My Blog Continued.......Melky Cabrera

Well today I will be talking about lets see...well i will be continuing my blog about baseball. Well as you already know my favorite team is the Yankees. Well many people like their favorite player to be Derek Jeter, and Alex Rodriguez, but my favorite player is Melky Cabrera. A lot of people say that he is whack, but having a favorite player is not only about being whack or being good its also about their life and how they came up to be an amazing person.

Melky Cabrera was born on August 11,1984 in Santo Domingo,Oeste Dominican Republic.At age 17, Melky was signed by the New York Yankees.At age 18, he made his pro debut in the Yankees Rookie League affiliate at the Dominican Summer League.He made his first minor league appearance with the low class A ball in the NY-Penn League with the Staten Island Yankees, batting .283 with 31 RBI in 67 games.In 2004, he moved up to the higher A ball Battle Creek Yankees, hitting .333 with 16 RBI in 42 games before being promoted to the high class A Tampa Yankees, where he hit .288 with 51 RBI in 85 games to finish the season. On July 7, Melky made his major league debut in center field at Yankee Stadium against the Cleveland Indians. His first at bat against Kevin Millwood resulted in a strike-out, however, he collected his first major league hit, a single to left field, in his third at bat to a standing ovation.

In 2007 Cabrera struggled starting off the season.He was the fourth outfielder and did not get regular at-bats. He batted .200 in April and .254 in May, getting limited playing time. Cabrera took Damon's spot in center field. Since then, Cabrera has hit .320 with 3 of his 5 home runs and 21 of his 36 RBIs. He also had a career high 13-game hitting streak going from July 1-17. In 2007 Cabrera was 4th in the American League in sacrifice flies (9), 5th in sacrifice hits (10), and 6th in triples (8. That is exactly why is like him as my favorite player, cause even though he started off bad, he cam up and he pushed himself, and never gave up, and now he is doing great. Melky Cabrera is one of the players that doesn't care if he does bad and that doesn't care if he fails, but he never gives up, which is why I like him.