Listen for a few moments to Mike Rabelo rhapsodize about his center fielder, Daz Cameron, and you wonder if he’s talking about a baseball player or about a guy he’s promoting for Citizen of the Year.
“This kid is just a beauty,” said Rabelo, the one-time Tigers catcher who, of course, 11 years ago was part of Detroit’s trade offer that brought Miguel Cabrera to Detroit. “No manager would not want to manage Daz Cameron. Put it this way: You’d want 25 Daz Camerons on your team.”
Rabelo now skipper at Single-A Lakeland and on Saturday was sizing up a 21-year-old, right-handed batter who was hitting .