Baseball season seems a long ways away here in Detroit, but pitchers and catchers are scheduled to report to Lakeland in just two days. Miguel Cabrera, however, is already there.
Detroit News: Pitchers and catchers will christen spring camp when they report Thursday and begin workouts Friday. Cabrera is simply getting a jump on camp’s formal events. He will hit for a couple of days in a batting cage adjacent to the Tigers clubhouse.
He will drive to his Miami home later this week, then head north on the Florida Turnpike sometime Sunday, ahead of the next day’s official sign-in.
Cabrera won his second-straight MVP award and third straight A.L. batting title in 2013, but faded down the stretch after suffering an abdominal tear. Off-season surgery was successful and Cabrera is fully healed for the 2014 campaign.
