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Tigers To Extend Miguel Cabrera
By Jeff Todd [March 27, 2014 at 5:06pm CST]
The Tigers have agreed to terms on an extension with star slugger Miguel Cabrera, reports Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com (via Twitter). Cabrera's new deal is expected to be for seven or more years, Heyman adds. Cabrera is represented by Relativity Baseball.
Cabrera, who turns 31 in April, has been the game's most consistent force at the plate for at least the past four seasons. Over those campaigns, he has logged successive OPS+ figures of 178, 179, 164, and 187. Of course, in the "down" year of 2012, he also managed to secure a Triple Crown. While there has been some controversy over Cabrera's successive AL MVP awards over the last two years, given his less-than-stellar defensive ratings, there is no doubting his offensive prowess and status as one of the game's few truly elite players.
Cabrera has two years left on his current contract. That deal -- an eight-year, $152.3MM extension -- has paid off handsomely for Detroit. Cabrera has racked up 36.4 rWAR and 35.1 fWAR over that time on the back of a cumulative .327/.407/.588 triple-slash and 227 home runs. (He leads the bigs in homers and slugging percentage over that time, is a close second in average to Joe Mauer, and lands fourth in OBP. And, yes, he is comfortably ahead of all other players with 737 RBI in the same term.)
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By Jeff Todd [March 27, 2014 at 5:06pm CST]
The Tigers have agreed to terms on an extension with star slugger Miguel Cabrera, reports Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com (via Twitter). Cabrera's new deal is expected to be for seven or more years, Heyman adds. Cabrera is represented by Relativity Baseball.
Cabrera, who turns 31 in April, has been the game's most consistent force at the plate for at least the past four seasons. Over those campaigns, he has logged successive OPS+ figures of 178, 179, 164, and 187. Of course, in the "down" year of 2012, he also managed to secure a Triple Crown. While there has been some controversy over Cabrera's successive AL MVP awards over the last two years, given his less-than-stellar defensive ratings, there is no doubting his offensive prowess and status as one of the game's few truly elite players.
Cabrera has two years left on his current contract. That deal -- an eight-year, $152.3MM extension -- has paid off handsomely for Detroit. Cabrera has racked up 36.4 rWAR and 35.1 fWAR over that time on the back of a cumulative .327/.407/.588 triple-slash and 227 home runs. (He leads the bigs in homers and slugging percentage over that time, is a close second in average to Joe Mauer, and lands fourth in OBP. And, yes, he is comfortably ahead of all other players with 737 RBI in the same term.)
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