After a three-hit night on Wedneday, Miguel Cabrera is on the cusp of history heading into Thursday’s series finale against the Yankees.
Sitting on 2,999 career hits, Cabrera has a chance to reach his career milestone against the team he helped torment in the 2003 World Series as a member of the Marlins, and a chance to once again stick it to a team that once told him he would only make it to the big leagues as a pitcher.
Speaking with reporters before Thursday’s matinee, Cabrera said that a Yankees scout told him he had no chance of making the majors unless he focused on being a pitcher.
“A scout from the Yankees told me, ‘If you make it, it’s going to be as a pitcher,’” Cabrera said, via Evan Woodbery of MLive Media Group. “He got fired.”
It certainly was a bad miss on that scout’s part, as Cabrera has smacked over 500 home runs and is now about to reach 3,000 hits in what is certainly a Hall of Fame career. One of the best righty hitters of his generation, Cabrera certainly made the right choice in not listening to that scout.
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