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Tigers send top prospects to Marlins for Cabrera, Willis
ESPN.com news services
Updated: December 4, 2007, 7:05 PM ET
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The Florida Marlins and Detroit Tigers have agreed in priniciple on a trade that will send Miguel Cabrera and Dontrelle Willis to Detroit for key prospects, sources told ESPN's Peter Gammons.
The Tigers would send outfielder Cameron Maybin, pitcher Andrew Miller, catcher Mike Rabelo and three other minor league pitchers to the Marlins.
The deal is expected to be announced tonight when the physicals and paperwork are completed.
Miller was Detroit's top pick in the 2006 draft and went 5-5 in 13 starts after being called up last summer. Maybin was their first pick in 2005 and shot through the farm system, hitting .143 in 24 major league games, Rabelo batted .256 in 51 games, and one of the other pitchers, 23-year-old Eulogio delaCruz, appeared in six games for the Tigers, hitting 100 mph on the radar gun.
Peter Gammons is a baseball analyst for ESPN.
unreal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ESPN.com news services
Updated: December 4, 2007, 7:05 PM ET
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Miguel Cabrera
Cabrera
Dontrelle Willis
Willis
The Florida Marlins and Detroit Tigers have agreed in priniciple on a trade that will send Miguel Cabrera and Dontrelle Willis to Detroit for key prospects, sources told ESPN's Peter Gammons.
The Tigers would send outfielder Cameron Maybin, pitcher Andrew Miller, catcher Mike Rabelo and three other minor league pitchers to the Marlins.
The deal is expected to be announced tonight when the physicals and paperwork are completed.
Miller was Detroit's top pick in the 2006 draft and went 5-5 in 13 starts after being called up last summer. Maybin was their first pick in 2005 and shot through the farm system, hitting .143 in 24 major league games, Rabelo batted .256 in 51 games, and one of the other pitchers, 23-year-old Eulogio delaCruz, appeared in six games for the Tigers, hitting 100 mph on the radar gun.
Peter Gammons is a baseball analyst for ESPN.
unreal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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