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Big Fish

By Jorge Arangure Jr.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

It's not hard to argue that Miguel Cabrera is baseball's best young hitter. With a .324 batting average and 18 homers at the All-Star break, the 24-year-old Cabrera is more than living up to the promise the Marlins saw when they paid him $1.8 million for his signature eight years ago after a fabled tryout on a dusty field in Maracay, Venezuela. Even now, in his fifth big league season, Cabrera is five days younger than the National League's hottest rookie, Houston's Hunter Pence. Life is good. ...

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