What else can you call it? Giles had shown he could be an excellent major-league closer. He had the guts, the grit, the nastiness, the intestinal fortitude, the fastball. And he had done it. He's a proven commodity. He's exactly the kind of player a team should hang on to until his arm spontaneously combusts - certainly the kind of player the Phillies can't afford to be trading away now. People loved watching him pitch. And what do the Phillies do for a closer now? None of their options is battle-tested the way Giles is. Was he the best closer in baseball? No, but he was a good one, and he might have gotten better, and no team can compete for a championship without a good closer, and the Phillies traded him for four question marks. They won 63 games last season with Giles. How many do you think they'll win this season without him? Fifty- three? Has anyone thought about that?