The consistent performance of Miguel Cabrera has been instrumental to his team's success in many games. The Detroit Tiger's slugger is very close to creating history now.
If he manages to keep his momentum going, he can become first player in 45 years to win baseball's Triple Crown. If he succeeds, then he will become league's first Triple Crown winner after Carl Yastrzemski, who got this distinction with the Red Sox in 1967.
Justin Verlander, the Cy Young Award winner and reigning AL MVP said: "The entire baseball world should be here right now. We've got, sorry to say, the regular guys. I think he's been relatively under the radar for what he's done, for what he's doing.
"It hasn't happened in 40-some years. It kind of annoys me. I don't know about anybody else. I don't know about him. It probably doesn't annoy him."
It really doesn't annoy Cabrera, who is quite soft-spoken and answers any question posed to him politely. The best example is his reply after Monday's game when he had 4 hits and a home run in a 6-3 win over the Kansas City Royals that helped the Tigers clinch the AL Central.
When asked about his contribution to another division title, he politely deflected the attention to his teammates saying: "We got it done with the first one. That was our goal."
Cabrera is leading the American League with .331 batting average, 44 homers and 139 RBIs.
Mike Trout, the Angels rookie and Joe Mauer, the Twins catcher, are pretty close to Cabrera for the batting average while Josh Hamilton, the Rangers slugger, trails Cabrera by a single home run.
The Associsted Press quoted manager Jim Leyland as saying: "It's a big thing and it should be a big thing, and it really hasn't gotten away from what we're trying to accomplish, and now you feel more at ease talking about it."
The Royals manager Ned Yost added: "It's just extremely difficult to do, to be the complete hitter, to be a run-producer in terms of RBIs, to be a power hitter in terms of home runs, and then lead the league in average. I don't know when the next time is we'll see it happen."
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