Williams pretty obviously robbed by the war though.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Sunday, 25 August 2013 02:07 (ten years ago) link
I made the same point in the comments. (Someone tracked Williams for '39-42/46-51, and he took HR and RBI but lost BA to Musial.)
Obviously the calendar's an artificial construct, and you have to catch it just right. Someone else pointed out that Pujols took all three for 2003-2012. Cabrera's prime years just happened to have coincided with a new decade.
― clemenza, Sunday, 25 August 2013 03:16 (ten years ago) link
Wait how did Williams win BA for 40-49? Musial BA seems much higher during that period and he has the requisite 2000 ABs.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Sunday, 25 August 2013 15:00 (ten years ago) link
Nevermind looking at the WRONG line .356 not .336.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Sunday, 25 August 2013 15:02 (ten years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BSmpS9XCEAAWozH.png
― k3vin k., Monday, 26 August 2013 18:52 (ten years ago) link
Miguel promised before the game that he would "hit one for Miley," and now he has.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 01:03 (ten years ago) link
haha
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 01:05 (ten years ago) link
http://tracking.si.com/2013/08/29/tigers-miguel-cabrera-leaves-game-injury/?sct=hp_t2_a4
That's not going to be good for anybody.
― clemenza, Thursday, 29 August 2013 19:33 (ten years ago) link
except mike trout
― mookieproof, Thursday, 29 August 2013 19:47 (ten years ago) link
Detroit Tigers star Miguel Cabrera left Thursday afternoon's game against the Oakland Athletics due to discomfort in his abdomen, the team announced.
Cabrera, who leads the majors in batting average and RBIs, suffered the injury while attempting to leg out a double in the fifth inning.
The Tigers updated Cabrera's status on their official Twitter account, announcing that the All-Star third baseman is considered day to day.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Thursday, 29 August 2013 19:48 (ten years ago) link
So Cabrera is in the lineup. I actually think they should shut him down for a couple of weeks. General consensus seems to be he has MVP locked up. The triple crown, some people like me care, many people don't, and his chance of catching Davis in HR seems slim anyway. More than ever, Detroit has the starting pitching to win everything. They're risking losing (or seriously diminishing) their key hitter, and at this point, to what end I'm not sure.
― clemenza, Friday, 30 August 2013 21:52 (ten years ago) link
lasted one at-bat, looks like he aggravated his abdominal injury.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Saturday, 31 August 2013 00:11 (ten years ago) link
damn, give him some rest, clemenza otm
― k3vin k., Saturday, 31 August 2013 00:13 (ten years ago) link
With both ESPN's SweetSpot (two sit-Cabrera posts today) and ILB bearing down on him/them, Leyland and/or Cabrera finally doing the right thing.
― clemenza, Saturday, 31 August 2013 23:30 (ten years ago) link
@matthewbmowery#Tigers have scored 58 runs in the 10 games Cabrera has not started.
― Andy K, Sunday, 1 September 2013 03:49 (ten years ago) link
bench him for good
― mookieproof, Sunday, 1 September 2013 03:53 (ten years ago) link
Castellanos up
― Andy K, Sunday, 1 September 2013 13:45 (ten years ago) link
Wrong thread.
― Andy K, Sunday, 1 September 2013 14:02 (ten years ago) link
http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/3146835/sweet_medium.png
Singing "Sweet Caroline" today...Beyond the numbers, I think I've become a big Cabrera fan for the same reason I was a fan of Gwynn and Kirby: he really does seem like a big teddy bear. (While aware that two of the three had issues away from the game.)
― clemenza, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 02:22 (ten years ago) link
he beat his wife
― fuck your movie theater yacht (zachlyon), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 02:29 (ten years ago) link
Well aware. Think that's right in my post.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 02:45 (ten years ago) link
i know dude
not trying to call you out, obv he has a lot of fans, but like
ask any of chris brown's fans if they think he's a 'teddy bear' and they'd probably say of course
― fuck your movie theater yacht (zachlyon), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 02:54 (ten years ago) link
talk about his skill and his greatness and w/e, but as soon as someone mentions anything outside of the game of baseball itself i just can't take seriously
― fuck your movie theater yacht (zachlyon), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 02:57 (ten years ago) link
*take it
what was the result of that case? i can't remember now, and it's not on his wiki page
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 3 September 2013 02:58 (ten years ago) link
I assume you're referring to Puckett. I was, and am, a fan of Kirby Puckett the baseball player, and I listed a Chris Brown song on my Top 10 a couple of years ago. Neither is an apology, excuse, or rationalization of anything they do away from a baseball diamond or recording studio. The teddy bear comment refers to the Kirby who let teammates rub his head for good luck. I still remember that guy, and was jarred and saddened to learn of the other Kirby.
Me ten minutes ago: "I'd better put in a parenthetical here, or someone will jump on and I'll get drawn into a silly argument."
― clemenza, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 03:05 (ten years ago) link
But after investigators determined both Cabrera and his wife were "aggressors" in the situation, Patterson said, the first baseman was released. Tigers general manager Dave Dombrowski picked Cabrera up at the station between 7:30 and 8 a.m. Saturday, he added.
http://blog.mlive.com/cutoffman/2009/10/reports_miguel_cabrera_parties.html
Chatter and a Captain Beefheart clip starts here:
Whatupdoe let's go 2009 Tigers get Miguel a lemon pączki
― Andy K, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 03:07 (ten years ago) link
but as soon as someone mentions anything outside of the game of baseball itself i just can't take seriously
I think that's precisely what you did--spelling out what everyone knows anyway.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 03:08 (ten years ago) link
And if you don't feel like checking the old thread, these quotes are from Birmingham's police chief:
“She was the aggressor who started it even though he came home intoxicated and tried to keep the phone from her,” he said. “She proceeded to make the physical altercation first — after which he pushed her. She got scared because he's a big guy ... fear took over on her part because she had hurt him to some extent, and she called 9-1-1.”While she clearly sounded panicked in the 9-1-1 call released to the public, Patterson said she was quite calm by the time officers arrived at the couple's house. Through an interpreter, it was eventually determined she started the physical altercation by pulling a gold chain from his neck.“All she wanted was to have him out of the house,” he said. “That said, if we arrested her we had a 4-year-old that we certainly couldn't leave at home with an intoxicated father. We couldn't leave him alone because he was extremely agitated and intoxicated ... so we would have to arrest them both and place the child in protective services.”
While she clearly sounded panicked in the 9-1-1 call released to the public, Patterson said she was quite calm by the time officers arrived at the couple's house. Through an interpreter, it was eventually determined she started the physical altercation by pulling a gold chain from his neck.
“All she wanted was to have him out of the house,” he said. “That said, if we arrested her we had a 4-year-old that we certainly couldn't leave at home with an intoxicated father. We couldn't leave him alone because he was extremely agitated and intoxicated ... so we would have to arrest them both and place the child in protective services.”
― Andy K, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 03:11 (ten years ago) link
yeah that's what i thought i remembered, that it was found* to be more of a domestic dispute than a "wife-beating"
*by the cops, so take that with a grain of salt i guess
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 3 September 2013 03:13 (ten years ago) link
Right.
― Andy K, Tuesday, 3 September 2013 03:15 (ten years ago) link
yeah sorry i don't put stock in cop talk or really any of the 'official' legal stuff/announcements that come out after a celebrity gets in trouble. do put stock in the 911 recording tho.
― fuck your movie theater yacht (zachlyon), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 03:21 (ten years ago) link
he's back tonight, 0-for-2 so far
― Miss Arlington twirls for the Coal Heavers (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 00:02 (ten years ago) link
Don't know how that kind of decision works with a player of that stature in this day and age--if he says "I'm okay," does the manager just automatically pencil him in, or does it then depend on the manager's clout (i.e., Leyland probably has as much as any manager right now). Tonight would seem to have more to do with Scherzer than anything else. Still seems like a needless risk, especially when they're doing fine anyway.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 00:32 (ten years ago) link
Make that two ejections during an at-bat this season.
― Andy K, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 00:16 (ten years ago) link
Cabrera's brutal September (since Aug. 27, technically--got this from SweetSpot): 23 games, .257/.382/.311, one double and one home run. In a full season, that'd be...14 extra-base hits.
― clemenza, Thursday, 26 September 2013 21:49 (ten years ago) link
It's like the Tigers should consider resting him.
― Andy K, Thursday, 26 September 2013 22:00 (ten years ago) link
That's baffled me since day one. (Being Aug. 27, I guess.) I understand that another TC was kind of sort of within reach for a time, that there's the chance of another MVP, and--what's really driving this, I suspect--that Cabrera is one of those players who, for reasons either noble or selfish or somewhere in between, likes to stay in the lineup. But the Tigers will go into the postseason with a clearly weakened lineup, and on a personal level, he's damaged, not helped, his MVP case. Again, I have no idea whether this is 100% Leyland's call.
― clemenza, Thursday, 26 September 2013 22:18 (ten years ago) link
"He's not 100 percent. He's been playing in a lot of pain. He's a real tough guy. I think if anybody knew the pain he's playing in, they probably wouldn't believe it."
http://espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs/2013/story/_/id/9760412/2013-mlb-playoffs-miguel-cabrera-detroit-tigers-playing-lot-pain-jim-leyland-says
Oh I think we can believe it.
― Andy K, Thursday, 3 October 2013 02:27 (ten years ago) link
A stubborn myth:
http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/42494/cabrera-wont-suffer-without-fielder
(I'm expecting normal decline if Cabrera's healthy, worse if he's not; Fielder won't be a factor, though, even though many will say he is.)
― clemenza, Friday, 22 November 2013 23:37 (ten years ago) link
That last month of 2013 really put a damper on his whole year--the question of why he was playing every day, and having to watch what could have been among the greatest offensive seasons ever slip away. Much better September this year (after an up-and-down rest of the year). Here's where he'd be today if you took the first five months of 2013 and combined them with this year's September:
AB - 579H - 2112B - 353B - 1HR - 51TB - 403R - 114RBI - 148BB - 82BA - .364OBP - .445SLG - .696
― clemenza, Saturday, 27 September 2014 23:27 (nine years ago) link
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2014/10/01/cabrera-declines-playoff-share-just-want-ring/16545473/
i love the "why am i writing this" tone throughout this article facebook really wanted me to see
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 2 October 2014 04:33 (nine years ago) link
Not promising:
http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/10/25/dave-dombrowski-on-miguel-cabrera-its-worse-than-what-we-ever-would-have-anticipated/
― clemenza, Friday, 5 December 2014 20:08 (nine years ago) link
sorry dave
― Bringing the mosh (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 5 December 2014 23:06 (nine years ago) link
Hey, no worries.
https://igcdn-photos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/10632163_1589951094551199_806747511_n.jpg
― Andy K, Friday, 5 December 2014 23:38 (nine years ago) link
I was visiting my goddaughter this afternoon and noticed this plate as I was leaving. Long odds. You never know.
http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t427/sayhey1/miggy_zps07741f50.jpg
― clemenza, Tuesday, 30 December 2014 23:47 (nine years ago) link
Having a phenomenal partial season; just about to re-enter the yearly leaderboards.
http://m.mlb.com/news/article/145158510/miguel-cabrera-set-to-re-enter-al-batting-race
Working on his highest BA and OBA by a wide margin; highest OPS+ of his career, too. His time off and the Tigers' season will possibly break his streak of getting MVP votes every season of his career--he'll probably get a handful of down-ballot votes, though. I would have bet money before the season that his health issues would guarantee further decline.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 15:56 (eight years ago) link
don't really care about BA so much, but his .367 is waaaaaay ahead of anyone else in the AL (next closest are fielder and kipnis at .320)
― 1994 ball boy (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 25 August 2015 16:02 (eight years ago) link
@PeleGood luck tonight to my brother @miguelCabrera in your pursuit for the batting crown !
https://twitter.com/MiguelCabrera/status/639539007832092672
― Andy K, Thursday, 3 September 2015 22:00 (eight years ago) link
@Dan_Dickerson 27s27 seconds ago...3 hits leave no doubt - Cabrera has won his 4th batting title - becomes just 7th player in AL history to win as many 4 batting titles...
― Andy K, Sunday, 4 October 2015 02:52 (eight years ago) link