We wrote about the Granderson trade earlier today, and how we think it was a very good trade. There is another name who has, and then has not, and then has again been named in rumors of trades with the big boys in baseball. Specifically, that name is Miguel Cabrera.
Cabrera has been the best player on the Tigers since showing up, but he was noticeably absent down the stretch when the Tigers needed him so much last season. Now, we predicted the collapse of the Tigers right here, but never did we dream that the best player on the team, the offensive powerhouse, the driving force behind the run scoring machine (which was unplugged in September) would do something as awful as he did. On the last weekend of the season, needing only two wins to wrap up a division title and not take over the “worst choke job ever” title from the Mets, Cabrera joined some opponents, players from the worst team in all of sports the White Sox, in an all-nighter that sent the hard-hitting first baseman into a weekend funk, going 0-11 and striking out 5 times.
This adds him to the likes of Petr Klima and Bob Probert. Back in the late 80s, when the Red Wings were an upstart young team led by a young captain named Steve Yzerman, they had a series against the juggernaut Edmonton Oilers in the Campbell Conference Finals. Needing a win to stay alive, some Oilers who never saw the ice took Klima and Probert out for a cocktail the night before the game, to a place called Goose Loonies. One thing led to another, and Probert and Klima ended up in the pokey. Needless to say, the Wings lost the game and the series, and the rest is history. Hopefully, the Tigers begin a stretch like the Red Wings have been on since then, but we don’t see that happening.
We hope Dombrowski is behind the scenes working a trade for Cabrera. We don’t care to ever see him in a Tigers jersey ever again. In the most important series of a season, when the team needs him most, Cabrera went out for drinks and went 0-11. Screw him. Trade him now.
