Jeremy Dean Giambi was an American professional baseball outfielder and first baseman, who played in Major League Baseball for the Kansas City Royals, Oakland Athletics, Philadelphia Phillies, and Boston Red Sox, from 1998 through 2003.
Jeremy Giambi: Baseball player| Suicide| Wife| Net Worth
Baseball player:
The Kansas City Royals selected Giambi in the sixth round of the 1996 Major League Baseball Draft. Giambi made his major league debut as a September call-up for the Royals in 1998. The Athletics acquired Giambi from the Royals in exchange for Brett Laxton prior to the 2000 season.
Jason and Jeremy played together during the 2000 and 2001 seasons. Jeremy batted .283 with 12 home runs and 57 runs batted in (RBIs) in 2001. During Game 3 of the 2001 American League Division Series, Giambi was tagged out at home plate on the “flip play” by Derek Jeter.
Suicide:
Jeremy Giambi, a former major league outfielder and first baseman, died Wednesday at his parents’ home in Southern California, police said. He was 47.
Officers responding around 11:30 a.m. to reports of a medical emergency found Giambi dead at the residence in Claremont, east of Los Angeles, said police Lt. Robert Ewing.
The Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office will determine the cause of death, Ewing said. Giambi’s agent Joel Wolfe didn’t immediately respond to a call seeking more information.
Wife:
Naia kept her life pretty secret despite her husband’s fame as a baseball star.
She was into raising horses and after her husband’s retirement in 2005, she got involved in taking care of them.
In 2012, she said: “I’ve been raising horses for a long time and I’ve been always focused on the nutritional as the most important for the basis for any horse, whether it’s gonna be a racehorse or rodeo horse, show horse…I’ve done all of it.
Net Worth:
Per Year: $ 4,00,000
Per Month: $ 32,000
Per Week: $ 8,000
| Per Day: | Per Hour: | Per Minute: | Per Second: |
| $ 1140 | $ 19 | $ 0.3 | $ 0.05 |
He was born on September 30, 1974, in San Jose, California, and played baseball for the Kansas City Royals, Oakland Athletics, Philadelphia Phillies, and Boston Red Sox until retiring in 2011. Giambi is a left-handed pitcher who has played for the Royals, Athletics, Phillies, and Red Sox.
He also spent time with the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Chicago White Sox in the minor leagues. He is the younger brother of baseball star Jason Giambi. He was born in the year 2000.
