padres, 9-5.

Personal life

He is a graduate of Antioch High School, located in Antioch, California. He lives in nearby Brentwood, with his wife, daughter, and son during the offseason.

In spring training of 2000, several of his teammates from the Houston Astros organization were in their hotel room when two gunmen burst in. Miles was in the next room and the gunmen went in to get him. The cops showed up before they were able to take him to their getaway car and one fled. The other forced him back into his room where he ended up wrestling the gunman to the ground. The other players involved were Morgan Ensberg, Derrek Nicholson, Keith Ginter, Mike Rose, and Eric Cole.

On Kevin Meaney's album, "That's Not Right", an audience member says she is moving away to be with her boyfriend, a minor league baseball player named Aaron Miles.

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