Miguel Cabrera week continues as multiple sites have spent several days chatting about what got Miggy to the tremendous 500 home run mark, with 3,000 hits just around the corner.
Obviously while the home run was hit on Sunday, it has been a massive topic of conversation among baseball writers for the early part of the week, so what better place to start our links?
- For the Washington Post, Barry Svrluga argues that baseball has always been a number games, and analytics just gives us a different way to assess milestones.
- For FanGraphs, I did a retrospective on the major home runs and moments of Cabrera’s career.