• Detroit Tigers 3B Miguel Cabrera became the first player in 45 years (Carl Yaztremski was the last) to lead his league in batting average, home runs, and RBI's, the three stat categories that are considered baseball's triple crown. Cabrera spent most of the season as the RBI leader, took over in batting average a bit later and overtook Texas's Josh Hamilton in the final week of the season in home runs.
• It may have been what he needed to secure the AL MVP as Anaheim's Mike Trout is having easily the greatest rookie season in MLB history and is considered by some to already be the best player in the majors due to his extreme combination of speed, power and incredible defense.
• Cabrera's finals for the year were a .330 batting average, 44 HR and 139 RBI's. He passed the 1000 RBI and 300 HR milestones for his career this season as well.
NHL Lockout Gets Real
• The National Hockey League announced on Thursday that they were planning on cancelling the first two weeks of the season as the owners continue their lockout of the players. Cancelling the first two weeks of the season results in 82 games hitting the cutting room floor.
• The two sides are still at odds on how to split $3 billion in hockey revenue and there have been talks, which distinguishes this lockout from the 2004-05 lockout that cost the NHL the entire season but there doesn’t seem to have been much movement in recent days, leaving in doubt the shortness of the lockout.
•The lockout is the third work stoppage in the past year in the four major sports (4 if you include the NFL referee's strike) with only Major League Baseball avoiding any issues.
Well, you heard it here first - Valentine was never going to last. Typical Red Sox screw-up! Francona must be laughing to himself...
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