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Miguel Cabrera    \mee-GEL Kah-BRAIR-rah\

Jose Miguel (Torres) Cabrera (twitter: @MiguelCabrera)

Positions: First Baseman, Third Baseman and Leftfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 4", Weight: 240 lb.

Born: April 18, 1983 in Maracay, Aragua, Venezuela
High School: Maracay (Maracay, VE)
Signed by the Florida Marlins as an amateur free agent in 1999. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 20, 2003 (Age 20)
Teams (by GP): Tigers/Marlins 2003-2013
2013 Contract Status: Signed thru 2015, 8 yrs/$152.3M (08-15) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2013): 9.101, Free Agent: 2016 [*], Agents: SFX, previously: Andy Mota,Arn Tellem,Fernando Cuza,Scott Boras [*]
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Adv Fielding w/ run summary
Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rdrs Rtot/yr Rdrs/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
2003 FLA NL 20 LF 55 55 51 481.0 107 99 5 3 1 .972 -5 1 -12 2 1.95 1.89 .979 1.91 1.89 MVP-27,RoY-5
2003 FLA NL 20 OF 55 55 51 481.0 107 99 5 3 1 .972 -5 1 -12 2 1.95 1.89 .984 2.17 2.15 MVP-27,RoY-5
2003 FLA NL 20 3B 34 30 30 275.0 71 17 53 1 2 .986 2 -3 7 -13 2.29 2.06 .955 2.74 2.72 MVP-27,RoY-5
2004 FLA NL 21 OF 158 158 135 1360.0 284 262 13 9 1 .968 -10 -3 -8 -2 1.82 1.74 .982 2.16 2.14 AS,MVP-22
2004 FLA NL 21 RF 100 100 82 856.0 184 170 7 7 1 .962 -9 -9 -13 -13 1.86 1.77 .980 2.09 2.07 AS,MVP-22
2004 FLA NL 21 LF 59 58 53 504.0 100 92 6 2 0 .980 -0 6 -0 14 1.75 1.66 .980 1.85 1.84 AS,MVP-22
2004 FLA NL 21 DH 1 1 AS,MVP-22
2005 FLA NL 22 LF 134 128 102 1105.2 205 188 12 5 3 .976 -11 -4 -12 -4 1.63 1.49 .984 1.94 1.92 AS,MVP-5,SS
2005 FLA NL 22 OF 134 128 102 1105.2 205 188 12 5 3 .976 -11 -4 -12 -4 1.63 1.49 .984 2.19 2.16 AS,MVP-5,SS
2005 FLA NL 22 3B 29 28 20 238.0 70 22 46 2 5 .971 -1 0 -7 0 2.57 2.34 .958 2.77 2.74 AS,MVP-5,SS
2006 FLA NL 23 3B 157 157 134 1334.0 397 114 266 17 33 .957 -6 -10 -5 -9 2.56 2.42 .954 2.70 2.68 AS,MVP-5,SS
2006 FLA NL 23 DH 1 1 AS,MVP-5,SS
2007 FLA NL 24 3B 153 152 134 1310.2 389 100 266 23 33 .941 -11 -19 -10 -17 2.51 2.39 .954 2.68 2.67 AS,MVP-15
2007 FLA NL 24 DH 3 3 AS,MVP-15
2008 DET AL 25 1B 143 139 122 1204.0 1199 1117 73 9 116 .992 1 -7 1 -7 8.90 8.32 .994 9.26 9.18 MVP-13
2008 DET AL 25 3B 14 14 10 116.0 50 15 30 5 4 .900 -3 -3 -31 -30 3.49 3.21 .958 2.74 2.71 MVP-13
2008 DET AL 25 DH 6 6 MVP-13
2009 DET AL 26 1B 153 153 135 1315.0 1327 1215 105 7 128 .995 -2 -1 -2 -1 9.03 8.63 .994 9.13 9.02 MVP-4
2009 DET AL 26 DH 6 6 MVP-4
2010 DET AL 27 1B 148 148 132 1285.1 1327 1218 96 13 133 .990 -3 -5 -3 -5 9.20 8.88 .994 9.32 9.23 AS,MVP-2,SS
2010 DET AL 27 DH 2 2 AS,MVP-2,SS
2011 DET AL 28 1B 152 152 138 1322.0 1379 1263 103 13 117 .991 -8 -3 -7 -3 9.30 8.99 .993 9.30 9.24 AS,MVP-5
2011 DET AL 28 DH 7 7 AS,MVP-5
2012 DET AL 29 3B 154 154 142 1322.0 383 127 243 13 31 .966 -9 -4 -9 -4 2.52 2.40 .952 2.60 2.59 AS,MVP-1,SS
2012 DET AL 29 DH 7 7 AS,MVP-1,SS
2012 DET AL 29 1B 2 0 0 3.0 4 4 0 0 1 1.000 0 0 0 0 12.00 2.00 .995 9.30 9.20 AS,MVP-1,SS
2013 DET AL 30 3B 41 41 37 370.2 83 25 55 3 8 .964 -7 -5 -23 -16 1.94 1.95 .960 2.48 2.46
5 Seasons 1B 598 592 527 5129.1 5236 4817 377 42 495 .992 -11 -16 -3 -3 9.11 8.69 .994 9.25 9.17
7 Seasons 3B 582 576 507 4966.1 1443 420 959 64 116 .956 -36 -44 -9 -10 2.50 2.37 .954 2.66 2.64
3 Seasons OF 347 341 288 2946.2 596 549 30 17 5 .971 -26 -6 -10 -2 1.77 1.67 .983 2.17 2.15
3 Seasons LF 248 241 206 2090.2 412 379 23 10 4 .976 -16 3 -9 1 1.73 1.62 .982 1.91 1.89
1 Season RF 100 100 82 856.0 184 170 7 7 1 .962 -9 -9 -13 -12 1.86 1.77 .980 2.09 2.07
11 Seasons TOT 1527 1509 1322 13042.1 7275 5786 1366 123 616 .983 -72 -66 -7 -6 4.94 4.68 .985 5.14 5.09
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rdrs Rtot/yr Rdrs/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.
  • Pre-1945 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1945 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1945 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
  • CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1916 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1945 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1916) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
  • Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1945 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Sabermetric Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP
2003 FLA NL 20 LF -5 -12 -6 -0 -6 1 1 2 -4 5
2003 FLA NL 20 3B 2 7 2 -0 2 0 -3 -13 -2 -1
2004 FLA NL 21 RF -9 -13 -7 -5 -2 -2 -9 -13 -5 -2
2004 FLA NL 21 LF -0 -0 -3 0 -3 3 6 14 3 3
2005 FLA NL 22 LF -11 -12 -16 -13 -3 5 -4 -4 -15 9
2005 FLA NL 22 3B -1 -7 -1 1 -3 0 0 0 -1 0
2006 FLA NL 23 3B -6 -5 -6 0 -6 0 -10 -9 -9 -1
2007 FLA NL 24 3B -11 -10 -12 -3 -9 1 -19 -17 -18 0
2008 DET AL 25 1B 1 1 1 3 -2 0 -7 -7 -4 0
2008 DET AL 25 3B -3 -31 -3 -2 -1 0 -3 -30 -3 0
2009 DET AL 26 1B -2 -2 -2 3 -4 0 -1 -1 1 0 -1
2010 DET AL 27 1B -3 -3 -3 -4 1 0 -5 -5 -4 0 -1
2011 DET AL 28 1B -8 -7 -9 -8 -0 1 -3 -3 -5 1 -1
2012 DET AL 29 3B -9 -9 -9 -10 1 -4 -4 -8 2 0
2012 DET AL 29 1B 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2013 DET AL 30 3B -7 -23 -7 -3 -4 -5 -16 -5 0 0
5 Seasons 1B -11 -3 -12 -6 -6 1 -16 -3 -12 1 -3
7 Seasons 3B -36 -9 -37 -16 -21 1 -44 -10 -46 2 -2
3 Seasons LF -16 -9 -25 -13 -12 9 3 1 -16 17
1 Season RF -9 -13 -7 -5 -2 -2 -9 -12 -5 -2
11 Seasons TOT -72 -7 -81 -41 -41 2 7 -66 -6 -79 3 -5 15

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
2003 FLA NL 20 87 85 87 86 0 0 0 0 34 0 55 0 0 55 0 1 1
2004 FLA NL 21 160 159 160 158 0 0 0 0 0 0 59 0 100 159 1 1 0
2005 FLA NL 22 158 157 158 156 0 0 0 0 29 0 134 0 0 134 0 1 0
2006 FLA NL 23 158 158 158 157 0 0 0 0 157 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
2007 FLA NL 24 157 156 157 153 0 0 0 0 153 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0
2008 DET AL 25 160 159 160 153 0 0 143 0 14 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 0
2009 DET AL 26 160 159 160 153 0 0 153 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 1 0
2010 DET AL 27 150 150 150 148 0 0 148 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
2011 DET AL 28 161 159 161 152 0 0 152 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 2 0
2012 DET AL 29 161 161 161 154 0 0 2 0 154 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0
2013 DET AL 30 41 41 41 41 0 0 0 0 41 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 Seasons 1553 1544 1553 1511 0 0 598 0 582 0 248 0 100 348 33 8 1
Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1916 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

Advanced Fielding -- 1B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag 3U Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 363 361 36 GB GBs LD LDs LDf bFld bF2O%
2008 DET AL 25 5332 57% 77% 30% 238 92% 2 1117 59 1031 29 99 73 52 10 2 6 9 1 8 0 7 116 1 3 2 112 6 4 1 3 3 67%
2009 DET AL 26 5687 50% 76% 31% 307 93% 5 1215 78 1112 25 112 105 65 30 5 3 7 1 1 5 2 128 2 5 0 125 10 3 1 2 10 70%
2010 DET AL 27 5544 51% 77% 31% 301 90% 6 1218 79 1119 21 108 96 58 23 2 6 13 4 8 1 4 133 3 5 1 125 10 7 2 5 13 77%
2011 DET AL 28 5605 49% 77% 33% 273 90% 1 1263 69 1156 34 98 103 53 25 5 7 13 2 9 2 7 117 5 5 3 108 15 8 4 4 11 55%
2012 DET AL 29 13 46% 77% 46% 0 0 4 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
5 Seasons 22181 52% 77% 31% 1119 92% 14 4817 285 4422 109 417 377 228 88 14 22 42 8 26 8 20 495 11 18 6 471 41 22 8 14 37 68%
MLB Averages 58% 76% 32% 94% 83%

Advanced Fielding -- 3B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 543 53 GB LD LDs LDf bFld bF2O%
2003 FLA NL 20 1172 68% 72% 29% 70 94% 1 17 13 1 3 53 45 6 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 3 67%
2005 FLA NL 22 1089 58% 74% 28% 71 92% 1 22 20 1 1 46 37 6 2 2 2 0 1 1 2 5 1 1 4 1 0 1 5 100%
2006 FLA NL 23 5852 61% 74% 30% 401 87% 1 114 80 17 17 266 208 51 2 7 17 0 6 11 14 33 25 2 31 1 1 0 17 59%
2007 FLA NL 24 5924 63% 75% 29% 384 86% 4 100 67 17 16 266 207 49 3 6 23 0 14 9 20 33 24 3 27 6 5 1 25 84%
2008 DET AL 25 522 64% 74% 31% 44 84% 0 15 11 3 1 30 19 8 0 2 5 0 1 4 4 4 0 0 3 1 0 1 1 0%
2012 DET AL 29 5606 49% 75% 30% 396 86% 4 127 105 4 18 243 187 46 4 7 13 0 5 8 8 31 22 2 29 2 1 1 25 56%
2013 DET AL 30 1541 49% 69% 30% 93 82% 0 25 22 1 3 55 35 19 0 2 3 0 1 2 2 8 8 0 8 0 0 0 4 75%
7 Seasons 21706 58% 74% 30% 1459 87% 11 420 318 44 59 959 738 185 11 27 64 0 28 36 51 116 82 8 104 11 7 4 80 69%
MLB Averages 58% 76% 32% 87% 66%

Advanced Fielding -- LF*

Errors Assists Single w/ Runner on 1st Single w/ Runner on 2nd Double w/ Runner on 1st Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd Baserunning Totals
Year Tm Lg Age Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 1B 2B 3B Hm Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Held% Adv Kill Kill% Aother PA RHB% BIP% FBIP% Fld F2O%
2003 FLA NL 20 3 0 3 0 3 5 0 0 0 5 27 21 0 20 9 4 11 7 0 8 1 1 13 11 0 79 49 62.0% 25 5 6.3% 0 2038 66% 76% 41% 247 42%
2004 FLA NL 21 2 0 1 1 1 6 0 3 2 1 23 19 1 13 7 1 5 2 0 3 1 0 4 4 0 48 33 68.8% 13 2 4.2% 4 2108 55% 76% 39% 220 45%
2005 FLA NL 22 5 0 4 1 1 12 0 4 1 5 55 46 2 51 23 4 23 16 0 17 4 1 23 21 1 169 110 65.1% 51 8 4.7% 4 4746 58% 75% 37% 482 41%
3 Seasons 10 0 8 2 5 23 0 7 3 11 105 86 3 84 39 9 39 25 0 28 6 2 40 36 1 296 192 64.9% 89 15 5.1% 8 8892 59% 76% 39% 949 42%
MLB Averages 63.8% 2.3% 58% 76% 40% 46%

Advanced Fielding -- RF*

Errors Assists Single w/ Runner on 1st Single w/ Runner on 2nd Double w/ Runner on 1st Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd Baserunning Totals
Year Tm Lg Age Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 1B 2B 3B Hm Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Kill Opp Held Held% Adv Kill Kill% Aother PA RHB% BIP% FBIP% Fld F2O%
2004 FLA NL 21 7 0 7 0 2 7 0 3 0 3 45 19 0 35 10 1 10 5 1 10 1 0 12 9 0 112 44 39.3% 66 2 1.8% 5 3670 60% 75% 39% 382 46%
1 Season 7 0 7 0 2 7 0 3 0 3 45 19 0 35 10 1 10 5 1 10 1 0 12 9 0 112 44 39.3% 66 2 1.8% 5 3670 60% 75% 39% 382 46%
MLB Averages 46.7% 2.3% 58% 76% 40% 50%

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1916 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games
2004 *
2005 *
2006 *
2007 *
2010 (1B)
2011 *
2012 *

Awards (yr lg award)
2011 AL batting_title
2012 AL batting_title
2012 AL Hank Aaron Award
2012 ML Major League Player of the Year
2012 AL MVP
2012 AL Triple Crown

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
2003 NL (27, 1%)
2004 NL (22, 1%)
2005 NL (5, 33%)
2006 NL (5, 38%)
2007 NL (15, 4%)
2008 AL (13, 4%)
2009 AL (4, 44%)
2010 AL (2, 67%)
2011 AL (5, 49%)
2012 AL (1, 92%)
1 MVP
3.33 Career Shares (22nd)

Silver Sluggers
2005 NL (OF)
2006 NL (3B)
2010 AL (1B)
2012 AL (3B)
All multiple winners

Putouts† s c a p y
2008 AL  1,132 (3rd)
2009 AL  1,215 (3rd)
2010 AL  1,218 (4th)
2011 AL  1,263 (2nd)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
2007 NL  23 (3rd)
Active  123 (21st)

Def. Games as 1B s c a p y
2008 AL  143 (3rd)
2009 AL  153 (1st)
2010 AL  148 (4th)
2011 AL  152 (2nd)
Active  598 (18th)

Putouts as 1B s c a p y
2008 AL  1,117 (3rd)
2009 AL  1,215 (3rd)
2010 AL  1,218 (4th)
2011 AL  1,263 (2nd)
Active  4,817 (17th)

Assists as 1B s c a p y
2009 AL  105 (1st)
2010 AL  96 (2nd)
2011 AL  103 (2nd)
Active  377 (18th)

Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y
2008 AL  9 (2nd)
2009 AL  7 (5th)
2010 AL  13 (1st)
2011 AL  13 (1st)
Active  42 (14th)

Double Plays Turned as 1B s c a p y
2009 AL  128 (2nd)
2010 AL  133 (3rd)
2011 AL  117 (1st)
Active  495 (17th)

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
2006 NL  157 (2nd)
2007 NL  153 (4th)
2012 AL  154 (1st)
2013 AL  41 (5th)
Active  582 (13th)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
2006 NL  114 (3rd)
2007 NL  100 (4th)
2012 AL  127 (1st)
Active  420 (11th)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
2007 NL  266 (4th)
2012 AL  243 (3rd)
Active  959 (13th)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
2007 NL  23 (2nd)
2012 AL  13 (4th)
Active  64 (11th)

Double Plays Turned as 3B s c a p y
2006 NL  33 (2nd)
2007 NL  33 (3rd)
2012 AL  31 (2nd)
2013 AL  8 (5th)
Active  116 (11th)

Assists as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
2005 NL  12 (2nd)
Active  23 (14th)

Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
2005 NL  5 (4th)
Active  10 (19th)

Double Plays Turned as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
2005 NL  3 (1st)
Active  4 (17th)

Errors Committed as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
2004 NL  7 (1st)

Def. Games as OF s c a p y
2004 NL  158 (4th)

Assists as OF s c a p y
2004 NL  13 (3rd)
2005 NL  12 (3rd)

Errors Committed as OF s c a p y
2004 NL  9 (1st)

Double Plays Turned as OF s c a p y
2005 NL  3 (4th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 1B† s c a p y
Active  9.11 (17th)

Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y
Active  8.69 (12th)

Fielding % as 1B s c a p y
2009 AL  .995 (5th)
Active  .992 (16th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 3B† s c a p y
Active  2.50 (11th)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
2012 AL  2.40 (5th)
Active  2.37 (10th)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
2006 NL  .957 (5th)
2012 AL  .966 (3rd)
Active  .956 (9th)

Salary s c a p y
2010 AL  $20,000,000 (5th)
2010 AL  $20,000,000 (5th)
2011 AL  $20,000,000 (6th)
2011 AL  $20,000,000 (6th)
2013 AL  $21,000,000 (6th)
2013 AL  $21,000,000 (6th)

Youngest s c a p y
2003 NL  born 1983-04-18 (3rd)
2003 NL  born 1983-04-18 (3rd)
2004 NL  born 1983-04-18 (3rd)
2004 NL  born 1983-04-18 (3rd)

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