Reaction to the Cabrera deal

The deal to keep Miguel Cabrera in Detroit through 2015 and give him one of the largest contracts in MLB history is not yet official. But that doesn’t mean people will wait to start talking about it. Here’s a roundup from some of baseball’s thinks and fans alike. Mitch Lichtman, one author of The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball, reacted early  on in the Baseball Musings comments . Just because that is what he MIGHT get, does not mean he is WORTH that. Whether a signing was good or bad should be based on what a player is worth, NOT what he is perceived as being worth by other teams. If a player is overrated, based on what he would likely get as a FA, and a team signs him for that, or even less, then it just means that that team overrated the player also - and consequently it was NOT a good deal. Cabrera is overrated because of his poor defense (even though, unlike a player like Jeter, it is well-known that his defense is poor), and the fact t...