Miguel Cabrera Might Be The Fastest Man Alive

Miguel Cabrera is a legend in the game of baseball. Can we all agree on that? Is there anyone with relative intelligence who wants to argue that Miggy isn't one of the best of this generation? I don't think there is. Don't get me wrong, I could've done without the last five years of Miguel Cabrera. He's been a zero and or negative WAR player for the last half-decade, but we're talking about a guy who has hit 500+ home runs. He's a player who's about to get hit #3000. He's a first-ballot Hall of Famer, and he's a Tigers legend. But there is one thing about Miguel Cabrera throughout his entire career that I have not been able to stand. I hate the fact that he constantly gets thrown out at home. He has lost his team multiple playoff games (mainly game 5 of the 2013 ALCS and game 2 of the 2014 ALDS) in which he ran through stop signs and got thrown out at the plate. I can't stand that shit, but tonight it paid off. 

In the second inning, after Harold Castro hit a fly ball to Andrew Benintendi for the first out of the inning, Miggy decided to sprint home and made it in safely, thanks to what was admittedly a nice slide to beat Salvador Pérez's tag. And he topped it off with a Conor McGregor strut to boot. After the game, we'll find out whether or not this was an intentional send by third base coach Ramon Santiago or if Cabrera decided to go on his own. I am tempted to believe that Santiago, with only one out in the second inning of a ball game, wouldn't have sent one of the slowest players in baseball home on a pretty shallow fly ball, but it ended up working either way. It was never in doubt. I understand Cabrera is a shell of himself at this point, and even using that terminology may be generous, but he's still one of the all-time greats, and Detroit won't have him for much longer. Good work, Miggy. Let's go win a ballgame.