Miguel Cabrera named Tiger of the Year again for 2013

DETROIT — Miguel Cabrera became the first player to ever be named Tiger Player of the Year more than three times, bringing home his fourth such honor, and second in a row.

The award, announced Tuesday afternoon, has been given out annually by the Detroit Chapter of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America since 1965.

Of the 25 votes cast, 17 went to Cabrera and the other eight went to pitcher Max Scherzer.

Cabrera has now won the award in 2008, 2010, 2012 (pictured above) and 2013. Justin Verlander (2009 and 2011) is the only player to interrupt Cabrera’s run since he joined the Tigers.

The 30-year-old Cabrera led the American League with a .348, becoming the first Tigers player to win three straight batting titles since Ty Cobb (1917-’19). Cabrera finished with 137 RBI, giving him 100 or more in his first six seasons with Detroit, joining Harry Heilmann (1923-29) as the only two players in the franchise’s history to pass the century mark in RBI in six or more consecutive seasons.

Since joining the Tigers in 2008, Cabrera is the AL leader with 615 runs scored, 1,153 hits, 227 home runs, 737 RBI and a .588 slugging percentage.

The defending AL MVP, Cabrera is one of the finalists to again take home the BBWAA-voted MVP award, which will be announced Thursday.

Previous winners:

1965 – Don Wert
1966 – Al Kaline
1967 – Bill Freehan
1968 – Denny McLain
1969 – Denny McLain
1970 – Tom Timmerman 
1971 – Mickey Lolich
1972 – Ed Brinkman 
1973 – John Hiller
1974 – Al Kaline
1975 – Willie Horton
1976 – Mark Fidrych 
1977 – Ron LeFlore 
1978 – Ron LeFlore
1979 – Steve Kemp
1980 – Alan Trammell
1981 – Kirk Gibson 
1982 – Lance Parrish
1983 – Lou Whitaker
1984 – Willie Hernandez 
1985 – Darrell Evans
1986 – Jack Morris 
1987 – Alan Trammell 
1988 – Alan Trammell
1989 – Lou Whitaker

1990 – Cecil Fielder 

1991 – Cecil Fielder 

1992 – Cecil Fielder 

1993 – Tony Phillips 

1994 – Kirk Gibson 

1995 – Travis Fryman

1996 – Travis Fryman 

1997 – Tony Clark and Bobby Higginson (tie) 

1998 – Damion Easley 

1999 – Dean Palmer 

2000 – Bobby Higginson

2001 – Steve Sparks

2002 – Randall Simon 

2003 – Dmitri Young 

2004 – Ivan Rodriguez 

2005 – Placido Polanco

2006 – Carlos Guillen 

2007 – Magglio Ordonez 

2008 – Miguel Cabrera

2009 – Justin Verlander 

2010 – Miguel Cabrera

2011 – Justin Verlander

2012 – Miguel Cabrera 

2013 – Miguel Cabrera