Josh Q. Public likes what he sees from Miguel Cabrera this early in the season:

Miguel Cabrera is starting something.  Hot starting something.  Yesterday, Miggy had three hits.  Yesterday, Miggy had two RBIs.  Big deal you say?  So what you say?  I’ll tell you so what.  I’ll tell you that lifts his season totals to seventeen hits.   I’ll tell you that lifts his season totals to twelve  RBIs.  I’ll also tell you the last Detroit Tigers player with such high totals in both categories through the team’s first nine games of a season was the aberration that was Chris Shelton.    

Chris Shelton may have had nineteen hits, fourteen RBIs and seven bombs over the Tigers’ first nine games in 2006, but Shelton hit only nine more homers in 106 subsequent games that season.  Shelton subsequently went into obscurity and is now toiling in the Seattle Mariners farm system.  Miguel Cabrera ain’t going nowhere.

I had Miguel Cabrera as my AL MVP pick. So far, it's looking like a smart choice.

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