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Miguel Cabrera

Detroit Tigers American League CentralDH

Age: 40
B/T: R/R
Height: 6' 4"
Weight: 267 lb
Number: #24

Born: April 18, 1983 in Maracay, Venezuela
MLB debut: June 20, 2003

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dbWAR: 71.8
PA: 370
AVG: .257
OBP: .322
SLG: .353
wRC+: 84

Miguel Cabrera was a designated hitter for the Detroit Tigers. In 2023 he hit 4 home runs and knocked in 34 RBIs, notching 86 hits across 370 plate appearances in 98 games. His batting average was .257, 3.7% higher than the league average of .248. He reached base at a .322 clip and slugged .353, for an OPS of .675, 8.1% lower than the league mark of .734 — 9th of 16 on his team, and 303rd of 461 among MLB batters with 100+ plate appearances. He averaged 89.1 mph off the bat, hit 37.6% of balls in play at 95 mph or better, barrelled 4.2% of them and made contact on 74.4% of his swings. Adjusted for his ballpark and league, his 84 wRC+ puts his offence 16% below average. That comes to -0.6 dbWAR — -5.9 runs with the bat, -0.7 for the ballpark, -0.7 on the bases, -2.0 on double plays, -8.1 for the position he plays, against replacement level. It includes no fielding: defensive runs are proprietary and are not estimated here, so the figure credits playing a demanding position but not playing it well.

League context

Percentile among qualified batters, 2023 regular season.

wRC+84

wOBA.301

ISO.096

BB%8.4%

WAR-.6

How the WAR is built

Runs above replacement, 2023. These terms sum to -5.8 runs, divided by runs-per-win to give WAR. There is no fielding term.

BattingBallparkBaserunningDouble playsPositionReplacement

WAR by season

Batting Regular season

Standard and advanced, by season. Regular-season games only — postseason games are listed separately below. Seasons on file run 2005–2023; his career began in 2003, and earlier seasons are not in this data yet.


2023	DET	98	370	86	4	34	0	31	74	.257	.322	.353	.096	.317	8.4%	20.0%	.301	-5.9	84	-0.6
2022	DET	112	433	101	5	43	1	28	101	.254	.305	.317	.063	.324	6.5%	23.3%	.276	-12.3	75	-1.2
2021	DET	130	526	121	15	75	0	40	118	.256	.316	.386	.129	.305	7.6%	22.4%	.307	-4.5	96	-0.4
2020	DET	57	231	51	10	35	1	24	51	.250	.329	.417	.167	.283	10.4%	22.1%	.324	+0.5	103	0.3
2019	DET	136	549	139	12	59	0	48	108	.282	.346	.398	.116	.336	8.7%	19.7%	.321	-0.8	96	-0.1
2018	DET	38	157	40	3	22	0	22	27	.299	.395	.448	.149	.352	14.0%	17.2%	.364	+5.9	134	0.7
2017	DET	130	529	117	16	60	0	54	110	.249	.329	.399	.149	.292	10.2%	20.8%	.316	-3.8	90	-0.1
2016	DET	158	679	188	38	108	0	75	116	.316	.393	.563	.247	.336	11.0%	17.1%	.403	+44.3	154	5.0
2015	DET	119	511	145	18	76	1	77	82	.338	.440	.534	.196	.384	15.1%	16.0%	.419	+41.1	177	4.8
2014	DET	159	685	191	25	109	1	60	117	.313	.371	.524	.211	.346	8.8%	17.1%	.388	+38.7	153	4.7
2013	DET	147	652	193	44	137	3	90	94	.348	.442	.636	.288	.356	13.8%	14.4%	.460	+71.3	192	9.7
2012	DET	161	697	205	44	139	4	66	98	.330	.393	.606	.277	.331	9.5%	14.1%	.424	+57.2	168	7.7
2011	DET	161	688	197	30	105	2	108	89	.344	.448	.586	.241	.365	15.7%	12.9%	.444	+65.5	182	7.4
2010	DET	150	648	180	38	126	3	89	95	.328	.420	.622	.294	.336	13.7%	14.7%	.438	+57.7	179	6.8
2009	DET	160	685	198	34	103	6	68	107	.324	.396	.547	.223	.348	9.9%	15.6%	.408	+41.6	150	4.9
2008	DET	160	684	180	37	127	1	56	126	.292	.349	.537	.245	.310	8.2%	18.4%	.382	+27.4	130	3.6
2007	FLA	156	680	188	34	119	2	79	127	.320	.401	.565	.245	.355	11.6%	18.7%	.409	+41.6	147	5.8
2006	FLA	158	676	195	26	114	9	86	108	.339	.430	.568	.229	.379	12.7%	16.0%	.422	+48.3	162	6.9
2005	FLA	158	685	198	33	116	1	64	125	.323	.385	.561	.238	.358	9.3%	18.2%	.405	+41.8	156	5.8

Separate from the regular season

Postseason Postseason

Wild Card through World Series. These games are counted on their own: none of them are in the regular-season tables, career totals, league context, leaderboards or dbWAR on this page.

Postseason batting

Postseason Miguel Cabrera's postseason batting, by October and round. Not part of any regular-season figure on this page.
Season	Team	Round	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2014 Post	DET	ALDS	3	12	11	2	4	1	1	1	1	2	0	.364	.417	.727	1.144
2013 Post	DET	Postseason total	11	45	42	4	11	0	2	7	3	9	1	.262	.311	.405	.716
		ALDS	5	21	20	1	5	0	1	3	1	2	0	.250	.286	.400	.686
		ALCS	6	24	22	3	6	0	1	4	2	7	1	.273	.333	.409	.742
2012 Post	DET	Postseason total	13	57	49	5	13	3	2	8	7	7	0	.265	.368	.449	.817
		ALDS	5	22	20	1	5	2	0	1	1	1	0	.250	.318	.350	.668
		ALCS	4	19	16	3	5	1	1	4	3	2	0	.313	.421	.563	.984
		World Series	4	16	13	1	3	0	1	3	3	4	0	.231	.375	.462	.837
2011 Post	DET	Postseason total	11	47	35	7	11	4	4	10	12	11	2	.314	.489	.771	1.261
		ALDS	5	20	15	2	3	0	1	3	5	5	1	.200	.400	.400	.800
		ALCS	6	27	20	5	8	4	3	7	7	6	1	.400	.556	1.050	1.606
2005–2023		Postseason total · 4 Octobers	38	161	137	18	39	8	9	26	23	29	3	.285	.391	.540	.931

Box-score and rate statistics only. wOBA, wRC+, FIP and dbWAR are measured against a full league season, and a postseason is a few teams playing each other for a month, so they are not computed for October.

Platoon splits

How he hits left- and right-handed pitching.

Season

Batting by the hand the pitcher throws with, 2023. Counted from play-by-play, so totals can differ from the box-score season line by a plate appearance or two.
Split	PA	AB	H	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA	K%
vs LHP	99	86	23	0	11	23	.267	.354	.337	.314	23.2%
vs RHP	271	248	63	4	20	51	.254	.310	.359	.296	18.8%

Spray chart

Where every ball he put in play landed, 2023.

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Contact quality

How hard and at what angle he hits it, over 263 tracked batted balls in 2023. Percentiles are against qualified batters.

Barrel rate: 4.2%
Exit velocity: 89.1
Max exit velo: 111.5
Hard hit: 37.6%
Sweet spot: 34.6%
Launch angle: 7.4°

Barrel rate4.2%

Exit velocity89.1 mph

Hard hit rate37.6%

Contact rate74.4%

A barrel is a batted ball whose exit velocity and launch angle have historically produced at least a .500 average and 1.500 slugging — 98 mph within 26–30°, widening to 8–50° by 116 mph. Reconstructed from Statcast's published anchor points, which reproduces them exactly; the interior is within a degree. Sweet spot (8–32°) is an exact definition.

Hot and cold zones

Batting average by pitch location, 2023.

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Batting average by location of the pitch that ended each plate appearance, catcher's view. The bordered square is the strike zone; the outer band is chase territory. Cells with fewer than 8 at-bats are left grey rather than shown as signal. League average on the same attribution is .248.

Situational hitting

How Miguel Cabrera hits by base state, outs, score and late-game pressure — each read against his own season line.

Split by

By who is on base when he comes up. The season line is repeated as the baseline.
Situation	PA	AB	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	wOBA
All situations	370	—	—	—	—	—	—	.257	.322	.353	.301
Bases empty	212	195	53	1	3	17	42	.272	.330	.338	.301
Runner on first	79	72	19	2	8	5	15	.264	.329	.458	.342
Runners on	158	139	33	3	31	14	32	.237	.310	.374	.301
RISP	79	67	14	1	23	9	17	.209	.291	.284	.261

Runners on includes runners in scoring position, which is the convention every reference uses. Counted from play-by-play, 2023.

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Nearest 2023 seasons by discipline, contact, power and speed, on rate statistics rather than totals.

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wRC+: 86
HR: 4
AVG: .261
WAR: 0.2

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wRC+: 85
HR: 1
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wRC+: 79
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wRC+: 88
HR: 3
AVG: .259
WAR: 0.6

How these are computed

wOBA uses linear weights measured from this season's own play-by-play rather than published constants, and wRC+ is park-adjusted against that same league. dbWAR is our own open implementation — not fWAR or bWAR — and the full derivation, including its simplifications, is on the methodology page.