55 Facts About Jason Giambi

Jason Gilbert Giambi is an American former professional baseball first baseman and designated hitter.

Jason Giambi is the older brother of the late MLB player Jeremy Giambi.

Jason Giambi was the American League MVP in 2000 while with the Athletics, and is 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 each; he won the Silver Slugger Award twice.

Jason Giambi has publicly apologized for using performance-enhancing drugs during his career.

Jason Giambi attended Sacred Heart Private Catholic School in Covina, California.

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Jason Giambi then attended South Hills High School in his native West Covina, where he was a three-sport standout.

Jason Giambi was on the baseball team, whose roster included his brother Jeremy and three other future major league players: infielder Shawn Wooten, pitchers Aaron Small and Cory Lidle.

Jason Giambi was selected in the 43rd round by the Milwaukee Brewers during the 1989 MLB draft.

Jason Giambi attended Cal State Long Beach, where he played college baseball for the Long Beach State 49ers baseball team.

Jason Giambi played collegiate summer baseball for the Alaska Goldpanners, in the Alaska Baseball League.

Jason Giambi started his career that year with the short-season Single-A Southern Oregon A's of the Northwest League, where he hit.

Jason Giambi was a member of the fourth place United States national baseball team at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.

Jason Giambi then spent the 1993 season playing for the Modesto A's, the Oakland Athletics' Single-A farm team.

Jason Giambi played for the Huntsville Stars in the Southern League and the Kauai Emeralds in the Hawaii Winter Baseball league.

Jason Giambi made his major league debut with the Athletics in 1995.

Originally used occasionally as an outfielder, third baseman, and first baseman, Jason Giambi assumed the full-time first base job upon the trade of Mark McGwire to the St Louis Cardinals in 1997.

Jason Giambi came in eighth in MLB Most Valuable Player Award voting.

Jason Giambi hit two home runs in Oakland's 2000 season opener on April 3, the first Athletics player to ever do so.

Jason Giambi narrowly won the American League Most Valuable Player Award over Frank Thomas.

Jason Giambi was second in the league in intentional walks, the only time in his career that he was in the top 10 in this category.

Jason Giambi finished a close second in MVP voting to Ichiro Suzuki, and won the Silver Slugger Award.

On December 13,2001, Jason Giambi signed a seven-year $120-million deal with the New York Yankees.

Jason Giambi became an object of the A's fans' wrath whenever New York visited Oakland.

Jason Giambi came in fifth in AL MVP voting, and again won the Silver Slugger Award.

Jason Giambi remained one of the most patient hitters in the majors.

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On July 30,2004, test results confirmed that Jason Giambi had a benign tumor, which placed him on the disabled list.

In 2006, Jason Giambi was named the American League Player of the Month for April, hitting.

Jason Giambi performed the unusual feat of having as many RBIs as hits, and for the third time in his career had more walks than strikeouts.

Jason Giambi's numbers were down precipitously in the 2007 season due to an injury, in which he hit just.

Jason Giambi played in just 83 games, 53 of which as a designated hitter.

Jason Giambi got off to a horrible start in the 2008 season, hitting below.

On September 3,2008, Jason Giambi walked into a bathroom door in his hotel room while in Florida before playing against the Tampa Bay Rays.

On September 21,2008, Jason Giambi recorded the final hit in Yankee Stadium, when he drove in Brett Gardner with an RBI single.

Jason Giambi was one of only three players to hit a home run while pinch hitting in 2008, and the only one to do it twice.

Jason Giambi officially re-joined the A's the next day, and was given his old No 16 jersey.

Jason Giambi hit his first home run since returning to the Athletics on April 25,2009.

At the time, Jason Giambi had the lowest batting average in the majors, and fourth-lowest slugging percentage in the American League.

Jason Giambi made the 2011 Opening Day roster out of spring training.

On May 19,2011, against the Philadelphia Phillies, Jason Giambi hit three home runs in one game, the first such game for him of his career.

Jason Giambi is the second oldest player to accomplish the feat; at age 41, Stan Musial was the oldest player to hit three home runs in one game on July 8,1962.

Jason Giambi became a free agent after the 2012 season and was a finalist for the Rockies major league managerial opening, which eventually went to Walt Weiss.

Jason Giambi was offered the position of Colorado's hitting coach but turned it down.

Jason Giambi made the Indians major league roster following spring training.

On July 29,2013, Jason Giambi became the oldest player to hit a walk-off home run.

Jason Giambi broke his own record for oldest player to hit a walk-off home run in a season saving win for the Indians against the White Sox on September 24,2013.

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Jason Giambi was re-signed by the Indians on October 31,2013 to a one-year minor league deal.

Late in 2003, Jason Giambi was named by FBI officers investigating the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative as being one of the baseball players believed to have received anabolic steroids from trainer Greg Anderson.

The newspaper said that in his testimony, Jason Giambi admitted to using several different steroids during the off-seasons from 2001 to 2003, and injecting himself with human growth hormone during the 2003 season.

Jason Giambi apologized again on May 16,2007, this time specifically for using steroids, and urged others in the sport to do the same.

Jason Giambi's wife is the designer and owner of a lingerie and loungewear company called Brulee.

Jason Giambi is one of the owners of Casa Cielo in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.

Jason Giambi's siblings include former major-leaguer Jeremy Jason Giambi, who died in 2022, and a sister named Julie.

Jason Giambi has appeared as the featured athlete on the cover of several video games throughout his career.

Jason Giambi has been featured as a playable character in Backyard Baseball 2001 as well as Backyard Baseball 2003.

Jason Giambi appeared in The Bronx Is Burning, a television drama that debuted on ESPN in 2007, as a taxi cab driver.