The waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves in front of them, and many famous MLB players gradually throw away their jerseys and become the tears of the times. This year Albert Pujols is the center of the baseball world .Next year, it will be the first time. another heavy-handed tiger, “Rice Cake” Miguel Cabrera , Many fans have been full of emotion since he first appeared on the stage as “a boy who plays strong” and saw the waiting period all the way.
Cabrera will be 40 years old at the start of next season. For fans, there is no doubt that “one less game to watch” He will reach 500 career hits in the 2021 season. Milestones: MVP, Triple Crown, 12 All-Star Games, 7 Silver Slugger Awards and other great achievements He won the World Series with the Marlins in his rookie year, and he doesn’t regret much in his career.
What fans talk about the most is his exaggerated, brave and extremely stable “strike machine” characteristics in the past. During his peak season, his batting average often hovered around 0.340. He is one of the hardest hitters in the league, his career batting average is currently 0.308, which at first glance is pretty close to 30% However, due to the large enough samples collected over the years, in fact, he needs 272 consecutive at-bats without a hit before his career batting average drops. below 30% to 0.29998), in other words, it can be said that there is no doubt about “Rice Cake’s” career batting average of 30%.
In addition to the 3,000 hits and 600 doubles mentioned above, almost all of the “integer milestones” that Cabrera can achieve have been completed: this year also achieved the 100th career high-flying sacrifice and steal 40. It’s quite rare, and there will be a chance next year Has achieved 2,800 career games (currently 2,699 games), and currently only 24 people have reached the standard of 2,800 of games in major league history. This is an achievement that even Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter, and “Mr Royal.” George Brett failed to deliver.
If you look at the history of the Detroit Tigers, “Rice Cake” has the 9th team history in games played (21 more games to reach 2,000 games), 8th team history in hits (119 away from 7th place) , and 1st 3 home run team history (4 rounds away from No. 2 Norm Cash’s 373), all of which are worthy of attention and anticipation.
2023 is the final year of Tiger’s 8-year contract with Cabrera. He also revealed in a public event a while ago: “I believe that the new season will be the last season of my career, although I will not say that I will never ” Touch baseball again, but it is almost time to say goodbye to baseball .” “My goal is to play a full season without injury and help the Tigers win more games.” Cabrera’s off-season training is said to focus on the knees and back to help with the long term by increasing body strength.
In 2018, due to a biceps tendon injury, Cabrera played only 38 games in the entire season. In the last 4 years (2019 to now), his OPS+ is 97, 104, 95, and 83 in sequence. The old style is gone, but he has rich experience. He can continue to provide objects for young players on the team to learn from, and play the role of leadership and teaching by example.
This season, his performance against left-handers is relatively exceptional (0.289 / 0.360 / 0.330), and his OPS against right-handers is less than 0.6 If the coaching staff can realize this and increase his “value”, Maybe there is a chance to perform a “comeback” play against the trend like Pujols in 2022. But even if they can’t hit the bottom and rebound like “Daddy” David Ortiz to pull the finish with the biggest gesture beautiful, they have left a powerful unforgettable and indelible heroic gesture for the main stage of the league in the last 20 years.
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