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Person with knowledge of the deal to AP: Tigers to pay Cabrera $292 million over 10 years
• DETROIT (AP) -- The Detroit Tigers are doubling down on Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera.
• The team has agreed to pay Cabrera a baseball-record $292 million over the next 10 years, according to a person with knowledge of the deal.
• The person, who said the contract is subject to a physical, spoke Thursday night to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the agreement had not been announced.
• Cabrera is due $44 million over the final two years of his $152.3 million, eight-year contract that runs through 2015, and the person says the slugger will make $248 million over eight seasons in the new deal.
• Depending on whether Cabrera's deal is structured as one 10-year contract or an eight-year deal starting in 2016, it will either surpass Alex Rodriguez's $275 million, 10-year agreement with the New York Yankees for the richest contract, or Clayton Kershaw's record for average annual value of $30,714,286 in the $215 million, seven-year deal he signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers in January.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Friday, March 28, the 87th day of 2014. There are 278 days left in the year.
• Today's Highlight in History:
• On March 28, 1939, the Spanish Civil War neared its end as Madrid fell to the forces of Francisco Franco.
• On this date:
• In 1834, the U.S. Senate voted to censure President Andrew Jackson for the removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States.
• In 1854, during the Crimean War, Britain and France declared war on Russia.
• In 1898, the Supreme Court, in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, ruled that a child born in the United States to Chinese immigrants was a U.S. citizen.
• In 1914, U.S. Senator and Secretary of State Edmund Muskie was born in Rumford, Maine.
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