Miguel Cabrera Injury: Tigers Third Baseman Will Be Ready For Opening Day

But it won’t cause Cabrera to miss any of the regular season:

“The doctor checked Miguel’s vision and there were no vision problems,” said Tigers head athletic trainer Kevin Rand. “All of his eye movements were normal, and he was cleared to begin physical activity today.

“He will do conditioning in the weight room today. If all goes well, he will be cleared to resume limited baseball activities on Wednesday — stuff like taking ground balls.”

When asked for the earliest date Cabrera could resume game activity, Rand said, “It’s too early. We need to see him through these couple days.”The Tigers are going to open their season at Comerica Park a week from Thursday — that’s nine days from now — and Cabrera says he’ll be there:

For more on Cabrera and the Tigers, please visit Bless You Boys and SB Nation Detroit.

You. The person reading this right now. You don’t expect the Miguel Cabrera-at-third experiment to work. I am not a sorcerer; I am not rummaging through your thoughts. I just took an educated guess.

Over at Baseball Prospectus, the fantastic Ben Lindbergh digs into the inarguable (that Miguel Cabrera is, like Leon, getting laaaarrrrger) and the scientific (digging through baseball history to see when other players went to a more difficult position when they were 29 or older). The result is a list of players that doesn’t exactly bode well for Cabrera:

The Tigers weren’t expecting Brooks Robinson, but they were probably a little surprised that it only took a couple of weeks for Cabrera to take a ball off his face. The over/under on when Cabrera becomes the regular DH: May 15.