José Miguel Cabrera Torres (born April 18, 1983), commonly known as Miguel Cabrera is a Venezuelan professional baseball third baseman with the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He bats and throws right-handed. He can also play first base, left field and right field. Cabrera is an eight-time All-Star, having been selected to both the National League and American League All-Star Teams. Cabrera has started at least 100 games at first base, third base, left field and right field. He progressed through the Florida Marlins minor league system, before being called up from the Double-A Carolina Mudcats in June 2003. Cabrera went on to help the Marlins win the World Series that year as their clean-up hitter. Cabrera is widely regarded to be one of the best pure hitters in baseball, hitting at a high average with power to all fields. He has posted at least 30 home runs in nine different seasons with a career batting average of .321. Cabrera has also driven in over 100 runs in each of the last ten seasons, every season aside from his rookie campaign when he played in only 87 games. He has been an MVP caliber player since entering the majors at just 20 years old, having received MVP votes in each of his ten major league seasons, and placing in the top five in six of those seasons including each of the last four. In 2012, Cabrera became the first player since Carl Yastrzemski in 1967 to win the Triple Crown in batting. Cabrera led the American League with a .330 batting average, 44 home runs, and 139 runs batted in. Cabrera was voted the 2012 AL MVP following the season. In 2013, Cabrera didn't repeat his Triple Crown, but he did improve on most of his statistics from the previous year, with 44 home runs, 137 runs batted in, a career best .348 average and league leading 1.078 OPS. Cabrera was voted the 2013 AL MVP for the second consecutive season.

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