Miguel Cabrera Has A Ruptured Biceps Tendon And Will Undergo Season-Ending Surgery

This fuckin’ sucks on so many levels. If you’re a baseball fan, then you know that Miguel Cabrera is one of the best right-handed hitters of his generation. It’s him and Albert Pujols. Both haven’t exactly aged particularly well, but Cabrera just fell off a cliff last year. He went from a .956 OPS in 2016 to a .728 OPS last year, and many were speculating that 2017 was the beginning of the end for the legendary slugger.

When he was physically able to get out there, Cabrera was proving his doubters wrong in 2018, hitting .301 with an .845 OPS, but a biceps injury kept him out of the lineup for a few days from late April to early May, a hamstring injury landed him on the disabled list for about a month (May 4 to June 1), and now this — a torn biceps tendon that will require season-ending surgery.

It sucks for Tigers fans, because this is their guy. He’s THE guy. And it sucks big time for the Tigers organization because he is still owed $30 million this season, $30 million next season, $30 million in 2020 and 2021, and then it goes UP to $32 million in 2022 and 2023. He’ll be 40 years old in 2023, and, including this year, the six years and $184 million is all guaranteed. What a disaster of a contract. This is the type of contract that cripples most organizations, and I’d imagine that it will loom over the Tigers like a dark cloud as Cabrera goes into his late 30’s.

But that’s not the point of this. We obviously wish Miggy well, and hope that he’s healthy enough to return next year and perform at a high level over a full season. It just doesn’t seem like his body is going to allow that to happen, and that really sucks.