DETROIT — Miguel Cabrera and the Detroit Tigers have reached a preliminary agreement on a $152.3 million, eight-year contract, The Associated Press reported Sunday
The third baseman must pass a physical before the agreement can be finalized.
Cabrera agreed on Jan. 18 to an $11.3 million salary for this season. The new deal adds $141 million over the following seven seasons.
Cabrera will earn $15 million in 2009, when he would have been eligible for salary arbitration. He will average $21 million annually over the next six seasons, when he would have been eligible for free agency.
Cabrera’s average salary of $19,037,500 will be the fourth-highest in the major leagues behind those of New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez ($27.5 million), New York Mets pitcher Johan Santana ($22,916,667) and Boston left fielder Manny Ramirez ($20 million).
Also Tigers center fielder Curtis Granderson broke a finger on his right hand and was placed on the 15-day disabled list and will miss opening day.
BREWERS: Milwaukee left-hander Chris Capuano was told that he has a torn ligament in his pitching elbow and will probably need Tommy John surgery for the second time in his career.
The 29-year-old Capuano injured his elbow in an exhibition game Monday against Seattle. He had an MRI on Thursday and team physician William Raasch confirmed the diagnosis of a torn ulnar collateral ligament.
YANKEES: Andy Pettitte underwent treatment but did not play catch Sunday, one day after being scratched from a scheduled start due to back spasms.
“I was really feeling pretty good last night, and feeling good about it, what today was going to bring,” Pettitte said. “Then I woke up this morning and it was kind of tight on me again.”
Pettitte says he’s optimistic that he’ll make his first scheduled regular season start, April 2 against Toronto.
ROYALS: Kansas City optioned pitcher Luke Hochevar, the first pick in the 2006 amateur draft, to Class AAA Omaha. Hochevar was 0-1 with a 2.25 ERA in three spring training games, allowing seven hits and two runs in eight innings. But he had not pitched since March 13.
BLUE JAYS: Shannon Stewart appears to have won the job as the Blue Jays’ starting left fielder after Toronto released Reed Johnson.
Johnson, who was hitting .289 with three doubles and three RBI, had spent his entire career with the Blue Jays.
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