How was he better in 2008? His AVG, OBP, OPS, OPS+, wOBA, WPA, and most any other metric you can come up with were better than Miles' career numbers. Oh, better than his career, okay. But Miles was better in 2008, he was also better in 2007. Freel is hardly an upgrade to Miles. He's a very similar player who could easily be worse, again. Pixie-dust Aaron Miles shouldn't count. Normal Freel >> Normal Miles. I've been asking since the Gathright signing why we didn't just keep Pie if we wanted a speed-only guy on the bench. Pie was better on defense than Gathright anyway. So instead we trade for a guy who is a worse DeRosa. Sure seems like Hendry regrets a lot of his off-season already.