The Detroit Tigers announced Friday that Miguel Cabrera will stay with the group and serve as a special assistant to the president of baseball operations as soon as he wraps up his enjoying profession this weekend towards the Cleveland Guardians.
Scott Harris, who recently holds the president of baseball operations name with the Tigers, stated as a part of the announcement: “Lessons like how to deal with praise and pressure are exactly what we want Miguel teaching players throughout our organization. I’m honored to have him as part of our staff, and know he will continue to make the Tigers better in his new role.”
Cabrera, 40, is placing the general touches on a storied 21-year big-league profession. After spending his first 5 seasons with the Miami Marlins group, he is since tallied 16 seasons with the Tigers. Overall, he is gathered a .306/.382/.518 (140 OPS+) profession line to cross with 3,170 hits, 511 house runs, and 67 Wins Above Replacement, in accordance to Baseball Reference’s estimates.
Cabrera has earned a long record of achievements past the statistical type. He’s a two-time Most Valuable Player Award recipient, as neatly as a 12-time All-Star, a seven-time Silver Slugger Award winner, and a one-time Triple Crown winner. He used to be additionally a part of the Marlins’ 2003 World Series name win.
It’s unclear how a lot enter or affect Cabrera will in reality have inside the Tigers baseball operations division. Oftentimes, those strikes are glorified techniques of retaining widespread or significant participants across the membership. Still, that is the second one notable addition the Tigers have made to their entrance place of job in the previous month. Earlier in September, they named Jeff Greenberg (previously of the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks) as their new basic supervisor.
