Talk:Miguel Cabrera

Major clean-up needed
This page reads like it was written by a 4 year old who doesnt know crap about sports. id clean it up, but i dont have time. not to mention theres quite a bit of pov in here as well. 69.119.143.219 01:08, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I just did a lot of work on it; I hope this helps. The personal life section still needs more information, but I fixed a lot of grammar and put all of the baseball "Facts" into the writeups on each season. --Idont Havaname (Talk) 03:24, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Girardi Quote
Anyone else think that quote seems a little out of place in the intro paragraph? It's his former manager from his former team; maybe it should go somewhere in the Marlins section. Thoughts? --TrafficHaze (talk) 02:35, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

A minor point
"he had a blood alcohol level of .26, three times the legal limit". As far as I know, there is no legal limit inside of one's one home. Is this three times the limit for DUI, public intoxication, or something else? And if that's the case, should we modify it to say so, or is this ambiguity acceptable in the service of conciseness? Stilgar135 (talk) 23:19, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

This page is incredibly editorialized and poorly written
Cabrera is putting up statistics comparable to Hank Aaron and Ken Griffey, Jr. at age 28,[2] and is considered one of the best hitters in baseball today. He is a very intimidating hitter, as he consistently hits the best pitchers in baseball. Dan Haren is quoted as saying, "You're going to make good pitches, and he's going to hit them."[3]

Needs to be rephrased, and probably doesn't go in the lead section of the page.

"Miguel began to rise through the Marlins' farm system teaming with future major leaguers Adrian Gonzalez and Dontrelle Willis. He began his professional career as a six-foot-two-inch 185 pound shortstop in the Gulf Coast League. Although he had below average speed, he had a rocket arm, above average plate discipline, and a thorough knowledge of the game. After batting .260 with 10 doubles, 2 triples and 2 home runs through 57 games, Cabrera was promoted to Class-A ball where he finished the final 8 games batting .250 with 6 RBIs."

...How do you define these things - rocket arm? Above average plate discipline? Unless you provide evidence to that effect, these are just unfounded statements that don't really belong here.

" There he teamed up with Dontrelle Willis, the left-handed fireballer with whom he would later join in the majors. In his fourth professional season, Miguel was shredding up the competition."

This page just doesn't read like it belongs in an encyclopedia. It's a lack of professionalism and a lot of editorializing.

108.216.152.226 (talk) 12:39, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Miguel Quotes? Really?
Is that section really necessary/relevant? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.103.167.20 (talk) 15:47, 27 March 2012 (UTC) \

Why does it say Miguel Cabrera is cool?
Is that necessary/relevant?

Disputed content
The content added by this edit has been removed and re-added several times. Perhaps it would be constructive to have a discussion to determine if it does or does not belong. Automatic Strikeout  02:39, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
 * A Venezuelan Winter League team does not belong in the infobox. – Muboshgu (talk) 03:13, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

Legal Matters
"It was reported that the Tigers' 2012 post-division-clinching celebration held in the clubhouse in Kansas City was not attended by Cabrera, who desired to abstain from the festivities, even though the dousing "champagne" was non-alcoholic.[71]"

This is a personal preference, not a legal matter. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.70.36.11 (talk) 01:50, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

It's related to the content before it within that section. There is no better place to put it, most likely. - Hoops gza (talk) 23:06, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

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Reverted Edit
Go to 2018. Where it says...He finished the 2018 season with a .301 batting average....I changed to .299 but my edit wasn't accepted. The inline sources did not count his last game. Baseball Reference is up to date and says .299. So does ESPN and MLB. These sources should be used and the inline sources deleted. Thank you for your time.2601:581:8500:949C:38EA:AE57:3D7A:612B (talk) 01:29, 26 June 2018 (UTC) Was done. Thanks.2601:581:8500:949C:F94A:A139:7F5B:817B (talk) 13:56, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

Claim of redundancy.
An editor made a claim here that it was "Repetitive" to indicate that a player led the Major Leagues in statistics. Suggesting by their edit that leading the Major Leagues in a category was equal to leading one of the leagues of the Major Leagues (there are both a National League and an American League). It's not. That's very basic. I'm making note of this here. I find the editor's revert to be stunningly incorrect-for an editor who edits baseball articles, it's hard to understand how they made this good faith mistake. --2604:2000:E010:1100:ECD9:58C:F10E:BE57 (talk) 23:53, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Meh, I'm not exactly stunned that this would happen. Any editor could misread an edit or two, especially during the holiday season, as a lot of us are surrounded by distractions. It looks like you have fixed the issue. Larry Hockett (Talk) 00:08, 2 January 2019 (UTC)

"MIGY" listed at Redirects for discussion
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect MIGY. The discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 September 10 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Clarityfiend (talk) 13:13, 10 September 2021 (UTC)