MLB: Tigers waiting for Miquel Cabrera to bust out

Uhh…Not from that Gypsona-flaking full body cast he seems to be running in…Hghly unlikely!

So what does Tigers manager Jim Leyland think about Cabrera these days?

“I think he’s going to relax here shortly and go on a tear is what I think,” Leyland said. “I think he’s getting ready, close, and I don’t know if I’m right or not, but I just kind of smell like he’s getting close to going on a tear.”

“I’ve seen it happen before, where guys go to new teams and sign big contracts and they put a little pressure on themselves for a while,” Leyland said. “I can understand that. Cabrera wants to compete. He knows he was signed to be ‘the guy,’ but sometimes, you got to let that play out a little bit and not get too excited. Sometimes, guys want to live up to their entire contract in two weeks or one week, and that’s not going to happen.”

...“I think Miguel Cabrera will be the first baseman for the Tigers for a long time,” Leyland said. “I think he’ll be a great first baseman and very productive. If he’s not, that means everybody in baseball is wrong. Everybody in baseball that I’ve talked to says he’s one of the top five, premier offensive forces in baseball—not just people with the Tigers, everybody in baseball. It’s not like they’re speculating. They can read the numbers.