Eye on the Ball Miguel

Ouch.

Sorry for the pun, but I simply could not resist. And that is right blog followers, it's a special "Two Blog Tuesday" in which I post two blogs about whatever I want! I debated talking about Joakim Soria's possible need for Tommy John surgery, Derek Holland's contract extension with the Rangers, but I feel as though Miguel Cabrera is a personal, and fan favorite. One of the best first/third baseman on the field right now will be taking a week off because of a non-displaced fracture of the orbital floor in his right eye. This came from a ground ball off hit by Hunter Pence in the Tigers loss against the Phillies on Monday. Apparently the ground was exceptionally hard that day because the hopper came up and struck Miguel Cabrera's sunglasses which possibly saved his eye. Cabrera was bleeding immediately because the ball hit his sunglasses which then cut into the area around his eye. His sunglasses even had an imprint of the ball's stitches on them. It must have been fate that Monday was the first day that Cabrera decided to wear sunglasses on the field. One could question whether or not that it was Cabrera's fault due to poor fielding, but he has only committed one error all Spring Training. The first person to come up to Miguel was pitcher Max Scherzer, who first made sure he could see, and then told him, "You're OK!" He said this to make sure that Cabrera didn't freak out because of the blood that was coming from his face. Cabrera was always on his feet, but was clearly dazed by the impact of the ball, and hopefully he will not have to start the season on the DL. Since Opening Day is two and a half weeks away for the Tigers, they hope Miguel will be ok and won't have any serious damage to his eye. Manager Jim Leyland stated that, "It was swelling up pretty quick. Basically, he looked like a fighter that needed a cut man and wasn't doing too good in the fight." Hopefully Miguel can keep up the good fight and have a speedy recovery.