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http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2013/08...ut-face-jed-rigney-concedes-he-should-be-mvp/
Yahoo Sports Writer Goes From Bashing Miguel Cabrera To Saying He Should Be MVP.
from CBSDetroit

 

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http://www.foxsportsdetroit.com/mlb...ther-roug?blockID=931267#.UhTTcraOPh8.twitter
Coke sent to Triple-A after another rough outing.
from DetroitFox

 

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http://motorcitybengals.com/2013/08...est-right-handed-hitting-seasons-of-all-time/
Miguel Cabrera and the Best Right-Handed Hitting Seasons of All-Time.
from mcb-tb

 

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http://motorcitybengals.com/2013/08/21/impervious-miguel-cabrera-building-lore-with-injured-hip/
Impervious Miguel Cabrera Building Lore With Injured Hip.
from mcb-tb

 

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http://blog.detroitathletic.com/201...-of-the-best-defensive-shortstops-of-his-era/
Eddie Brinkman was one of the Best Defensive Shortstops of his era.
from Detroit Athletic

 

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Currently historic: Miguel Cabrera hyperbole.
We are really coming down to the wire now. The average team has 37 or so games left, which means three things for this column: First, career achievements are getting sparse as many slip over into next season. Second, seasonal achievements are getting much more likely. More than 75 percent of the season is gone and many of these players are still going strong. Third, if a player does fall off the pace, it's hard to get back, as sample sizes are quite large and it takes a lot to move numbers back up once they've slipped down.

Miguel Cabrera is having the kind of season that... Miguel Cabrera's numbers are like....
I give up. Cabrera good. Okay? Okay? What else can be written about the man? I don't know. He currently leads the league in two Triple Crown categories (never done after a Triple Crown win), all three slash stats (Sabr-Triple Crown), is with shouting distance of slugging .700. Is leading the league in hits and is second in walks. It's ridiculous.

But he still might not be the best player in the league and he still isn't the best hitter most of us have seen (unless you're five, in which case, you are a very precocious young person, well done). Joe Posnanski wrote about this recently and rather than try to do better than he did, I'll just link him. Miguel Cabrera is a great ballplayer. A Hall of Fame ball player. But even for those players, the hyperbole occasionally gets out of hand.

Mike Trout, who may be a better baseball player than Cabrera, is also quite the hitter. He's leading the league in walks and only four off the pace in hits.
from the Hardball Times

 

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Lowest % of team HR hit with bases empty:
Cardinals, Tigers 51.0%
Dbacks 52.8%
Astros 54.9%
Indians 55.2%
Cubs 56.6%
Braves 57.0%

Meaning 49% of their HR come with men on base.

 

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http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/39357/tigers-need-healthy-cabrera-for-october
Tigers need a healthy Miguel Cabrera for October.
espn

 

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http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130820&content_id=57701096&c_id=det
Miggy still clear-cut AL MVP choice over Trout.
Tigers slugger having another stellar season for a playoff-contending club.
from the Tigers official site

 

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http://beck.mlblogs.com/2013/08/21/phil-coke-and-postseason-eligibility/
Phil Coke and postseason eligibility.
from JasonBeck'sTigersblog

 

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http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/20...era-Gomez-Goldschmidt-Gonzalez-Trout-Longoria
Overthinking it: who is the best all-around player?
from beyondtheboxscore

over thinking it......

 

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http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/story/...race-to-mvp-battle-nl-central-has-it-going-on
CBSSports Team Power Rankings.

 

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http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on...era-is-dealing-with-another-lower-body-injury
Miguel Cabrera is dealing with another lower body injury.
from cbssports

 

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Victor Martinez with catching gear on. Playing catch from plate to second.
Emergency catcher. May be needed if Pena is still hurt.

 

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http://www.highheatstats.com/2013/08/sorting-out-the-al-cy-young-race/
Sorting Out the AL Cy Young Race.
from HighHeatStats

Blue Eye Max here!!!

 

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http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2013/08/bryan_holaday_is_lone_healthy.html
Bryan Holaday is lone healthy catcher with Alex Avila still on DL, Brayan Pena nursing toe injury.
from Mlive

 

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http://www.detroitnews.com/article/...ion-stings-Phil-Coke-he-ll-return-help-Tigers
Demotion stings Phil Coke, but he'll return and help Tigers.
from the detnews

 

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http://www.detroitnews.com/article/...uel-Cabrera-they-were-jeopardizing-his-health
Tigers wouldn't be playing Miguel Cabrera if they were jeopardizing his health.
from the detnews

GTHO henning.

 

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Avila could began rehab assignment Thursday.
DETROIT -- Tigers catcher Alex Avila worked out on the field at Comerica Park and took batting practice for the second consecutive day on Wednesday afternoon, and could begin a Minor League rehab assignment as early as Thursday.

Avila said after the workout that he's in a wait-and-see mode.

Avila, who went on the 7-day disabled list for concussion symptoms on Aug. 11, has to be cleared by doctors before returning to any game activity, given the nature of the injury. He isn't required to go out on a rehab assignment, but it would provide the Tigers and Avila -- who was initially cleared by doctors after the original injury on Aug. 8, and played a game before symptoms resurfaced -- some assurance as to whether he could get through a game.

"I'm not saying it'll be three or four games," manager Jim Leyland said. "It might just be a game, just to see how he comes out of a game catching. I mean, that's what you have to find out, first of all. He might catch a game, and all of a sudden get headaches or something. I can't give you those answers."

All three of the Tigers' nearby Minor League affiliates are on the road beginning Thursday. Triple-A Toledo would be the closest, beginning a road trip in Louisville.
from the Tigers official site

 

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After injury scare, Miggy returns to lineup.
DETROIT -- Miguel Cabrera may have worried those around him by grimacing in the batter's box during a ninth-inning at-bat on Tuesday. However, the Tigers could breathe a sigh of relief as Cabrera was back in the lineup on Wednesday against the Twins and is feeling better than before.

"You're always concerned about him," manager Jim Leyland said. "Obviously, he's been playing hurt for a while now, so I wasn't sure how he was going to be today. But he said he felt better today than he did yesterday. That was good news."

Cabrera has been dealing with an abdominal wall strain near his hip flexor for about a month and he tweaked it while swinging through a first-pitch slider. While Cabrera never asked for a trainer, it raised a lot of concern among fans and the team.

"I thought the same thing on the stairs," head athletic trainer Kevin Rand said. "When we got him, we evaluated him and it wasn't too bad. To be honest with you, I had to see what it looked like today to know whether he was going to be OK, going to need a day or two, or whatever the case may be.

"The thing is, he made the grimace, but the way he felt a little better [Wednesday], maybe it was something he needed to kind of work through."

Although Cabrera won't miss any time with the latest scare, the team believes he can recover from his injury while playing. Cabrera's sore knee and bruised shin from foul balls in an at-bat against Yankees closer Mariano Rivera over a week ago have improved.

"It's going to get better for him a little bit slower because he is out there," Rand said. "He's going to tweak it every now and again, because he starts feeling really good and then he starts to do something [that gives him pain]."

The Tigers have discussed the idea of placing Cabrera on the 15-day disabled list twice -- when he initially sustained the injury in Chicago and missed four games and later when he tweaked it against the Phillies and missed three games. However, Rand said he never thought Cabrera's injury would sideline him for the entire 15 days.

"We may have to give him days here, days there, and then we have the comfort to give him three or four days -- obviously we do and we have," Rand said. "But at the same time, you could have disabled him after he tweaked it in that Philadelphia series and he would have missed that whole road trip where he obviously played very, very well."
from the Tigers official site