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Found January 24, 2012 on Baseball Musings:
PLAYERS: Miguel Cabrera
TEAMS: Detroit Tigers

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Miguel Cabrera says he is indeed moving back to third base: Detroit Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera told a Spanish-language website that he will move to third base to make room for new first baseman Prince Fielder. “I will come back to the third base, which is my natural position,” Cabrera told liderendeportes.com in a story translated into English. “The arrival of Fielder will benefit us.” Cool. The Tigers pitchers will need to generate a lot of strikeouts over the next few seasons, but with Verlander on the staff, it shouldn’t be too difficult.
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