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Aaron Wade Miles (born December 15, 1976 in Antioch, California) is a Major League Baseball infielder for the Chicago Cubs.
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.