Miggy has 32 million reasons not to retire right now.

My beloved Detroit Tigers should just give Miggy the $32 mil now and buy out the last year of his contract. The contract is guaranteed, so Miggy will get his cash whether he is slap-hitting singles for Detroit or he is home eating donuts and Doritos after the team releases him next year. Just buy him out, have him sit the rest of August to heal up some, and run the last month of the season as the Miguel Cabrera Farewell program where Miggy gets at least one at bat per game so the fans can say goodbye.

They should be able to pay him $28M to end the contract, given currrmt inflation based NPV and his likely desire not to have to rehab again.

I have no problem with any player wanting to play for as long as he possibly can.

Why don't they put Cabrera in a Pujols-like role where he only plays against lefties, gets to pinch hit once a game? Why roll
Him out there full time when he's terrible ?

Even Manfred thought he should retire and put him in this years ASG

As late as July 9th, Cabrera was still batting .300 on the season – without much authority, but still far from Canovian.

Since then, .145. You'd figure that to be the final slump of Cabrera's career.

Albert's trying to go out on a high note as his OPS+ remains a smidgen above 100 -- he hasn't finished this high since 2016. Plenty of time for that to come down unfortunately.

It looked for a while there that Nelson Cruz had bounced back and then some -- from May 6 through June 13, he hit 367/437/567 with 5 HR and 24 RBI in 33 games. Unfortunately since then it's been 173/272/237 with 1 HR in 158 PA and his seasonal production is down to a 93 OPS+.

Votto's doing a bit better -- in his first 3 weeks back from covid, he hit 313/432/703 with 5 HR in 81 PA; since then it's been 235/331/407 which is not terrible in today's game, around a 96 OPS+, with a reasonable 6 HR in 166 PA. He's owed 1/$32.

Canovia sounds like a made-up Latin country from a bad action movie.

Why don't they put Cabrera in a Pujols-like role where he only plays against lefties, gets to pinch hit once a game? Why roll
Him out there full time when he's terrible ?

Because what do they have to lose? They're a terrible team. Why not play the face of the franchise?

To add to #8 - the Tigers' cleanup hitter yesterday was Harold Castro. There is nothing of substance lost if AJ decides to play Cabrera, Lou, Tram, and Gibby (Parkinson's and all) 100 times next year.