Miggy Reaches a Milestone

⚾ The Detroit Tigers’ Miguel Cabrera made history on Saturday, becoming the first Venezuelan-born player in MLB history to reach 3,000 hits.

• Cabby is the 33rd player to ever reach that plateau, and just the seventh player in history to achieve both 3,000 hits and 500 home runs.
• Miggy was 20 years old when he made his major league debut with the Marlins in 2003, helping them win the World Series that year; Cabrera’s lifetime .310 batting average over his 20-year career is tops among all active MLB players.
• In 2012, he won the Triple Crown (leading the American League in batting average, home runs and RBIs), the first time anyone had achieved the feat in 45 years.

👀 Looking ahead... New members have joined the 3,000-hit club roughly once every four years dating back to the 1970s, but don’t expect to see another induction anytime soon. After Cabrera, there are only three active players within 1,000 hits of the milestone – and they’re all over the age of 38.

+Over to Japan: 20-year-old right hander Roki Sasaki's record streak of 52 consecutive batters retired – 17+ perfect innings – ended on the first pitch of his appearance yesterday.