Prince Finds a Home

The Tigers reached an agreement with Prince Fielder on a nine-year contract: Now more tweets are coming in confirming Brown’s scoop. Jon Heyman of CBS Sports says the deal is for nine years, $214 million. Wow! Heyman also says that Fielder will play first base and Cabrera, the incumbent first baseman, will take a new role. The average annual value of the deal is $23.78 million. Fielder will be 36 when it expires. So does Miguel Cabrera move to designated hitter, or do the Tigers try to return him to third base? If Cabrera becomes the designated hitter, there seems little room for Victor Martinez when he returns from his injury with two years left on his contract. Congratulations to Prince on the deal. With Justin Verlander, Cabrera and Fielder, the Tigers take three superstars into the 2012 season. The rest of the players just need to be good, not great, to make this into a division winning franchise.