Career timeline: Miguel Cabrera

April 18, 1983

July 2, 1999

June 20, 2003

This browser does not support the video element. Just a few weeks past his 20th birthday, Miggy makes his Major League debut with an 11th-inning walk-off home run June 20, 2003

Oct. 22, 2003

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June 22, 2006

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Dec. 4, 2007

See Tigers' biggest trades

Oct. 3, 2012

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May 19, 2013

This browser does not support the video element. Not one, not two, but three homers for Miggy on a Sunday night in Texas, the second three-homer game of his career May 19, 2013

Aug. 9, 2013

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June 23, 2013

This browser does not support the video element. Miggy��s personality is as big as his stats, as this young fan in Cleveland learned when he got more than a reaction from the batting champ June 23, 2015 Enjoy more Miggy tales

Aug. 22, 2021

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April 23, 2022

This browser does not support the video element. Just seven players in MLB history have 3,000 hits and 500 home runs. Miguel Cabrera joins them with his single against Colorado April 27, 2022 Relive the moment

Career timeline: Miguel Cabrera

April 18, 1983

Jose Miguel Cabrera is born in Maracay, Venezuela. His mother, Gregoria Torres, was a power hitter on Venezuela��s national women��s softball team

July 2, 1999

The Marlins beat out the Yankees, Red Sox and Dodgers to sign the 16-year-old Cabrera for a $1.8 million bonus

June 20, 2003

Oct. 22, 2003

Cabrera, still just 20 years old, helped the Marlins to the World Series, where he showed Roger Clemens in Game 3 that he isn��t intimidated by anyone

June 22, 2006

The Orioles tried to intentionally walk Cabrera with first base open and the go-ahead run on second, but ��ball one�� was in Miggy��s hitting zone

Dec. 4, 2007

Tigers GM Dave Dombrowski -- the Marlins GM when they signed Cabrera eight years earlier -- stuns baseball��s Winter Meetings by trading six players, including Andrew Miller and Cameron Maybin, for Cabrera and Dontrelle Willis

Oct. 3, 2012

No hitter in 45 years had won a Triple Crown, leading a league in batting average, home runs and RBIs. Cabrera got it done on the way to leading the Tigers to a World Series

May 19, 2013

Aug. 9, 2013

Mariano Rivera is the greatest closer in baseball history, but he can��t finish off Miggy in this incredible at-bat

June 23, 2013

Aug. 22, 2021

Miggy joins the 500-homer club with this drive in Toronto, where Blue Jays fans gave him a standing ovation

April 23, 2022