Miguel Cabrera

[T.G.]

Forget PEDS, has Cabrera been tested for bionic parts?

[full circle]

So in 4 games he has as many homers as outs made.  

 

That's pretty good.  

[AZMike]

So in 4 games he has as many homers as outs made.  

 

That's pretty good.  

sounds like a bad Blantana game

[vlad27]

His consistency over the years is also special. Excluding the 2010 season, when he played in 'only' 150 games, he has averaged 159 games/year since 2004.

He's a free agent in 2016 and will be 33 years old.

10 year deal ?

[Mark68]

Let me get this straight, to get Cabrera, we would have had to trade: one of two pitchers (or both) who are no longer Angels, a pitching prospect who would still be alive, an infield prospect who is no longer in the game, and a catcher who is no longer an Angel?

 

Or another combination of some of the above with one of our middle infielders, who would eventually have been replaced by Maicer Izturis (who probably would have been re-signed)?

 

And this DIDN'T get done?

 

****ing Reagins. Honestly.

[rageous]

Crazy thing is that in retrospect if that trade gets made Adenhart would still be alive.

[Angels Never Die]

It's so sad, because in hindsight, I'd trade every single player mentioned during the Cabrera trade talks for him.

[dimitrig]

It's so sad, because in hindsight, I'd trade every single player mentioned during the Cabrera trade talks for him.

 

Most of us wanted to do the trade, but quite a few people said he was fat and played bad defense.

[arch stanton]

I was all for trading whoever for Cabrera. He and Vlad would have been awesome. 

 

Cabrera is easily the best player in the game when he's in the batter's box. Otherwise, he's mediocre at best. That said, his bat makes up for everything else and then some. 

[fan_since79]

Most of us wanted to do the trade, but quite a few people said he was fat and played bad defense.

Babe Ruth was fat and played mediocre defense.

[DW711]

Normally I don't really care about non halo players, but what he's doing is pretty impressive

 

last 4 games 9-15, 6hrs 13rbi, 5 walks.  yeesh. 

 

I'll never like him..but's having the best season of anyone so far (offensively, at least).

 

Chris Davis is pressing him some, though.

[Ray McKigney]

He's never proven he can stretch out these kind of numbers over a full season.

[AZMike]

He's never proven he can stretch out these kind of numbers over a full season.

do you mean Cabrera or Chris Davis? Hard to complain about Cabrera's numbers last season.

[Ray McKigney]

do you mean Cabrera or Chris Davis? Hard to complain about Cabrera's numbers last season.

 

I meant Cabrera, but I was joking. The guy's on another level the last couple of years.

 

 

Edit: We need the "sarcasm on" emoticon that we had on the last board.

[TroutField]

Back when that deal was going to be made Kendrick and Wood were both our future for the infield along with Aybar, that's back when we thought Wood was going to be the next Glaus and Kendrick was going to win batting titles. That's like making a trade today for a really good, young hitter but giving up your 4 best prospects. Those trades are hard to do. Of course looking back on it we wish it would have gone down. I wish the Haren trade didn't happen, the Pujols and Hamilton signings never happened, us to have signed Matt Harvey when we drafted him etc, etc....hindsight is always 20/20

[Ray McKigney]

Back when that deal was going to be made Kendrick and Wood were both our future for the infield along with Aybar, that's back when we thought Wood was going to be the next Glaus and Kendrick was going to win batting titles. That's like making a trade today for a really good, young hitter but giving up your 4 best prospects. Those trades are hard to do. Of course looking back on it we wish it would have gone down. I wish the Haren trade didn't happen, the Pujols and Hamilton signings never happened, us to have signed Matt Harvey when we drafted him etc, etc....hindsight is always 20/20

 

My brother and I discussed this today and he said the same thing. If we had traded away Wood, Kendrick and Adenhart at that time then fans would have gone completely ballistic. Sounds like a no-brainer in retrospect, but at the time it seemed like it would have been suicide.

[ten ocho recon scout]

One thing to keep in mind in failing to trade for cabrerra is that he was also a pending free agent. Yes, detroit ended up locking him up (quickly), but at the time it looked like a very steep price for someone who could walk in a year.

Consider how many of us are pissed at corbin and skaggs for haren, or segura for grienke. If Haren was still here and was vintage Haren, we'd be fine with it. If Grienke stayed we'd be good. But if we lost santana, howie and whoever and cabrera left...

Hindsight is always 20/20. Cabrera (even back then) was one of those players that you are willing to give up a lot for. But the price and the free agency variable makes it easy to understand why the FO was hesitant. I may be confusing that rumor with someone else, but wasn't there some prelim deal already in place, and the marlins changed their mind and asked for more, and arte got pissed and walked away?